Sowmya Ramesh

Employment

• Population Council Institute Executive Director
  2023 - Present
• Population Council Project Director
  2018 - 2023
• Population Council Senior Program Officer
  2017 - 2018
• United Nations Development Program Monitoring & Research Officer, Poverty Unit; Moderator & Resource Person, UN Solution Exchange
  2014 - 2017
• Population Council Senior Program Officer
  2010 - 2014
• World Health Organization Content publisher
  2009 - 2010
• UNAIDS India Consultant
  2008 - 2010
• Chennai Dental Research Foundation Epidemiologist & Dental Public Health Research Officer
  2005 - 2006
• Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute Epidemiologist
  2003 - 2004
• Harvard University Project Assistant
  2003 - 2003
• TAMHSC School of Rural Public Health Research Assistant
  1999 - 2001
• Santosh Dental College Lecturer and demonstrator
  1996 - 1998

Education

• Harvard School of Public Health MS in Epidemiology
  2001 - 2003
• TAMHSC School of Rural Public Health MPH
  1999 - 2001
• Rajah Muthaiah Dental College and Hospital Bachelor of Dental Surgery (B.D.S)
  1989 - 1994

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (27)

• Measuring adequacy of the midwifery workforce using standards of competency and scope of work: Exploring the density and distribution of midwives in three low- and middle-income countries using cross-sectional and geospatial data
  PLOS ONE 2023 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284034
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• Authorization of midwives to perform basic emergency obstetric and newborn care signal functions in Argentina, Ghana, and India: A multi-country validation study of a key global maternal and newborn health indicator
  PLOS ONE 2023 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283029
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• Improving measures of access to legal abortion: A validation study triangulating multiple data sources to assess a global indicator
  PLOS ONE 2023 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280411
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• Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among adolescents in India: a population-based study
  BMC Endocrine Disorders 2022 DOI: 10.1186/s12902-022-01163-8
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• Quality of anthropometric data in India's National Family Health Survey: Disentangling interviewer and area effect using a cross-classified multilevel model
  SSM - Population Health 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101253
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• Multisite, mixed methods study to validate 10 maternal health system and policy indicators in Argentina, Ghana and India: a research protocol
  BMJ Open 2022 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049685
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• Intraindividual double-burden of anthropometric undernutrition and “metabolic obesity” in Indian children: a paradox that needs action
  European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41430-021-00916-3
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• Waist circumference, waist‐to‐height ratio and BMI percentiles in children aged 5 to 19 years in India: A population‐based study
  Obesity Science & Practice 2021 DOI: 10.1002/osp4.493
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• The effect of pattern of mobility on sexual risk behaviour and HIV infection: A cross sectional study of men who have sex with men in southern India.
  Sex Transm Infect,
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• The association between adolescent entry into the trucking industry and risk of HIV among long-distance truck drivers in India
  HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care
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