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Dr Sampath Krishnan’s 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.
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.
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.
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