Research

Dr Padhi currently carrying out several research projects at the Asian Institute of Public Health. His researches are focused on understanding how human health, at both the individual and population level, is impacted by environmental factors and to utilize this understanding to prevent or reduce the adverse impacts of these factors on human health.

IMMENSE- Child Health and Development Study – India

Purpose of the study: Impact of maternal, environmental, socio-demographic and economic factors on child health and development in India. To build a “model” integrated environmental health risk assessment program in a rural Indian environment to address overlapping problems in the human model. The study proposed intends to: a) Collect extensive demographic and socio-cultural data through structured, culturally relevant questionnaires; b) Examine intensity and regularity of human exposure to environmental toxicants using serial environmental samplings; c) Deploy fish-aquaculture as a surrogate to human exposure in the same environment to examine cumulative exposures; d) Examine human exposures using salivary cells and colonocytes isolated from stool by a novel non-invasive method.

Environmental Health Impacts of Household Energy Choices in India

Purpose of the study: Increasing global focus on improved cook stoves (ICS) and clean fuels arises from

their potential for delivering triple dividends of (1) household health, (2) local environmental quality and

(3) regional climate benefits. The study aims to evaluate how energy use in rural areas impacts the

environment and public health.

Time Activity Pattern of Asia (TAPA)

Purpose of the study: Population in Asian countries may have different activity patterns from Western

countries. However, there is limited information about time activity patterns in Asian countries. The

purpose of the study is to determine daily time activity patterns of college students in Asian countries

using GPS.

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