Drona Prakash Rasali

Drona Prakash Rasali (Nepali: द्रोण प्रकाश रसाली, born in Humin, Palpa) was a Nepalese student who stood "Board First" topping School Leaving Certificate i.e. national board examinations, commonly abbreviated as SLC, held in 1972. He is the only one person so far from Dalit communities of Nepal, who obtained the most coveted rank in the history of SLC Board Examinations.[1] [2]

Leadership in Community Organizations

Drona Prakash Rasali is an active member of Nepali Diaspora, who was elected as the Deputy Regional Coordinator for Americas (DRC) in the International Coordinating Council (ICC) of the Non-Resident Nepalis Association (NRNA) for the period, 2009-2011.[3] He ran and lost the election for the position of Regional Coordinator (RC) for Americas in the NRNA International Coordinating Council (ICC), 2011-2013.[4] He has served as the Advisor to NRN-Canada National Coordinating Council since 2008[5] as well as the Advisor to the NRNA International Coordinating Council (ICC) for 2011-2013.[6]

Leadership in Scientific Societies

Dr. Drona Rasali, a lifetime member of the Society of Agricultural Scientists-Nepal (SAS-Nepal) was elected as its Executive Board Member responsible for publications management for 1996-1999 period.[7] In 2008-09 period, he served in the Board of Directors of the Saskatchewan Epidemiology Association (SEA) and chaired its Website Development Committee.[8] He was elected as the Vice-President of Saskatchewan Public Health Association (SPHA), Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada, for 2011.[9] In 2012, he chaired the Surveillance and Innovation Working Group (SIWG) of the Canadian Alliance for Regional Risk Factor Surveillance (CARRFS), a national network of public health professionals who are interested in chronic disease risk factor surveillance at the regional and local level in Canada.[10]

Professional Background

Drona Rasali is a veterinarian,[11] with specializations received in health-related sciences including pathology, endocrinology, quantitative genetics and epidemiology. He is a lifetime member of Nepal Veterinary Association and a registered veterinarian of Nepal Veterinary Council.[12]

Scientific Contributions

He was the first Nepali researcher to compute and report internationally the estimates of genetic parameters (such as heritability and genetic correlations) of economically important traits in any population of livestock species of Nepal.[13] A research team led by him cultured the leukocytes of hill buffaloes of Nepal for the first time in a research laboratory within the country to confirm their riverine type by karyotyping with their chromosome numbers (2n =50).[14] Other notable examples of his research contributions, published nationally and internationally, spread across agrobiology [15] (Some specific examples are: animal biodiversity,[16] buffaloes,[17] beef cattle[18] and world's sheep composite breeds[19]), molecular/population genetics,[20] quantitative genetics (e.g. genetic parameters estimation[21]), veterinary epidemiology (e.g. transport mortality in chickens[22]), and population and public health (e.g. surveillance of chronic diseases,[23] injury[24] and their risk factors,[25]). He contributes to two international peer reviewed scientific journals- as a reviewer and a member of Editorial Advisory Board of the Small Ruminant Research[26] as well as a reviewer of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health.[27]

References

  1. ↑ Staff - Gorkhapatra (11 May 1972). "Headline news: SLC Results Out, Drona Prakash from Padmoday High School Declared Board First". Gorkhapatra, the State-owned oldest national Daily Nepali Newspaper, Kathmandu, Nepal. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  2. ↑ ANHS (28 October 2011). "First ANHS Himalayan Studies Conference Invited Speakers". The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS). Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  3. ↑ Non-Resident Nepali Association. Non-Resident Nepali International Coordination Council 2009-2011. Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA). Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  4. ↑ Drona P. Rasali, PhD (2011). Announcing his candidacy for Regional Coordinator (RC) for Americas in the NRNA ICC. USNepal-Online. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  5. ↑ Non-Resident Nepali-Canada (NRN-Canada). NRN-National Coordination Council of Canada (NCC), 2011-2013. Non-Resident Nepali-Canada (NRN-Canada). Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Non-Resident Nepali Association. 6th NRN Global Conference & International Convention of NRNA Organizing Committee (PDF). Non-Resident Nepali Association NRNA. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  7. ↑ Society of Agricultural Scientists-Nepal (2014). Society of Agricultural Scientists, Nepal (SAS-N), Executive Committee (1996-1999). Society of Agricultural Scientists, Nepal(SAS-N). Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  8. ↑ Saskatchewan Epidemiology Association Website Committee (1 September 2008). SEA Website Committee Terms of Reference (PDF). Saskatchewan Epidemiology Association (SPHA). Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  9. ↑ Saskatchewan Public Health Association (2014). Officers and Board of Directors Members for 2011. Saskatchewan Public Health Association (SPHA). Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  10. ↑ Canadian Alliance for Regional Risk Factor Surveillance (CARRFS) (20 September 2013). CARRFS e-Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 1, May 2012. Canadian Alliance for Regional Risk Factor Surveillance (CARRFS). Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  11. ↑ Nirantar Prakashan, 2001 (2011). Health Yellow Pages: Medical Directory of Nepal. University of Chicago (Digital). Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  12. ↑ Nepal Veterinary Council (2014). "Registered Veterinarians". Nepal Veterinary Council. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  13. ↑ Rasali, D.P. and Penalba, F.F. (1992). Phenotypic and genetic parameters among litter traits of pigs in Nepal; 2: heritabilities and correlations. Philippine Journal of Veterinary and Animal Science. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  14. ↑ Rasali, D. P.; Joshi, H. D.; Patel, R. K.; Harding, A. H. (1998). Phenotypic clusters and karyotypes of indigenous buffaloes in the Western Hills of Nepal. Technical Paper - Lumle Agricultural Centre 1998 No. 98/2 pp. 24 pp. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  15. ↑ FAO (25 September 2014). "AGRIS". Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  16. ↑ Joshi, B. R.; Rasali, D. P. (Editors. Partap, T.; Sthapit, B.) (1998). Unique Livestock Resources of Mountain Farmers and the Compatibility of On-farm Conservation Efforts with Livestock Development Approaches. Book Chapter 27 in: Managing Agrobiodiversity: Farmers' Changing Perspectives and Institutional Responses in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region, pp. 265-191. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  17. ↑ D.P. Rasali (2000). A case study of Buffalo recording and breeding management in Nepal. In: ICAR Technical Series: Workshop on Animal Recording for Improved Breeding and Management Strategies for Buffaloes (page 25-32) (PDF). ICAR, Villa del Ragno, Via Nomentana 134, 00162 Rome, Italy. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  18. ↑ Rasali, Drona Prakash (2004). Genetic analysis of association among juvenile growth and female reproductive traits in Canadian Angus cattle. University of Manitoba. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  19. ↑ D. P. Rasali, J. N. B. Shrestha, G. H. Crow (2006). Development of composite sheep breeds in the world: A review. Canadian Journal of Animal Science, 86(1): 1-24. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  20. ↑ D.P. Rasali, G.H. Crow and E. Trout. (2000). Microsatellite variation in captured elk (Cervus elaphus) in Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Animal Science. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  21. ↑ D. P. Rasali, G. H. Crow, J. N. B. Shrestha, A. D. Kennedy, A. Brûlé-Babel (2005). Multiple trait estimates of genetic parameters for juvenile growth and calving traits in Canadian Angus cattle, 85(3): 309-316. Canadian Journal of Animal Science. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  22. ↑ Mairead E. Drain, Terry L. Whiting, Drona P. Rasali, and Vic A. D’Angiolo (January 2007). Warm weather transport of broiler chickens in Manitoba. Canadian Veterinary Journal, 48(1): 76–80. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  23. ↑ Cynthia Robitaille, Christina Bancej, Sulan Dai, Karen Tu, Drona Rasali; et al. (2013). Surveillance of ischemic heart disease should include physician billing claims: population-based evidence from administrative health data across seven Canadian provinces. Bio-Medical Central Cardiovascular Disorders. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  24. ↑ Saskatchewan Ministry of Health (written by Drona Rasali).; et al. (2008). Self-reported injury, Injury Hospitalizations and other chapters. In: Saskatchewan Comprehensive Injury Report, 1995-2005. Saskatchewan Ministry of Health. Saskatchewan Government, Ministry of Health. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  25. ↑ Bernard CK Choi, Mary Lou Decou, Drona Rasali; et al. (2014). Enhancing capacity for risk factor surveillance at the regional/local level: a follow-up review of the findings of the Canadian Think Tank Forum after 4 years. Archives of Public Health. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  26. ↑ Small Ruminant Research Journal (2010). Small Ruminant Research Editorial Board. Elsevier. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
  27. ↑ Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health (2013). Reviewer Acknowledgement. Sage Publications. Retrieved 14 March 2014.


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