Dr. Giridhara R Babu

Assistant Professor
Epidemiology, Public Health Foundation of India, IIPH-Hyderabad
3245 S Sepulveda blvd, apt 206
United States of America
90034

Brief Biography:

Dr. Giridhara R Babu, Assistant Professor, Giridhar is an epidemiologist by training and Public health specialist with proven track of excellence. As a fellow of Future Faculty Programme, he has done his MPH in Epidemiology from School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Giridhar is a member of Charter class of Certified in Public Health by National Board of Public Health Examiners, USA. Giridhar is a PhD candidate in Epidemiology from UCLA School of Public Health and is pursuing his doctoral research in Non Communicable Diseases. He has publications in peer reviewed international journals. Giridhar is working with IIPH-Hyderabad as Assistant Professor. Also, he is currently serving as member of committee constituted by Government of Karnataka to create Public Health cadre and department in the state. Before joining IIPH-H, Giridhar worked as Special Reader with Dr's Jorn Olsen, Roger Detels and Beate Ritz for their courses on Epidemiology at UCLA and as Research Associate with Dr.Roger Detels. Earlier, Giridhar worked with the World Health Organization for more than 5 years. As State SMO for WHO-NPSP, he was responsible for leading efforts to stop Polio transmission in the state of Karnataka, constituting State Core Group on Routine Immunization in Karnataka and for initiating advocacy efforts for Measles surveillance in India. Giridhar also worked as Junior Resident at the Center for Community Medicine and the Department of Blood Bank at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He has also acquired Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics from National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He received M.B.B.S from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal and MBA in Hospital Administration from Adam Smith University.

Academic positions:

08’ 2010–Present Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indian Institute of Public Health-Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India 01’ 2010–08’ 2010 Senior Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indian Institute of Public Health-Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India 09’2008–04’2009 Special Academic Reader, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, USA 01’2008–04’2009 Teaching Assistant, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, USA 01’2007–12’2008 Research Associate, Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), UCLA AIDS Institute with Dr. Roger Detels, UCLA School of Public Health, USA 01’2001–08’2006 State Surveillance Medical Officer and (i/c) Regional Coordinator, National Polio Surveillance Project, World Health Organization 01’2000–12’2000 Junior Resident, Center for Community Medicine & Blood Bank, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 07’1998–06’1999 Pre-Registration House Officer, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal

Research interests:

Epidemiology Methods, Public Health governance, Health policy and systems research, Reproductive and Child health, Social determinants of health, Dual burden of diseases and Vaccine Preventable diseases.

What I think of the idea behind WebmedCentral:

Wonderful idea to have open access for dissemination of studies across the world. Efforts should be made to support scholarly articles that might deserve publication but lack the ability to pay for publishing.