Dr Madhavi Bhargava

Dr Madhavi Bhargava, Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College; Deputy Head, Center for Nutrition Studies, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

After having worked as a full-time surgeon and clinician in tribal areas of Chhattisgarh for more than 10 years, she got trained in research at McGill University, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, and St John’s Research Institute. Her work focuses on primary care, public health in low resource settings and social determinants of health. Of the social determinants, nutrition and its intersection with communicable diseases like tuberculosis is the major work she is currently involved. She is Co-PI for a large ICMR supported cluster randomized trial, the RATIONS trial in Jharkhand, has also analyzed national level data sets of adolescents to identify important nutrition problems such as stunting, thinness, and tuberculosis in them. Using operational research approach she investigated the preparedness in primary care for nutritional assessment, screening disease severity and risk stratification for TB. Maternal diet and nutrition are other areas of work. She has collaborations with UNICEF, NIN, NIRT, Karnataka State TB Task Force, and the Lady Irwin College, New Delhi. She is Academic Editor for PLoS One, PLOS Global Public Health and Associate Editor for Heliyon.