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Indian Academy of Pediatrics


The Indian Academy of Pediatrics is the association of Indian Pediatricians . It has been established in 1963, in Mumbai, India and claims to have 23, 000 members, as of the year 2013 The head office of IAP is in Mumbai while Delhi is the seat of its official publication - Indian Pediatrics, a MEDLINE indexed medical journal. It also publishes another medical journal called Indian Journal of Practical Pediatrics from Chennai.

In 2017, the IAP found it amidst a major controversy when one pediatrician who exposed an unholy nexus between vaccine manufacturers was allegedly manhandled in the organisations annual conference and suspended from the organisation's Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Immunization Practices. The move by IAP has been criticized by other medical organisations like the Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (ADEH) and Medico Friends Circle (MFC).


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