Ahmedabad Dialogue: The Business of Health
Ahmedabad Dialogue is a top tier thought platform of Ahmedabad University. It is designed as a deep-dive interface of academia, industry, policymakers, and practitioners from India and across the world. Ahmedabad Dialogue aims to enhance understanding of critical issues and hot button topics and advocate positive outcomes for society at large.
The goal of Ahmedabad Dialogue is to bring together thought leaders keen to continue long-term dialogue on selected action areas, motivating policy action, and finding solutions that help both businesses and the public. Outcomes and suggestions from Ahmedabad Dialogue events will be shared with stakeholders, institutions, policymakers, and industry in India and globally, with the steadfast intention of following up on key action areas.
Please join us on November 29, 2025, for the Inaugural Ahmedabad Dialogue on The Business of Health at Ahmedabad University.
For more information, write to us at ahmedabad.dialogue@ahduni.edu.in
Committee
Chief Patron(s)
- Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University
- Devanath Tirupati, Executive Provost, Ahmedabad University
International Advisory Committee
- Ashok Bhatnagar, Emeritus Honeywell Inc., USA
- Ratneshwar Jha, Florida Tech, USA
- Subramaniam Rajan, Arizona State University, USA
- Thomas Gries, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- Ronan O’Higgins, University of Limerick, Ireland
- Raj Das, RMIT, Australia
- Behrad Koohbor, Rowan University, USA
- Sanjay Prasad, Sinclair College, USA
- Vinayak Ranjan, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, USA
General Co-Chair(s)
- Sunil Kale, Ahmedabad University
- Ashitava Ghosal, Ahmedabad University
Convenor Chair
- Hemant Chouhan, Ahmedabad University
- Nand Kishore Singh, Ahmedabad University
Technical Programme Co-chairs
- Sham Gurav, Ahmedabad University
- Bimal Das, Ahmedabad University
- Kameswara Rao, ATIRA, Ahmedabad
- Ankush Sharma, ATIRA, Ahmedabad
- Partha Bairi, ATIRA, Ahmedabad
National Advisory Committee
- Naresh Bhatnagar, IIT Delhi
- Puneet Mahajan, IIT Delhi
- Makarand Joshi, Director R&DE Engg, DRDO, Pune
- Bikash Chakarborty, Retired Scientist H, NMRL, DRDO
- D Roy Mahapatra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Inderdeep Singh, IIT Roorkee
- Kalyan Kumar Singh, IIT Dhanbad
- Dinesh Kumar Harursampath, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Supratik Mukhopadhyay, IIT Kanpur
- Shailesh Ganuple, IIT Roorkee
- Himanshu Pathak, IIT Mandi
- A A Shaikh, National Institute of Technology, Surat
Women In Engineering (WIE) Chair
- Kusum Meena, IIT Delhi
- Maryam Kaveshgar, Ahmedabad University
Industry Chairs
- Pragnesh Shah, Director, ATIRA
- Naresh Sharma, Aryssa Consulting Solutions
- Amit Pal, CEO, Arvind Composites
- Amit Vijay, Rockman Composites
- Mukesh Sanghavi, Indore Composites
- R K Singh, CECA
Exhibition Chair
- Shuja Ahmed, Ahmedabad University
- Harish Mirajkar, Ahmedabad University
Local Conveyance and Food Committee Co-Chair(s)
- Arijit Ganguli, Ahmedabad University
- Keyur Joshi, Ahmedabad University
Registration Chair
- Akhand Rai, Ahmedabad University
- Vishal Nirgude, Ahmedabad University
- Amogh Shastri, Ahmedabad University
- Aaqib Chokwala, Ahmedabad University
The Business of Health, a day-long Ahmedabad Dialogue event led by Ahmedabad University’s Bagchi School of Public Health, will focus on determinants of health at the intersection of policy, industry, and practice in the context of non-communicable diseases.
The Ahmedabad Dialogue on The Business of Health will feature in-depth dialogue on hot-button issues by marquee speakers, key stakeholders and participants from the food & beverage industry, health insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical industries, policymakers from government, research institutions, and academia.
The Ahmedabad Dialogue on The Business of Health will conduct deep dives aimed at:
- Reducing the obesogenic environment across industries.
- Gauging the impact of social media and other marketing strategies
- Tracking the Yin and Yang of ultra-processed foods in daily life
- Prioritising primary prevention through cross-institutional partnerships
- Suggesting policies to promote win-win situations for business and health
- Presenting innovations for new interventions, initiatives, and business opportunities
These deep-dive interactions will aim to synthesise suggestions for action items to enable balanced changes in the existing system for the betterment of society. The goal of the Ahmedabad Dialogue on The Business of Health is to bring together thought leaders keen to continue long-term dialogue on selected action areas, motivating policy action, and finding solutions that help both businesses and the public. Outcomes and suggestions from the Ahmedabad Dialogue on The Business of Health will be shared with stakeholders, institutions, and industry in India and globally, with the intention of following up on key action points.
For more information, write to us at ahmedabad.dialogue@ahduni.edu.in
Keynote Speakers
RAVI KANBUR
T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs
International Professor of Applied Economics and Management
Professor of Economics
Cornell University
