Ranadip Chowdhury

Achievements :

• ­Completed Ph.D. from Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Norway, 2020
• ­Selected as a DBT/Wellcome IA Intermediate Career Clinical and Public Health Fellow 2021-26
• ­Working as a Research Scientist and Assistant Director at CHRD SAS, New Delhi since 2019
• ­Graduated as a BMGF PRERNA Fellow 2014-2018
• ­Global Nutrition Early Career Scholar Award by the American Society for Nutrition, 2018
• ­Invited Speaker in 19th ISRHML International Conference entitled “Supporting, Protecting and Promoting Breastfeeding from Biology to Policy, Japan, 2018
• ­Received research grants as Investigator from various National and International agencies
• ­Published >­30 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals

List of Publications (Since 2018):

1. Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Dhabahi N, Mazumder S, Upadhyay R, Sharma S, Sreepurna AT, Dewan R, Mittal P, Chellani H, Bahl R, Bahn MK, Bhandari N. Burden of preconception morbidity in women of reproductive age from an urban setting in North India. PLOS One. 2020; 15(6): e0234768

2. Gernand A, Berhane Y, Bhandari N, Chowdhury R, Jehan F, Khatry S, Kolsteren P, Lee CC A, Muhammad A, Shafiq Y, Taneja S, Tielsch J, Taylor L, Gallagher K, Christian P, Yan J, Roskosky M. Harmonization of Maternal Nutrition Trials – Finding and Creating Similarities in Protocols and Outcomes. CurrDevNutr. 2020 Jun; 4(Suppl 2): 1738

3. Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Dhabahi N, Mazumder S, Upadhyay R, Sharma S, Sreepurna AT, Dewan R, Mittal P, Chellani H, Bahl R, Bahn MK, Bhandari N. Impact of an integrated nutrition, health, water sanitation and hygiene, psychosocial care and support intervention package delivered during the pre- and peri-conception period and/or during pregnancy and early childhood on linear growth of infants in the first two years of life, birth outcomes and nutritional status of mothers: study protocol of a factorial, individually randomized controlled trial in India. Trials 2020;21:127.

4. Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Kvestad I, Hysing M, Bhandari N, Strand TA. Vitamin D status in early childhood is not associated with cognitive development and linear growth at 6–9 years of age in North Indian children: a cohort study. Nutrition Journal 2020;19:14. doi: 10.1186/s12937-020-00530-2.

5. Upadhyay RP, Taneja S, Chowdhury R, Strand TA, Bhandari N. Insights Image for "Effect of prebiotic and probiotic supplementation on neurodevelopment in preterm very low birth weight infants: findings from a meta-analysis". Pediatr Res. 2020 Apr;87(5):969.

6. Upadhyay R, Naik G,Choudhary TS, Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Bhandari N,Martines JC, Bahl R, Bhan MK. Cognitive and motor outcomes in children born low birth weight: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from South Asia. BMC Pediatrics.2019; 19:35.

7. Gomes F, Bourassa MW, Adu-Afarwuah S, Ajello C, Bhutta ZA, Black R, Catarino E, Chowdhury R, Dalmiya N, Dwarkanath P, Engle-Stone R,Gernand AD, Goudet S, Hoddinott J, PernilleKæstel P, Manger MS, McDonald CM, Mehta S, Moore SE, Neufeld LM, Osendarp S, Ramachandran P, Rasmussen KM, Stewart C, Sudfeld C, West K, Bergeron G. Setting research priorities on multiple micronutrient supplementation in pregnancy. Ann.N.Y. Acad Sci. 2019. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14267. PubMed PMID: 31696532(Impact factor: 4.03)

8. 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 2 years in India: Insights from the national family health survey-4. Vaccine 2019 Apr 17;37(17):2331-2339

9. Choudhary TS, Srivastava A, Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Bahl R, Martines J, Bhan MK, Bhandari N. Severe wasting among Indian infants

10. Taneja S, Chandola TR, Mohan SB, Mazumder S, Bhandari N, Kaur J, Arya N, Chowdhury R, Martines J, Bahl R, Bhan M. Mid Upper Arm Circumference as a predictor of Risk of Mortality in Children in a low resource setting in India. PLOS One. 2018; 13(6): e0197832.

11. Taneja S, Dalpath S, Bhandari N, Kaur J, Mazumder S, Chowdhury R, Mundra S, Bhan MK. Experiences from operationalising the Integrated Community Case Management Strategy for Childhood Pneumonia, Diarrhoea and Fever by Community Health Workers in a district in Haryana, India. ActaPediatrica2018;107 Suppl 471:80-88

12. Chowdhury R, Taneja S, Bhandari N, Strand TA. Bhan MK. Vitamin-D deficiency and mild to moderate anemia in young North Indian children: a secondary data analysis. Nutrition.2019;57:63-68.

13. Upadhyay R, Taneja S, Chowdhury R, Strand TS, Bhandari N. Effect of prebiotic and probiotic supplementation on neurodevelopment in preterm very low birth weight infants: findings from a meta-analysis. Pediatric Research. 2018.

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