He established large population cohorts in India which have provided major insights in diverse domains, ranging from epidemiology, biomarkers, role of nutrition, on heart diseases and diabetes. Evaluation of task shifting and mobile‐phone based solutions for providing personalized patient management solutions, and Yoga-care in cardiac rehabilitation (both of which were selected for the prestigious late breaking presentation at the American Heart Association meeting in 2018), are two best exemplars of low cost, context specific solutions to enhance quality of therapeutic and preventive care for chronic diseases in India. A low cost worksite wellness program designed by his team with this philosophy was applauded by the 2008 World Economic Forum report, as one of the best worksite programs.