Dr.
J. YUVARAJ, MD
SCIENTIST 'E'
Dr.
S. BALASUBRAMANIAM, MBBS
SCIENTIST 'D'
Mr. J.
AROCKIASAMY M.Sc.
SCIENTIST 'C'
Dr. JOSEPH K DAVID Msc., Ph.D.
SCIENTIST 'C'
Dr.
PRABHDEEP KAUR, MBBS., Dip N.B. (Gen
Med)
SCIENTIST 'C'
Dr. C. P. GIRISH KUMAR M.Sc., Ph.D.
SCIENTIST 'C'
Dr. TARUN BHATNAGAR, M.D.
SCIENTIST 'C'
Dr. P.
MANICKAM BSM&S, M.Sc(Epid)
SCIENTIST 'C'
Dr. R. PRABU MBBS.,
SCIENTIST 'B'
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DR.
B. NAGARAJU, MBBS, DPH
SCIENTIST
'F'
He obtained MBBS degree from Kurnool Medical
College, Kurnool in 1972 and DPH from All
India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health,
Calcutta in 1981. He visited USA on fellowships
to university of Michigan, University of
Minnisota and John Hopkins University in
1983 and 1991.
He worked as a Medical Officer conducting
survey education and treatment in Leprosy
Control Unit at T. Narasipur. As a Research
Officer and Senior Research Officer at the
Tuberculosis Research Centre, Madras, he
actively involved in monitoring field work
to study the effect of BCG vaccine against
Leprosy at Tiruvellore and involved in the
controlled clinical trial in the chemotherapy
of Micobacterial diseases. He actively involved
in planning and organization of the studies
of Leprosy vaccine trial after joining the
CJIL Field Unit at Avadi. He is involved
in prevaccine studies such as standardization
of vaccinators, diagnosis of Leprosy, utility
of Histopathalogy in confirmation of Leprosy
and also classification of Leprosy, Immuno-epidemiological
studies, major comparative Leprosy Vaccine
Trial and Controlled Clinical Trials.
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Dr.
B. NARASIMHAMURTHY, Ph.D.
SCIENTIST
'F'
A
statistician by profession, he held important
positions during his career till now including
those of Research Officer (UNFPA project)
at the International Institute for Population
Sciences (IIPS) (1980-82), Lecturer-cum-Research
Officer at the Population Research Centre,
Dept. of Statistics, Andhra University,
Waltair (1983). He is a life member in many
professional societies. He was honoured
with Prof. R.N. Srivastava award for his
best paper presentation at the 1995 annual
conference Indian Society for Medical Statistics.
He contributed chapters in three books.
He has published more than 20 research articles
in national and international journals.
His
areas of interest include experimental design,
statistical analysis, sample surveys, rapid
assessment methods, monitoring and evaluation,
methodological issues, consultancy, collaboration,
teaching, training and guiding students
for Ph.D in statistics.
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Dr.
MANOJ V. MURHEKAR, M.B.B.S., M.D.
SCIENTIST
'F'
He
obtained MBBS degree from Govt. Medical
College, Nagpur in 1988 and MD in Preventive
and Social Medicine from the same college
in 1992.
He
was working as an epidemiologist at Regional
Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Port Blair
for over ten years and was involved in several
research projects on diseases endemic in
Andaman and Nicobar islands including leptospirosis,
viral hepatitis, tuberculosis and lymphatic
Filariasis. He was one of the leading members
of the team involved in carrying out studies
in the field of viral hepatitis among the
tribes of these Islands. The results showed
hepatitis B as an important public health
problem of these tribes. Considering the
significance of the findings and based on
the recommendations of RMRC, Government
of India has initiated universal immunization
against hepatitis B among the population
of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Currently
he is serving as a faculty for two-year
Master of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) - Field
Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP).
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Dr.VIDYA
RAMACHANDRAN, MSC., M.P.H., Ph. D.
SCIENTIST
'E'
Obtained M.Sc. degree in Applied Immunology
from Brunel University, London, England,
U.K in 1979. Thereafter completed the Master
of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree in Epidemiology
and Health Management from the University
of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, USA, in 1983. Conferred
Ph. D. degree from the Dept. of Population
Studies Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi,
Andra Pradesh, India in 1997.
Involved in Clinical, Laboratory and Field
Epidemiological Research in U.K., U.S.A.
and India. Joined Sri Ramachandra Medical
College and Research Institute as Assistant
Professor of Community Medicine and involved
in: (a) teaching and training of undergraduate
and postgraduate medical and paramedical
students and (b) conduct of community based
screening, health and medical camps. Joined
the National Institute of Epidemiology as
Asst. Director (Epid) in 2000. Involved
in Training Activities for short term Field
Epidemiology Training Programme. 2 years
Master of Applied Epidemiology offered by
NIE in collaboration with WHO, NICD and
Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute for Science
and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala. Disease
Surveillance and setting up of a database
on the Epidemiological profile of India
with reference to communicable disease is
another major activity undertaken. Involved
in setting up of surveillance system for
dengue in Chennai city, India. Research
projects undertaken on International studies
related to reduction of Infant Mortality
Rate in a selected district of Tamil Nadu
and reduction of Cardio Vascular Disease
risk factors among selected industrial cohort
in Chennai city India.
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Dr. R. RAMAKRISHNAN, M.Sc., Ph. D
SCIENTIST
'F'
He
has a Ph. D in Statistics and a PG diploma
in computer management. He has attended
a graduate summer program in Epidemiology
at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
USA and a course on Management and Analysis
of Statistical Data (MASD) conducted by
the University of Reading, UK. He has also
undergone a 3-month certificate course in
applied nutrition at the National Institute
of Nutrition, Hyderabad. He has completed
his course requirements of 'Master of Applied
Epidemiology' being offered by the National
Centre for Epidemiology and Population health
(NCEPH), Australian. National University,
Australia.
He has more than 25 years experience in
handling various research projects of the
Council. The projects include, assessment
of National Leprosy Control Programme, an
epidemiologic investigation of helminth
ova, health services research project on
antenatal care, randomized intervention
trial of Vitamin A supplementation, studies
on maternal and child health indicators,
nutritional anthropometry, sociological
studies on HIV / AIDS, comparative trial
of leprosy vaccines and methodological issues
in field surveys. Presently he is a part
of the team organizing Field Epidemiology
Training Programme (FETP) in India.
He has provided statistical consultancy
to several medical projects in the fields
of dentistry, neurology, degenerative and
infectious diseases. He is a faculty member
of the Institute's training programmes.
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Mr. A.
ELANGOVAN M.Sc.,
PGDOR,
M.Tech.,
SCIENTIST
'E'
Obtained
a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics
from the Bharadidasan University and Post-Graduate
Diploma in Operations Research from Anna
University. Started his career in ICMR as
Research Officer in 1989. The job functions
are mainly to provide assistance to various
research projects in the area of data processing
as follows:
1.
Co-ordinating the data preparation, operation
and maintenance of data bases on various
ongoing projects
of this institute.
2. Attending to the operative functions
that arise in the computer department.
3. Assitance to the staff in computer operations
and software.
In
addition to the above routine work, he has
been involved in Geographical Information
system (GIS) related activities. By using
the GIS techniques some maps were printed
out to study the geographical variation
in general marital fertility rates among
the villages of Villupuram Health Unit District.
Leprosy Vaccine Trial area maps were created
and these maps have been used to study the
distribution of leprosy with respect to
other variables. Extending this GIS technique
to other studies/project is in progress.
He has been involved in the development
of an epidemiological simulation model for
leprosy transmission and control. Further
modification to extend the model to some
other diseases is in progress.
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Dr.
S. BALASUBRAMANIAM, MBBS.
SCIENTIST
'D'
He has obtained his MBBS degree from Andhra
University during the year 1974. He has
been working in research field and treatment
aspects in leprosy for the past 20 years.
He is experienced in carrying out field
research studies like Leprosy Vaccine Trial,
Drug Trials etc. He is also experienced
in carrying out the treatment component
of leprosy patients as per the National
Leprosy Eradication Programme, of Government
of India. He is well versed in all the WHO
regimens for the treatment of leprosy patients.
He has imparted training to the field staff
and medical officers on various aspects
of conducting field research trials. He
has experience in organizing, planning,
and conducting all field based studies.
He is also well versed in routine official
administrative procedures.
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Dr.(Mrs.)
THILAKAVATHI SUBRAMANIAN Ph.D.
SCIENTIST
'E'
She
has obtained Ph.D. degree in Medical Social
Work from Madras University in 1991 and
D.Litt. in Social Sciences (Anthropology)
from Ranchi University in 2000. Has gone
as Post-Doctoral Fellow to Johns Hopkins
University, School of Public Health and
Hygiene, Baltimore for a training on Qualitative
Research Methods and Community Based Control
on Tropical Diseases in 1996 and to University
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for a
training on Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and
Behavioural aspects, in 2000. Has been working
in the field of Medical Social Work for
23 years. Has experience in clinical trials
and operational studies on Tuberculosis,
leprosy and HIV / AIDS, in urban and rural
settings.
Has
conducted training on Theory & Methods
in Counselling & Social Science Research.
Is involved in planning & conduct of
research studies on HIV / AIDS in different
group of populations.
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Mr. J.
AROCKIASAMY M.Sc.
SCIENTIST
'C'
He earned his Master's degree in Statistics
with Theoretical Computer Science in 1986
from the Loyola College, University of Madras,
Chennai. He worked as a Research Associate
from November 1987 to June 1991 in the Department
of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College,
Vellore. He has undergone two weeks training
course on `the Principle and Practice of
Epidemiology' at the Department of Community
Health, CMC, Vellore. And then worked as
a Research Officer in the Clinical Epidemiology
Unit, King George's Medical College, Lucknow
from July 1991 to June 1992. Since July
1992, he is in the ICMR. He was actively
involved in the development of Simulation
Model for Leprosy. He completely analysed
the fifteen years follow up data of the
Leprosy Prevention Trial (South India BCG
Vaccine Trial). He was one of the member
of the Leprosy Vaccine Trial Groups. At
present, he is working on the lifetime risk
of developing leprosy. He is developing
interest on Mathematical Epidemiology.
