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Dr. Sunu C. Thomas

Assistant professor , Department of Public Health , School of Medicine, Kochi Campus

Qualification: Ph.D
@amrita.edu

Bio

Dr Sunu C Thomas is currently working as an Assistant professor, Public Health  in School of Medicine at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi.

Qualifications 

  • MPH [2013-14]-Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum
  • PhD (Public Health) [2016-20]- Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum

Professional Experience: 3 years

Areas of interests 

Gender and Health, Bioethics, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Health Policy, Medicalisation of Health, Political Economy, Research Methodology

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2023

Team based collaborative care model, facilitated by mHealth enabled and trained nurses, for management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in India (TIME-HF): design and rationale of a parallel group, open label, multi-centric cluster randomised controlled trial

Cite this Research Publication : Panniyammakal Jeemon , Charantharalyil Gopalan Bahuleyan, Devaraju Chandgalu Javaregowda, Eapen Punnoose , Gopalan Rajendiran , Govindan Unni ,Jabir Abdullakutty ,Jayakumar Balakrishnan,Johny Joseph, Justin Paul Gnanaraj , Madhu Sreedharan, Meera R Pillai, Neenumol KR,Paul Thomas, Placid Sebastian, Rachel Daniel,Rajeev Edakutty,Sajan Ahmad, Shafeeq Mattummal, Stigi Joseph , Sunil Pisharody , Susanna Chacko Orcid , N Syam , Tiny Nair , Veena Nanjappa , Vijayan Ganesan , Vijo George , Sanjay Ganapathi , Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan, Team based collaborative care model, facilitated by a mHealth enabled and trained nurse, for management of heart failure in India (TIME-HF): design and rationale of a parallel group, open label, multi-centric cluster randomized controlled trial. Wellcome Open Research, 8:197.

Publisher : Wellcome Open Research

Year : 2021

Infertility – an unfinished reproductive rights agenda in India

Cite this Research Publication : Ramanathan M, Thomas SC. (2021). Infertility – an unfinished reproductive rights agenda in India. Indian J Med Ethics. Oct-Dec; 6(4) NS: 267-9. DOI: 10.20529/IJME.2021.072.

Publisher : National Library of Medicine

Year : 2021

Gender and the Migrant Experience of Seeking Healthcare

Cite this Research Publication : Ramanathan M, Thomas SC, George T. (2022). Gender and the migrant experience of seeking healthcare: An exploration using narrative analysis. India Migration Report 2021. 1st Edition Routledge India. eBook ISBN 9781003287667.

Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group

Year : 2020

Maintaining confidentiality while gaining access to the community

Cite this Research Publication : Thomas S C. (2020). Maintaining confidentiality while gaining access to the community. Indian J Med Ethics. Jan-Mar; 5(1) NS: 10-11. DOI: 10.20529/ IJME.2020.008.

Year : 2020

Dispelling hope and leaving couples in a state of “inbetweenness”: Moral dilemmas in infertility research

Cite this Research Publication : Thomas SC. (2020). Dispelling hope and leaving couples in a state of “inbetweenness”: Moral dilemmas in infertility research. Indian J Med Ethics. DOI:10.20529/IJME.2020.125, December 10, 2020

Publisher : IJME

Year : 2018

Exploring Literature for Conceptualisations of Male Infertility: A Phenomenological Analysis

Cite this Research Publication : Thomas S C. (2018). Exploring literature for conceptualizations of male infertility: A phenomenological analysis. The Qualitative Report, 23(4), 978-1000.

Year : 2011

Infertility Levels and its Age Pattern for Kerala, India: Analysis of Census of India, 2011 Data

Cite this Research Publication : Thomas SC and Ramanathan M. (2022). Infertility levels and its age pattern for Kerala, India: Analysis of Census of India, 2011. Demography India 51 (1): 63-77.

Projects
  • Co-PI: Effectiveness of a community-based peer lead P-MED intervention in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) mothers of southern state of India: A cluster randomized controlled pragmatic trial [Funding agency- ICMR-Ongoing]
Awards
  • India Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) fellowship [2021-22]
  • Fellowship for full-time research in Public Health under the project titled: “Closing the gaps: Health Equity Research Initiative in India” supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada [2016-18]
Conferences presentations
  • Diabetes, educational status and one-year mortality outcomes in heart failure patients: Findings from the National Heart Failure Registry, India – Cardiology Society of India- National Heart Failure Conference 2023, SGPGI, Lucknow
  • Feasibility of a nurse led mHealth assisted team-based collaborative care model for heart failure care: Findings from a multi-stakeholder qualitative study- Won Third Prize at 9th Annual Conference of Heart Failure Association of India, 2023 at  Chennai
  • Infertility levels and its age pattern for Kerala, India: Analysis of Census of India, 2011- Dialogues on Kerala Development#1: Challenges of health and demographic transition, Centre for Socio-economic and Environmental Studies (CSES) at Kerala State Institute for Health and Family Welfare, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
  • Medicalization of infertility: Women’s agency to negotiate treatment or discontinue it -14th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) and & 7th National Bioethics Conference (NBC) at St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, India
  • Public Health Ethics and Qualitative Research; Experiences from the field [Speaker at Symposium]14th WCB and & 7th NBC at St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, India
  • Exploring literature for conceptualizations of male infertility: A phenomenological analysis- AROGYAM peri-doctoral workshop at Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Kerala, India
  • Identifying ethical challenges in resolving male infertility: an examination of ‘One Part woman’ – Sixth National Bioethics Conference at YASHADA, Pune
  • A review to understand the gender differences in Schizophrenia- Won Second Prize- AMCCON at Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Kerala, India
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