He holds a doctoral degree from the University of London for his work on developing an mHealth-enabled intervention for hypertension and diabetes care in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Ajay has, overall, 18 years of experience in non-communicable disease (NCD) epidemiology and prevention. In the past ten years, he was into the application of digital health for improving the care delivery of common chronic NCD conditions in primary care. His work led to the development of the "mPower Heart Digital Health System" for NCD care. The electronic clinical decision support (EDSS) module of the mPower Heart Digital Health System has been integrated into the national Electronic Health Record portal of the Government of India.
Besides, Ajay has assisted the World Health Organization (WHO) in developing a digital health Application, namely mPEN, for facilitating the implementation of the WHO-PEN package for NCD care in the South East Asian Region countries.