List of Late Dr. Veda Prakash Orations Delivered

S. No.

Name of Orator

Subject

Year

1

Dr. K. Srinivasan

Population

1995

2

Dr. (Mrs.) Najma Heptulla

Population

1997

3

Prof. M.S. Swaminathan

Population and Human Security

1999

4

Prof. Ashish Bose

National Population Policy 2000 and Beyond

2000

5

Mrs. Avabai B. Wadia

New Perspectives in Population Policies and Programmes

2001

6

Dr. Zafarullah Chowdhury

Making Health For All a Reality through People’s Participation in rural Bangladesh: Gonoshasthaya Kendra Approach

2002

7

Prof. M.K. Bhan

Decentralized Child Health Care- An Important Factor in Population Stabilization

2005

8

Prof. Ranjit Roy Choudhary

Drug Discovery in the Developing World with Particular Reference to contraception

2007

9

Prof. N.S. Deodhar

Lifestyle, Fertility and Population

2008

10

Prof. L.M. Nath

A Little Look Behind and a Longer Look Ahead: Public Health Yesterday and Tomorrow

2009

11

Dr. R.K. Srivastava

Population Stabilization

2010

12

Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh

Sound Population Policies Towards Enhancing Health

2011

13

Dr. S.Y. Quraishi

Adolescents: the Key to Population and Development

2013

14

Dr. P.P.Talwar

Population Policy and Programme: India’s Story

2014

15

Shri A.R. Nanda

Population Problem – Myths and Realities

2014

16

Prof. Purushottam. M. Kulkarni

The Fading out of Neo-Malthusianism in India

2015

17

Ms. Poonam Muttreja

Reaching the Unreached: Way forward for Family Planning

2017

18

Prof. S. D. Gupta

India’s rising Population: Implications for Health and Development

2019

19

Prof. (Dr.) Atul Goel

Population Health – A Technical Perspective

2023

20

Dr. Rajiv Bahl

ICMR’s Recent initiatives on population (Public Health)-relevant Research

2024

21

Dr. B. S. Garg

Relevance of Gandhian Values in Public Health

2025