By Neena Bhandari
Growing up on the Christian Medical College campus in Ludhiana [Punjab], Rohina Joshi knew very little about professions other than medicine. She would see her dietician mother educate her staff about the ill-effects of tobacco and her dentist father promote oral health among school children. The amalgamation of all these influences motivated her to enrol in medicine.
In the very first year, she became aware of the power of prevention and realised that one can actually prevent people from falling sick. By her third year in medical college, she was certain that she wanted to do public health or community medicine. She did a Master of Public Health degree from the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology in Thiruvananthapuram [Kerala].