Sachin Atre

Sachin Atre is a medical anthropologist and has 25 years of experience in public health
research. His research work is mainly focused on understanding biosocial determinants of
drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) among patients in urban and rural areas of India. During
Sept. 2013-Sept. 2014, he was awarded with Fulbright-Nehru Post doc Fellowship at the
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously he
worked for Johns Hopkins University and for the World health Organization. He played a key
role in setting up a new research site at Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and
Research Centre and currently works with the Dept of Community Health. He was also the
Indian site Principal Investigator for Harvard-Dubai Centre funded study on pathways to TB
care. Dr. Atre is currently a member of WHO working group on child and adolescent
tuberculosis. He has over 75 publications with over 36000 citations to his credit. He was
invited to present his work in more than 15 countries. He is an academic collaborator for
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) initiative and academic editor for the journal PLOS Global
Public Health.