Dr. Preetha Menon Karuveetil Email & Phone Number

United Arab Emirates

Epidemiology and Health System ExpertPresent Providing technical expertise to Agrisolutions in Agriculture and Veterinary IT solutions. Currently working on developing a Digitized Surveillance and Early Warning System to control animal diseases (project with WEQAA, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Identifying and documenting best practices in surveillance systems. Analyzing system effectiveness. Assist developers with designing surveillance system and architecture finetuned for Riyadh Region for multiple stakeholders with varying levels of digital literacy. Created Use Cases and system functionalities for various technological solutions. Collaborated with developers for comprehensive business requirement documents, ensuring clarity and technological validity for epidemiological systems. Supported implementation by identifying system mandates, legal requirements. Currently developing policy guideline documents with stakeholder collaboration including veterinarians, epidemiologists, implementers and department heads at WEQAA, KSA.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Injury Prevention and Policy Research, PhD Teaching AcademyConducted policy research on injury prevention. Applied behavior change theories and intervention mapping to design intervention strategies through a mixed method study.Contributed to evidence-based decision support, grant applications, and evidence dissemination. Trained undergraduate students in policy research and analysis.Trained in teaching pedagogy and curriculum design. Developed curriculum and content in health technology assessment course, technology in public health and evidence search for masters and undergraduate students.Involved in master in public health program evaluation and various research projects on physical activity, nutrition, health technology assessment.Training undergraduate students in qualitative research, validation and analysis, using Nvivo software. Developing study design for policy research on early childhood physical activity policies in schools for grants from Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Development Authority. Policy research targeted children under 8 years and differently abled children. Involved in analysis, reporting and developing policy briefs. Mentoring and training undergraduate medical and engineering students in policy research.

New Delhi Area, India

Worked on and lead a national level policy research on Public Health Systems and Universal Health Coverage in India. This involved leading the technical team in research planning, systematic literature review, tool development and validation of a unique qualitative study with no previous reference in the sub- continent.Lead and built the capacity of the team in qualitative data analysis involving collaborative groups. Assisted and lead the development of one of the first multi- disciplinary professional networks on One Health in India. Developed Content -course modules, book chapters and training materials on various themes in public health.

Munirka, New Delhi

Undertook significant responsibilities to plan and develop diverse training strategies for state specific, training resource such as operational guidelines, training manuals, online resources and video-tutorial for Nation Wide Health Management Information System (for government run health programs ) and the largest tracking system for pregnant mothers and children in India (Mother and Child Tracking System). In addition to this, also led the monitoring and reporting of HMIS and MCTS data quality at state, district and block levels for south zone involving four southern states and three union territories.

Thrissur,Kerala

Consultation support to NGOs on project management.Setting up monitoring systems.Project evaluation.Mentoring documentation.Support in data analysis, database management.

Secunderabad

• Planning effective outreach of medical services while facilitating district level government health teams in using data for formulating annual action plans• Put significant efforts in assessing training needs and arranging training sessions for capacity building and monitoring quality of input factors for training• Accountable for performance measurement, curriculum design and certification of the fellowship and formulation of resource person database• Endeavored towards scrutinizing inputs, process and outcome in the evaluation of a national level capacity building program• Conceptualized process documentation for capacity building program with high staff turnover and for concept building of Data for Decision Making fellowship.• Determined job based curricula for district level health officials with task analysis, job analysis and assessment of competency• Set up a structured feedback mechanism to assess effectiveness of the training programmes. Analyzed the feedback inputs to improvise the system of training delivery. Guided state level health teams regarding planning and conducted workshops• Undertaken Mid-term review of PHFLF-Public Health Field Leader Fellowship-a national level capacity building program among mid level managers in HIV/AIDS programs-funded by CDC• Developed grading and evaluation system for capacity building program [PHFLF] based on outcome.• Final evaluation of PHFLF-Public Health Field Leader Fellowship, video documentation. This was comprehensive, and innovative in the sense that it evaluated inputs as well as output and outcome of the project.• Created a resource person database for specialists in all areas of public health as well as management-with continuous point evaluation and update• Assessed Training Needs among project managers and monitoring and evaluation officers working in the field of HIV/AIDS in Andhra Pradesh

Thiruvananthapuram

Led efforts on studying data flow and developing a new project monitoring system and reporting system for an upcoming target intervention project in HIV/AIDS in Thiruvananthapuram.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Public Health

Masters In Public Health, Public Health

Masters in Public Health with emphasis on Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Management, Gender studies and Health Economics. Did a year.

Bachelor Of Veterinary Sciences And Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Medicine, Livestock Production And Managment, Veterinary Public Health, Extension

Activities and Societies: National Cadet Corps(Remount and Veterinary) -C certificate National Service Scheme (Student leader) Energy.

Senior Secondary Certificate, Biology, Math, Physics, Chemistry, English

Activities and Societies: School Volleyball TeamSchool Captain for the year 1997-1998.

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