VB

Viduthalai Virumbi Balagurusamy

Also known as: Dr.V

Honeybee Population Healthcare Foundation, Government of Tamil Nadu, National Institute of Epidemiology, Thanjavur Medical College, Madras Medical College

ORCID iD 0000-0003-3290-1885
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About

Completed my Master of Public Health from ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology. Worked as Scientist D, Program Coordinator of GHSA project - Model district for public health preparedness surveillance and response, Tiruvallur district, South India during 2016-18.

Participated in establishing a syndromic surveillance system during mass gatherings and disasters. I'm a co-investigator in Operational research on implementing public health surveillance for mass gatherings in notified festivals in Tamil Nadu.

Contributed to Public health surveillance and response in the aftermath of monsoon flooding in Chennai, South India, 2015-16, Public health surveillance and response in the aftermath of flooding in Kerala, South India, 2018 and Coronavirus disease pandemic response, State COVID-19 War Room, Tamil Nadu, India, 2020.

Contributed to several national health and governance policies/programmes such as 2016 Health Helplines and Grievance Redressal Systems, the 2017 ICT Master Plan of the Integrated Health Information Platform, 2018 Ayushman Bharat - Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs), 2022 Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS) and the 2022 Public Health Management Cadre.

Contributed to defining outbreak timeliness milestones in 2019. Participated as key faculty in several workshops to strengthen the frontline workers in 2017, 2018, and 2021 and GIS Workshop for Public Health Practitioners/Research Investigators in 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2023.

Started a not-for-profit entity named “Honeybee Population Healthcare Foundation (HPHF)” to continue the vision of Population Healthcare and to develop a Population Governance and Research (PGR) platform for addressing health equity and social determinants of health. Also an advisor at the Centre of Excellence for Population Health, Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation (VMRF-DU), Salem and Valvilori Medicare Networks, Chennai.

Interested in disseminating the concept of population healthcare, the framework for adopting the population governance, policies for adopting the technology platform and building blocks of the platform like differential privacy policy, differential services at differential levels of health systems, data fiduciary and exchange, interoperability of health and related data, drawing actionable insights from health and related data.

Specialities: Population Healthcare, Public Health, Health Informatics, Governance

Employment

  • Honeybee Population Healthcare Foundation Founder
    2023 - Present
  • Government of Tamil Nadu Nodal Officer (Technical) Population Health Registry
    2021 - 2023
  • Madras Medical College Assistant Professor
    2020 - 2021
  • Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Health Officer
    2019 - 2021
  • National Institute of Epidemiology Program Coordinator
    2016 - 2017
  • Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Medical Officer
    2011 - 2019

Education

  • National Institute of Epidemiology MPH
    2014 - 2016
  • Thanjavur Medical College MBBS
    2002 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (11)