Dr. Vijay holds MBBS, MD from India and MPH from Belgium where he worked on improving the quality of health information system especially the cause of death information in India. Currently he works as a faculty in Public Health at University of the West Indies, Trinidad and coordinates the World NCD Federation activities in the region. He is a Lead Assessor of the National Accreditation Board of Hospitals and Healthcare providers in India with rich international experience. Vijay served as State Epidemiologist with NACO for improving the quality of HIV/AIDS services and Surveillance. Later as Senior Technical Officer at FHI 360 he was responsible for improving the quality of clinical services by implementing the Clinic Operational Guidelines and Standards. He has done various programs from UCLA, WHO-IARC, Harvard Medical School; KIT-Amsterdam; Graduate Institute Geneva and was a visiting scholar/faculty at University of Washington, NOVA University of Lisbon and UAE University. He is also a former Salzburg Global Fellow in 2010 for seminar 474.