Lal Rawal

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About Lal Rawal

Dr. Lal Rawal (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer-Public Health with School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity, Australia. Lal has over 15 years of experience in public health teaching and research in Australia and countries of South Asia (Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Thailand) and West Africa (Ghana). He has taught a number of public health units, done unit coordination, units development, curriculum review and research supervision (Master, and PhD). In research, he has extensive level of expertise and experience in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of large-scale interventional and observational studies across the countries of Asia and Australia. Dr. Rawal is currently leading and involved with multiple research projects funded by international/bilateral agencies and universities in Australia, Japan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India and Indonesia - most of the projects use Implementation Science Research and Co-design approaches. Lal’s research has made major contributions in a number of areas including NCDs prevention and control and has been published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature; JAMA Journals; WHO Bulletin; BMJ Global Health; BMC Public Health. Lal is a first author on over 25% of his publications, indicating primary work; last named author on around 20%, indicating leadership and research collaboration; and middle author on 55%, indicating mentoring of students/ early career researchers and junior staff members. Lal has published over 135 peer-reviewed publications in international peer reviewed journals including and six book/ book chapters, that have been cited over 25010 times (available at: & hl=en, h-index since 2017: 44.00 and i10-index 83)(Google Scholar, Aug 2023). Dr. Rawal earned his PhD in Global Health (2013/14) and Master of International Research Bioethics (2008) from Monash University, Australia; Master of Public Health from Mahidol University Thailand (2005); Master of as well as Bachelor of Education (Health Education) from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2004 and 2002, respectively; Auxiliary Health Worker (AHW) from Centre for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) Nepal in 1994; Ophthalmology Assistant from CTEVT Nepal in Lal has over 10 years of experience in supervising HDR (PhD and Master by Research) students, currently including a primary supervisor for 4 (2PhD and 1 MRes) and Co-supervisor for 2 HDR (PhD) students at CQUniversity.