Dr Prakash Narayanan Vasudevan Potty

CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

Prof./Dr. Prakash Narayanan obtained his MSc in Demography, and MPhil and PhD in Population Studies from JNU, New Delhi, and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in South Africa. In past 22 years he was engaged in social and public health research; managing Monitoring & Evaluation of national programmes; conducted large-scale and complex community & clinic-based intervention studies; was a member of National Working Group for Biological and Behavioural Surveillance of152,000 most at risk population groups for MoHFW, Government of India; conducted over 30 pan-India studies; published over 35 peer-reviewed articles in international and national journals; prepared over 15 research and technical reports and monographs. He is currently working in the fields of one-health (prevention of diseases from environment-animals-humans, antimicrobial resistance, environmental pollution, etc.), biodiversity (assessment and disease spill over to humans), climate change (gender, equity, human-wildlife conflicts, medical education curriculum, resilience strategies, etc.), in addition to teach research methods, monitoring and evaluation, demography, one-health, clinical research methods to post-graduate students, and supervision of Doctoral and PG research projects; He is currently handling two (Indian Council of Medical Research and Institutional) funded projects on Biodiversity. He is the institutional coordinator for PhD in PSPH.

SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING

Subject	Semester / Year
Basic and Applied Epidemiology	Year I
Survey Data & Management	Year I
Social & Behavioral Sciences	Year I
Infectious Disease and Surveillance	Year I
Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics	Year I
Demography and Population Sciences	Year I
One-health: Animal-human interface	Year I
Public Health Interventions, Programme Monitoring and Evaluation	Year I
Clinical Research and Ethics	Year I
Global Issues in Maternal & Child Health	Year I

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree	Specialisation	Institute	Year of passing
Post-Doctorate	Population Studies	North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, South Africa	2007
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)	Population Studies	Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India	2003
MPhil (Master of Philosophy)	Population Studies	Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India	1998
MSc (Master of Science)	Demography	University of Kerala, Kerala, India	1995
BSc (Bachelor of Science)	Mathematics	University of Kerala, Kerala, India	1993

Experience

Institution / Organisation	Designation	Role	Tenure
Prasann School of Public Health	Professor		April 2023- present
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi	Senior Research Scientist		March 2013 to August 2014
Synovate India Private Limited, New Delhi	Associate Research Coordinator		May 2003 to Sep 2004
Family Health International (FHI 360), Mumbai, New Delhi	Senior Technical Officer (Research)		Oct 2007 to Feb 2013
Futures Group (ITAP-project, funded by USAID), Ranchi, Jharkhand	State Operations Research Advisor		Feb to Aug 2006
MODE Services Private Limited, New Delhi.	Research Manager		Nov 2004 to Jan 2006
Institute for Human Development, New Delhi	Research Fellow		Jan 2002 to Feb 2003