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Dr. Sreelakshmi PR
Name : Dr. Sreelakshmi PR
Designation : Scientist E
Division : Clinical Trial Unit
Email ID : [email protected], [email protected]
Area Of Interest : Epidemiology and public health, Viral vector borne disease research, Non-Communicable Disease epidemiology on cognitive impairment
Completed and Ongoing Projects

Title of the Study

Role

From

To

Funding agency

Status

Entomo-epidemiological surveillance of dengue and chikungunya at hotspot regions in India: A step towards strengthening the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP)

 

PI

2024

2027

ICMR

Ongoing

Clinical and immunological profile of patients with post COVID attending a tertiary care Centre, Maharashtra

PI

2022

2024

ICMR-NIV

Completed

Decentralised health system and vector borne diseases subpackage under the project Local government and health in Kerala

Co-I

2019

2021

Health Systems Transformation Platform

Completed

Dementia Prevention and Enhanced Care [DePEC] (Kerala Work package)

Co-I

2017

2020

NIHR, UK

 Completed

Dietary pattern of elderly individuals at Thiruvananthapuram

Co-I

2015

2015

State Nutrition Bureau, Govt of Kerala

 Completed

Assessment of nutritional status of Tribal Women and Children in Wayanad and Palakkad districts, Kerala

Co-I

2012

2012

Kerala Social Security Mission, government of Kerala

 Completed

Assessment of coverage of services and quality of life of the beneficiaries of destitute rehabilitation project (Asraya), Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala

PI

2012

2013

Kerala Social Security Mission, government of Kerala

 Completed

Awards and Honours
  1. Best Capstone Project: ICMR Health Communication Course 2024-2025

 

  1. Third prize in Oral Presentation at 15th Annual ISMOCD conference -2025, for the presentation titled Climatic and entomological factors contributing to Aedes-borne infections in a hot-spot region
  2. Consolation Prize: XIV Annual Conference of Indian Society for Malaria & Other Communicable Diseases (ISMOCD, 2023): Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Regarding Zika Virus Infection in a Rural Indian Community: A Cross-sectional Survey

 

  1. Best scientific paper in the award category of Amrita International Public Health eConference 2020 for the paper Dietary pattern and nutritional status of elderly: result of a population based cross-sectional survey, Kerala, India

 

  1. Best paper award in the PG session of the students national conference held at Govt Medical College Thiruvananthapuram in 2012: Paper- Complianceto treatment and health seeking behaviour of diabetics in Pangappara

 

  1. Best paper award in the PG session of the students national conference held at Govt Medical College Thiruvananthapuram 2013: Paper- Anopheles breeding in coastal areas of south Kerala: Impending Malaria epidemic
Work Experience

 

Work Experience

Post Held

Employer

Duration

09.09.2025- Continuing

Scientist D

ICMR-National Institute of Translational Virology and AIDS Research

Continuing

23-07-2021- 08.09.2025

Scientist D

ICMR-National Institute of Virology

4 years 1 month

15-09-2020-

16-07-2021

Associate Professor

SUT Academy of Medical Sciences

10 months

05-06-2014-

14-09-2020

Assistant Professor

SUT Academy of Medical Sciences

6 years 2 months

 

List of Grant Recieved

List of Grant Received

Sr.No.

List of grants received

Title of Project

Duration

Funding Agency

Role

1

ICMR- Ignition grant

Entomo-epidemiological surveillance of dengue and chikungunya at hotspot regions in India: A step towards strengthening the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP)

 

3 years

ICMR

PI

2

ICMR-NIV Intramural

Clinical and immunological profile of patients with post COVID attending a tertiary care Centre, Maharashtra

2 years

ICMR-NIV

PI

3

Health Systems Transformation Platform

Decentralised health system and vector borne diseases subpackage under the project Local government and health in Kerala

3 years

Health Systems Transformation Platform

Co-I

4

Dementia Prevention and Enhanced Care [DePEC]

Dementia Prevention and Enhanced Care [DePEC] (Kerala Work package)

3 years

NIHR, UK

Site Co-I

5

State Nutrition Bureau- Health Research Grant

Dietary pattern of elderly individuals at Thiruvananthapuram

1 year

State Nutrition Bureau, Govt of Kerala

Co-I

6

Kerala Social Security Mission- Tribal health research grant

Assessment of nutritional status of Tribal Women and Children in Wayanad and Palakkad districts, Kerala

1 year

Kerala Social Security Mission, Government of Kerala

Co-I

7

Kerala Social Security Mission- Asraya project

Assessment of coverage of services and quality of life of the beneficiaries of destitute rehabilitation project (Asraya), Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala

1 year

Kerala Social Security Mission, Government of Kerala

PI

 

Conference/Training/Workshop Attended

Conference/Training/Workshop Attended (last 4 years)

 

ICMR Health Communication Course 2024-25

Health Research Fundamentals course: 2024- ICMR-NIE and School of Public Health

Orientation training for new scientists at ICMR- NIV

Monkeypox: Epidemiology, preparedness and response (Open WHO course)

Health Technology Assessment workshops- ICMR-NIV and AFMC

Systematic Review and Meta Analysis Hands on Training- ICMR-NIV and PGI Chandigarh

Workshop on Introduction to Systematic Reviews on Diagnostic Test Accuracy - ICMR-Cochrane Affiliate

Annual monsoon workshop and national symposium on challenges in climate services for health sector in the warming environment- IMD

NIAS- DST online training program for women scientists

10th training programme on financial management in scientific organisations

GraphPad Prism Statistical training workshop

 

Training program for Virus Research and

Diagnostic Laboratory [VRDLs]

All the mandated courses on the Karmayogi platform

 

Number of Publications : 16
List of Publications
  1. Kumar S, Bhavsar P, Sudeep AB, Lole KS, Shamim MA, Jadhav S, D'Monte G, Raghunath SP. Use of Synthetic Membranes and Bovine Blood in Artificial Feeding Systems of Mosquitoes Improves Feeding Rates: Results from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Dec 17;112(3):491-496. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.24-0297. PMID: 39689365; PMCID: PMC11884275.
  2. Iype, Thomas; Raghunath, Sreelakshmi P.1; Paddick, Stella M.2; Sudha, Lijimol A3; Krishnapilla, Vijayakumar4; Nair, Sanjeev5; Robinson, Louise6. Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): Normative Data for the State of Kerala, South India. Neurology India 72(4):p 772-778, Jul–Aug 2024. | DOI: 10.4103/neurol-india.NI_294_20
  3. Sreelakshmi PR, Gurav YK, Jadhav U, Abraham P. Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Regarding Zika Virus Infection in a Rural Indian Community: A Cross-sectional Survey. XIV Annual Conference of Indian Society for Malaria & Other Communicable Diseases (ISMOCD). 2023;49-55. DOI:https://doi.org/10.24321/0019.5138.202336
  4. Raje M, Jagtap M, Sarnikar P, Kinnikar A, Srivastava PK, Bondre VP, Sreelakshmi PR, Awate P, Sonkawade N, Sharma SN, Baruah K. An Integrated Approach for Effective Containment of Japanese Encephalitis: First JE Case of Pune. XIV Annual Conference of Indian Society for Malaria & Other Communicable Diseases (ISMOCD). 2023;117-125. DOI:https://doi.org/10.24321/0019.5138.202346
  5. Sreelakshmi PR, Tandale BV, Jadhav AV, Vaidya RR, Walimbhe AM, Jadhav S. A Scoping Review of Persistent Symptoms after COVID Infection at Different Follow-Up Periods. Indian Journal of Public Health. 2023 Apr 1;67(2):292-300.
  6. Nath A, Kumar S, Gurav YK, Gangopadhayya A, Ghuge O, Sreelakshmi PR, Jadhav A, Rajan LS, Yadav K, Shinde K, Shil P. Genomic Characterization of Mosquito Isolates of Chikungunya Virus (Outbreak Strains 2022) Using Next-Generation Sequencing. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 2023 Jun 1;23(6):341-9.
  7. Kumar S, Sreelakshmi PR, Godke YS, Sudeep AB. Vector competence of three species of mosquitoes to Ingwavuma virus (Manzanilla orthobunyavirus), a new bunyavirus found circulating in India. VirusDisease. 2023 Feb 3:1-6.
  8. Radhakrishnan PJ, Raghunath SP, Mohan D, Rajan R, Iype T. Normative scores for malayalam cognitive screening test battery among older adults in Kerala, India. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology. 2023 Jan 1;26(1):44-53.
  9. Prajitha KC, Babu V, Rahul A, Valamparampil MJ, Sreelakshmi PR, Nair S, Varma RP. Combatting emerging infectious diseases from Nipah to COVID-19 in Kerala, India. Public Health Action. 2023 Mar 1;13(1):32-6.
  10. Iype T, Babu V, Sreelakshmi PR, Alapatt PJ, Rajan R, Soman B. The Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (Mci) among Older Population of Rural Kerala: A Cross-Sectional Study. Neurology India. 2023 Mar 1;71(2):296.
  11. Walli-Attaei M, Rosengren A, Rangarajan S, Breet Y, Abdul-Razak S, Sharief WA, Alhabib KF, Avezum A, Chifamba J, Diaz R, Gupta R, Hu B, Iqbal R, Ismail R, Kelishadi R, Khatib R, Lang X, Li S, Lopez-Jaramillo P, Mohan V, Oguz A, Palileo-Villanueva LM, Poltyn-Zaradna K, Sreelakshmi PR, Pinnaka LVM, Serón P, Teo K, Verghese ST, Wielgosz A, Yeates K, Yusuf R, Anand SS, Yusuf S; PURE investigators. Metabolic, behavioural, and psychosocial risk factors and cardiovascular disease in women compared with men in 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries: an analysis of the PURE study. Lancet. 2022 Sep 10;400(10355):811-821. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01441-6. PMID: 36088949.
  12. Sreelakshmi PR, Siji VS, Gopan K, Gopinath S, Nair AS. Persistence of symptoms after Covid-19 infection in Kerala. Natl Med J India. 2022 May-Jun;35(3):156-158. doi: 10.25259/NMJI-35-3-156. PMID: 36461878
  13. Sreelakshmi PR, Iype T, Varma R, Moloney S, Babu V, Krishnapilla V, Kutty VR, Robinson L. Exploring the barriers for guideline-based management of dementia amongst consultants in Kerala, South India: A qualitative study. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2022 Feb 1;155(2):311-4.

 

  1. Sivaji, Sithara; Vijayamohanan, Panamoottil G.; Sreelakshmi Pallipurath R. Lifestyle Changes During the Covid-19 Lockdown Among Young Adults in Kerala in Terms of Physical Activity, Sleeping Habits, and Perceived Psychological Problems: A Cross-sectional Study. Journal of Health Research and Reviews 9(1):p 17-21, Jan–Dec 2022. | DOI: 10.4103/jhrr.jhrr_1_22

 

  1. Jose A, Bhargavan A, Appireddy R, Raghunath PS, Rajan R, Iype T. Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Caregiver's Burden in Parkinson's Disease Patients in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in South India: A Cross-Sectional Study. Neurology India. 2021 Nov 1;69(6):1706.
  2. Pillai AS, Gopinath S, Raghunath SP. Tranexamic acid reduces blood loss and need of blood transfusion in hemiarthroplasty: An observational study. Journal of Health Research and Reviews. 2020 Jan 1;7(1):24