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Dr Sampath
graduated in Medicine from Armed
Forces Medical
College, Pune in 1976
and subsequently did his post graduation in Community Medicine in 1986 from
the same college. He served in the Armed Forces for 21 years as a public
health professional in important fields, research and teaching appointments
and took premature release in 1998.
He then worked as a Professor in the Department of
Community of Medicine, Dr B R Ambedkar Medical College, Bangalore for a year, teaching
undergraduate and post graduate students.
He took up the assignment of Surveillance Medical Officer,
National Polio Surveillance Project at Allahabad
and covered 4 districts of Uttar Pradesh. After completing a year in the project
he joined a NGO - Community Health Cell as
a Policy Fellow (Public Health) in Karnataka and worked on preparation
of a Health Nutrition and Population Project for the State Government.
Presently he is working on the National Surveillance
Programme for Communicable Diseases and Disease Surveillance and is based at Office
of the WHO Representative to India,
New Delhi.
His main professional interests are epidemiological
investigations, control of communicable diseases, socio-epidemiology, vector
borne diseases, vaccine preventable disease, parasitology, and capacity
building. He is a life Fellow of the Indian Society for Malaria and
Communicable Diseases and also Member of the Indian Association of
Epidemiologists.
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