By Neena Bhandari
As a child, Pallab Maulik would play with make-shift medical kits, observing his doctor father and nurse mother treat patients and work shifts at the hospitals in Nigeria and India. He followed the family tradition and graduated from the Calcutta Medical College in Kolkata.
He did his residency in Surgery, but soon realised that it wasn’t his strength. “I was drawn to the `Mind’ so I switched to psychiatry”, says Dr Maulik, who trained as a psychiatrist at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, before going to do his post-graduation in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK) and then a PhD from the John Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore (USA).
