Name: Girish Kumar C. P.
Designation: Scientist F
Division: Laboratory
Area of research(s): Communicable disease surveillance, Public health microbiology, Antimicrobial resistance
- Contact: +91-44-26136456
- Email: girishkumar@nie.gov.in
- Office: ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Awards:
- Dr. Pankajalakshmi Venugopal Glaxo Meritorious Award conferred by the Society for Indian Human and Animal Mycology (SIHAM)- [2006]
- Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship awardee [2000]
Membership with professional bodies:
- Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM)
- Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI)
- Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)
- International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
Completed projects:
- Integrated Behavioural and Biological Assessment (IBBA) of HIV among High Risk Groups – Round 2
- Screening of HBV and its genotyping among people with elevated liver enzymes:
- National Hospital Based Rotavirus Surveillance Network (NRSN) Project
- Hepatitis B virus co- infection and its genotype distribution among individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus from a HIV care centre in Chennai”
- Occurrence of virulent strains of Helicobacter pylori and its association with endoscopic findings in a tertiary centre teaching hospital in Chennai.
- Investigation on Acute encephalitis syndrome cases in Gorakhpur with special reference to association with Scrub typhus
- Occurrence of relapse, non-responsiveness to treatment in leprosy and screening of M. leprae isolates for drug resistance using molecular and mouse footpad techniques
- A study on endemicity of leprosy and utilization of health services in selected areas of Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Tamil Nadu
- Hospital Based Sentinel Surveillance for Bacterial Meningitis
Ongoing projects:
- Model District for public health preparedness, surveillance and response: Multi-strategic integrated approach in Tamil Nadu, India
- Rotavirus vaccine impact assessment study
- Hospital Based Sentinel Surveillance for S. pneumoniae & other Invasive Bacterial Disease
- Strengthening laboratory surveillance for pneumococcal meningitis in India to understand the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) rollout
- Multi-centric prospective hospital based sentinel surveillance to determine the aetiology of acute bacterial meningitis in children with conventional and molecular methods
- Antimicrobial resistance in a community and hospitals with specific reference to extended-spectrum cephalosporin, carbapenem and colistin resistance among Enterobacteriaceae
