Drona Prakash Rasali

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Drona Prakash Rasali (Nepali: द्रोण प्रकाश रसाली, born in Humin, Palpa) was a Nepalese student who stood "Board First" topping School Leaving Certificate i.e. national board examinations, commonly abbreviated as SLC, held in 1972. He is the only one person so far from Dalit communities of Nepal, who obtained the most coveted rank in the history of SLC Board Examinations.[1] [2]

Leadership in Community Organizations

Drona Prakash Rasali is an active member of Nepali Diaspora, who was elected as the Deputy Regional Coordinator for Americas (DRC) in the International Coordinating Council (ICC) of the Non-Resident Nepalis Association (NRNA) for the period, 2009-2011.[3] He ran and lost the election for the position of Regional Coordinator (RC) for Americas in the NRNA International Coordinating Council (ICC), 2011-2013.[4] He has served as the Advisor to NRN-Canada National Coordinating Council since 2008[5] as well as the Advisor to the NRNA International Coordinating Council (ICC) for 2011-2013.[6]

Leadership in Scientific Societies

Dr. Drona Rasali, a lifetime member of the Society of Agricultural Scientists-Nepal (SAS-Nepal) was elected as its Executive Board Member responsible for publications management for 1996-1999 period.[7] In 2008-09 period, he served in the Board of Directors of the Saskatchewan Epidemiology Association (SEA) and chaired its Website Development Committee.[8] He was elected as the Vice-President of Saskatchewan Public Health Association (SPHA), Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada, for 2011.[9] In 2012, he chaired the Surveillance and Innovation Working Group (SIWG) of the Canadian Alliance for Regional Risk Factor Surveillance (CARRFS), a national network of public health professionals who are interested in chronic disease risk factor surveillance at the regional and local level in Canada.[10]

Professional Background

Drona Rasali is a veterinarian,[11] with specializations received in health-related sciences including pathology, endocrinology, quantitative genetics and epidemiology. He is a lifetime member of Nepal Veterinary Association and a registered veterinarian of Nepal Veterinary Council.[12]

Scientific Contributions

He was the first Nepali researcher to compute and report internationally the estimates of genetic parameters (such as heritability and genetic correlations) of economically important traits in any population of livestock species of Nepal.[13] A research team led by him cultured the leukocytes of hill buffaloes of Nepal for the first time in a research laboratory within the country to confirm their riverine type by karyotyping with their chromosome numbers (2n =50).[14] Other notable examples of his research contributions, published nationally and internationally, spread across agrobiology [15] (Some specific examples are: animal biodiversity,[16] buffaloes,[17] beef cattle[18] and world's sheep composite breeds[19]), molecular/population genetics,[20] quantitative genetics (e.g. genetic parameters estimation[21]), veterinary epidemiology (e.g. transport mortality in chickens[22]), and population and public health (e.g. surveillance of chronic diseases,[23] injury[24] and their risk factors,[25]). He contributes to two international peer reviewed scientific journals- as a reviewer and a member of Editorial Advisory Board of the Small Ruminant Research[26] as well as a reviewer of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health.[27]

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