Rohit Sarin

Dr Rohit Sarin is an eminent Pulmonologist with over four decades of experience in the specialty. He was the former Director of the National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases and subsequently the Principal Consultant in the Institute for Clinical Care. He was instrumental in upgrading the Institute as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Research in TB and establishing it as a Centre of Excellence under WHO. His interest in National TB program emerged when he was deputed to formulate the NTP in India as per the DOTS strategy in 1993 and subsequently demonstrated the technical soundness and operational feasibility of the Strategy in different parts of the country. He further demonstrated the feasibility of PMDT in the country whereby India adopted this for management of drug resistant TB patients. He has trained over 20000 National faculty in NTP and later also helped in formulating the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) for India as per END TB Strategy. He is a faculty of the National Board of Examinations, India and has trained numerous postgraduates in the specialty. He has over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals. 

He was deputed by WHO for assisting different countries in the South East Asia Region for planning and effective implementation of DOTS and reviewing their NTPs from time to time.  He is on various Guideline Development groups of WHO in context of TB and DR TB. He was Chair of the MDR TB Advisory group WHO for SEAR.

In view of his contribution in the field of TB he was awarded the coveted Karyl Styblo Public Health Prize by The Union and has many National awards to his credit.