Nutritional epidemiology, early childhood growth and development, mental health and cognitive sciences, economic evaluation, implementation sciences.

SAS has extensive experience in implementation research and qualitative research methodologies, contributing to the translation of evidence-based interventions into practice.

SAS primarily works with urban populations in Delhi and rural Haryana, providing insights into challenges specific to densely populated urban and rural environments.

As a leading tertiary medical institute, it has access to a wide range of specialty and super-specialty departments.

The Wellcome GI Sciences Laboratory at CMC, Vellore, provides a standardised setup and expertise for research on gastrointestinal infections, immunology, and related areas.

CMC engages with urban and tribal populations in Vellore, enabling research in diverse demographic and geographic settings.

Vaccine clinical research, including the design, implementation, and evaluation of regulatory vaccine studies; infectious disease epidemiology including community and hospital-based surveillance studies, anaemia and malnutrition, chronic respiratory disease, and implementation research.

KEMHRC excels in implementation of large scale regulatory clinical trials including vaccine clinical trials, community-based surveillance studies disease burden and implementation research in the domain of maternal and child health. It has strong collaborations with the local public health system and works in close collaboration with them.

KEMHRC is affiliated to a 650 bedded tertiary care hospital and has two community-based departments ― Vadu Rural Health Programme (VRHP), and the Community Health Research Unit (CHRU) ― that work with the rural population near Pune. KEMHRC has dedicated research laboratories, bio repositories, data management services for high quality research.

The institute has a long-standing presence in rural and tribal areas of Maharashtra, facilitating research in underserved populations. VRHP and CHRU, which work in three blocks of Pune district, have access to a rural and tribal population of over 1 million in Western Maharashtra. VRHP hosts a well-established core vaccine research unit capable of conducting multi-centric, large-scale clinical trials for vaccines, while CHRU has a field-based team trained in implementation of community-based studies in nutrition and implementation research.