• ISBN13: 9789354795237
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health SciencesSociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: Sage Select
• Publication Date: May 13, 2022
• Pages: 308
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 363 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Public Health

Did you know that vaccines save 3 million lives annually?  This potent group of weapons has notably annihilated smallpox, pushed polio to the verge of elimination and is now taking on COVID-19 as the dreaded virus keeps changing forms to survive in its fierce battle with humankind.   
Indians practised inoculation centuries before the West discovered vaccines in 1796. India’s Vaccine Growth Story charts the journey of vaccines from the Jennerian era to the COVID-19 pandemic, covering multiple facets of vaccines, from the Indian and global perspective. Apart from discussing vaccine leadership, vaccine nationalism, vaccine hesitancy, eagerness and equity, as well as the latest diplomatic currency—the vaccine-maitri, the book also tracks the decade-long vaccine development cycle that was drastically cut short to a few months, taking readers through India’s exciting and meticulously-planned sojourn of executing the world’s largest vaccination drive.

Yadav, Sajjan Singh: - Sajjan Yadav is a researcher and a bureaucrat. He is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service and is currently Additional Secretary in the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

He has a rich and diverse experience of 27 years in policy formulation and implementation, as well as in senior leadership
positions in the Government of India and state governments. In the federal government, besides the Ministry of Finance, he has worked in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Women & Child Development, Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, and Ministry of Corporate Affairs

He has served the government in sectors including finance, health, nutrition, water, sanitation, food, public distribution, urban development, municipal administration, information and publicity, art, culture, tourism and commercial taxes. Important assignments handled by him in the past include tenures as Mission Director of the National Nutrition Mission (POSHAN Abhiyan), Director of the National Rural Health Mission, Commissioner of Food & Supplies in Delhi, CEO Delhi Jal Board, Commissioner VAT and Commissioner of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation.

He earned his Doctorate in Public Health from the prestigious London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). His
research was published in leading medical peer-reviewed journals, magazines and newspapers. These include BMC Public Health, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, International Journal of Medicine and Public Health, Journal of Critical Reviews, LSHTM Research Online, Global Health Action, Yojana, The Economic Times, DNA, Millennium Post and The Pioneer.

He has been conferred many awards for exceptional work in public service, including the National e-Governance Award 2017-2018 and the President of India's medal for outstanding work in Census operations.