Dr Chandra Pauline Daniel
Emergency and Surgical Care Team
The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) team says thank you and good-bye to our dear colleague and friend Dr Chandra Pauline Daniel (Dinakar) who sadly passed away on 15 July 2024 at her home in USA.
She contributed hugely to our GFMER online public health courses with her global experience working in World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), New York Medical College, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Currently she was working on a paper with GFMER on Women’s economic empowerment and access to reproductive health services (in memory of Dr Heli Bathija).
Recently in May 2024, as the United Nations Association (UNA)-USA Global Goals Ambassador Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)17 she spoke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women 68th session, in New York, USA to advance Gender Equality and addressing poverty issues among women. Gender Justice Blog Series Featuring Dr. Chandra Pauline Daniel (bellglobaljustice.org)
Chandra Pauline’s cheerful, kind and humble disposition and dedication to work tirelessly on whichever project she undertook will be remembered by all who knew her.
Short Biodata of Dr Chandra Pauline Daniel (Dinakar)
Dr Chandra Pauline Daniel (Dinakar) Ph.D., Dr PH (Doctorate in Public Health), completed her elementary school education in Nigeria followed by her education in India. Her doctoral research was in the field of Nutrition, Infectious Diseases and Substance Use Disorder in India. She graduated from New York Medical College with a specialization in Health Policy and Management and was honoured as a “Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine”. Chandra Pauline Daniel, Ph.D., Dr.P.H. ’23, Adds NYAM Fellowship Feather to her Cap | New York Medical College (nymc.edu).
She worked in the Injection Safety Program at the WHO, Geneva, Switzerland in 2009 as a consultant contributing to the development of guidelines for phlebotomy. Her knowledge and understanding of the Asian and African culture played a critical role in her inter-continental research ventures.
As a Research Analyst and Evaluation consultant at the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS in New York, she was actively engaged in program evaluation and development of strategies for the organization’s state and federal funded programs on infectious diseases. Her recent research was on the socioeconomic determinants of gender-based violence: SDG analytics on Technology Facilitate Gender Based Violence and Adolescent Birth Rates. She served as a Public Health Program Manager at the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force 2017: an initiative of the Office of the National Drug Control Policy, U.S.A. She was a peer reviewer for scientific articles and for the ‘Journal of Social Medicine’ of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center.
She worked on the ‘Artificial Intelligence’ team of the Public-Private Analytic Exchange Program, of the Department of Homeland Security, a research program sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence USA.
Her work explored numerous areas of research such as artificial intelligence, vulnerabilities in health care information technology systems and deepfake identities. Her international work and research experience have a global perspective, which applied to her public-health interventions.