From his early days as a medical student in India to becoming the Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Memphis, USA, Dr. Joshi’s career embodies dedication, resilience, and a relentless pursuit of solutions that create meaningful change.

He brings with him diverse experience of working across 12 countries, engaging community-based organizations, academic and other institutions, government agencies, policy-makers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds. He combines data-driven innovative entrepreneurial creative approaches to advance excellence in public health education, and research, and practice that can have the greatest community impact. Dr. Joshi is a population health informatics researcher who combines his academic training in clinical medicine, public health, and informatics to design and develop human-centered, technology-enabled interventions to enhance population health outcomes across diverse community settings. He has extensive experience in utilizing community and hospital-based data to implement and evaluate informatics-enabled solutions to address social, economic, and health inequities of the 21st century. He has designed and developed, standalone and internet-enabled, multi-lingual, digital health interventions such as population health dashboards, consumer health informatics, m-health interventions, and population-based surveillance tools across multiple settings to improve population health outcomes. Dr. Joshi emphasizes the role of higher education as a social economic agent of change towards building sustainable communities.

Every individual has a dream. However not everyone achieves it. For some, it is easily attainable, for others it comes the hard way. Some are scared even to try living out their dream, some try but are not able to fulfill them. Some just don’t believe in themselves and feel that they will never be able to give shape to their dreams. As a child, I, too, had a dream… to do something. But there were challenges and obstructions at every step. It was difficult to express or share them. However, the biggest challenge was to make others believe in me. Some thought I was over-ambitious, a day dreamer… some even mocked. Yet somewhere in my heart, I had a strong belief to make my dreams come true. I always wondered at those who viewed dreams skeptically. In my life, I have met all sorts of people… some who had success without doing anything, some who got success after a struggle, some who were struggling in the twilight of their life and some who had given up all hope… One thing that binds them all was that they wanted to do something but the challenge was how.

A need to develop “a PLATFORM that can serve as a New Blessing for individuals to SHARE and FULFILL their DREAMS” was felt. It just seemed to be a fleeting thought, not knowing how to do it, what it should be, how it would look like and how it would sustain. And thus, on 6 March, 2012, a small seed in the form of Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society (FHTS) was conceptualized and sown. The aim is to use technologies as a medium to bridge a gap among the social, health, education and economic inequalities that currently exist through evidence based public health research resulting in an overall well-being of the individuals, their families and the communities they live.

FHTS is formed on the belief that “happiness lies in not only fulfilling one’s own dreams but also to help other people achieve their dreams”. I hope that FHTS becomes a New Blessing that amalgamates inspirations, motivations and dreams of every individual to help them become a better human being and live their life for a just cause.