Anil Srivastava is the President of Open Health Systems Laboratory where he leads the collaboration with Apollo Research Academy and the Virtual Human Global Alliance. He has been involved in several international initiatives to create research networks (Unesco, World Bank, Internet2, National Cancer Institute, International Development Research Centre, et al).
His work with academic medical centres in India and across the world has been about networks for biomedical research collaboration. He is currently working on a Cancer Moonshot international public-private partnership to create a south-south Global Pediatric Brain Cancer Network (GPBCN) with Duke University, US National Brain Tumor Society and Bayer connecting Africa and South Asia. In 1989-91 he served as the first chief executive of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) and prior to that he worked as the director and Head of Knowledge Engineering (1972-86) at the Centre for Development of Instructional Technology (Cendit). Over the years he has worked with the US National Cancer institute’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) and Radiation Research Program (RRP) on international research collaboration; with Apple’s Advanced Technology Group on Educational Object Economy; and senior advisor to the World Bank; and UCAID: University Consortium for Advanced Internet Development (commonly known as Internet2) to focus the research and education network (REN) community on big data broadband networks in life sciences beside the collaboration with India’s National Knowledge Network.