DrHemant Deepak Shewade

Hemant,  based at Chennai, India, is a senior medical scientist (Scientist F) at Division of Health Systems Research, ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE). He is also affiliated to Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India as Professor (Honorary), Faculty of Medical Research. He is a medical doctor with a specialization (MD) in Community Medicine from PGIMER Chandigarh, India and a PhD (Medical Sciences) from Radboud University, The Netherlands.

Experience: Fourteen years (post MD) experience in community/public health and operational/ implementation research. This includes three years as a teaching faculty in public teaching hospitals and more than six years with an international NGO (Centre for Operational Research, The Union). He has initiated more than 140 research projects, facilitated in more than 75 operational research SORT IT course modules and reviewed more than 50 manuscripts for peer-reviewed scientific journals (academic editor PLOS Global Public Health).

He has led a series of research papers on the delays and losses in the MDR-TB diagnosis and treatment pathway and on the national level assessments of active case finding for TB in project and routine implementation settings (#TBACF) in India. He has led statewide differentiated TB care models in Tamil Nadu (Tamil Nadu Kasanoi Erappila Thittam, #TNKET) and Delhi (Delhi Triage and Treat TB – #DTAT) aimed at reducing TB deaths. #TNKET has resulted in TB death reduction through a statewide differentiated TB care initiative involving triaging for severe illness at TB diagnosis.

To address priority research questions, he is currently working with states through state level operational/ implementation research projects (following a joint partnership model, for details https://sciencechronicle.in/author/hemant-d-shewade/) and through state level OR courses.

Current Research Interests: Operational/implementation research to improve primary health care and health programs, community action for health, active case finding for TB, and differentiated TB care to reduce TB deaths