Anandi Dantas's Profile
Anandi Dantas | |
Research Officer, CEHAT | |
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Professional summary
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Current Experience:
Research Officer, CEHAT
Previous: Univ. Of
JaTV
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Univ. Of
District Coordinator-GFATM, Mamta Samajik Sanstha-Dehradun
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University of Mumbai
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18.0 Years
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Statistics, graphics, HIV/AIDS, Urban Health, Epidemiology, medical geography
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Contribution score:(128 points)
- Contacts: 1 following, 1 followers
Anandi Dantas's Experience
| Current : |
Research Officer, CEHAT |
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| NGO | ||
| India, Mumbai | ||
Working from 2009 | ||
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Brief summary :
Currently working on project on Mapping of Urban Health Facilities in Maharashtra and completing Ph. D. at the Institute of Indian Culture | ||
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Univ. Of |
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| Iowa | ||
Worked from 1993 to 2005 | ||
Brief summary :
Track Record of Successfully Executing Various Projects within Defined Cost and Time Parameters of over 27 years. Was a research assistant for a National Science Foundation Project while as a student at the Univ. of Iowa, USA. Successfully completed a course in FORTRAN and Pascal and other statistical techniques and others. Proficient in statistical Data analyses. Completed a Ph. D in Sociology (research by thesis) entitled: `Social and epidemiological implications of migration in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Mumbai `from the University of Mumbai. Thesis viva completed June 2011. Rich exposure in analysis of medical, geographical data using SAS, SPSS. Generally relating to population, eco-social studies. Demonstrated expertise in drafting maps, charts and other diagrams for statistical analyses Hands on experience in computer graphics from Jain TV using various software with proficiency in the use of TALLY and LOTUS packages and in administration work from 1993-2005. A decision maker, well organized and resourceful, effective team member to meet organizational objects. A true team leader, team facilitator and acknowledged trouble-shooter. Interpersonal and management skills with ability to handle multiple tasks. Result oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills. Pragmatic approach to life and adaptive to any situation EXPERIENCE and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Executive Highlights_______________________________________________________________________ Successfully published a research article in 1983 in the The Indian Geographical Journal, research using Location-Allocation Linear Programming model. Presented a poster in 1986 at annual meeting of The Annals of Association of American Geographers entitled `Migration and Health at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Career History__________________________________________________________________________ National Training on GIS Applications in Public Health Mapping Sep 27th 2010 - 1/10/2010 Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai. RESEARCH OFFICER, Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT), Mumbai Feb 2009 - April 2011 Key Responsibilities: Project Leader for the project `Urban Health. The work entailed literature search, conceptualization, data collection, data analysis and report writing. The work also entailed presentation at various conferences and seminars (See CV for details). Published an article in Health Action, August 2010. Presented a poster at WHO conference, November 2010. GRANT WRITER for OASIS India, Mumbai April - July 2008 - Grant writer-consultant (under Vasu Vittal), proposals for funding for the urban poor and under-privileged. DATA ANALYST - Consultant for International Federation of Red Cross and Afghanistan Red Crescent Society July 2007 till December 2007 HIV project through HOPE worldwide (in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations), supervised by Mary Allison (Director-Health). Project based at Kabul. Consultancy work from Mumbai. The project was implemented in 26 high schools in Kabul with students totalling to about 19,600. The study was to assess Knowledge and attitudes of high school students towards PLHAs. DATA ANALYST: Analyses of malaria data for Afghanistan Public Health Dept. June 2007 in association with NAMRU - 3 (Naval Medical Research Unit 3), Kabul, Jun 2007. See http://hopeafghanistanblog.blogspot.com Analysis conducted on morbidity and mortality of malaria province - wise in Afghanistan for both strain vivax and falciparum under Dr. Toby Leslie (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) at present employed at Health Protection and Research Organisation, based in Kabul HYPERLINK http://www.linkedin.com/search - search= and title=Target+Intervention-volunteer and sortCriteria=R and keepFacets=true and currentTitle=C \o Find users with this title TARGET INTERVENTION - volunteer : HYPERLINK http://www.linkedin.com/company/1889363 - trk=pro_other_cmpy HOPE worldwide - Mumbai, India June 2005 - May 2006 Volunteer part time for target intervention (TI) STI/HIV TI in the slums of Mumbai Included one-on-one counselling Street plays, rallies and classroom teaching ADMINISTRATOR, Indian Church of Christ Jun 1993 - Oct 2005 The Church had over 600 members. The organization had a staff close to 34. Key Responsibilities: Entrusted with handling the statistical work and accounts, involved in checking of vouchers, reimbursement to staff, TALLY work, yearend accounts and working on Trial balance and other office work. Checked vouchers, cash reimbursements, organizations bank accounts balances, payment to parties, booking places for meetings. Involved in doing a month end stats and other membership details for Mumbai, Pune, Goa, Ahmednagar and Ahmedabad Accountable for handling Income-Expenditure statements and quarterly budgets, Bank reconciliation on monthly basis and Daily petty cash balances. Internal audit/review. SECRETARY and COMPUTER GRAPHER to The GM, JAMA India and later computer grapher for Jain TV Jain Studios and JAMA India (Journal of American Medical Association, Indian Edition), New Delhi Jun 1991 - May 1993 JAMA India is printed at New Delhi. Worked under Mr. Sanjeev Gupta the GM of JAMA India. | ||
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JaTV |
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| Cincinnati | ||
Worked from 1988 to 1990 | ||
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Key Responsibilities: Involved in clients correspondence, use of Lotus package for analyses and other related office work. The work at Jain TV, which is affiliated to JAMA India. Headed by Dr. J. K. Jain. Accountable for handling still and animated graphics using American SW such as Vista and others. Tasked with titling, backgrounds, smudging of photographs and other items to enhance the visuals for recording and to go on air in TV channels such as Zee, DD and other channels. COUNSELOR - Indian Church of Christ, Mumbai, Delhi 1988 - 1990 TEACHER - Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati Oct 1984 - Jan 1988 Taught Computer Graphics at a graduate level while enrolled in the Ph. D. programme Geography dept. (under Dr. Roger Selya), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | ||
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Univ. Of |
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| Cincinnati | ||
Worked from 1980 to 1983 | ||
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Successfully completed courses Intro biostatistics, basic, intermediate and classical epidemiology, various higher level statistical courses from the Dept. of Statistics and Geography. Area of specialization was medical geography. Also did courses on population geography, migration studies and others while a student at Univ. of Cincinnati for Pre-doctoral studies. Courses also included Data Processing, geographic development and dissertation research. Key Responsibilities: Gained expertise on how to code data in the Basic format, using Basic. Use of statistical packages such as SPSS and SAS. Using the data to show various charts and graphs and planned the course syllabus. Taught the graphics class using SAS while being a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Geography. RESEARCH ASSISTANT under Dr. Gerard Rushton (was on panel of `Social Science and Medicine) while a M.A. student at Iowa, Geography Dept., Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, Aug 1980 - Mar 1983 | ||
| Previous : |
District Coordinator-GFATM, Mamta Samajik Sanstha-Dehradun |
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| NGO#Teaching/Education | ||
| India, Dehradun India | ||
Worked from 2011 to | ||
Brief summary :
Dehradun Coordinate between grassroots NGOs and the government district level Health Staff | ||
Anandi Dantas's Education
University of Mumbai |
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| Ph. D. | |
| India | |
| From 2008 to 2011 | |
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