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Dr.Madhu Upadhyay

Dr Madhu Kumari Upadhyay, MD is a Professor cum Medical Officer incharge of Rural Health Center at UCMS and GTB Hospital, Delhi. After completing her MD in Preventive and Social Medicine from NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur, Dr Madhu K Upadhyay started her professional career as a Surveillance Medical Officer for the National Polio Surveillance Project of World Health Organization at Kanpur. But her interest in academics and passion for teaching soon brought her to the University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital, Delhi. Her journey at UCMS began as a Senior Resident in 2006 and is currently working as Professor & Medical Officer of Rural Health Centre since 2016. Even while pursuing her Masters she had enriching field experience while working in research projects funded by the WHO, DANIDA, INCLEN and other agencies. Dr Upadhyay has been instrumental in setting up the outreach centre at Rural Health Training Centre of the Department of Community Medicine at Narela and has constantly endeavored for its up gradation and smooth functioning.

Being a faculty for more than 15 years, she has also worked in various other capacities from time to time. She is a National Assessor for Effective Vaccine Management Assessment jointly coordinated by National Cold Chain & Vaccine Management Resource Centre - MOHFW & UNICEF since 2019. She has also served as a Consultant for Monitoring and Evaluation of ICDS Projects in Delhi from 2014 to 2015, as a part of State Monitoring Unit, sponsored by NIPPCD, Delhi and a Guest Faculty for MPH course being conducted by the National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi, BMS course conducted by Shahid Rajguru College of Allied Sciences, Delhi from 2007 to 2012 and DNB Family Medicine course conducted by the National Board of Examinations. She is a reviewer for ICMR – Fellowship and STS projects since 2012 and also a reviewer of research papers for Indian Journal of Cancer and Asian Research Journal of Arts and Social Sciences. She has represented the department as a member of the District Surveillance and Rapid Response Teams constituted for implementing the cluster containment plan for COVID – 19 in the North-east and Shahdara districts of Delhi.

Dr Upadhyay has been the supervisor or co-supervisor for ten MD theses, supervisor for ICMR-STS projects, has 25 research publications in national and international journals and has been actively involved in proposal designing and implementation of nearly eight funded research projects as an investigator or co-investigator till date. Her areas of interest in research include: Health Systems Research, Child Health & Nutrition and Public Health Approach to Cancers and other Non Communicable Diseases.

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