Giridhara R Babu

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Giridhara R Babu is a Professor and Head of Life Course Epidemiology at the Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH), Bengaluru. IIPH is an affiliated institute of the Public Health Foundation of India, a public-private partnership in India. Giridhara completed his medical degree (MBBS) from Kasturba medical college, Manipal, and has completed MPH and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was a junior resident at the Center for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He also worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Karnataka. He received a senior fellowship of Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance to start and expand a cohort study in Bangalore. The cohort is named MAASTHI (Maternal Antecedents of Adiposity Studying the Transgenerational Role of Hyperglycemia and Insulin).

He has provided Policy Support to several international, national and regional Governments and organizations in managing COVID19 pandemic. Some of these included the following.

Member, Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force Member Karnataka State Government State Vision Group, Co-Chair, BBMP Taskforce on COVID-19 Public Health Response, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, Bengaluru. [5] National level: Member of Epidemiology, Surveillance, & Research group constituted by ICMR National Task Force for COVID-I9 Member, Karnataka State Government Technical Analysis Committee: COVID19 Member, Karnataka State Government Expert Committee for COVID19.

Awards and recognitions

• Intermediate fellowship, DBT Wellcome Trust India alliance
• Senior fellowship, DBT Wellcome Trust India alliance

Certifications

• Member, Chartered Class, National Board of Public Health Examiners, USA.
• Member of Faculty of Public Health (MFPH), United Kingdom

Committee service

2021–22	Member, Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Regional Task Force
2020–21	Member, Karnataka State Government State Vision Group
2019–present	Member of Epidemiology, Surveillance, & Research group, Indian Council of Medical Research National Task Force for COVID-I9
2019–present	Member, Karnataka State Government Technical Analysis Committee: COVID19
2020–present	Co-Chair, BBMP Taskforce on COVID-19 Public Health Response, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, Bengaluru
2020–21	Member, Karnataka State Government Expert Committee for COVID19
2020–21	Consultation to State Governments of Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab
2020–21	Member, Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS): Policy group, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
2020–21	Member, UKRI International Development Peer Review College in evidence and recognition
2019–21	Member, Institutional Ethics Committee at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru [IISc]
2018–19	Member, Committee for review and amendment of Karnataka Private Establishment Act, Govt. of Karnataka
2018–19	Member, Nursing Council of India, Core group for curriculum for Nursing Health Practitioner
2018–19	Member, NCD Core Technical Group, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India
2017–19	Member, State level core committee for the prevention of blindness and diabetic retinopathy, Government of Karnataka
2016–18	Member, Technical Group, Rolling out Universal Health Coverage, Karnataka
2016–18	Member, NCD Technical group, World Health Organization & CCDC, India
2016–18	Member, Karnataka Private Establishments Act amendment, Government of Karnataka

External links

• Giridhara R Babu publications indexed by Google Scholar

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