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Mission & Goals: |
Groom Skills,
Gather
Evidence and
Generate Knowledge for
people's health.
To Improve the Efficacy,
Quality & Equity
of Health Systems. |
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Faculty and Personnel
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Full
Time Faculty
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C
K George
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Dr. C K George, Director and Faculty
in Health Policy holds a masters degree in Community
Health (MCH) from the Centre for Social Medicine and
Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from
Government Medical College, Trivandrum, the University
of Kerala. Prior to his tenure at the IHS he has served
as a primary care practitioner in rural areas of Kerala
and was also a Public Health Consultant to the Indian
Medical Association (IMA), Kerala State.
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Dr. George’s primary area of
focus is on health care delivery and financing
mechanisms. He is also interested in policy issues
related to decentralization strategies for the
delivery of health services and the epidemiology of
communicable diseases. In the past he has done an
extensive study on the structure and utilization of
health service system of Trivandrum district in Kerala.
He has also coordinated projects related to the Health
Care Financing and Expenditure including those for
development of a Medium Term Financing Strategy for
Health and State Health Accounts for Andhra Pradesh.
His current research activities include Burden of
Disease and Socioeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS, Outcome
Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programmes and National
Health Accounts. He is also coordinating a two year
Masters level Public Health Programme, provisionally
affiliated to the NTRUHS, at the IHS. He is a Resource
Person for WHO and MoHFW, GOI, for National Health
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Satish Kumar | |
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Dr. K Satish Kumar,
Faculty in Environmental Health, holds a Ph.D. in
Zoology with Environmental Biology as specialisa- tion
from the Osmania University. He worked as a Research
Assistant in the Forestry & Ecology Division of
National Remote Sensing Agency, Dept. of Space, Govt. of
India. He was a recipient of the Senior Research Fellowship,
sponsor- ed by CSIR, New Delhi. He was awarded a Gold
Medal for best scientific paper presentation entitled "Respiratory
Effects of Air Pollution" at the 24th AP State B & Chest Diseases Worker’s Conference in 1997. |
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He
also worked as
a part - time lecturer at the PG level, at the Department
of Zoology, Osmania University. Dr. Satish’s primary
research interests include - environmental health,
epidemiology of respiratory diseases, burden of
disease studies with respect to environment risk
factors, road traffic accidents etc. He
coordinated a District Family Health Survey, undertaken
to estimate IMR, MMR & Fertility Rates at the
district and sub district
levels. This study was designed to gather evidence for
small area mortality analysis and area specific
planning. He was
Co-investigator in the "Indoor Air Pollution
Exposure Atlas" (IAPEA) study, designed to develop
a methodology for predicting
quantitative exposures to IAP from qualitative
information on fuel use and housing characteristics to
construct an
exposure atlas. This study was done in collaboration
with the Center for Occupational & Environmental
Health, University of
California, Berkeley and Sree Ramachandra Medical
College & Research Institute, Chennai. He is
currently Principal Investigator
for the "Health Effects Analysis & Economic
Valuation" components of the Integrated
Environmental Strategies (IES)
India Project, initiated by the US AID & US EPA.
This study is being done in collaboration with the
Environment Protection Training
& Research Institute, Hyderabad and aims at
achieving multiple - economic, public health &
environmental benefits. He
attended a special workshop on "International Air
Pollution & Energy Climate Policy
Collaboration" held during the Joint 12th
ISEE / ISEA Conference at the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in August 2002. He attended
an international symposium on "Socioeconomic
Factors & Air Pollution Health Effects" held
during the 15th Conference of the International
Society of Epidemiology (ISEE) held at Perth,
Australia in September 2003. He also attended a
Training session on Air Pollution & Public
Health and a Training Workshop on Co=benefits
Analysis, held at Beijing, China in November
2003. He is currently Principal Investigator for a
research study on "Epidemiology of Road Traffic
Accidents in Hyderabad City", designed to
understand the epidemiology of rist factors associated
with high level of road traffic accidents in Hyderabad.
This study is under the aegis of the Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR). He was the chief
rapporteur of the IHS public health symposium on
"Shielding our Children from Accidents" in
2003 and "Road Safety: Let's Act Before it's Too
Late" in 2004. He supports the Institute's
resources on the use of Epi Info, the WHO-CDC software
for epidemiological data analysis and teaches
Epidemiology.
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Upadyay | |
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Dr. Shweta Upadhyay,
Faculty, Maternal and Child Health holds a
Ph.D. in Human Nutrition as major and Food
Technology as minor, from G.B.Pant Univ.
of Ag. & Tech, Pantnagar, Uttaranchal.
She worked as lecturer for one year at , Kumaun
University Nainital . She has worked in ICAR ad hoc
project "Nutrition Education and Communication
Support in Hill Areas of UP" The project aimed to
find out the prevalence of micronutrient deficiency
among vulnerable section of society i.e. women,
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and how problems could be
solved through communication media. She has attended
workshop on ‘Micronutrient Research Methodology’
conducted by ICMR. Presently looking after as
coordinator for ‘Managing Primary Health Care in
Remote Areas’ and ‘Advanced Studies in Public Health’
Programmes. Her core area of interest include
intervention for eradication of micronutrient deficiency
amongst the vulnerable section of society.
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| Kavita
Krishna | |
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Holds a Ph D in Clinical Psychology
from the Andhra University and a Professional Diploma
in Network Centered Computing from NIIT. She has three
years work experience as Faculty in the Department of
Psychology, VMCMVP Degree College, Visakhapatnam and
one year experience as Computer Faculty in NIIT,
Visakhapatnam. At IHS she teaches general
Psychology, research methodology and health state
valuation for the students of Advanced Studies in
Public Health. She is associated with an Outcome
Evaluation study commissioned by International
HIV/ AIDS Alliance for its Frontiers Prevention
Programme. |
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Research
Associates
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| Radha
Krishna Raju
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| Masters
in Biochemistry from the Kakatiya University
and P. G. Diploma in Plastics. He is
experience in
health care
facility inventory, health system responsiveness
and is currently involved in Water Quality
Testing Laboratory. |
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Bhagirath
Gop
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Masters
in Social Work with specialisation in Medical
and Psychiatric Social Work. He has also done The
Advanced Studies in Public Health from the
Institute of Health Systems. He was involved in house
hold surveys, such as health state valuation and functional
health status measurement in a health system
responsiveness surveys.
Earlier he worked in a study of doctors perception
towards medical social workers by Taru Leading
Edge. |
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| N
Srinivasa Reddy |
| Masters
in Physical Anthropology with specialisation
in population genetics and demography.
Experience as senior research fellow
in Anthropological Survey of India. Did
household survey
for understanding indoor air pollution and
exposure atlas. He is currently involved in
the "Health Effects Analysis &
Economic Valuation" components of the
Integrated Environmental Strategies (IES)
India Project, initiated by the US AID &
US EPA. He is also involved in Frontiers
Prevention Program Outcome Evaluation of
HIV/AIDS funded by International HIV/AIDS
Alliance. His interests include
Epidemiology
and Program evaluation. |
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| B
L Srikanthi |
| Masters Degree in Food
Science and Nutrition from Sri Sathya Sai
Institute of Higher Learning, Anantapur. A
part of her project titled, "Influence
of Mulberry (Morus indica L. var. anantha)
leaves on certain enzymes, hematological and
erythrocyte membrane biochemical parameters
in diabetics" was published in an
International Journal and awarded as the
Best Paper of the year 2002 by Indian
Pharmacological Association. She has worked
as a Field Officer for Care AP for their
Integrated Nutrition and Health Program for
Visakhapatnam district. She has teaching,
training and field experience in the areas
of Nutrition and Reproductive Health. She is
presently working for the Frontiers
Prevention Program in which IHS is doing the
Outcome Evaluation of HIV/AIDS funded by
International HIV/AIDS Alliance. Her
interests include Maternal and Child Health,
Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS. |
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| Dhanaraj |
| Masters in Zoology from
Gulbarga University, and has Experience of
working in district Natural Resource Data
Management System centre, Gulbarga. He was a
part time lecturer at the PG level. He had
contributed to the Malaria Manual, Official
document compilation and is working on
setting up of public health laboratory at
the IHS. He is involved in the "Epidemiology
of Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) in Hyderabad
- Deccan" project approved by the ICMR
under the adhoc extramural research scheme
grant. |
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Research
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| G
S Pattnaik |
| Masters degree in Economics
from the Berhampur University, Orissa. He
has done Diploma in Business
Management (DBM) from the ICFAI University,
Hyderabad and Hon's Diploma in Computer
Science (HDCS) from LCC, Jeypore, Orissa. Worked as a Lecturer in
Economics in Panchayat Samiti College, Orissa and has
participated in Tribal Developmental
Programs and Activities in Koraput District,
Orissa. At IHS he was involved in the
projects viz., Andhra Pradesh State
Health Accounts (APSHA) on NHA (National
Health Accounts) framework, funded by DFID,
UK and "Health Effects Analysis &
Economic Valuation" components of the
Integrated Environmental Strategies (IES)
India Project, initiated by the US AID &
US EPA. Presently working on Burden of
Disease and Socioeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDs
(BoDSEI), a collaborative effort of NACO,
UNDP, ICMR, NCAER and IHS. He is also
teaching assistant for Healthcare Financing
for the APH course offered by the institute. |
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| Sarita
K |
| Masters degree in
Microbiology from the Bangalore University.
She did a project in "Survey on
Microbial Quality of few Selected Sweet
Meats, Canned foods, Carbonated
beverages and Packaged mineral water"
as part of her masters degree in the
National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad.
She has a PG diploma in Computer
Applications from ICSS, Hyderabad. Worked as teaching faculty in
Microbiology and participated in different
workshops and seminars on food science. She
has worked in EHEA (EPTRI) project. Presently
she is attached with Public Health
Laboratory and in-charge of Microbiological
analysis of Water Quality Testing
Laboratory. She teaches Microbiology in
relation with Water Quality Test services,
during training programs conducted at IHS. |
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