Natural and Applied Sciences (NAAS)

Dr Subedi is from Waling, Syangja. After completing higher secondary education in his hometown, he moved to Kathmandu for higher studies. He completed an undergraduate and post-graduate degree in public health from Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University. He earned more than ten years of work experience with Nepal’s different health system tiers, ranging from community to national level. At Nepal Public Health Foundation, he worked as a research manager and managed a research project funded by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO. He also led research projects supported by international agencies such as the WHO South-East Asia and Medico International. Dr Subedi worked as an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University. He completed his PhD on understanding the implementation of a digital health intervention from School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Deakin University, Australia. He is associated with national and international professional organisations, such as the Nepal Public Health Association and the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity. Recently, he is leading two international collaborative research projects in Nepal related to the physical activity of children and adolescents: 1) Development and validation of the Global Adolescent and Child Physical Activity Questionnaire (GAC-PAQ): A multi-country study across six continents and 2) SUNRISE Pilot study. He is associated with the Career Development Program of Connected Health Centre for Research Excellence of the National Health and Medical Research Centre in Digital Technology, Australia and is a Lown Scholar in the Cardiovascular Health Program at Harvard University, USA. His broad research interests include non-communicable disease prevention and management, digital health, physical activity, and implementation science.