MSc, PhD
Prof. (Dr.) G. K. Mini is a distinguished public health researcher and academician with over two decades of experience in epidemiology, demography, and non-communicable disease research. She currently serves as Professor at the Global Institute of Public Health (GIPH) and as an ICMR Adjunct Faculty at the National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru.
Dr. Mini holds a Doctorate in Demography from the University of Kerala. Her academic training has laid a strong foundation for her extensive work in population health, epidemiological research, and health systems analysis.
Dr. Mini has held key research positions at leading institutions, including the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Kochi. She has also worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), contributing to the strengthening of state human development plans and the preparation of human development reports for Kerala.
In addition, she has served as a National Consultant for the United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) in India, further expanding her contributions to national and global public health initiatives.
Dr. Mini has made significant contributions to public health research, with numerous publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Her work spans non-communicable diseases, aging, population health, and health systems research.
She has been the recipient of a UNFPA research grant focused on building a knowledge base on aging in India, as well as a Public Health Research Initiative (PHRI) grant in collaboration with the Public Health Foundation of India and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Prof. Mini is a member of Excellence in Non-Communicable Disease Research (ENCORE), an international network of researchers from Australia and India working to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
She is also a Bernard Lown Scholar in Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA. In recognition of her research impact, she has been listed among the World’s Top 2% of Scientists in Public Health by Stanford University Rankings and Elsevier BV for multiple consecutive years.
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