Soundappan Kathirvel

Dr. Kathirvel MD, MBBS is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh after working with International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases. He has more than ten years of working experience in community medicine/public health area. He is an alumnus of WHO SORT IT Course and International Agency for Research on Cancer Summer School on "Cancer Epidemiology and Survival Methods?. He is a mentor for national and...See more

Dr. Kathirvel MD, MBBS is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh after working with International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases. He has more than ten years of working experience in community medicine/public health area. He is an alumnus of WHO SORT IT Course and International Agency for Research on Cancer Summer School on "Cancer Epidemiology and Survival Methods?. He is a mentor for national and international SORT IT courses. He has more than 70 publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. He is the principal/co-principal investigator of various community-based research on important public health problems. His area of research interest includes Primary health/Rural health, Non-Communicable Diseases, Tuberculosis, Operational/Implementation Research, and Digital Health. See less