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Dr Sampath Kumar Krishnan
has been working as the CDS cluster focal point since 2004 and his
responsibilities include capacity building for disease surveillance,
epidemiological investigations, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases,
control of communicable diseases, pandemic preparedness, neglected tropical
diseases and implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR
2005).
He has served in the
Armed Forces for 21 years in important field, managerial, research and
teaching assignments and also for a year as Professor in Community Medicine
at Dr BR Ambedkar Medical College, Bangalore teaching under-graduate and
post-graduate students. He has worked as a Policy Fellow in an NGO-Community
Health Cell at Bangalore and also as a
Surveillance Medical Officer with the WHO-National Polio Surveillance Project
at Allahabad
covering four polio endemic districts of Uttar Pradesh.
Dr Sampath graduated in
Medicine (MBBS) from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune
in 1976 and subsequently did his Post Graduation (MD) in Preventive and
Social Medicine in 1986 from the same college. He is a life fellow of the
Indian Society for Malaria and Communicable Diseases and also life member of
the Indian Association of Epidemiologists and Indian Public Health
Association.
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