ESSENTIALS OF INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Manoj Sharma, MBBS, MCHES, Ph.D., is a public health physician and has a medical degree from the University of Delhi and a doctorate in Preventive Medicine from the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University. He is currently a tenured Full Professor/Chair of Social & Behavioral Health Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the School of Public Health and President of Health for All, Inc. He has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in health behavior, health education, and health promotion in his career at 13 different universities working as full-time or part-time faculty to over 4,500 students and trained more than 2,000 health professionals. He is a prolific researcher and as of January 2023 had published 14 books (one in the eighth edition, one in the fourth edition, and two in second editions), more than 365 peer-reviewed research articles, and over 500 other publications. He has worked on professional projects in 14 countries. He is ranked in the top one percentile of global scientists from 176 subfields by Elsevier. His research interests are in developing and evaluating theory-based health behavior change interventions, community-based participatory research, stress-coping, and integrative mind-body interventions.