Dr. Jayaprakash Muliyil, completed his undergraduate studies in Medicine and Postgraduate studies in Community Medicine from Christian Medical College, Vellore and joined the faculty of Community Health there.CMC has a Community Health and Development (CHAD) programme with a secondary care hospital as the base hospital covering a population of 1,00,000.Dr. Jayaprakash Muliyil was specifically in charge of the Leprosy control programme.In 1985 he went to John Hopkins University at Baltimore from where he completed MPH & DrPH in Epidemiology.He became a professor of Community Medicine in 1990.The first formal course in Epidemiology in India was started at CMC, Vellore in 1992.From 2002 he served a 5 year term as the Principal of Christian Medical College, Vellore.He has served ICMR in many of the scientific advisory committees.He is a Visiting Professor of Tufts University Boston and Copenhagen University Denmark.Presently he is the Medical Consultant to The Leprosy Mission International.He has more than 100 papers to his credit in National & International journals.His main areas of research include Infectious Diseases, Leprosy, Child survival & Blindness control.
