Dr. Raghavendra Rao Mohan completed his Bachelor’s degree in Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences with second rank from Mangalore University in 1998. He joined Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhan Samsthana, Bengaluru as a research fellow in 1998 and went onto become an assistant professor. He has completed several research projects in Rheumatoid arthritis, Prediabetes, Diabetes, CVD risk prevention and Cancer using both yoga and naturopathy interventions.

He has experience in working in reputed institutes like Swami Vivekananda Yoga University, and HCG Bangalore Institute of Oncology. He was an advisor to INYS Medical Research Society, Jindal Nature cure Hospital, and Trans Disciplinary University at Bengaluru. He was a collaborator and Osher (Planning International Centers for Research and Collaboration) NIH fellow at UCSF School of medicine, Sanfrancisco from 2004-2006. He completed Indo US study on yoga and Prediabetes, and yoga and HIV with UCSF School of Medicine Sanfrancisco. He was also a consultant for an NCI grant on yoga and Breast Cancer at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. He completed his PhD in 2007 and joined Health Care Global Enterprises Ltd., South East Asia’s Largest Network of Oncology Hospitals as a Senior Scientist and Head CAM program. He has 109 international research publications and two international book chapters with h-Index of 23 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Raghavendra-Rao-6.

He has won several awards such as Sushila Thakur Prakriti mandir prize in 2001 by APPICON, Manonmani Rudraiah award from SVYASA for best thesis and ASCO Conquer cancer foundation merit award in 2012 by American Society of Clinical Oncology. He has conducted workshops in Melbourne and Malaysia in UICC Congress. He was a Co-Chair for Yoga at Society for Integrative Oncology, USA. He has set up a Department of CAM at Health Care Global Enterprises which has been accredited by European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) for Integrative Oncology in 2014. He has experience in conducting global clinical trials, Managing Biorepository, Cancer Registry, Clinical Repository, Clinical Audit and EHR. He has also under gone NABH assessor training by QCI. He is currently the Director, Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt of India since 2019.He is also the editor for Indian Journal for Yoga and Naturopathy, a journal from CCRYN, Ministry of Ayush.