
Drona Prakash Rasali

Drona Prakash Rasali (, born in Humin, Palpa) was a Nepalese student who stood Board First position topping School Leaving Certificate (Nepal) i.e. national board examinations of Nepal, commonly abbreviated as SLC, held in 1972. He is the only one person so far from Dalit communities of Nepal, to obtain the most coveted rank in the history of SLC Board Examinations.
Community leadership.
Drona Prakash Rasali is featured in the list of prominent South Asian immigrants in Canada in Abdur Rahim's book, "Canadian Immigration and South Asian Immigrants"(page 437-438). He is an active member of Nepali Diaspora, who was elected as the Deputy Regional Coordinator for Americas (DRC) in the International Coordinating Council (ICC) of the global organization Non Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) for the period, 2009–2011. He ran and lost the election for the position of Regional Coordinator (RC) for Americas in the NRNA International Coordinating Council (ICC), 2011–2013. He has served as the Advisor to NRN-Canada National Coordinating Council since 2008 as well as the Advisor to the NRNA International Coordinating Council (ICC) for 2011–2013. He contributed significantly to the establishment of the Nepal Open University as one of the four leading task group members through the Open University of Nepal Initiative, a flagship project of Non-Resident Nepali Association. 
He is the founding vice-president of Canada-Nepal Friendship and Cultural Society in Canada. 
Professional background.
Drona Rasali carries a diverse professional background and is currently a Canadian public health professional who served as Provincial Chronic Disease Epidemiologist at the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health from 2005 to 2012, and is the Director, Population Health Surveillance & Epidemiology at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) of British Columbia in Canada since 2012. He is veterinarian, with specializations received in health-related sciences including pathology, endocrinology, quantitative genetics, epidemiology and public health. He is a lifetime member of Nepal Veterinary Association and a registered veterinarian of Nepal Veterinary Council in Nepal, and was awarded the distinguished professional designation of a Fellow of American College of Epidemiology (FACE) in 2014, and currently holds the position Adjunct Professor at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia. He held the position of Adjunct Professor of Health Studies at the University of Regina in Canada (2009-2019). . His professional contributions span a wide range of scientific disciplines, including two notable international publications of scientific research to his credits: 
1) World review of composite sheep breeds, 
2) Establishing link between decreasing children's asthma disease incidence and declining antibiotic use in infants. Nepal Magazine featured him as a policy making personality, who played an important role in establishing Nepal Open University. 
Drona Rasali served as the chair of Organizing Committee of Canadian Alliance for Regional Risk Factor Surveillance (CARRFS), a national network of public health professionals in Canada. 