Distinguished STAR Fellow
Dr. Drona Rasali is the 2023-24 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Race and Health Policy at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, University of Memphis. He is the recipient of Canadian Public Health Association’s coveted 2023 Honorary Life Membership Award. Early this year, he retired after serving for 10 years as the Director, Population Health Surveillance and Epidemiology at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, a part of Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver in Canada. From 2005 to 2012, he had been Provincial Chronic Disease Epidemiologist at the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health in Canada. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia. From 2009-2019, he was also an Adjunct Professor in Health Studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He holds a professional designation as Fellow of American College of Epidemiology (FACE) conferred on him in 2014. He originally comes from Nepal, where he had served initially as Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and later as Senior Scientist with the Government of Nepal for 20 years in total prior to his moving to Canada in 1999. He is also the co-founder and President of Emotional Well Being Institute Canada. He earned his PhD degree in quantitative genetics from the University of Manitoba, Canada, Masters of Science from the University of the Philippines at Los Banos, and his first professional degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India. He was also a Research Fellow at the University of Abeerdeen, Scotland, UK in 1996, and he had completed his post graduate training in veterinary pathology at the Animal Health Laboratories of the Western Australian Government in Perth. He and his wife Mrs. Krishna Rasali have a daughter and a son.