Academic Qualification :
Degree: S.S.C, Year Of Passing: 1971, Subjects: Science & Maths,
Class Obtained: Ist class with Distinction

Degree: B Sc., Year Of Passing: 1975, Subjects: Statistics,
Class Obtained: Ist class with Distinction

Degree: M Sc. (P.P.R.), Year Of Passing: 1982, Subjects: Biometry & Nutrition,
Class Obtained: Ist class with Distinction
Research Guide: Prof. P.V. Sukhatme

Degree: M Phil, Year Of Passing: 1987, Subjects:Biometry & Nutrition,
Class Obtained: A Grade

Degree: Ph D., Year Of Passing: 1994, Subjects:Biometry & Nutrition,
Class Obtained: -
Research Guide: Dr. Shobha Rao


Other Qualifications :
Completed Computer course in DBASE-IV,LOTUS,MS-office & FOX-PRO.
Also participated in Training programme for SPSS/PC conducted at BAIF, Pune. This helped me in developing my expertise in handling & analysing the huge data using all these software packages

Membership:
Life member of Nutrition Society of India.
Membership of International Biometrics Society.
Life member of Indian Women's Scientist Association

Research Work :
Joined MACS in 1975 as a Research Assistant & started research career.
Obtained M.Sc.&M.Phil. degrees by research while shouldering the duties of JSA.
Currently holding post of Scientist C
Research interests : Community nutrition & application of Biometric methods to the nutritional data for better understanding of human variation. Worked on research projects related to longitudinal adolescent growth study and urban under-nutrition.
Involved as a consultant in collabortive research project with KEM Hospital Research Centre, funded by WELLCOME Trust U.K. The project aimed to investigate the role of maternal nutrition in the fetal development and infant growth.
Leading the group of field researchers by means of training and supervising the staff for field work .
Management of Data_bases through developing computer programmes for easy handling and analysing of our voluminous data collected in community field studies.
Recently completed the consultancy work (For MRC, Southampton) to develop survey tools for assessment of maternal intake & activity of women from Mumbai Slum.

Conferences attended and papers presented :
Attended and presented the M.Sc. research work in 14th International Congress of Nutrition - August 1989, at Seoul,Korea.
Attended 8 National conferences of Nutrition Society of India at Hyderabad(1988,1990) and Lucknow(1991), Hyderabad(1996,1997,1998,1999,2000).
Attended and presented the research work related to collaborative project(with KEM/MRC) in 16th International Congress of Nutrition- July 27-August1, 1997, at Montreal,Canada.

Publications :
Research work done so far has been published in renowned journals.
7 papers in International journals.
9 papers in National journals.
Few more (about 4)papers communicated to International journals.

Editorship :
Worked as Joint Editor for the " Proceedings of the National workshop on "Adolescence : Need for Critical Appraisal" - held at ARI,PUNE during May 1992.

Awards :
Vocational Award for 1995-1996 as "Outstanding Research Scholar" on the basis of my Ph.D. research work.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS :
1. Rao S.and Kanade A. N. Comparison of Gomez and Waterlow classification in a follow - up study among pre-school children. Euro.J.Clin. Nutr.,1988, 42, 863.
2. Rao S.,Joshi S.B., Kanade A.N. and Kulkarni A.R. Variations in energy intake in relation to adolescent growth among rural boys. Ind. J. Nutr. Dietet. 1989, 26, 288-296.
3. Rao S.,Kanade A.N., Joshi S.B. and Joshi A. Variations in energy intake in relation to height increments among adolescent girls. Ind. J. Nutr. Dietet. 1989.26,374-382.
4. Rao S.,Kanade A.N., Joshi S.B. and Paranjape S.A. Application of Time Series models for detecting regulatory patterns in nitrogen output of adult rats.J Appl. Stat. 1991, 18(2), 215-232.
5. Rao S. and Kanade A.N. Prolonged breastfeeding and malnutrition among rural Indian children below 3 years. Euro J. Clin.Nutr. 1992, 46, 187-195.
6. Kanade A.N., Rao S. and Joshi S.B. Adolescent growth of Indian rural boys in relation to weight and height during preschool age.Proceedings of the National Workshop on "Adolescence: Need for critical apprisal" , pub. Agharkar Research Institute, Pune,1995, 51-57.
7. Rao S.,Chiplonkar S.A., Kanade A.N. ,Joshi S.B.,Chamanhalli V. Physical work performance and nutritional status of rural adolescent Indian children.Proceedings of the National Workshop on "Adolescence: Need for critical apprisal", pub. Agharkar Research Institute, Pune,1995, 58-63.
8. Vlassoff C.,Rao S.,Garole V.,Karandikar N.,Azar M. and Kanade A. The family : A neglected determinant of Health in South Asia. Social Change.June 1996, 26(2), 57-73.
9. Rao Shobha, Joshi Smita and Kanade Asawari. Height velocity, body fat and menarcheal age of Indian school girls. Indian Padiatrics, 1998,35,619-628.
10. Rao Shobha, Kanade Asawari and Joshi Smita. Height, Weight and menarcheal age of Indian Rural girls. Ind. J. Nutr. Dietet. 1998,35,117-128.
11. Joshi S.B., Kanade A.N., and Rao S. Growth pattern of rural indian boys aged 8-18 yrs. Ind. J. Nutr. Dietet. 1998,35,149-156.
13. Kanade A.N., Joshi S.B. and Rao S. Undernutrition and adolescent growth among rural Indian boys. Indian Padiatrics, 1999,36, 145-156.
14. Rao S., Joshi S.B. & Kanade A.N. " Growth in some physical dimensions in relation to adolescent growth spurt among rural Indian boys", Annals of Human Biology, 2000, 27(2), 127-138.
15. S Rao, CS Yajnik, AN Kanade, BM Margetts, AA Jackson, R Shier, S Joshi, S Rege, Lubree and CHD Fall. "Intakes of micronutrient rich foods in rural Indian mothers and size of their babies at birth" Journal of Nutrition, April 2001.
16. Kanade A.N. , Gokhale M.K. and Rao S. Energy costs of activities among Indian adults. European Journal Clinical Nutrition ,2001,55,1-6.
17. Shobha Rao, Asawari Kanade, Barrie M Margetts,Chittaranjan S Yajnik, Himangi Lubree , Sonali Rege, Bhavana Desai , Alan Jackson, Caroline HD Fall. Maternal Activity in Relation to Birth Size in Rural India :The Pune Maternal Nutrition Study Communicated to European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
18. Rao S, Kanade A, Margetts BM, Yajnik CS, Lubree H, Rege S, Desai B, Jackson A & Fall CHD. 2003. Maternal Activity in Relation to Birth Size in Rural India :The Pune Maternal Nutrition Study. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 57(4), 531-542.