A5033626023- Pancreatic function and diabetes
- Diabetes and associated disorders
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Global Health and Epidemiology
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Diabetes Management and Education
- COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Diet and metabolism studies
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
Education and Research Network
2025
Deakin University
2020-2023
Madras Diabetes Research Foundation
2019-2023
Madras Medical College
2019
ICMR-National Institute of Virology
2017
### Summary box The COVID-19 crisis has contributed to the development of an ‘infodemic’ that hinders adequate public health approach managing crisis. The WHO defines infodemic as ‘overabundance information—some accurate and some not—that occurs during epidemic’.1 Fake news, propaganda conspiracy theories, ubiquitous in era social media, have spread since beginning pandemic. Reports suggest a rumour is three times more likely be media than information.2 This great concern it often leads...
More than half of the individuals with hypertension remain undiagnosed in India. The National Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) program has implemented opportunistic screening to improve diagnoses. In public health facilities across 18 districts nine states India, we estimated missed opportunity for detection routine settings. each chosen districts, conducted a cross-sectional study one district hospital (DH), community centre (CHC), and three primary centres (PHCs), selected randomly. We...
Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) is a monogenic form diabetes which detected by genetic testing. We looked at clinical and biochemcial variables that could help detect possible MODY among Asian Indians with youth-onset diabetes. From electronic medical records care centre in Chennai southern India, demographic, anthropometric, biochemical details 34 genetically confirmed participants were extracted. They compared patients type 1 (T1D) (n = 1011) 2 (T2D) 1605), diagnosed below 30...
The proliferation of information and communication technologies in India has enabled the emergence health-related digital applications, from which important ethical issues arise.The Aadhaar identification system provides each resident with a 12-digit unique number, linked to demographic biometric data. Identification by welfare programmes advantage ensuring targeted benefits reach intended recipients.Some major faced public health sector are inadequate funding inefficient utilization funds...
SUMMARY An outbreak of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 was detected during the ongoing community-based surveillance influenza-like illness (ILI). Among reported 119 cases (59 in year 2012 and 60 2015) summer months, common clinical features were fever (100%), cough (90·7%), sore throat (85·7%), nasal discharge (48·7%), headache (55·5%), fatigue (18·5%), breathlessness (3·4%), ear (1·7%). Rise ILI negatively correlated with seasonal factors such as relative humidity (Karl Pearson's correlation...
The conduct of clinical trials is crucial to all research stakeholders and very challenging the investigators, study teams, participants during (coronavirus disease-2019) COVID-19 pandemic. main challenges include difficulties in maintaining complete adherence approved protocol, regulatory provisions applicable guidelines, recruitment subjects, protection rights, safety well-being trial subjects (participants), paramount importance. CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organization), EMA...
While the proportion of a population needed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 achieve herd immunity has not yet been established, addressing COVID-19-related vaccine hesitancy is expected lead greater numbers individuals, in turn resulting fewer cases, reduced infection transmission and deaths. Reasons for are influenced by spectrum factors from individual belief system external sources information. We need adopt multi-pronged approach which involves socio demographic domains immunity.