Bireshwar Sinha

Achievements :

• Graduated as a BMGF PRERNA Fellow 2014-2018
• Working as a Scientist and Assistant Director at CHRD SAS, New Delhi since 2019
• Selected as a DBT/Wellcome IA Early Career Clinical and Public Health Fellow 2020-25
• Received research grants as an Investigator from various National and International agencies
• Published >25 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals
• Coordinating and Leading research teams as Co-investigator / Principal Investigator
• Organized National workshops on Epidemiology and International Science meetings

List of Publications(Since 2018) :

1. 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

2. Dutta A, More D, Tupaki-Sreepurna A, Sinha B, Goyal N, Rongsen-Chandola T. Typhoid and paratyphoid fever co-infection in children from an urban slum of Delhi. IDCases 2020; 20:e00717.

3. Taneja S, Sinha B, Upadhyay RP, et al. Community initiated kangaroo mother care and early child development in low birth weight infants in India-a randomized controlled trial. BMC Pediatr. 2020;20(1):150.

4. Mazumder S*, Taneja S, Dube B, Bhatia K, Ghosh R, Shekhar M, Sinha B, Bahl R, Martines J, Bhan MK, Sommerfelt H, Bhandari N. Effect of community-initiated kangaroo mother care on survival of infants with low birthweight: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2019

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. Journal of Global Health 2019; 9(2):020804

6. Bhan MK*, Sinha B. Immunisation against influenza in low-income and middle-income countries.The Lancet Global health 2019; 7: e827-e8.

7. Choudhary TS*, Reddy NS, Apte A, Sinha B, Roy S, Nair NP, Sindhu KN, Patil R, Upadhyay RP, Chowdhury R. Delayed vaccination and its predictors among children under 2years in India: Insights from the national family health survey-4. Vaccine. 2019;37(17):2331-9

8. Sinha B, Taneja S, Chowdhury R, Mazumder S, Chandola TS, Upadhyay R, Bhandari N, Bhan MK. Low-birth-weight infants born to short stature mothers are at additional risk of stunting and poor growth velocity – evidence from secondary data analyses. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2018

9. Goyal N, Rongsen-Chandola T, Sood M, Sinha B, Kumar A, Qazi SA, et al.Management of possible serious bacterial infections in young infants closer to home where referral is not feasible: Lessons from implementation research in Himachal Pradesh, India (submitted to PLOS One)

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