Dr. Madan Mohan Pradhan has done MBBS and master’s in Applied Epidemiology from Chennai. He is an Additional District Public Health Officer, NVBDCP Odisha. To carry forward the people’s health movement, to strengthen the public health system through capacity building, research, innovations and model building he has voluntarily associated himself with Public health resource network, India since last so many years.

He has led the Literacy Campaign under National Literacy Mission Authority, (NLMA) Ministry of HRD, Government of India. During his association with the literacy movement, he had joined the “Literacy-To-Health campaign” supported by NLMA as part of the post-literacy strategies focusing functional literacy. He had played a pivotal role in mainstreaming the civil society participation in the overall process of development starting from education, health, gender, livelihood, disaster management, Indian system of medicines and has taken a lead role in implementing GO-NGO partnership in the state. Recently he has been awarded by WHO for his innovative malaria-control mode “DAMaN”