Sr. No, Name of the first Author, Study Title (based on which study), Country / Site Title of the Publications already submitted and accepted, Journal Submitted to Publications to be submitted by June 1st 2010, Journal submitted to Publications to be submitted post-June 1st 2010 (In the pipeline for now), Journal submitted to, >>
1 Dr B Unnikirshnan Manipal University, India "( JAN TO MARCH 2010)
1. Awareness and attitude of the general public towards HIV/AIDS in coastal Karnataka, Indian Journal of Community Medicine
2. Harrassment among women at workplace - A crosssectional study in coastal south India. Indian Journal of Community Medicine
3. FEV6 asscreening tool in spirometric diagnosis of obstructive airway disease. Lung India
4. Association of Quality of Life wth depression among HIV positives in Coastal South India, Indian Journal of Psychiatry
5. Association of Depression with social support and self esteem among HIV Positives, .Asian Journal of Psychiatry
6. Study of Morbidity profile and quality of life among beedi rolling women in coastal karnataka, Journal of Environmental Research
7. Study of perceptions and attitude towards global climate change among college students in coastal karnataka, Journal of Environmental Research
8. Stress levels and its associated factors among bank employees - A crossectional study in a south indian city, Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
9. Chest Radiographic patterns of pulmonary tuberculosis among Hiv seropositives and HIV Seronegatives", Lung India
2 Dr Prabha Adhikari Manipal University, India "1.Occurence of Penicillin Resistant Streptocoocal Pneumoniae Infection and effect of antibiotic rotation
2.Validation of Indian Diabetes Risk Score through Bollor Population Study -accepted for Publication by Journal of physicians of India
3.Indian diabetes risk score among medical students and its correlation with blood sugar and lipid profile
" "1. Khatmandu Medical Journal
2. Journal of Physicians of India
3. Indian Journal of Medical Sciences
" "1.Risk factors for lead poisoning among battery workers despite use of PPE in a battery unit in Baikampady Industrial area
2.Correlation between Serum lead levels and clinical manifestations among battery workers
3.Lead poisoning in a battery worker despite use of PPE- a case report
4.Effect of Moringa Oleifera seeds in water Purification and Clarification
5.NCD risk factors among physicians working in KMC Hospitals
6.Indian Diabetes Risk Score among medical students and effect of risk score knowledge on the life style of medical students
7.Serum Pyridoxine levels in HIV infected Individuals
8.Serum B12 levels and folic acid levels in HIV infection
" Not mentioned yet
3 Dr G Arunkumar Manipal University, India "1. Prevalence of human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection among pregnant women in Udupi- a hospital based study
2. Occupational risk of health sciences students to vaccine preventable airborne viral infections in India
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4 Dr Ramchandra Kamath Manipal University, India 1. Musculo-Skeletal Disorders in Cashwe Factory Workers
5 Dr Arun G Maiya Manipal University, India 1. Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders, in asymptomatic cashew factory workers- A cross-sectional study 2. PREVALENCE OF WORK RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS OF WRIST AND HAND IN COMPUTER USERS- A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY "1. Journal of Asia-Pacific Disability
2. Indian journal of enviornmental and occupational Health
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6 Dr Animesh Jain Manipal University, India "1. “Career choice among Physiotherapy students in Mangalore, India”
2. ""Suicide Ideation Among Medical Students: A Cross Sectional From South India""" "1. Physiotherapy Journal
2. Australasian Medical Journal "
7 Dr Avinash Shetty Manipal University, India Study on prevalence of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in costal Karnataka International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus in Developing countries
8 Dr Padma Mohanan Manipal University, India 1. Preliminary study to estimate the prevalence of specific reading disabilities (dyslexia) among school children 2. Study on stress among Anganwadi workers in Mangalore - Dakshina Kannada- Karnataka "1. Karnataka Pediatric Journal
2. Indian Journal of Community Medicine"
9 Dr Sathish Rao Manipal University, India Cytoprotective and Antigenotoxic potential of Mangiferin, a glucosylxanthone against Cadmium chloride induced toxicity in HepG2 cells Food and Chemical Toxicology 1. Antigenotoxic effect of Mangiferin and changes in antioxidant enzyme levels of Swiss albino mice treated with Cadmium chloride Hum & Exp Toxicol- In Press 1. Modulation of mercuric chloride cytotoxicity by mangiferin in human liver carcinoma (HepG2) cells 2. Mangiferin, a xanthone attenuates mercury chloride induced cytotoxicity and genotoxicity in HepG2 cells (Mutation Research – Under revision) 1. Communicated to Environmental Toxicology
10 Dr Vandana KE "Screening At Admission For Carrier Prevalence Of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms In Resource-Constrained Settings: A Hospital-Based Observational Study" Journal of Hospital Infection Seroprevalence study on melioidosis
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Monday, August 2, 2010
Manipal, India - ITREOH Resource Centre
Manipal University fosters close ties with University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
A report by Manipal LINK - Manipal University's Official News Magazine
Though the relationship was fostered in the arena of Public Health, MU and UAB now have an existing formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop collaborations in other disciplines and streams. The MOU - an understanding between the Board of Trustees of UAB and MU extends the UAB-MU collaboration on a university-wide scale. The arrangement will facilitate exchange of academic staff and researchers; exchange of students and collaborative research and joint academic meetings between both universities.
In most projects around the world, it is the funding agencies that give the much needed lease of life. The primary sponsor for the UAB-MU collaborations is the Fogarty International Center (FIC) which is the international component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. It was UAB’s Dr Nalini Sathiakumar who successfully received the highly competitive UAB-Fogarty grant which is now operational at Manipal.
AITRP and ITREOH
Early days of this relationship between 2001 and 2005 saw Manipal formally becoming a supplemental site for FIC’s AIDS International Training and Research Programme (AITRP). UAB Investigators Drs Nalini Sathiakumar and Sten Vermund worked along with Manipal’s Dr Vinod Bhat who was the Major Foreign Collaborator for the project. Through this initiative, several training workshops on research methods were held at Manipal, spearheaded by Dr Sathiakumar.
Fogarty’s UAB-South Asia International Training and Research in Environmental and Occupational Health Program (ITREOH) has been a key collaboration project between Manipal University in India, the Aga Khan University in Pakistan and University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka. The ITREOH was developed by the FIC in collaboration with the NIH, the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order to impart training in environmental and occupational health to health scientists, clinicians and epidemiologists along with toxicologists, engineers, industrial hygienists, chemists, and allied health workers.
The UAB-MU partnership has fostered the professional development of a core group of researchers and trainers at Manipal through the ITREOH training workshops, pilot projects and host of other activities.
Training
As part of the ITREOH training initiative a good number of faculty, researchers, doctoral and post graduate students of Manipal have participated in programs organized in USA, India and partner countries.
Regional Training-of Trainer (TOT) workshops. The TOT approach focuses on the development of a core group of faculty mentors, who will serve as trainers for future generations of environmental and occupational health professionals. An annual feature, the program is conducted by a host of senior public health professionals. (see box)
Initially the workshops provided basic training in environmental and occupational health research methodology, but over the last three years, the focus has been on the implementation and evaluation of intervention research, exposure estimations, biomarker measurements and methodological issues in study design. This training hopes to augment activities like investigation and mitigation of health risks associated with environmental and occupational challenges in the region through an interdisciplinary approach. High priority concerns include heavy metals, indoor and outdoor air pollution, pesticides and occupational health. More recently, climate change–related research has also been included as a priority area. Besides substantive topics, training also focuses on research ethics, scientific writing, research proposal development, lay communication and program monitoring and evaluation. A noteworthy component of the TOT workshops has been the opportunity for trainees’ to present new research or results of their ongoing research projects.
International Public Health Summer Institute at UAB.
Each year, the UAB Sparkman Center for Global Health conducts an annual intensive 6-week training designed to upgrade the skills of mid- to senior-level health professionals around the world. It emphasizes skill-based learning in the following areas: Public Health Leadership and Management; Program Monitoring and Evaluation; Applied Epidemiology for Health Professionals; Hot Topics in Global Health; Scientific Writing Seminar; and Case Studies Seminar highlighting Global Public Health Challenges. Untill now, 14 Manipal Faculty have been deputed to Alabama to avail of this opportunity. A major criterion for selection to the Summer Institute is demonstrated research interest. While at UAB, the Manipal faculty also receive intensive mentoring on research proposal development, data analysis and manuscript preparation.
Specialized laboratory training.
As part of a MU-UAB ITREOH research project, PI Dr Satish Rao from Manipal has begun research on the ‘Methylmercury and infant neurological development’ study. This study aims to measure mercury exposure to mothers from analysis of their hair samples. Mr Prasad Bharath from the Dept of Biotechnology at Manipal traveled to the The Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to work with Dr Milena Horvat’s team. Dr Horvat is a global expert in mercury analysis. Mr Bharath and team at Manipal would continue to do research on the subject at Manipal.
Time series analysis manual.
In statistics, signal processing, and many other fields, a time series is a sequence of data, measured at successive times, spaced at often uniform time intervals. From the Department of Biostatistics at Manipal University, Ms. Asha Kamath will spend 2 months at Alabama working with Drs Meleth and Sathiakumar to develop a step-by-step manual for conducting ‘time series analysis’ using specialized software.
ITREOH faculty trainees as research mentors.
ITREOH trainees at Manipal have in turn provided training to graduate students from Alabama. During the last two years, three UAB students spent six to eight week periods at Manipal to acquire field experience in research. Two MPH students worked on ongoing MU-UAB research projects, mentored by Drs. G Arunkumar and Satish Rao. A doctoral student of Epidemiology from UAB, Alabama worked at Manipal mentored by Dr Ramchandra Kamath on a project related to geographic information system (GIS) based surveillance system for tracking Malaria.
Research
The UAB-South Asia ITREOH program believes in the value of practice-based learning and has thus supported, mentored and funded several pilot research projects at Manipal. Awarded after a competitive rigorous peer-review process, only two to three pilot projects are selected each year. One of the main goals of the UAB-South Asia ITREOH is for partner sites to contribute to sustainability by successfully obtaining competitive funding and research grants for large-scale studies. ( See box for list of completed, ongoing, approved and under review projects)
Completed pilot studies have formed the basis for several publications in international peer-reviewed journals and, subsequently, have been expanded as competitive proposals for submission to large funding agencies such as the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), NIH, Health Effects Institute (HEI) among others
The UAB ITREOH Program
The International Training & Research In Environmental & Occupational Health (ITREOH) program trains health workers from developing countries & emerging democracies in general environmental & occupational health. The Fogarty Intl Center of the NIH, USA in collaboration with the National Inst. of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health has developed this program. This blog profiles the ITREOH Program run from the School of Public Health and Sparkman Centre for Global Health housed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in association with its partner sites in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan in Asia and the Carribeans.
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