Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
Open Access

Harshal Tukaram Pandve
Department of Community Medicine
Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College
India
Read Interview session with Harshal Tukaram Pandve

Dr. Harshal T. Pandve is currently working as Assistant Professor in Dept. of Community Medicine at Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Dr. Harshal T. Pandve has completed his M.B.B.S. from Rural Medical College, Loni and M.D. in Community Medicine from Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Pimpri, Pune. He has also completed National Institute of Health (NIH) USA sponsored Advanced Training in Health Research Methodology Training at St. John’s Medical College & Research Institute, Bangalore, India. He is active member of Indian Public Health Association (IPHA), International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) and many more. He has more than 50 articles to his credit published in various indexed International & National journals. He has also published many articles in Local languages in Newspapers & Magazines. He is on the Editorial boards of several reputed journals. He is also a Peer Reviewer for more than 20 journals including Bulletin of World Health Organization (WHO). He has been invited as Guest Speaker / Faculty for Conferences, CMEs, and Workshops. He was part of organizing committees of various Conferences, CMEs, Workshops, Trainings, Quiz contests. He has been included in Marquis Who’s Who in the World Directory published by Marquis Who’s Who Publishers, USA as “Distinguished Medical Researcher”.

Public Health, Communicable & Non-communicable diseases, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Climate Change, Research Methodology

1. How many years have you been practicing and/or performing research?
Nine years

2. What is the research topic you are working on now?
Climate change and its effects on human health

3. What makes an article top quality?
Relevance of Research Question, Research design

4. What are the qualities you look for in an article?
Relevance, Novelty, Research design

5. Do you have any research funding (NIH or other national funding) now?
No

6. When did you become an editor of OMICS Journal?
2012

7. What is your greatest career accomplishment?
To be on editorial and reviewer board of esteemed scientific journals

8. How does the research published percolate through to practitioners?
Journal reading

9. What is the purpose of serving as an editor?
To improve quality of research

10. Do you have any patents?
No

11. Have you contributed any editorials or papers (any types) to OMICS Journals in the past two years?
Yes

12. Do you plan to contribute any editorials or papers to OMICS Journals in the next year?
Yes

13. Do you have any trouble with OMICS Journals in the past?
Yes, whenever I send editorial articles I confirm regarding publication charges and reply I get that there is publication charge. Still whenever the article is sent for proof corrections an invoice of publication charges is also sent. This is a very irritating experience. I think there communication gap between individual journals and billing dept. of OMICS. It should resolved.

14. Would you recommend OMICS to your friends or colleagues?
Wider scope, readers all over the world, quality of publications, excellent indexing system

15. How do you differentiate Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education with other journals in the field?
It is more application oriented compared other journals in the field and wider scope of research and wide variety research topics are covered