My Journey

Education

  • Ph.D. in Public Health and Health Systems- 2017-2022 SPHHS, AHS, University of Waterloo, Canada

Supervisor: Dr. Plinio Morita, Associate professor, Thesis Committee: Dr. Shannon E. Majowicz, Dr. Joel A. Dubin

  • Master of Public Health (MPH), AMCHSS, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, Kerala 2014

Supervisor: Dr. Sundari Ravindran TK, Professor

  • Masters of Physiotherapy (Musculoskeletal), ISIC Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences, New Delhi in 2006

Supervisor: Dr Shalini Grover Associate Professor

  • Bachelors of Physiotherapy, National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Cuttack in 2003


Certifications

  1. Google Data Analytics

  2. Learning Git and Github

  3. Data Science Foundations: Python Scientific Stack

  4. Design Thinking: Data Intelligence

  5. Azure Spark Databricks Essential Training

  6. Interacting with Web data using R: Web APIs and Web Scrapping (Including Rselenium)

  7. Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Neural network

  8. R Programming in Data Science: High volume data

  9. Elasticsearch Essential Training

  10. Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals

  11. Project management institute

  12. Age of Globalization- University of Austin

  13. Fundamentals of Clinical Trials-Harvard University

  14. Health and Society-Harvard University

  15. Statistical Reasoning for Public Health 1: Estimation, Inference, & Interpretation- Johns Hopkins University

  16. Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials-Johns Hopkins University

  17. Diabetes - a Global Challenge- University of Copenhagen

  18. Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics- University of Berkeley, California

  19. Introduction to Statistics: Probability-University of Berkeley, California

  20. Introduction to Statistics: Inference-University of Berkeley, California

  21. Human Health and Global Environmental Change-Harvard University

  22. Take Your Medicine - The Impact of Drug Development-UTAustinX

  23. Social Epidemiology -University of Minnesota

  24. Microeconomics Principles- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  25. Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1-Johns Hopkins University

  26. Case-Based Introduction to Biostatistics-Johns Hopkins University

  27. Nutrition and Physical Activity for Health-University of Pittsburgh

  28. An Introduction to Global Health-University of Copenhagen

  29. Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  30. Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis-Johns Hopkins University

  31. Neuroethics-University of Pennsylvania

  32. New Models of Business in Society-University of Virginia

  33. Vaccines-University of Pennsylvania

  34. Health for All Through Primary Health Care-Johns Hopkins University

  35. Practical tips to improve Asian American participation in cancer clinical trials-Stanford University

  36. The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World-University of California, Irvine

  37. Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 2-Johns Hopkins University

  38. Global health eLearning-Human Resources for Health (HRH) Basics- Johns Hopkins University and USAID


Work Experience

  • Senior Data Analyst- October 2022-Canadian Red Cross

  • Post Doctoral Researcher-June 2022-October 2022, UbiLab, SPHHS, UWaterloo

  • Data Science Researcher-May 2017-May 2022, UbiLab, SPHHS, UWaterloo

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant-September 2019- December 2021, SPHHS, UWaterloo

  • Residence Life Don – Graduate & Student Family-September 2020- December 2021, Campus Housing-Residence Life, UWaterloo

  • Mitacs Accelerate intern- September 2017- August 2019, SPHHS, UWaterloo

  • Teaching assistant-Dec 2016 – April 2017, Indian Institute of Public Health- Bhubaneswar, Odisha

  • Research associate (USAID funded project)- June 2015-December 2016, Public Health Foundation of India

  • Research officer (Consultant)- June 2014-February 2015, The George Institute for Global Health (UK)

  • Senior Manager- November 2009-December 2012, Bhubaneswar Advanced Rehabilitation Center (BARC)

  • Senior lecturer- September 2009- September 2012, Neelachal Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar

  • Research assistant- May 2009 - August 2009, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  • Senior lecturer- September 2008-April 2009, IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar

  • Assistant Professor- July 2006- July 2008, Jaipur Physiotherapy College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

  • Lecturer cum clinical Physiotherapist- January 2004-July 2004, Rajeev Gandhi College of Physiotherapy, Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal

  • Volunteer Physiotherapist- April 2003-May 2003, SMRC, Bhubaneswar, Odisha