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Anil Chankaramangalam Mathew, Arch Gen Intern Med 2018, Volume 2 | DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C7-019
STATUS OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TEACHING
IN INDIA
India accounts 17% of the world’s population but its total share of global dis-
ease burden is 21%.With the epidemiological transition, the challenge of the
public health system is to deal with a high burden of non-communicable dis-
eases, while still continuing the battle against communicable diseases and
injuries. In equalities in access to health care by socio economic status make
priority setting crucial in India. Accordingly the role of epidemiologists has
gained prominence. Still there is a wide gap in demand –supply of epidemi-
ologists in the country and there is a need for training epidemiologists in the
country. Different epidemiology training programs in India are discussed with
an evaluation of demand supply analysis.
Biography
Anil Chankaramangalam Mathew obtained his MSc
degree in Biostatistics (1988) from Christian Medical
College, Vellore, University of Madras under the guid-
ance of Prof PSS Sundar Rao and PhD in Biostatis-
tics from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore under the
guidance of Prof S Krishnamoorthy. He joined in PSG
Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coim-
batore as Assistant Professor in 1989, as Associate
Professor in 2003 and as Professor in 2008. He was
an invited participant in the INDO-US workshop series
on Clinical Research organized by U S Embassy, New
Delhi 2007-2009; statistical expert for preparing the
course materials of the Applied Bio-statistics course
of Indira Gandhi National Open University, Govt. of In-
dia in 2011; statistical expert of the Task force com-
mittee on Geriatric research, Indian Council of Medi-
cal Research in 2011; member of the Expert Award
committee of International Biometric Society Indian
Region in 2012; statistical expert for the INCLEN/
WHO Penta study in 2013; General Secretary of Indian
Society for Medical Statistics (ISMS) 2014-16, Inter-
national Biometric Society Indian Region Correspon-
dent 2015-16; Visiting Professor Biostatistics and
Epidemiology at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate
of Oman in 2015, member of the Executive council
and award committee ISMS 2017-19 and member of
the Executive Council International Biometric Society
Indian Region 2017-18. In recognition of the eminence
achieved by way of his outstanding contributions
leading to the promotion of Statistics in Medicine, Anil
C Mathew has been conferred on Fellowship in Medi-
cal Statistics (FSMS) of the Indian Society for Medical
Statistics for the year 2017.
Anil Chankaramangalam Mathew
PSG Institute of Medical Sciences
and Research, India