Nivedita Gupta
Nivedita Gupta
Dr. Nivedita Gupta is one of the India’s leading Epidemiologists and currently she is working with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) as a senior scientist in division of epidemiology and communicable diseases . She is playing an active role in India’s fight against COVID-19 pandemic. As a senior scientist in ICMR Delhi, she is working on strategies and plans to design treatment and testing protocols for COVID-19 in India. She is currently in-charge of Viral diseases in the country and in year 2019, she had investigated Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, working with her team as a prime scientist.
Life & work Dr. Nivedita is basically from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and she did her MBBS degree from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi. After that she did her PHD in molecular medicine from Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi. Now she is a senior scientist in ICMR, there she was also involved in setting various Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) in different parts of India, which are very important to investigate about Viruses all over the country . She has investigated various hazardous viruses’ outbreak in India such as influenza, arboviruses, rubella and measles, etc. and now she is engaged in the COVID-19 control program where time to time she came forward and expressed on the controlling strategies of the pandemic and about ICMR’s preparation for it .
Her efforts against COVID-19 pandemic in India At the beginning of COVID-19 spread in January, Dr. Gupta started her efforts and augmented some 502 laboratories for proper diagnostic capacity. Still she is effortlessly working to set a greater number of labs in places where population needs more labs or where availability of labs is less . On July 9th, in a press conference of Health Ministry, she shared that ICMR is working on test, track and treat strategy and now on an average testing more than 2.6 lacs of samples per day. She also added that all NABH hospitals, NABL approved Labs and government hospital are approved to conduct antigen-based test and now some 1132 labs are operational in the country .
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1. Gupta, Nivedita, et al, Strategic planning to augment the testing capacity for COVID-19 in India, Indian J med Res 151, Feb & March 2020, pp210-215 www.ijmr.org.in accessed on Thursday, May, 21, 2020
2. Chanda, Himani, Doctors, IAS officers & a scientist- the five women leading India’s fight against COVID-19, The Print, 8, April 2020 https://theprint.in/india/governance/why-you-should-know-these-5-women-among-those-leading-efforts-to-tackle-covid-19-in-india/395533/
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