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Dr. Parvathy B

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Kochi

Qualification: MDS
parvathyb@dental.aims.amrita.edu
Research Interest: Behavioral and educational interventions, Bioethics, Complementary and Alternative Medicines, Dental Public Health, Health System Research, Pedagogy, Policy Advocacy, Research Methodology, Social sciences

Bio Publications Educational and Professional Experiences Professional Memberships Research Reviewer Workshops and Courses Attended Conferences attended
Bio

Dr. Parvathy B was selected by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for the Senior Research Fellowship in 2022 and currently serves in the Department of Public Health Dentistry since August 2022. She completed her BDS and MDS (Public Health Dentistry) from Amrita School of Dentistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala in year 2012 and 2022, respectively. She has worked as Dental Surgeon in Trinity Dental Clinic, Kochi (2013- 2014) and Asok Dental Clinic, Thrissur (2015). Dr. Parvathy’s Post graduation dissertation on “Development and validation of cultural competence assessment tool for healthcare professionals, India” was selected for poster presentation at the Oxford Global Health and Bioethics Conference July 2022 and was awarded bursary for the same. She is also the recipient of Student Grant by Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Education 2021 for the study “Effectiveness of an educational intervention in promoting antibiotic awareness among 8th-10th grade schoolchildren, Kerala”. She had won Best scientific paper award at Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry National Conference 2021 for the study “Assessment of self-perceived Dental Public Health Competencies among dental students, Kerala” and Second best paper award at Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry conference (Kerala chapter) 2021. Her areas of interest are bioethics, health system research, oral epidemiology, behavioral interventions, policy advocacy and social sciences.

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2022

Letter to the Editor on the Paper: “Dental Health Inequalities among Indigenous Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Cite this Research Publication : Balachandran P, Venkitachalam R, Janakiram C. Letter to the Editor on the Paper: "Dental Health Inequalities among Indigenous Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". Caries Res. 2022;56(2):146. doi: 10.1159/000524189. Epub 2022 Mar 23. PMID: 35320808.

Publisher : Caries Res

Year : 2022

A comparison of clinical outcomes between vaccinated and vaccine-naive patients of COVID-19, in four tertiary care hospitals of Kerala, South India

Cite this Research Publication : Balachandran S, Moni M, Sathyapalan DT, Varghese P, Jose MP, Murugan MR, Rajan C, Saboo D, Nair SS, Varkey RA, Balachandran P, Menon GR, Vasudevan BK, Banerjee A, Janakiram C, Menon JC. A comparison of clinical outcomes between vaccinated and vaccine-naive patients of COVID-19, in four tertiary care hospitals of Kerala, South India. Clin Epidemiol Glob Health. 2022 Jan-Feb;13:100971. doi: 10.1016/j.cegh.2022.100971. Epub 2022 Jan 19. PMID: 35075439; PMCID: PMC8769674.

Publisher : Clin Epidemiol Glob Health

Year : 2022

Development and validation of cultural competence assessment tool for healthcare professionals, India.

Cite this Research Publication : Balachandran P, Karuveettil V, Janakiram C. Development and validation of cultural competence assessment tool for healthcare professionals, India. Front Public Health. 2022 Aug 23

Publisher : Frontiers in Public Health

Year : 2021

Cultural competence assessment in a health-care university

Cite this Research Publication : Balachandran, Parvathy & Krishna, DevikaMaya & Janakiram, Chandrashekar. (2021). Cultural competence assessment in a health-care university. Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry. 19. 288. 10.4103/jiaphd.jiaphd_158_21.

Publisher : Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry

Year : 2021

Prevalence of malocclusion among 8–15 years old children, India – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Cite this Research Publication : Balachandran P, Janakiram C. Prevalence of malocclusion among 8-15 years old children, India - A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Oral Biol Craniofac Res. 2021 Apr-Jun;11(2):192-199. doi: 10.1016/j.jobcr.2021.01.011. Epub 2021 Jan 23. PMID: 33659178; PMCID: PMC7896144.

Publisher : J Oral Biol Craniofac Res.

Year : 2021

Comment on the Paper: How to Intervene in the Caries Process: Early Childhood Caries – A Systematic Review by Schmoeckel et al

Cite this Research Publication : Varughese A, Ramanarayanan V, Balachandran P, Janakiram C, Devan I, Karuveettil V. Comment on the Paper: How to Intervene in the Caries Process: Early Childhood Caries - A Systematic Review by Schmoeckel et al. Caries Res. 2021;55(3):238-239. doi: 10.1159/000514625. Epub 2021 Mar 5. PMID: 33677439.

Publisher : Caries Res

Year : 2020

Review on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Oral health

Cite this Research Publication : Janakiram C, Balachandran P. Review on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(CAM) in Oral health. International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharma Research. 2020
Nov 28;117–25.

Publisher : International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharma Research

Educational and Professional Experiences

01 Aug 2022 till date: Senior Research Fellow (ICMR)
02-05-2019 – 8 June 2022: Pursued MDS degree course in the Department of Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi
02-01-2013 – 28-02-2015: Served as Dental surgeon in dental clinics
28-08-2007 – 13-12-2012: Pursued BDS degree course at Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi

Professional Memberships
  • Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry – Life Member
  • Indian Dental Association
  • One Health Association
Research
  • School oral health curriculum study (ICMR) – ongoing
  • Evidence synthesis in oral health – ongoing
Reviewer
  • Frontiers in Public Health
Workshops and Courses Attended
  • Health Research Ethics by Sangath India, 2021
  • Foundational skills for communicating about Health by the University of Michigan, 2021
  • Amrita- Manipal Epiwebinar series 2021 – till date
  • Health Research Fundamentals (Ministry of HRD, Government of India),2020
  • Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Johns Hopkins University, 2020
  • Tobacco control training (Learning from the experts) by Johns Hopkins University, 2020
  • National level symposium on Tobacco Control, 2020
  • Short duration intensive training program in “Public Health Ethics” at IIT- Bombay, 2019
  • Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Clinical Research by the National Institutes
    of Health Clinical Center, 2019
  • Amrita Advanced Research Methodology workshop, 2019
  • Short course on critical appraisal of scientific article, 2019
  • Medical Anthropology workshop by Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, 2019
Conferences attended

International

  1. Campbell South- Asia“What Works South Asia 2022 – Evidence uptake for development in
    South Asia” (virtual mode) Sep 21 – 23, 2022.
  2. Oxford Global Health and Bioethics conference, July 2022 (virtual mode
  3.  Amrita International Public Health conference, Kochi, November 2019
  4. Amrita International Public Health e-conference, December 2020
  5.  Amrita International Public Health e-conference, December 2021

National

  1. Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry Colloquium (virtual mode), 2021
  2. 25th Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry e-Conference, 2021
  3.  National conference of Forum of Ethics Review Committee “FERCICON-2021” (virtual
    mode)
  4.  Kerala state IAPHD conference “PHOENIX -2021”(virtual mode)
  5.  24th Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry conference, Hyderabad, 2019
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