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Professor Dharma S. Manandhar awarded Lifetime Achievement Award

Prof Manandhar being presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the President of the Republic of Nepal.

On 22nd March 2012 Prof Dharma S. Manandhar was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nepal Paediatric Society. The award was presented at the 16th Nepalese Congress of Paediatrics, by the Rt. Hon'ble Dr Ram Baran Yadav, President of the Republic of Nepal. Prof Manandhar is President and Executive Director of Mother Infant Research Activies (MIRA) and Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the Kathmandu Medical College, Nepal. He is also a long-term senior partner of The UCL Institute for Global Health and the UCL Centre for International Health & Development.

MIRA is a partner in two research projects run by the UCL Centre for International Health and Development

• Socio-economic inequalities and the MDGs
• MIRA Dhanusha trial: Community-based interventions for perinatal health and nutrition.