Doctor Profile

• Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases
• Community Nutrition

• Received Best Paper Award for Global Public Health Conference  (International) held at Sree Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai in February 2014.
• Member of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM) and  Indian Public Health Association (IPHA)

Title	Journal / Book	Publication details (Year, Volume, Page No. etc.)	Authorship 1st / 2nd / Other	State /Reg / Nat / Int	Indexed in
Knowledge regarding hepatitis among students of a selected government school of Trivandrum district.	Kerala. Int J Community Med Public Health	2019;6:2460-4	1st	Int	Index Copernicus, Index Medicus, ScopeMed
Prevalence of depression among adults residing in a coastal area of Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala.	NJCM	2019;10(6):331-336	1st	Nat	Ind MEDICA, Index Copernicus, EBSCO
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice regarding Diabetes Mellitus among patients with Type-2 Diabetes in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Kerala , India	IJHMS	2019;9(11),665-674	Other	Nat	Indus Medicus ,  Web of Science, Scopus
Effectiveness of mind mapping technique in information retrieval among medical college students in Puducherry – a pilot study.	Indian J Community Med	2017;42:19-23	Other	Nat	DOAJ, Pubmed Central
Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding tuberculosis among rural population in Tamil Nadu	International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health	2015:4(12):1681-83	2nd	Int	Index Copernicus, Index Medicus for SEAR
Initial default among tuberculosis patients diagnosed in selected medical colleges of Puducherry: issues and possible interventions	Int J Med Sci Public Health.	2015 : 4 (7): 957-960	1st	Int	Index Copernicus, Index Medicus for SEAR
Re- Orientation of Medical Education in Imparting Knowledge Pertaining to Research among Undergraduate Medical Students.	Journal of Research in Medical Education & Ethics Year	2015, 5(2): 166 – 170.	1st	Nat	Index Copernicus, EBSCO
Role of medical colleges in TB control under RNTCP- Five years experience in Puducherry, S India(2010-14).	Int Journal of Infectious Diseases	2016, 45:239-240	Other	Int	DOAJ

Topic	Guest lecture / Oral / Poster / Convener of Workshop	Name of the event	Conference / CME / Workshop	Venue	Dates	Level
Alcohol use among residents of Nellanad Panchayath	Oral	AMRITACON	Conference	Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) Cochin	3rd and 4th November 2018	Int
Data analysis using SPSS	Convener	SPSS	Workshop	Sree Gokulam Medical College and Research Foundation	13th and 14th November 2019	State

Project	Completed / Ongoing	Funded Y / N	Collaborated Y / N	Published Y / N
HIV TB Co- infection- a qualitative study on the challenges faced by health care providers.	On going	Y	Y	N
Initial default among tuberculosis patients diagnosed in selected medical colleges of Puducherry: issues and possible interventions	Completed	Y	N	Y