In 2019, Bharti received the Padma Shri civilian honour for the pioneering work in finding an affordable cure for rabid dog bite.
[4] Bharti is the Programme Officer and Epidemiologist working at State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Kasumpti Shimla[5][3] Simultaneous to his medical practice, Bharti joined NGOs in Shimla and came across the harsh reality of rabies.
He innovated a technique of injecting the serum into the wound, enabling the use of one vial to treat up to 20 patients successfully.
The World Health Organization reviewed the technique and approved it as a low cost anti-rabies treatment protocol[3] in 2018.
The research was done at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital (Shimla) and the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Bengaluru), and took 17 years to be accomplished.