Randeep Guleria

Guleria is co-author of popular book Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic, with Chandrakant Lahariya, a leading Indian physician, and Wellness & Preventive Medicine specialist and Gagandeep Kang of Christian Medical College, Vellore. The book was published by Penguin Random House India and released nationwide on 10 December 2020.

Till We Win: India's fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic is a book authored by Chandrakant Lahariya, Gagandeep Kang and Randeep Guleria. The book became national bestseller within first week of release (The Asian Age National bestseller list ; 20 Dec 2020). This book provides unique blend of information on macro (health policy) as well as micro (how to stay safe in and during pandemic period) issues. The 352 page book has sections on viruses, why pandemic happens; India's response to pandemic before and during lockdowns and unlock periods, key learnings for health sector during these periods. There are detailed sections which provide useful information on COVID-19 vaccines as well as therapies. One chapter is devoted on how to strengthen India's healthcare system. The book has been published by India's leading publisher Penguin Random House India and has become a bestseller. The book has been termed as "An easy to read and an important book driven by science, data and reason' by the editor in chief of India's leading newspaper the Hindustan Times.

Randeep Guleria is an Indian pulmonologist and the ex-director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, credited with the establishment of India's first centre for pulmonary medicines and sleep disorders at AIIMS. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award. He is a part of India's COVID-19 response effort.

Randeep Guleria was included by the Government of India in the 2015 Republic Day honours list for the civilian award of Padma Shri. He lives in Delhi, adjacent to the AIIMS campus.

He has been awarded the prestigious Dr. B C Roy National Awards for the year 2014, under eminent medical person category by the Medical Council of India.

Guleria was the personal physician to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India since 1998 and is credited with research on pulmonary diseases. His research findings have been recorded by way of 36 book chapters and 268 articles; ResearchGate, an online knowledge repository has published 117 of them. He is credited with efforts in establishing a centre for respiratory diseases and sleep medicine at AIIMS, which is reported to be a first in India. He is a recipient of Raj Nanda Pulmonary Disease Fellowship from Raj Nanda Trust and the Royal College of Physicians, UK and is an elected fellow (2011) of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS). He sits on the editorial boards of a number of medical journals such as the Indian Journal of Chest Diseases, Lung India, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association and Chest India.

An alumnus of the class of 1975 of St. Columba's School, Delhi, Dr Guleria started his medical studies at IGMC, Shimla, affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University from where he received undergraduate degree in Medicine, afterwards he attended the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh, from where he secured his MD in general medicine and DM in pulmonary medicine. He joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and rose in ranks to become a professor and the head of the department of Pulmonology and Sleep Disorders. He is associated with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a member of its Scientific Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on immunization and influenza vaccination. He is a life member of the Association of Physicians of India, Indian Chest Society and the National College of Chest Physicians of India. He also serves as a consultant to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna on issues related to radiation protection.