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Dr Viral Bajwala

The Union (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease), Society for Health Allied Research and Education (SHARE INDIA), C C Shah Sarvajanik English Highschool

ORCID iD 0000-0002-4429-4085
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Dr Viral is MBBS graduate and Master of Public Health (Epidemiology and Health systems) from National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai. He has diverse background of clinical, epidemiological and research work.

His decade long experience in Surat Municipal Corporation consist of delivering quality based, community-centric promotive, preventive and curative health care services. His skills include strong management, effective communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, effective writing and trainer. He can work with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Demonstrated ability of leading health teams, preparing micro-plans and execution of activities for National Health programs at grass root levels, supportive supervision, critical analysis of data, identifying and addressing gaps, generating reports and giving necessary feedbacks and feed-forwards.

He received an award from Respected Mayor of Surat city on Independence day in 2019 as part of health team for best governance in the Health facility lead by him and for best performance under Revised National TB control Program in 2015.

His areas of interest includes training and capacity building, digital health solutions, National TB Elimination Program, Subnational Certification of districts for efforts towards TB free status, Data management and analysis, public health surveillance, public health GIS, outbreak investigation, health program evaluation, health economics and implementation research.

He is also experienced in writing manuscripts and publications in international journals.

Recently he worked as Consultant Data Analyst at SHARE INDIA for State TB cell (Maharashtra and Rajasthan) for improving data quality and use data for decisions under NTEP. Worked on preparing Dashboard for TB index score and preparing and mentoring districts of Maharashtra for Subnational Certification towards TB free status.

Presently he is working as as National Consultant for Digital Health Solutions (Training) under NTEP program in Central TB Division of India, MoH&FW, GOI. This includes creating training contents as per needs for NTEP cadre, assisting states for implementation of training using modernized digital training methods and creating digital tools for monitoring of training.

Employment

  • The Union (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease) The National Consultant
    2022 - Present
  • Society for Health Allied Research and Education (SHARE INDIA) Consultant-Data Analysis
    2021 - 2022
  • Surat Municipal Corporation Public health Specialist
    2011 - 2021
  • Community Health Center, Government Of Gujarat Medical Doctor
    2009 - 2011

Education

  • C C Shah Sarvajanik English Highschool
    2001 - 2002

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (7)