Dr Kalyanaraman Kumaran MBBS, MSc, DM, FFPH
Clinical Scientist/Senior Lecturer, Senior Scientist Public Health, Diabetes Unit, KEM Hospital, Pune, India
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Dr Kalyanaraman Kumaran is Clinical Scientist/Senior Lecturer, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
After completing his undergraduate medical degree at Karnatak University, India, Dr Kumaran was involved in the collaborative studies on the fetal origins of adult disease between the MRC Unit, Southampton and Holdsworth Memorial Hospital, Mysore between 1994 and 1998. He obtained a DM from the University of Southampton based on the work in Mysore. His interest in translating research into practice led me to undergo formal training in public health in the UK between 1999 and 2004. During this period, he obtained an MSc in Public Health and the membership of the Faculty of Public Health.
Between October 2004 and March 2012, he worked as a consultant in communicable disease control for the Health Protection Agency, UK where he was involved in communicable disease control and environmental hazards. He also held a consultant in public health medicine post with NHS Somerset, UK where he was the lead for public health intelligence. He has a keen interest in teaching and was involved in the development and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate public health teaching at the Peninsula Medical School after completing a postgraduate certificate in clinical education.
His interests include the application of evidence-based interventions at population level through a lifecourse approach, reduction of health inequalities and improved access to healthcare, and teaching and training initiatives. In April 2012, he started as clinical scientist/senior lecturer with the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit to be based mainly at the Diabetes Unit, Pune, India and work across the two teams on projects relating to the developmental origins of health and disease. He is currently involved in a community-based trial of pre-conceptional micronutrient supplementation and mechanistic studies of fetal programming in India.
Qualifications
FFPH 2009 Faculty of Public Health, London, UK
PG Cert 2004 Peninsula Medical School, Exeter and Plymouth, UK
MFPH 2003 Faculty of Public Health, London, UK
DM 2003 University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
DFPH 2001 Faculty of Public Health, London, UK
MSc 2000 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
MBBS 1993 Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum, (Karnatak University), India
Appointments held
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, South West (South) Health Protection Unit, Taunton, UK (part time); October 2004 - March 2012.
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Somerset, Yeovil, UK (part time); August 2010 - November 2011.
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter, UK (part time); April 2005 - July 2010.
Specialist Registrar in Public Health, South West Public Health Training Scheme, South West Deanery, UK; August 1999 - September 2004.
Visiting Research Fellow, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton, UK; November 1998 - July 1999.
Project Leader (MRC research project at Holdsworth Memorial Hospital, Mysore, India); March 1995 - October 1998.
Medical Officer (MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit research project at Holdsworth Memorial Hospital, Mysore, India; February 1994 - February 1995.