Faculty & Staff

Qualification/ Education

Experience

19 years

Areas of interest

Maternal and Child Health, Maternal Mental health, Women’s Health, Adolescent Health.
Research mentor and guide for medical students and PGs, nursing and allied health students, foreign
elective students and Fulbright-Nehru Scholars

Field of Expertise

Maternal and Child Health, Maternal Mental health, Women’s Health, Adolescent Health.
Research mentor and guide for medical students and PGs, nursing and allied health students, foreign
elective students and Fulbright-Nehru Scholars

Fellowship & Membership

Special Professional Activities
• Member of Govt of Karnataka State Committee for AEFI (Adverse Effects Following Immunisation)
• Member of the Bangalore Maternal Mental Health Task Force.
• Member of the Bangalore BBMP Immunisation Task Force.
• Member of the Editorial Board of Health Policy Open (Elsevier Journal)
• Co-ordinator for Maternal, Child, Adolescent and Reproductive Health Programs at the Department of Community Health at St. John’s Medical College.
• Co-ordinator, St. John’s Urban Health Centre at Austin Town, Bangalore
• Member, IQAC and NAAC Committee, St. John’s Medical College
 

Other formal training/certification

• Basic Course in Biomedical Research. ICMR, National Institute of Epidemiology, as mandated by National Medical Commission of India. Mar-Jun 2021.
  • Epidemiology: The basic science of Public Health. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA (online), 20 Jul 2021.
  • The Challenges of Global Health. Duke University, North Carolina, USA (online), 17 Jun 2021.
  • Confronting Gender Based Violence: Global Lessons for Healthcare Workers. Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore, USA (online), 25 Oct 2020.
  • Innovative technology to assess mental health – Global Mental Health Assessment Tool (GMHAT). Dept of Psychiatry, St. John’s Medical College and University of Chester, UK, SJRI, Jul 2019.
  • Identification of Childhood Developmental Differences and Early Action (IDDEA). Unit of Hope, and Indian Academy of Cerebral Palsy, SJMC, Bangalore, Apr 2018.
  • Protocol development for Cochrane Systematic Review. Cochrane South Asia, Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Aug 2017.
  • Human Research in Social and Behavioural Sciences. Online Basic Course by CITI (CollaborativeInstitutional Training Initiative), USA, through the University of Iowa, USA, Aug 2017.
  • Problem Based Learning. Department of Medical Education Technology, SJMC, Jan 2016.
  • Adverse Events Following Immunisation. Ministry Health & Family Welfare, GOI, Bangalore, Jul 2015.

Membership of professional associations/bodies

• National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), New Delhi
• Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine
• Epidemiology Foundation of India
• Karnataka Association of Community Health

Awards and Recognitions

• Recipient of the Dean Louis and May Monteiro Research Prize for the best research work for the year,by a junior teaching faculty of St. John’s Medical College and Hospital, 15 Feb 2020.
  • Recipient of the Young Scientist Award by Karnataka Association of Community Health, at the 30thAnnual Conference of KACH, JJM Medical College, Davangere, 29 Sep 2018.
  • Awarded full scholarship by SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency), for a one-month training programme on Child Survival at Uppsala University, Sweden in Mar-Apr 2011.