Dr. Ravi Mehrotra is currently an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins Institute of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta. He led the India Cancer Research Consortium (Indian Council of Medical Research-Department of Health Research) and he is a member of the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization at Lyon, France. Prior to this, he was the Lead at the ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research as well as the WHO-FCTC Global Knowledge Hub on Smokeless Tobacco Products. In addition to his academic career in various medical schools, Dr. Mehrotra has been a leading proponent of affordable cancer care. He led successful programs in a broad range of public health efforts. He has guided India’s Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in conceiving and implementing the Framework for Cancer Control. He was instrumental in three Indian states taking up HPV vaccination immunization against cervical cancer, the most recent one being Sikkim. He is a committed educator who successfully mentored more than two dozen medical trainees in pathology, epidemiology, molecular cancer research, and global health and aims to bring this plethora of differentiated experiences, learnings to RAPID.