Dr Ekbal has demonstrated broad intellectual interests and achievements throughout his career. From 1993 to 2000, he was Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery at the Medical College in Kottayam, Kerala, one of the outstanding hospitals in the state.

Dr. Ekbal is an active member of the Kerala People's Science Movement, an organization dedicated to popularize science, raising environmental awareness, and making medicine patient-oriented, inexpensive, and available to all. He has participated in several national and international conferences on democratic health practices including most recently the International Health Assembly, held in Dakka, Bangladesh.

His talks on various subjects have attracted international attention.

Interested in sharing thoughts about the effects of globalization on medicine and medical care in the Third World, Dr. Ekbal seeks dialogue with US physicians, health administrators and health activists. He wishes to make decentralization of health services an effective means of making life better for the people of Kerala and for people everywhere.

Dr. Ekbal is also an active member of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad from 1973 onwards. He served as the President of the organisation from1983 to 1985. He is also associated with national and international organisations like 'International People's Health Council (Nicaragua)','Consumers International (Malaysia)', Health Action International (Netherlands). Dr Ekbal has also participated in prominent national and international conferences.

As an author


Dr Ekbal has authored several books and articles on health in English and Malayalam.

The works include:

• A People's Drug Policy 1989 (Malayalam),
  
• Health for all Now 1990 (Malayalam),
  
• Headache 1998 (English),
  
• Decade of the Brain 1999(English), and
  
• The Internet and the Information Revolution (Malayalam)

Dr. B Ekbal is a noted health activist and neurosurgeon. He has done research works including,
Health Status of Kerala,
Advent of Modern Medicine in Kerala,
Incidence of Neurological Disorders in the Community,
Cervical Spinal Lesions in Head Load Workers in Kerala

In addition to this, he has authored several books on Health and Information Technology and has published articles in leading Journals in Malayalam and English. He is in the editorial boards of journals including 'Radical Journal of Health (Bombay), Bodhi (Calcutta), Medical Lobby for Appropriate Marketing News Letter (Australia).

His professional experience includes lectureship in Anatomy and Pathology at Medical College, Kottayam and as Faculty Member of Dept. of Neurosurgery in Medical Colleges in Kottayam, Trivandrum, and Kozhikode. He also served as the Professor and Head of Neurosurgery, Medical College, Kottayam.