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)
Workshop/meeting/Conference since 2018:
Date | City | Country | Name |
Jul 2020 |
Delhi |
India |
CHRD SAS Scientific Program Advisory Committee meeting |
11th Oct 2019 |
Delhi |
India |
Final Self Case Controlled Series Analysis Workshop |
9th to 14th Sep 2019 |
Kalyani |
India |
SAS NIBMG research methodology workshop as Academic Coordinator and Instructor |
16th Jun to 1st Jul 2019 |
Houston, Atlanta |
USA |
Orientation training on Lab methods for detection of viruses, CDC |
5th to 12th Jun 2019 |
Bergen |
Norway |
CISMAC Meta-analysis workshop, University of Bergen |
1st to 3rd May 2019 |
Delhi |
India |
CHRD TAU idea generation workshop |
26th to 28th Mar 2019 |
Hanoi |
Vietnam |
11th International Conference on Typhoid and other invasive Salmonelloses (Oral Presentation) |
9th Mar 2019 |
Delhi |
India |
Research Methodology Workshop organized by CHRD-SAS in collaboration with Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (as an Instructor) |
Mar 2019 |
Lillehammer |
Norway |
Applied Logistic regression Workshop by STANLEY LEMESHOW |
10th to 11th Sep 2018 |
Delhi |
India |
Workshop on Expert Review meeting on Maternal Immunization |
22th to 24th Jan 2018 |
Bangalore |
India |
Assumptions, calculations, and discussion on pilot data for Infant breast milk intake assessment using Stable isotope method |
14th to 15th Jan 2018 |
Delhi |
India |
Indo-US Vaccine Action Programme (VAP)- Epidemiological Preparation for Flavivirus Vaccine Trials |