Balram Bhargava
Balram Bhargava has been appointed the new Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research and Secretary of the Department of Health Research, according to a notification by the appointments committee of the cabinet.
Bhargava, currently a senior consultant cardiologist at the All India Institute of Medical Science, will carry out this role until 2021, according to the order.
He will succeed former ICMR DG Soumya Swaminathan, appointed the deputy director general for the World Health Organisation in October 2017.
