Dr. Amal Mitra is the tenured Full Professor of Department of Public Health at Julia Jones Matthews School of Population and Public Health, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Texas, USA. He has been teaching public health for 27 years and continuing public health research for more than 40 years. He published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and received numerous grants and awards. Among his notable achievements, he received the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award 2022-2023, the Lifetime Achievement Award at his former job at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), the Innovation Award for Applied Research at USM, the Fulbright Scholar Award 2007-2008, among recipient of the prestigious John Snow Award 2024 from American Public Health Association (Epidemiology Section). Dr. Mitra is a Guest Editor of a couple of MDPI journals and an Editorial Board Member of several journals.