Dr Anurag Bhargava and Dr Madhavi Bhargava win KV Desikan Memorial Award for work on malnutrition and public health

The doctors co-lead the Centre for Nutrition Studies at Yenepoya (deemed to be university) in Mangalore, and before that, worked for 10 years at Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS) in rural Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.

The Bombay Leprosy Project was awarded the K.V. Desikan Memorial Award for the year 2024 for its extraordinary body of work in the area control, treatment and rehabilitation of people with Hansen’s disease (leprosy).