Dr. Venkatesan Chakrapani is Chairperson of Centre for Sexuality and Health Research and Policy (C-SHaRP). He completed his MD in Madras Medical College and PhD in Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. He has been conducting applied and policy-oriented health research among sexual and gender minorities for over 15 years. His studies have provided evidence base on: stigma, discrimination and structural violence; barriers to HIV prevention/treatment services and gender transition; effect of sexual and gender minority stigma on mental health, association between psychosocial problems and HIV risk, acceptability of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, presence of syndemics and effectiveness of syndemic-based interventions. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research articles, five bookchapters and more than 70 policy/technical reports. In India, he has conducted several training programs for health care providers on sexual and gender minorities (training manuals are available in www.indianLGBThealth.info). He serves as the Chair of NACO's Technical Resource Group (TRG) on trans people and a member of NACO's TRG on men who have sex with men. In 2013/14, he served as a member of the Ministry of Social Justice's Expert Committee on Trans people (http://socialjustice.nic.in/writereaddata/UploadFile/Binder2.pdf). He has received several fellowships including NIH Fogarty fellowship from Yale University, USA; and Fund for Leadership Development (FLD) fellowship of the MacArthur Foundation.

For more information, see:https://www.indiaalliance.org/fellow/venkatesan-chakrapani-md-phd

Further details on publications by Dr. Venkatesan Chakrapani, MD, PhD,
see: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-9135