User:Shiva Raj Mishra

Shiva Raj Mishra is a Nepalese health right activist and public health professional. He is the founding Chief Editor of Nepalese Public Health Journal "Health Prospect". He also worked as editorial board member in several international public health journals notably BMC Public Health, Asian Journal of Health Sciences and American Journal of Food and Nutrition.

He was born on 4th September, 1990 in Chitwan. He spent his childhood in Chitwan. After completing his schooling from Chitwan district, he completed university degree in Public Health at the Institute of Medicine in 2011. He attended several training courses in his early years in the University.

He founded the Nepalese journal "Health Prospect" while he was just 19 years old. He started as editor, rose to Chief Editor in 2010. In first few years, he also worked as advertisement collector and publisher. This was the first journal started by public health students in Nepal, and first to publish papers entirely related to public health discipline. He also worked as the Program Officer in USAID funded Saath-Saath Project in a non-Governmental Organization for fourteen months after finishing his study, and later moved to work as Research Officer in Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences in 2014. For a brief period, he worked as a Consultant in Family Health International Nepal. He has authored several research papers in popular journals. His first research paper came out when he had just finished university. He has worked in several research projects in Nepal, mainly on researches related to HIV,tropical diseases, climate change and chronic diseases.

He is involved in People's Health Movement (PHM). Remarkably his work led to the establishment of student coalition of PHM for the first time in Nepal in 2012. He attended the Third People's Health Assembly in South Africa in the same year, and later completed the People's Health University Course in 2013 at the Aristotle University in Greece. He advocates for free health care, free access to essential medicine locally and globally and writes column regularly in journals in Nepal.