Dr. V. Ramankutty

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• Emeritus Professor, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies (January -December 2019), Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, (SCTIMST), Trivandrum 695011 INDIA
• Professor, Senior Grade, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies (May 2017- December 2018)
• Professor, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies (July 2007- April 2017)
• Consultant, Health Care, ADB funded Fiscal Reforms Project, a project of Govt. of Kerala, 2003
• Domain Expert (Health), Modernising Government Programme(MGP- a Govt of Kerala initiative): 2004

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS IN ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH BODIES

• Member, Steering Committee of SHARE- South Asian Hub for Advocacy, Research and Education in Mental Health, a US National Institutes of Health initiative for supporting community mental health research in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan
• Chairman, Technology Development and Adaptation Program, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment, Government of Kerala
• Member, Committee for evaluation of proposals for conducting seminars, symposia and workshops, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment
• Member, Governing Board, Institute of Health Systems, Hyderabad
• Chairman, Health Action by People, an NGO working in community-based health research in Kerala

OTHER RESEARCH (Non-Communicable Diseases, Health Systems and Policy)

• Former Head, Regional Resource Centre for Health Technology Assessment- a Project of the Department of Health Research, Government of India (Project funding total: approx 2 crores)
• Ex-PI, Kerala Information on Residents’ Arogyam Network (KIRAN) a project for collecting baseline data from one million individuals in Kerala for long term surveillance of Non-Communicable Diseases, supported by the Government of Kerala (Rs 4 crore)
• PI, ‘Preventing Non-communicable Diseases in Kerala’, an initiative of the Government of Kerala with SCTIMST (Rs 2.5 crore)
• PI, ‘Strengthening Ecosystems for Sustainable and Inclusive Health Financing in India’- project funded by USAID (Collaborative project with Public Health Foundation of India) (Rs 35 lakhs for 2015)
• Lead investigator for the Kerala centre in PURE, the multinational epidemiological study lead by Prof Salim Yusuf from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES

• Member, International Epidemiological Association
• Fellow, International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences

PAST EMPLOYMENT:

• Executive Director, Health Action by People (a Non-Governmental Organization in health)
• Advisor, Kerala State Planning Board
• Professor, Population Health Research Institute, St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru
• Associate Professor, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies
• Research Scientist, SCTIMST
• Lecturer in Pediatrics, Medical College, Thrissur, Kerala
• Consultant Pediatrician, Archana Hospital, Thodupuzha, Kerala

Supervised Ph Ds in Public Health: awarded-5, guiding currently-6. Guided more than 25masters’ (MPH) dissertations