Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, University of Arizona
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Purnima Madhivanan is an Associate Professor in Health Promotion Sciences at the Mel & Enid College of Public Health at University of Arizona. A physician by training from Government Medical College in Mysore, she has a MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She completed her post-doctoral training in 2010. She is the Director of Public Health Research Institute of India (PHRII) and is also the Director of the Global Health Equity Scholars (GHES) Training Program in collaboration with Stanford, Yale and University of California, Berkeley.
For the past 20 years, her work has focused on disadvantaged populations, elucidating the dynamics of poverty, gender, and the environmental determinants of health, in particular the impact on women and children living in rural communities. She established a clinic in Mysore, India in 2005 while completing her PhD dissertation. For over a decade, the PHRII/Prerana Women’s Health Initiative has delivered low-cost, high-quality reproductive health services to 24,000 low-income women living in Mysore District. Offering a full-service clinic, molecular laboratory and active affiliations with several major tertiary care hospitals, the site is recognized as a research and training site for Global Health. The Saving Children Improving Lives Program focused on increasing integrated antenatal care and HIV testing services for women in rural and tribal communities using mobile clinics with the help of women’s self-help groups to mobilize and follow-up women. This program model was then adapted to provide cervical cancer screening services in the community in India, which is the only community based cervical cancer screening program in India.
Dr. Madhivanan serves as an advisor to a number of state departments of Public Health, non-profit as well as governmental research organizations. In 2007, she received the prestigious International Leadership Award from the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation for her work on HIV prevention. Dr. Madhivanan’s global health credentials and clinical service has brought unique opportunities for collaboration; most recently benefiting students and faculty interested in learning about Global Health and service in a developing world setting.
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Project title: Prospective Cohort to Evaluate the Immunogenicity and Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines among Previously Infected and Uninfected Essential and Frontline Workers in a US State or Region. CDC 75D301-21-C-10970 (PI: Burgess J) Duration: 07/09/2021-06/14/2022; Amount: $15,0002,992.00; Role: Co-I
Project title: Cannabis Use in Oncology Patients Evaluation (COPE) Study. P30CA023074 (PI: Madhivanan, P; Chalasani, P; Persky, D; Roe, D); Duration: 06/04/2021– 06/03/2022; Amount: $50,000.00
Project title: Research Training at the Confluence of Infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases in India. 5D43TW010332-02 (PI: Riley, LW); Duration:v01/06/2017– 02/28/2023; Role: Site PI
Project title: Yoga for Healthy Aging (YHA) Study: A Mind-Body Intervention to Reduce Multimorbidity In the Elderly. NIH/NIA 1R03AG069796 - 01 (PI: Madhivanan P); Duration: 09/01/2020 – 08/31/2022; Amount: $143,696.00
Project title: Child Health Informed Life Decisions (CHILD) Study: A discrete choice experiment. Merck & Co.MISP 60385 (PI: Madhivanan P); Duration: 09/01/2021 – 08/30/2022; Amount: $281,838.00
Global Health Fellows and Scholars Research Training. NIH/FIC D43 TW010540; Duration: 07/01/2017 – 06/30/2022; Primary PI: Lee Riley; Co-PIs: Michele Barry, Albert Ko, Purnima Madhivanan
Project title: Longitudinal Study of Vaginal Microbiota and Persistent Human Papillomavirus. NIH/NIAID 1R15AI128714 - 01 (PI: Madhivanan P); Duration: 02/07/2017-01/31/2021; Amount: $439,500
Research title: Cervical cancer screening in Mysore District, India with Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA), Human Papillomavirus (HPV) DNA Tests, and Cytology: Enhanced Visual Assessment (EVA) and Automated Visual Evaluation (AVE) in Remote Rural Areas. PI: Beck-Sague, C; Madhivanan, P. Duration: 07/20/2019-08/30/2020; Amount: $19,000.00
Project Title: Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Long-Distance Truck Drivers in South India. Funded by Gilead Co.; (PI: Madhivanan, P); Duration: 05/2018-04/2019; Amount: $64,000
Project title: Saving Children, Improving Lives: Integrating women’s self-help groups in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in India (SCIL Project). Positive Action for Children Fund; (PI: Madhivanan, P); Duration: 11/30/2014 – 12/31/2018; Amount: $246,185
Project title: Acceptability of HPV vaccine in India. PATH, USA GAT.1246-04-07527-GRT; (PI: Madhivanan); Duration: 10/01/2007-12/31/2008; Amount: $34,844