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Debashis (Deb) Basu is a Public Health Medicine Specialist and Clinical and Academic Head of the Department of Public Health Medicine based at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital and University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is involved in both post- and under-graduate teaching and supervision of masters and doctoral students in the University covering the areas of Public Health and preventive medicine. In addition, he is involved with teaching at a number of international Universities in India, Italy, Kenya, and USA. He was the pioneer in South Africa for creating the first Masters programme for hospital managers in South Africa while working at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is actively involved with South African Public Health Medicine Association, a professional association for Public Health and Preventive Medicine Specialist Physicians. He is a part of an international group that works with Public health and Preventive Medicine Specialist Physician across the world.He was also actively involved with the College of Public Health Medicine of South Africa. In 2015, he was nominated as the course coordinator by WHO for training of trainers course in the ‘Health In All Policies’ in Africa. As a Johnson & Johnson Health management Fellow sponsored by the Graduate Business School network, he worked at the Duke University conducting joint research projects in health and clinical management. He has received a number of national and international grants. He has presented in many conferences and published a number of papers in national and international peer reviewed journals. Focus of his research interest is translational research i.e. translating research findings into practice. His research interest could be grouped into following areas: Clinical epidemiology (the application of best available research evidence to patient care focussing on Non-communicable diseases, Communicable diseases and Maternal health), and Health Systems (improvement of management of health services through monitoring and evaluation using routinely collected data and available resources).