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Independent Researcher & Research Consultant, Social Determinants of Health.
Teaching, Research, Advocacy.
Member (Senior Collaborator), Global Burden of Disease Collaborator Network (Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, USA).
Member, Expert Advisory Committee, Towards Unity for Health (Committees on: Ageing & Health, Indigenous Health, and Migrant & Refugee Health); 2024 onwards.
Broad areas of interest: Social Determinants of Health, Behavioural & Social Sciences (BSS), Strengthening BSS Teaching in Medical Education, Status of Women and Health, Health Security, Health Literacy, Community Nutrition, Social Gerontology, Improving Research Infrastructure.
Taught 'Behavioural and Social Sciences' and 'Social Determinants of Health' to medical undergraduate and postgraduate Community Medicine students from 2004-2021.
Faculty, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore, India. (2004-2021).
Adjunct Faculty, PSG FAIMER Regional Institute, Coimbatore, India. (2012-2021).
Faculty In-Charge, undergraduate student research programme PSBH (Problem Solving for Better Health) @ PSG IMS&R. (2011-2021).
Consultant, Monitoring & Evaluation of ICDS Scheme in Tamil Nadu, India (2009-2017).
Consultant, Health Policy in the Centre for Public Health Research, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India (2002-2004).
Worked in various capacities including as Fellow Scientist in the CSIR Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, India (1993-2002)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics (2008).
