“My ongoing research projects commensurate with my ‘topics of interest’ viz. advocacy on tobacco control and non-communicable diseases with state and national governments. I am the director of two national level resource centres namely ‘Resource Centre for Tobacco Control’ www.rctcpgi.org (reached 0.1 million views) and ‘Resource Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases’ which are established under current Bloomberg Initiative grant to reduce tobacco use (BI) and Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) respectively. I am also Chief Editor of ‘Tobacco Free Times’, a bimonthly theme-based journal published under BI grant, which is a one-stop solution for all tobacco control updates of the country”

1. Strengthening Management of Hypertension Services through capacity Building, Media and Communication, and Stakeholders Engagement in the State of Punjab.

The overall purpose of Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) project is to strengthen politico institutional framework of Cardiovascular diseases program.
(Funding Agency: Global Health Advocacy Incubator)

2. Advancing Tobacco control at National and Sub national level through capacity building, MPOWER implementation and support to national tobacco control programme (NTCP).

To assess level of the tobacco product display and advertising/promotion (TAPS) ban, and to get a better understanding of tobacco vendor density, especially around educational institutions, in these two cities of Ranchi and Siliguri.
(Funding Agency: John Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States)

3. Strengthening Enforcement of Taps ban with focus on point of sale through Tobacco Vendor Licensing in two cities of India.

To assess level of iwith the tobacco product display and advertising/promotion (TAPS) ban, and to get a better understanding of tobacco vendor density, especially around educational institutions, in these two cities of Ranchi and Siliguri.
(Funding Agency: John Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States)

4. Evaluation of Tobacco cessation training intervention on Behaviour of Tobacco users attending non communicable disease clinics of Punjab.

This project has been rolled out on pilot basis in two districts of Punjab wherein the health care providers at NCD clinics were trained using a comprehensive tobacco cessation training package to deliver cessation services to the patients who are suffering from any NCD and are currently using tobacco in any form. These patients are provided with face to face counselling sessions, followed by disease specific pamphlets and short text messages are sent as per their stage of behaviour change. Apart from self reporting of tobacco use by the patients, their plasma cotinine levels are also being assessed to verify their quit status using High Pressure Liquid Chromatography technique.
(Funding Agency: Tobacco Control Cell, Punjab)