Arun S. Karthikeyan

About

Arun is trained as an epidemiologist and has experience working on clinical trials and longitudinal cohorts. After finishing his PhD in Public health he worked on a national wide multi-centric surveillance system for the estimation of burden of Typhoid in India. Arun is currently working as a Senior Research Associate in Biostatistics/ Epidemiology in Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit at University of Bristol and He is also funded by the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre. He is currently involved in the BHF Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) led CVDCOVIDUK/COVID IMPACT consortium funded in a study looking at the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on children undergoing congenital heart disease surgeries in England and a study looking at the impact of COVID on reproductive health.

Employment

• The University of Bristol Academic , Senior Research Associate in Medical Statistics and Health Data Science
  2026 - Present
• University of Bristol Senior Research Associate in Biostatistics/ Epidemiology
  2021 - Present
• Christian Medical College Vellore Research Officer
  2019 - 2021
• Christian Medical College Vellore Senior Research Fellow
  2016 - 2019
• Christian Medical College Vellore Junior Research Fellow
  2014 - 2016

Education

• Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology PhD
  2014 - 2020
• Christian Medical College Vellore MSc. Epidemiology
  2010 - 2012
• Government Homoeopathic Medical College BHMS
  2003 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (21)

• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rates of congenital heart disease procedures among children: Prospective cohort analyses of 26,270 procedures in 17,860 children using CVD-COVID-UK consortium record linkage data
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.20.24307597
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• COVID-19 vaccination and birth outcomes of 186,990 women vaccinated before pregnancy
  The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101025
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• Burden of Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever in India.
  The New England journal of medicine 2023 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2209449
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• Secular Growth Trends in Early Childhood—Evidence from Two Low-Income Birth Cohorts Recruited over a Decade in Vellore, India
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2022 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0886
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• Seroprevalence of COVID-19 infection among vaccine naïve population after the second surge (June 2020) in a rural district of South India: A community-based cross-sectional study
  PLOS ONE 2022 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265236
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• Quantitative assessment of exposure to fecal contamination in urban environment across nine cities in low-income and lower-middle-income countries and a city in the United States
  Science of The Total Environment 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151273
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• Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of Spatial Clustering and Determinants of Focal Typhoid Fever Incidence
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2021 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiab379
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• Home environment: Short-term trends and predictors in early childhood from an Indian community birth cohort.
  Child: care, health and development 2021 DOI: 10.1111/cch.12846
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• Hospitalization Rates and Direct Medical Costs for Fever in a Pediatric Cohort in South India
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2021 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiab329
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• Healthcare Utilization Survey in the Hybrid Model of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in India (SEFI) Study: Processes, Monitoring, Results, and Challenges
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2021 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiab371
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