Jestina Rachel Kurian

About

Jestina Rachel Kurian is a multidisciplinary public health researcher and doctoral candidate at the Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India. With a clinical foundation in nursing and a Master of Public Health, her work sits at the intersection of science, technology, and policy, with a particular focus on health promotion and health systems strengthening. Her research spans epidemiology, evidence synthesis, qualitative and mixed-methods studies, and bibliometric and technometric mapping, applied to questions of health system resilience, pandemic governance, vaccine uptake, and the role of AI in health. She has contributed to G20 and T20 policy briefs developed with international partners and has published in journals including Scientometrics, OMICS, and the World Journal of Pediatrics. She is the developer of COMET-Bib, a reporting guideline for bibliometric studies registered with the EQUATOR Network, and is active in research mentoring and methodological capacity-building.

Employment

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education PhD Scholar
  2022 - Present
• Manipal Academy of Higher Education Research Assistant
  2017 - 2018

Education

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