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Dr Usha Shrivastava
is currently Consultant in Public Health with Network for Child Development
and Consultant with the Collaborative Project on 'Maternal Nutrition,
Foetal Growth and Coronary Risk Factors in Young Indian Adults' being
conducted by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
and MRC Southampton and is also practising as Family Physician in New
Delhi.
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Shrivastava has been: |
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WHO
National Consultant on Cardio-vascular Disease Control Programme,
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India |
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| (ii) |
Co-Investigator,
CATCH-HRIDAY International Collaborative study on Cardio-Vascular
Health of Young People, being conducted by AIIMS,
sponsored by NIH, USA |
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| (iii) |
Distinguished
Advisor ProCOR, SatelLife (A Space for health Programme through
Special Satellite called SatelLife, headed by Dr Benard Lown,
Boston, USA) |
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is a researcher having been involved in conducting various studies
using clinical epidemiological tools of both quantitative and qualitative
research methodology and techniques including: |
| (i) |
ICMR
Collaborative Study on Prevalence of Coronary Heart Disease
and Coronary Risk Factors in India - conducted by AIIMS, New
Delhi; funded by ICMR |
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| (ii) |
Strengthening
Capacity and Networking in Epidemiology Training and Research
- conducted by Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS; funded
by Ford Foundation |
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| (iii) |
Longitudinal
Study of the Survival and Outcome of a Birth Cohort Phase-III
- conducted by Department of Paediatrics, Safarjung Hospital,
New Delhi; funded by National Centre for Health Statistics,
USA |
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| (iv) |
Project
HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth)
- conducted by AIIMS in 45 Delhi Schools; funded by Rajiv Gandhi
Foundation |
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Her
special interest area includes health behaviour research in urban and
rural population using triangulation and other qualitative tools along
with standard quantitative research methodologies.
She has also been deeply involved with a number of NGOs working on child
development, health, gender issues and reproductive health, environment
and development. Her commitment to socially and economically disadvantaged
sections is reflected in her work for urban slum-dwellers, working women
and disadvantaged children through both governmental and voluntary sector.
| Important
Publications: |
| 1. |
Reddy
KS, Shrivastava U, Karmarkar MG, Shah B, Nath LM. Visceral adiposity,
dyslipidemia and other modifiable coronary risk factors in an
urban India population sample (abstract) European Heart Journal,
1994,15:21. |
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| 2.
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Shrivastava
U, Sachdev HPS, Bhargava SK, Ghosh S. Morbidity Patterns of
Adolescents in an Urban Community. Indian Paediatrics 1985,
22:753-56. |
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