Vinod Prakash Sharma

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Vinod Prakash Sharma was born on 6 April 1938 in Prayagraj, in Uttar Pradesh, India. After early education locally, he joined Allahabad University from where he secured MSc in 1960 and DPhil in 1964. In 1965, he left to South Bend, Indiana, USA and joined the University of Notre Dame as a post doctoral research associate, but later, shifted to Purdue University, USA. Sharma returned to India in 1968 and joined Allahabad University, again, to complete his DSc which he promptly did in 1979.

Sharma, lived in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi and took care of his duties as the Distinguished Professor at the Centre for Rural Development and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

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{{quotebox|align = right|qalign=center|width=24em|"A Malariologist like Sharma is to be credited for bringing the nation at the frontier of the international scientific community," S. K. Modi, founder of G. M. Modi Foundation, on V. P. Sharma, during the Gujar Mal Modi Award ceremony, "We, at The Gujar Mal Modi Science Foundation feel delighted and proud to recognize such invaluable research of our distinguished scientists, and will continue to be committed to carrying forward our efforts and dedication on bringing to light such achievements."{{cite web | url=http://freepressjournal.in/indian-scientist-dr-vinod-prakash-sharma-receives-gujar-mal-modi-award/ | title=Free Press Journal | access-date=3 August 2014}}}}

{{quotebox|align = right|qalign=center|width=24em|"Malaria continues to be among the biggest killer disease in the country," says Dr. V. P. Sharma, "and we have to take it head on through research and awareness."}}

Sharma started his career at the Forest Research Institute, in the high altitude area of Dehradun, as a Pool Officer, in 1969. A year later, he joined the World Health Organization sponsored Indian Council of Medical Research project as a Senior Scientist on genetic control of Culicine mosquitoes, in 1970, where he worked till 1975. The next move was to the Vector Control Research Centre and Malaria Research Unit, in 1976, as the deputy director, for a 2-year stint there. In 1978, he joined the Malaria Research Centre, New Delhi as its deputy director.

During his stint at the Malaria Research Centre, he started working on the upgradation of the centre and, as a result, the centre was upgraded by the Government of India, renaming it as the National Institute of Malaria Research, in 1982. Sharma was made its first director, a post from where he retired, in 1998, as Additional Director-General of Indian Council of Medical Research.

On his retirement from the government service, the Indian Council of Medical Research recognised Sharma's services by making him the Meghnad Saha Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India) at the Centre for Rural Development and Technology, IIT Delhi.

He is also leading the Safe Water campaign initiated by National Academy of Sciences, India

{{quotebox|align = right|qalign=center|width=24em|"We have to create a world order that is sensitive towards the environment," says Dr. V. P. Sharma, "and where development is modelled on ecological concerns."}}

Sharma has been credited with many scientific and research achievements. His studies on the chemo and radio sterilisation of male mosquitoes are well documented. He is credited with developing a new technique for sex separation of mosquitoes. He has also worked extensively on the bioenvironmental malaria control which led to many innovations in the subject. He is also acknowledged for his contributions to vector biology.{{cite news | url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/gujar-mal-modi-award-for-scientist-vinod-prakash-sharma-113080900899_1.html | title=Vector biology | access-date=3 August 2014| newspaper=Business Standard India | date=9 August 2013 | agency=Press Trust of India }}

Sharma is known to have developed the Malaria Research Unit, New Delhi into a full-fledged Research Centre, the National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR).{{cite web | url=http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/news/193276/dr-v-p-sharma-honored-gujar-mal-modi-award-2013 | title=NIMR founder | access-date=3 August 2014}} He has also contributed to the popularisation of science, through his books, journals and education programs.{{cite web | url=http://indiamakinghistory.blogspot.in/2013/08/the-eminent-scientist-dr-vinod-prakash.html | title=founder NIMR | access-date=3 August 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://pharma.financialexpress.com/latest-updates/2485-dr-vinod-prakash-sharma-receives-gujar-mal-modi-award-for-innovative-science-technology-2013 | title=Contribs | access-date=3 August 2014}}

Vinod Prakash Sharma has held many positions of importance, by way of recognition and those of responsibility, throughout his career.

• Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society
• Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences,{{cite web | url=http://www.nams-india.in/downloads/fellowsmembers/ZZ.pdf | title=List of Fellows - NAMS | publisher=National Academy of Medical Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=19 March 2016}}
• Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad
• Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
• Fellow of Entomology Society of India, New Delhi
• Fellow of National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi
• Fellow of Indian Society for Parasitology
• Fellow of Indian Society of Malaria and other communicable diseases
• Honorary Fellow – Indian Academy of Environmental Sciences, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
• Honorary Fellow – Indian Academy of Environmental Sciences, Hardwar
• Fellow – Zoological Society of India
• President of National Academy of Vector borne Diseases
• President of National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad
• President of Indian Society for Parasitology
• Council Member – International Congress of Entomology
• board member – Malaria Foundation Incorporated
• Governing Council Member – ICMR
• Member – WHO Expert Committee on Malaria

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♦ Occurrence of chloroquine-resistant malaria

♦ No Plasmodium falciparum or chloroquine-resistance

♦ No malaria

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• Padma Bhushan – 2014{{cite news | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/President-Pranab-Mukherjee-confers-Padma-awards/articleshow/34251424.cms | title=TOI Padma Bhushan | website=The Times of India | date=26 April 2014 | access-date=2 August 2014}}{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/list-of-padma-awardees/article5617946.ece | title=Padma Shri The Hindu | access-date=3 August 2014| newspaper=The Hindu | date=25 January 2014 }}
• Gujar Mal Modi Award – 2013{{cite web | url=http://freepressjournal.in/indian-scientist-dr-vinod-prakash-sharma-receives-gujar-mal-modi-award/ | title=Gujar award 1 | access-date=3 August 2014}}{{cite news | url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/gujar-mal-modi-award-for-scientist-vinod-prakash-sharma-113080900899_1.html | title=Gujar 2 | access-date=3 August 2014| newspaper=Business Standard India | date=9 August 2013 | agency=Press Trust of India }}
• Meghnad Saha Distinguished Fellowship{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=N83-0754 | title=INSA profile | access-date=3 August 2014}}
• Padma Shri – 1992
• WHO Darling Foundation Prize – 1999{{cite web | url=https://www.who.int/governance/awards/darling/winners/en/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040708021010/http://www.who.int/governance/awards/darling/winners/en/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=8 July 2004 | title=WHO Prize | access-date=3 August 2014}}
• GI Inventions Award
• Chancellor's Prize
• M. O. T. Aiyengar Award
• B. R. Ambedkar Centenary Award – 2000
• Om Prakash Bhasin Award – 1985{{cite web | url=http://www.opbfawards.com/scientist-trustees-.htm | title=Bhasin award | access-date=3 August 2014}}
• Ranbaxy Award – 1990
• M. L. Gupta Trust Award
• FICCI Cash Award – 1998
• Vaswik Award
• Green Scientist Award – 2001{{cite web | url=http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/VP-Sharma-Green-Scientist.htm | title=Green Scientist | access-date=3 August 2014}}
• Best Scientist Award
• G. P. Chatterjee Memorial Award
• Dr. R. V. Rajaram Oration Award
• Dr. U. S. Srivastava Memorial Lecture Award
• Professor L. S. Ramaswami Memorial Oration Award
• Life Time Achievement Award by the Indian Society of Malaria and other communicable diseases
• B. N. Singh Oration Award
• B. K. Srivastava Oration Award
• Distinguished Parasitologist – World Parasitologist Federation (WPF) – 2010
• Gold Medal lifetime Achievement Award – Indian Academy of Environmental Sciences – 2012

Sharma was the Chief Editor of an important journal, the Journal of Parasitic Diseases,{{Cite web | url=https://www.springer.com/medicine/internal/journal/12639 |title = Journal of Parasitic Diseases}} which was active in dissemination of knowledge by publishing reviews and research papers on a regular basis. He was also the Chief Editor of the in-house journal of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

He has also published many books on the subjects of bioenvironmental control and vector biology, both in English and Hindi languages.

Books in English

• {{cite book

| url = http://www.opbfawards.com/scientist-trustees-.htm

| title = Safe Water for community health

|author1=K.J. Nath |author2=V.P. Sharma

|name-list-style=amp | year = 2008

| publisher = The National Academy of sciences, India Allahabad publication

}}

• {{cite book

| url = http://www.opbfawards.com/scientist-trustees-.htm

| title = Human Parasitic Infections of Pharmaceutical and National Health Importance

|author1=P.P. Singh |author2=V.P. Sharma

|name-list-style=amp | year = 2010

| publisher = The National Academy of sciences, India Allahabad publication

}}

• {{cite book

| url = http://www.opbfawards.com/scientist-trustees-.htm

| title = Nature at Work: Ongoing Saga of Evolution

| author = V.P. Sharma

| year = 2010

| publisher = The National Academy of sciences, India Allahabad publication

}}

• {{cite book

| url = http://www.opbfawards.com/scientist-trustees-.htm

| title = Water and Health. Currently under production by Springer India/Germany

|author1=P.P. Singh |author2=V.P. Sharma

|name-list-style=amp | year = 2014

| publisher = The National Academy of sciences, India Allahabad publication

}}

• {{cite book

| url = http://www.opbfawards.com/scientist-trustees-.htm

| title = Women and Development: Green Technologies

| author = Satyawati Sharma, Santosh Satya, Annushree Malik and V.P. Sharma

| year = 2014

| publisher = The National Academy of sciences, India Allahabad publication

}}

Books in Hindi

• {{cite book

| url = http://www.opbfawards.com/scientist-trustees-.htm

| title = Malaria Anusandhan Se Rog Samadhan

| author = V.P. Sharma (translated by Manvendra Tripathi)

| year = 2012

| publisher = The National Academy of sciences, India Allahabad publication

}}

• {{cite book

| url = http://www.opbfawards.com/scientist-trustees-.htm

| title = Dengue and Chikungunya ka Vivran tatha Bachav aur Upchar

| author = V.P. Sharma (translated by Manvendra Tripathi)

| year = 2014

| publisher = ICMR

}}

Apart from the books, Sharma has written over 300 research papers in various national and international journals.

• {{cite journal | title=Battling Malaria Iceberg Incorporating Strategic Reforms in Achieving Millennium Development Goals and Malaria Elimination in India | author=V. P. Sharma | journal=Indian Journal of Medical Research | year=2012 | volume=136 | issue=6 | pages=907–925| pmid=23391787 | pmc=3612321 }}
• {{cite journal | title=Continuing challenge of malaria in India | author=V. P. Sharma | journal=Current Science | year=2012 | volume=102 | issue=5 | pages=678–682}}
• {{cite journal | title=Continuing challenge of malaria in India | author=Jacob John, T., Lalit Dandona, Vinod P Sharma, Manish Kakkar | journal=The Lancet | year=2011 | volume=377 | issue=9761 | pages=252–269 | doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(10)61265-2 | pmid=21227500| s2cid=28464897 }}
• {{cite journal | title=Malaria-attributed death rates in India |author1=Sharma V. P . |author2=Prabhat Jha |author3=Neeraj Dhingra |author4=Raju M Jotkar |author5=Richard Peto | journal=The Lancet | year=2011 | volume=377 | issue=9770 | pages=994–995 | doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60383-8|s2cid=205962145 | doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal | title=The Summary Index of Malaria Surveillance (SIMS): a stable index of malaria within India | author=Cohen, Alan A., Neeraj Dhingra, Raju M Jotkar, Peter S Rodriguez, Vinod P Sharma and Prabhat Jha | journal=Population Health Metrics | year=2010 | volume=8 | issue=1 | pages=1| doi=10.1186/1478-7954-8-1 | pmid=20181218 | pmc=2847540 | doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal | title=Adult and child malaria mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey |author1=Neeraj Dhingra N |author2=Prabhat Jha |author3=Vinod P Sharma |author4=Alan A Cohen |author5=Raju M Jotkar |author6=Peter S Rodriguez |author7=Diego G Bassani |author8=Wilson Suraweera |author9=Ramanan Laxminarayan |author10=Richard Peto | journal=The Lancet | year=2010 | volume=376 | issue=9754 | pages=1768–1774 | doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60831-8|pmid=20970179 |pmc=3021416 }}
• {{cite journal | title=Accelerating the Pace of Roll Back Malaria in India | author=Vinod P Sharma | journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India | year=2009 | volume=79(B) | issue=special issue | pages=13–21}}
• {{cite journal | title=Hidden burden of malaria in Indian women | author=Jacob John, T., Lalit Dandona, Vinod P Sharma, Manish Kakkar | journal=Malaria Journal | year=2011 | volume=8 | issue=281 | pages=252–269|doi=10.1186/1475-2875-8-281 | pmid=19995437 | pmc=2799428 | doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal | title=Work of WHO: Malaria In: Sixty Years of WHO | editor=Vinod P Sharma | journal=South East Asia Regional Office of the World Health Organization, New Delhi | year=2008 }}
• {{cite journal | title=Malaria and Other Vector Borne Diseases in South Asia. In: Sustainable Management of Water resources: Emerging Science and Technology Issues in South Asia |author1=M. G. K. Menon |author2=V. P. Sharma |name-list-style=amp | journal=INSA | year=2008 | issue=9761 }}

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• Reference on Nirdeshak{{cite web | url=http://nirdeshak.com/12-august-2013-daily-current-affairs.html | title=Nirdeshak | access-date=3 August 2014}}
• GM Modi Science Foundation Award report{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/vinod-sharma-to-receive-gm-modi-science-foundation-award/ | title=GM Modi report | access-date=3 August 2014| date=9 April 2014 }}
• Lecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University{{cite web | url=http://www.jnu.ac.in/JNUNewsArchives/JNUNews_July_Aug12/conferences.htm | title=JNU | access-date=3 August 2014}}

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