SRM Institutes for Medical Science, Chennai 2020 on
 Social Scientist @ Clinical Research Department, SIMS Hospital.
 Conducting Medical Camp
 Overall coordination of Medical Research activities and funding
 Conducting Focused Group Discussion(FGD)
 Understanding the study needs
 Identifying the sample frame and study sampling
 Understanding social determinants of health.
 Data Handling analysis and publications
 Co-Principal Investigator in "Human Microbiome Initiative of Select Endogamous populations in India," a joint Pan-Inida Fecal Microbiome investigation.
 Co-Principal Investigator for the project entitled "Intestinal mucosal and mucosal associated Microbiome in patients with Ileocolonic Crohn’s Disease and its association with host Phenotype and Genotype".
 Successfully completed Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded multi centric study entitled ‘An intergenerational prebiotic approach to establishment of a healthy colonic microbiome in infants’


Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore 2009 - 2013

In the field of medical research, I have primarily been involved and coordinated epidemiological studies in which I have visited various communities, held focused group discussions with community leaders and sampled individuals based on the demographic requirements of the study. I have been involved in a large multicentre study on celiac disease in which we recruited 12000 participants in Tamil Nadu for a study on the prevalence and determinants of celiac disease.

PhD Research, Dept. of Medical Research, SRM MCHRC, SRM University 2013 - 2020

 Studied the prevalence of Anemia and vitamin D deficiency.
 Anemia and vitamin D deficiency had no relationship with each other, indicating that these two conditions affect entirely different groups of individuals.
 Community interventions to ameliorate burden of anemia and vitamin D deficiency may need to target specific groups of individuals.

ORCID ID

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1227-8408

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