2nd Nepal Public Health Foundation Lecture Series on “ Understanding Public Health: Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations” by Prof Dr Mathura Shrestha.

In 2011, the lecture was delivered by Late Prof. Dr. Mathura Prasad Shrestha, Advisor; Nepal Public Health Foundation on “Understanding Public Health: Conceptual and Philosophical Foundations”. Prof. Dr. Mathura Shrestha was the Former Minister for Health and also former Chairman of Nepal Health Research Council and Department of Community Medicine and Family Health. He promoted public health research extensively while he was the professor of community medicine. He contributed largely in shaping the national policy on health research as the chair of NHRC and in the South-East Asia Health research initiatives as the member of the WHO advisory council for health research.