Roopa Shivashankar

Scientist E, Indian Council of Medical Research
Roopa Shivashankar, Scientist E, Indian Council of Medical Research

I am a medical scientist at the ICMR, Delhi. My role involves setting the research agenda,undertaking national priority research , managing extramural research grants, and advising thenational health programme on noncommunicable diseases and primary care. Before ICMR, Iwas a Technical Consultant at an international organization for 3 years to support hypertensioncontrol implementation and policy advocacy for transfat elimination. Along with trans-organizational teams, I successfully got the stringent policy to limit trans fats in foods in India.Before this role, I worked as a Research Scientist at the PHFI for 8 years. I led a team to implement a large cohort study of cardiometabolic diseases.

I am a medical doctor with an MD in Community Medicine and an MSc in Epidemiology. At present, have enrolled in an on job Ph.D. program.

Reading non-fiction books and cycling are my hobbies.

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