Tarun Shankar Choudhary
Achievements :
- Graduated as a BMGF PRERNA Fellow 2017-2021
- Working as a Scientist and Assistant Director at CHRD SAS, New Delhi
- Secured fully-funded Ph.D. fellowship at the University of Bergen
- Received research grants as an Investigator from various National and International agencies
- Published 8 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals, 3 are under peer review
- Successfully managed to secure funding as PI/Co-PI for projects worth US$ 900,000 during the last 3 years
- Managing the technical as well as administrative aspects of five projects at the Society for Applied Studies, three of them as a principal applicant
List of Publications:
1. Choudhary TS, Reddy NS, Apte A, Sinha B, Roy S, Nair NP, et al. Delayed vaccination and its predictors among children under 2years in India: Insights from the national family health survey-4. Vaccine. 2019;37:2331-9.
2. Choudhary TS, Srivastava A, Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Bahl R, Martines J, et al. Severe wasting among Indian infants
3. Kumar G, Choudhary TS, Srivastava A, Upadhyay RP, Taneja S, Bahl R, et al. Utilisation, equity and determinants of full antenatal care in India: analysis from the National Family Health Survey 4. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2019;19:327.
4. Upadhyay RP, Naik G, Choudhary TS, Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Bhandari N, et al. Cognitive and motor outcomes in children born low birth weight: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from South Asia. BMC Pediatr. 2019;19:35.
5. Choudhary TS, Sinha B, Khera A, Bhandari N, Chu Y, Jackson B, Walker N, Black RE, Merson M, Bhan MK. Factors associated with the decline in under-five diarrhea mortality in India: a LiST Analysis. J Glob Health. 2019 Dec; 9(2): 020804.
6. Early Rollout of ROTAVAC®India Network. Assessment of risk of intussusception after pilot rollout of rotavirus vaccine in the Indian public health system. Vaccine. 2020 Jul 14;38(33):5241-5248.
7. AnejaS, KumarP, ChoudharyTS, SrivastavaA, ChowdhuryR, TanejaS, BhandariN, DanielA, MenonP, ChellaniH, BahlR, Bhan MK. Growth Faltering in Early Infancy: Highlights from a two-day scientific consultation (Accepted for Publication)
Manuscripts under Preparation/Peer review :
1. Chowdhury R, Nitika N, Choudhary TS, Taneja S, Martines J, Bhandari N, Bahl R. Diagnostic measures for severe acute malnutrition in Indian infants under 6 months of age: a secondary data analysis (Under peer review)
2. Choudhary TS, Shah D, Sinha B, Bhandari N, Bhan MK. Interventions for improving survival, growth and development in low birth weight children born at home or post hospital discharge: a review of systematic reviews. (Under Preparation)
3. Non-communicable disease risk factors among children and adolescents in India: Evidence from Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (Under Preparation).
Workshop/meeting/Conference since 2018:
Date | City | Country | Name |
28th May 2020 |
Virtual meeting |
Attended virtual meeting on “Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS): Online Data Users’ Workshop" |
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29th Apr 2020 |
Delhi virtual meeting |
Attended webinar on “COVID-19 & Newborn” by WHO |
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Apr 2020 |
Webinar |
Financing Nutrition in India organized by IFPRI |
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31th Mar 2020 |
Virtual meeting |
Attended virtual meeting on “Improving maternal nutrition: A review of evidence on the one-full meal program” by IFPRI. |
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5th to 6th Mar 2020 |
Faridabad |
India |
Innovative solutions for maternal and child health using medical image analysis and Artificial Intelligence workshop |
Mar 2020 |
Webinar |
India |
EXPLORING PRIORITY SETTING IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC” organized by International Society for Priority Setting in Health |
Jan 2020 |
Bergen |
Norway |
Guest Faculty at ELMED310 |
31st Oct 2019 |
Delhi |
India |
Early Growth Failure - Identification & Management” meeting - The Pediatric and Adolescent Nutrition Society, NCoE-SAM, Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital & UNICEF |
24th Sep 2019 |
Delhi |
India |
Delivering for Nutrition in India: Insights from Implementation Research by IFPRI |
9th to 14th Sep 2019 |
Kalyani |
India |
Attended as facilitator in SAS-NIBMG advanced course on clinical epidemiology and genetic methods |
6th to 8th May 2019 |
Vellore |
India |
Introduction to Health Technology Assessment organized by CMC, Vellore in collaboration with HITAP, Thailand |
1st to 3rd May 2019 |
Delhi |
India |
Institutional Collaborative meeting with Dr. Per group |
18th to 19th Mar 2019 |
Delhi |
India |
Measuring Health Systems Performance organized by HSTP |
9th Mar 2019 |
Delhi |
India |
Research Methodology Workshop organized by CHRD-SAS in collaboration with Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research |
Nov 2018 |
Delhi |
India |
Self-Controlled Case Series Workshop |
Oct 2018 |
Delhi |
India |
Growth Failure and SAM in early Infancy consultation |
Sep 2018 |
Delhi |
India |
IIT Delhi (School for Public Policy) and PATH round table discussion on Digital Health |
Jun 2018 |
Bergen |
Norway |
Bergen Summer Research School workshop on Fair Priority setting in Global Health |
May 2018 |
Mussoorie |
India |
Flagship course on health system financing and strengthening, Harvard School of Public Health and LABSNAA |
Apr 2018 |
Delhi |
India |
National Expert Group Technical Consultation on Prevention and Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anemia, AIIMS Delhi |
Apr 2018 |
Shimla,Himachal Pradesh |
India |
National Nutrition Mission discussion in Himachal Pradesh with state officials, Shimla, HP |
Mar 2018 |
Lillehammer |
Norway |
Applied Logistic regression Workshop by STANLEY LEMESHOW |
Feb 2018 |
Gurgaon |
India |
Nutrition, Epidemiology and Policy workshop by PHFI |
Jan 2018 |
Shimla,Himachal Pradesh |
India |
Hands-on training Generalized Additive Modelling in R |