Mr. Mahendra Prasad Shrestha is a chief specialist at the Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal and a Health Coordinator at COVID-19 Crisis Management Center. As a former Director General at the Department of Health Services under the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), Director of the Nepal Health Training Center under MoHP; Chief Public Health Administrator at the District Public Health Office in Kathmandu and at the Far-western Regional Health Directorate in Doti, he has acquired expertise in the health system and contributed to the health sector of Nepal.