Biraj Karmacharya | 2024 UWSPH Graduation Speaker and Alumni of Impact Award Recipient

Biraj Karmacharya, a public health leader in Nepal, is the administrative director at Dhulikhel Hospital and associate professor in the Department of Public Health at Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences.
He founded and has been leading the Department of Community Programs/Public Health at Dhulikhel Hospital since 2006, through which he is engaged in developing and setting up innovative community based health and integrated health and development programs. He has also been instrumental in advancing public health training and research in Nepal, leading the pioneering programs MScPH (Epidemiology and Global Health) and lately the Ph.D. Program in Public Health at Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences.
Karmacharya studied at the University of Washington School of Public Health as a Fulbright Science and Technology Awardee and received two degrees: a Ph.D. in Epidemiology in 2015 and an MPH in Global Health (Leadership, Policy and Management track) in 2017. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular epidemiology from the UW. Karmacharya is an affiliate associate professor in the School’s Department of Global Health and was the founding co-director of Nepal Studies Initiative at the Jackson School of International Studies at the UW.
In addition to his UW degrees, he obtained an MBBS (2003) from Kathmandu University and an MS (Tropical Medicine, 2006) from Mahidol University, Thailand.

[@shreeyashrestha8432]

Amazing!! It's always treat to hear Dr Biraj 🎉

[@reganmaharjan8272]

Awesome

[@milanlopchan2192]

magnificient speech, its really well structured, clear and engaging too

[@vjjyoti]

Pride of Nepal ❤