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Occupation
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Senior
Deputy Director(retired),NIN,Hyderabad
Presently Member in the Ethics Committee of Vimta Labs. Hyderabad.
Publications:
120 -150 in national and international journals
Awards:
Research
areas:
* Maternal malnutrition and fetal stores
* Mechanism of IUGR in malnutrition
* Studies on anemia
* Carbohydrate metabolism in pregnancy s
* Problem of adolescent growth and impact of early childhood malnutrition
* Infections in pregnancy & outcome
* Body composition changes in pregnancy and lactation
* Trace minerals, vitamin status and reproductive outcome
* Nutritional contraception interaction
* Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and nutrition interaction
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Responsible
for the national anemia prophylaxis programme |
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Dietary
supplement programmes for pregnant and lactating women incorporated
in the ICDS and MCH programmes. |
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The
first one to establish the effect of folate supplements during
pregnancy in reducing the incidence of low birth weight. |
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Member
of WHO task force on hypertension in pregnancy and member of
the expert committee on nutrition. |
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Participated
in preparation of the WHO technical report series |
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Uses
of anthropometry in the assessment of nutritional status
in a community. |
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Hypertensive
disorders in pregnancy. |
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Been
invited as a speaker at National and International conferences
and symposia. |
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Member
in the advisory committee of Maternal Health Division of Astra
IDL, Bangalore, SNDT University's Nutritional programmes and
many other Universities. |
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