By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh
04th December:- Dr. Venkatesan Chakrapani, M.D., a
PGI Research Fellow registered in the PhD programme under Dr. Rajesh Kumar,
Professor and Head of the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public
Health, has received a highly competitive and prestigious Senior Public Health
Research Fellowship of the Welcome Trust/DBT India Alliance. He is awarded this
fellowship in support of his five-year public health research program on sexual
and gender minorities that aims to identify how health inequalities are
produced, and what can be done to reduce such health inequalities. The
fellowship support for this five-year research program in three cities
(Chandigarh, Mumbai and Chennai) will be about 4.7 crores.
Dr. Chakrapani’s research program
will use new theoretical frameworks such as syndemics theory and
intersectionality perspective to understand the health inequalities, especially
HIV risk. The research program will result in better understanding of health inequalities
and contribute to reduction of health inequalities and HIV risk, key areas in
public health field.
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