Research

Completed projects

• ICMR funded project on “Reducing Premature Mortality due to CVDs (Cardio Vascular Diseases) Identification of Delays and Barriers to acute Cardiac care in National Capital Region – Delhi I-1119”
• AIIMS funded project on “Community’s compliance to health advisory during COVID-19 pandemic: a socio-ecological framework to understand the compliance with implications on future disease prevention strategies”
• ICMR funded project on “Effectiveness of point of care testing by front line workers- ANM, AWW, and ASHA) in anemia control”
• WHO funded project on “Household transmission investigation for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a rural and urban population of North India”
• AIIMS-IIT collaborative project on “Mortality burden of ambient PM_2.5 exposure in Delhi NCR”
• AIIMS funded research on “Community practices in COVID-19 outbreak in rural Ballabgarh, Haryana: A mixed method study”  

Funded projects-ongoing

• CDC funded project on “Strengthening evidence-based advocacy for influenza prevention and control in India N-1814”
• IAVI funded project on “Advancing Biomedical Interventions for prevention of RSV infection in under-5 Children N-2111”
• NCDC funded project on “Centre of Excellence in Cardio-pulmonary Disorders under NPCCHH”
• JHU funded project on “India Primary Health Care Support Initiative”
• WHO-SEARO funded project on “Review of WHO PEN competencies in preservice courses in health and medical courses in SEAR”
• WHO funded project on “A Multi-Centric Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Population-Based Age-Stratified Sero-Epidemiological Study (In Urban, Rural and Tribal Communities at Selected Centers in India: A Prospective Study)”
• Department of Science and Technology (DST) funded project on “Effect of structured yoga program on stress among frontline healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic”
• ICMR funded research on “An Event-Driven, Phase3, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety, Immunogenicity, and Lot-to-Lot consistency of BBV152, a Whole virion Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in Adults ≥ 18Years of Age.”
• ICMR funded research on “Effectiveness of Covaxin and Covishield vaccines against severe COVID-19 in India, 2021: Multi-centric hospital-based case control study.”
• Bharat Biotech project on “An Adaptive, Seamless Phase 1, Followed by Phase 2 Randomized, Double-blind, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Safety, Reactogenicity, tolerability and Immunogenicity of the Whole-Virion Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (BBV152) in Healthy Volunteers”
• ICMR funded project on “Improving healthcare access and quality in the context of achieving universal health coverage among scheduled tribes: implementation research in Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh”
• ICMR funded research on “implementation research among tribal, rural and urban communities in selected districts of four Indian states”
• ICMR funded research on “Local governance and the pandemic: role of village/urban ward secretariats in the management of COVID-19 - A case study of Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh”
• ICMR funded research on “Effectiveness of point of care testing by front line workers- ANM, AWW, and ASHA) in anemia control”
• WHO funded project on “Household transmission investigation for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a rural and urban population of North India”
• NHSRC funded project on “Innovation Learning Centre for supporting implementation of Comprehensive Primary Health Care in a selected district of Haryana”
• NHSRC funded research on “Assessment of Ayushman Bharat- Health and Wellness Centres for comprehensive primary health care – A health systems study”
• NHM funded project on “Capacity building of primary health care providers in comprehensive primary health care packages for operationalization of health and wellness centres using tele-mentoring platform in northern parts of India”
• Department of Health Research funded project on “IMPETUS: IMPlementation of an Evaluation and Treatment Package for Uniform Stroke Care and outcomes in the Medical Colleges. An Implementation Research Study.”
• WHO funded research on “Assessment of risk factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in health workers: a case-control study”
• NHSRC funded project on “Comparative assessment of various models of Mobile Medical Units in rural and remote areas”
• Health Effects Institute (HEI) funded project on “CAPHER-Collaborative on Air Pollution and Health Effects Research, India”
• WHO-India Office funded project on “Preparing NCD Health Emergency Framework and documenting best practices adopted by States/UT for continuing NCD services during COVID 19 Pandemic”
• Office of Scientific Advisor, GoI funded project on “Delhi Cluster – Delhi Research Implementation and Innovation (DRIIV):Tackling air pollution in Delhi NCR”
• ICMR funded research on “Efficacy of Energy Dense Nutritional Supplement (EDNS) as adjunct to standard DOTS therapy in improving treatment outcomes in malnourished newly diagnosed sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis adult patients”