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Dr. Biju Soman
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Dr. Biju Soman

Academic Qualifications

  • DLSHTM (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 2012)
  • MSc Control of Infectious Diseases (University of London, 2011)
  • MD Community Medicine (University of Kerala, 1999)
  • DPH (University of Kerala,1996)
  • MBBS (University of Kerala, 1992

Professional Record

  • Professor & Head, AMCHSS(2022-07 onwards)
  • Professor (AMCHSS, SCTIMST, 2017 onwards)
  • Additional Professor (AMCHSS, SCTIMST, 2012-2017)
  • Associate Professor (AMCHSS, SCTIMST, 2008-12)
  • Assistant Professor (AMCHSS, SCTIMST, 2004-08)
  • Assistant Professor (Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, 2002-04)
  • Assistant Professor (KS Hedge Medical Academy, Mangalore, 2000-02)
  • Programme Officer - Health (Dept. of Rural Development, Govt. of Kerala, 1999-2000)

Honors

  • Academic Standing Committee Member - SCTIMST, Trivandrum Former Chairperson - Board of Studies (Health Sciences, 2021-2023), SCTIMST, Trivandrum Former Associate Dean (Health Sciences, 2018-21) - SCTIMST, Trivandrum Chairperson - Local Research Committee, Model Rural Health Research Unit (MRHRU) Kerala Member, Advisory Committee, IIPH, Public Health Foundation of India (PFHI), Delhi Executive Member, Centre for Advancement of Global Health (NGO) Executive Member, Health Action by People (NGO), Trivandrum Executive Member, Indian Medical Association(IMA), Trivandrum Branch

Area of Interest

  • Data Science in Public health
  • Public Health Informatics (and its use in epidemiology & surveillance of infectious and non-infectious diseases)
  • GIS in Public Health, Telemedicine & Health Technology Assessment
  • Democratising and demystifying newer technologies for public health

Collaboration

  • Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Indian Institute of Science (Bangluru)
  • Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
  • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC-Trivandrum)
  • Dept of Health and Family Welfares Govt. of Kerala
  • Health Technology Assessment India (HTAIn)

Current Activities

  • Member, Academic Standing Committee, SCTIMST
  • Chairperson, Boad of Studies(Health Sciences), SCTIMST
  • Undertake funded research programs
    E.g., Mobile Telemedicine project in Wayanad to improve secondary health care service coverage in the tribal areas of Wayanad district, Action research on NCD risk factors in Kerala, sero-surveillance of Measles Rubella vaccination in the country, etc.
  • Teaches the following modules in the public health school
    Database Management in Epidemiology
    Public Health Technologies
    Infectious Disease Epidemiology
    Public Health Biology
  • Conducts short-course trainings on
    GIS in public health using R
    Public Health Informatics
    Bibliographic softwares
    Health Technology Assessments
    Use of R for data analysis for health professionals
  • Other academic/research activities
    PhD Guide
    MPH students (Guides dissertations)
    Reviewer of Journals (E.g., PLOS One, BMC Public Health, Applied Geography, Health Sciences, etc.)
    Visiting Faculty (E.g., SOAHS, MAHE, School of Public Health, Nitte University, Mangalore, School of Social Work, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, etc.)

पेटेंट

  • Subhash Joshi Tharayparambil George, Rajiv Iyappan, Kiran Babu, Seena S Rajan, Jeysingh Packiaraj K, Renji V Chacko, Vinod John, GSVL Narasimham, and Biju Soman. n.d. PORTABLE AUTONOMOUS TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED MEDICAL CABINET. Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, Govt. of India TEMP/E-1/60325/2020-CHE, filed December 14, 2020.

Membership

  • Executive Member, Health Action by People, NGO
  • Executive Member, Centre for Advancement in Global Health, NGO
  • Member, Research Advisory Committee, Centre for Environment Development, Trivandrum.
  • Member, Research Advisory Committee, State Health System Resource Centre, Trivandrum
  • Member, International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences-India.
  • Member, Technical Committee, School of Health Policy and Planning, Kerala University of Health Sciences(KUHS)
  • Life member, Indian Medical Association
  • Life member, Indian Public Health Association
  • Life Member, Telemedicine Society of India(Kerala Chapter)

On-going Projects

  • Transforming Covid-19 testing data using data science methods (PI) ICMR, GoI Rs.26.2 lakhs 2022-24
  • Regional Technical Resource Centre for HTA In; 2018-22; funded by DHR, Govt of India; Rs.1.6 crores, Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Mobile Telemedicine Project; 2017-22; Rs. 5.64 crores; funded by DST; Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Portable Mobile Refrigerator for difficult to reach areas; 2019-20; funded by DST, Govt. of India, Rs. 4.5lakhs Role: PI (SCTIMST site)
  • Documenting the cause of death among the tribal population using automated verbal autopsy: Institute fund through DST; Proj: 6118; Role:Co-PI
  • HPSR FELLOWSHIP INDIA; Proj.5419; Role: Co-Investigator.
  • Secondary prevention of stroke survivors in Kollam. 2021-2022; Health & Family Welfare Department, Government of Kerala; Rs. 10 lakhs; Role: Co-PI.

Projects Completed

  • Secondary prevention of stroke survivors. 2017-2019; Health & Family Welfare Department, Government of Kerala; Rs. 10 lakhs; Role: Co-PI.
  • NCD Risk factor Survey; 2016-20; funded by Govt. of Kerala; Rs. 4.96 crores; Role: Co-Investigator.
  • TIMED FELLOWS for innovation in Ageing and Health; 2017-18, supported by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIREC) through their Social Innovation Programme for Products; Affordable and Relevant to Social Health (SPARSH); Rs.76 lakhs; Role: Co-Investigator.
  • Measles-Rubella sero-surveillance, 2017-2019; Rs. 26 lakhs; collaborative project with Indian Council of Medical Research; Role: Principal Investigator.(Kerala site)
  • GIS training for public health professionals; 2014-15; funded by DST, GoI; Rs. 2.5 lakhs; Role: Principal Investigator
  • Prevalence of NCD risk factors in the Kani Tribe in Trivandrum; 2013-14 funded by KSCSTE, GoK; Rs.15000/-; Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Geospatial mapping of reported Dengue cases to explore clustering and its association with climatic and Physio-environmental factors in Trivandrum (PI); 2013-14; funded by KSCSTE, GoK; Rs. 15000/- Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Capacity building of women health workers in Kerala; 2009-13; funded by DST through SCTIMST-WCP; Rs. 9.89 lakhs; Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Health impact of household technology in women: Soman B(PI); 2009-13; funded by DST through SCTIMST-WCP; Rs. 19.96 lakhs; Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Geospatial analysis of seasonality in pulmonary tuberculosis detection rate in India over a period of five years(2006-11; Role: MSc dissertation at LSHTM (No funding).
  • Psychosocial impact of Tsunami affected populations in Kerala; Johnson A(PI); 2006-09; A longitudinal study in collaboration with University of Southern California, USA; Funding from USC(USA); Rs.40 lakhs; Role: Co-Investigator.
  • NCD risk factor sentinel surveillance project; Thankappan KR(PI); 2004-06; ICMR funded multi centric Research study; Rs.25 lakhs; Role: Co-Investigator.
  • Capacity building of elected local leaders; 2004-06; Funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; Rs. 5.6 lakhs; Role: Principal Investigator.
  • ICMR sponsored 'RF/RHD Registry Project; 2000-04; Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Kochi; funded by ICMR; Rs.30 lakhs; Role: Co-Investigator.
  • Geospatial mapping of Noolpuzha Grama Panchayat; 2017-18; institute funding through IDRC project; Rs. 3.5 lakhs; Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Advances in Research on Globally Accessible Medicine (AROGYAM); 2013-2016; funded by ICSR, Rs. 21.6 lakhs; Role: Co-Investigator.
  • Closing the gaps: Health Equity Research Initiative in India; 2014-18; funded by IDRC, Canada; Role: Team Member.

Professional Experience

  • PhD Examiner, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh
  • MPH Examiner, National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai
  • MPH Examiner, IIPH, Delhi
  • MPH Examiner, CMC Vellore

Desertations Supervised

  • 36

Training

  • Control of Infectious Diseases, LSHTM, University of London, United Kingdom.
  • Advanced training in health informatics from Oslo University (Norway)
  • Teaching Methodology from Boston School of Public Health (USA)
  • Multilevel Modelling from Bielefeld University (Germany)
  • Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from National Remote Sensing Centre (Hyderabad), India

Major Achievements

  • Formulation and teaching of an innovative module on Public Health Technologies for the public health program. Formulation of the Wayanad Model of Telemedicine for extending secondary healthcare services in inaccessible areas. Formulation and conduct of a short course on "Use of data science for public health", a life-course approach using ODK, Zotero, and R:A language and environment for statistical computing.

Consultancies

  • Analyzing the efforts of AMR State Action Plan Implementation in Kerala: What are the learnings for other states? - HISP India -2022-24 Performance audit on a consultancy basis of ambulance services operated by GVK-EMRI (Emergency Management and Research Institute) 2022 Performance audit on a consultancy basis of ambulance services operated by GVK-EMRI (Emergency Management and Research Institute) 2021

Intellectual Property Disclosures

  • Patent filed: Subhash Joshi Tharayparambil George, Rajiv Iyappan, Kiran Babu, Seena S Rajan, Jeysingh Packiaraj K, Renji V Chacko, Vinod John, GSVL Narasimham, and Biju Soman. n.d. PORTABLE AUTONOMOUS TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED MEDICAL CABINET. Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, Govt. of India TEMP/E-1/60325/2020-CHE, filed December 14, 2020.

अनुसंधान

  • Use of data Science in Public Health
  • Health Technology Assessment
  • Spatial Epidemiology
  • Infectious Disease Surveillance

Organisational Activities

  • Lead, Regional Resource Centre(RRC-SCTIMST), Health Technology Assessment India (HTA In)
  • Member, Academic Standing Committee, SCTIMST.
  • Chairperson, Board of Studies (Health Sciences)

Completed Assignments

  • Associate Dean (Health Sciences), SCTIMST, from 2018-21

Team

  • Mr. Vishnuraj NK (Research Assistant)
  • Mr. Navaz MP (Research Assistant)
  • Ms. Soumya PS (Research Nurse)
  • Ms. Kavyadas PS (Research Nurse)
  • Ms. Hashida Beegum(Research Nurse)
  • Ms. Athira SS (Research Nurse)
  • Ms. Priya Abraham (Data Manager)
  • Mr Abhilash Kurup (Junior Economist)
  • Dr Ashis Samuel (Research Associate)
  • Dr Adrija Roy ( PhD Scholar & Research Associate)
  • Dr Arun Mitra( PhD Scholar)
  • Dr Anand N (PhD Scholar)
  • Dr Antony Stanley (PhD Scholar & Research Associate)
  • Dr Gurpreet Singh(PhD Scholar)
  • Dr Thejus Vinod (Project Medical Officer)
  • Dr Hisham Moosan (PhD Scholar)
  • Dr Mathew J Valamparampil (PhD Scholar)
  • Mr Krishna Raj PC (Driver)
  • Mr Vinod P Prabhakaran (Driver)

Books and Journals edited

  • Review Editor in Frontiers in Public Health

No. of Publications

  • 69

Dissertations Supervised - Ph.D

  • Dr Anand N, 2023, Epidemiological Study of Road Traffic Accidents in an Urban setting in South India
  • Dr Gurpreet Singh, 2023, Data Science Approach for Spatiotemporal Modelling of Dengue in Punjab, India
  • Dr Joanna Sara Valson, 2021, Built Environment and Non-Communicable Diseases

Dissertations Supervised - M.Phil

  • 30 MPH dissertations

Select Publications

  • Singh, Dr. Gurpreet, and Dr. Biju Soman. 2021. Spatiotemporal Epidemiology and Forecasting of Dengue in the State of Punjab, India: Study Protocol., Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology, July, 100444. doi:10.1016/j.sste.2021.100444.
  • Singh, Gurpreet, G. Srinivas, E. K. Jyothi, L. K. Gayatri, Rakhal Gaitonde, and Biju Soman. 2020. ???Containing the First Outbreak of COVID-19 in a Healthcare Setting in India: The Sree Chitra Experience.??? Indian Journal of Public Health 64 (6): 240. doi:10.4103/ijph.IJPH_483_20.
  • Sajeev, Priyanka, and Biju Soman. 2018. ???Prevalence of Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors among the Kani Tribe in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala.??? Indian Heart Journal. doi:10.1016/j.ihj.2018.01.022.
  • Thankappan, K.R., Bela Shah, P.S.Sarma Prashant Mathur, G. Srinivas, G.K. Mini, Biju Soman MeenaDaivadanam, and Ramachandran S. Vasan. 2010. ???Risk Factor Profile for Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases: Results of a Community-Based Study in Kerala, India.??? The Indian Journal of Medical Research 131 (January): 53???63.
  • Valson, Joanna Sara, and Biju Soman. 2017. ???Spatiotemporal Clustering of Dengue Cases in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala.??? Indian Journal of Public Health 61 (2): 74. doi:10.4103/ijph.IJPH_26_16.
  • Sarma, P. S., Rajeev Sadanandan, Jissa Vinoda Thulaseedharan, Biju Soman, Kannan Srinivasan, R. P. Varma, Manju R. Nair, A. S. Pradeepkumar, Panniyammakal Jeemon, K. R. Thankappan, and Raman V. Kutty. 2019. ???Prevalence of Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases in Kerala, India: Results of a Cross-Sectional Study.??? BMJ Open 9 (11).

Reviewer

  • Review activity for BMC infectious diseases (1) Review activity for BMC public health (1) Review activity for BMJ open. (5) Review activity for Clinical interventions in aging (1) Review activity for Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity. (2) Review activity for F1000Research. (1) Review activity for Geo-spatial information science. (2) Review activity for Healthcare. (3) Review activity for International journal of environmental research and public health. (13) Review activity for International journal of general medicine (1) Review activity for Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare (1) Review activity for Medicina. (4) Review activity for Open access emergency medicine (1) Review activity for PloS one. (6) Review activity for Sustainability. (4) PLOS One; Applied Geography; Health Sciences; Risk Management and Healthcare Policy; BMJ Open; BMC Public Health; Frontiers in Public Health; Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice; Global Journal of Clinical Studies; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; Cerebrovascular Diseases; Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health; Computers in Biology and Medicine;

प्रकाशन

Article

  1. N. Anand, Biju Soman, Sajin Kumar, Identification and Analysis of fatal Road Crash Black spot Clusters in an Urban Setting in South Coastal India, Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2023, 10.4103/mjdrdypu.mjdrdypu_344_21, https://journals.lww.com/mjdy/fulltext/2023/16060/identification_and_analysis_of_fatal_road_crash.11.aspx
  2. Vishnu Renjith, Biju Soman, Sivasambath Shanmughasundaram, K. Arun, Panniyammakal Jeemon, Roni Antony, Bipin Gopal, P. N. Sylaja, Stroke awareness among community health workers from rural health blocks of Thiruvananthapuram, India, Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, 2023, 10.25259/JNRP_222_2023, https://ruralneuropractice.com/stroke-awareness-among-community-health-workers-from-rural-health-blocks-of-thiruvananthapuram-india/
  3. Gurpreet Singh, Biju Soman, Gagandeep Singh Grover, Development and use of open-source algorithms for space-time emerging hotspot analysis of routine dengue NVBDCP data in Punjab, India, International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 2023, 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20223288, https://www.ijcmph.com/index.php/ijcmph/article/view/10671
  4. Nisha K. Jose, Biju Soman, Jissa V. Thulaseedharan, Bipin T. Varghese, Shaji Thomas, Jeremiah J. Tom, Narayanankutty Warrier, Manuprasad Avaronnan, Panniyammakal Jeemon, Demographic and clinical characteristics of primary lung cancer patients in Kerala: Analysis of data from six teaching centers, Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2023, 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2176_22, https://journals.lww.com/jfmpc/fulltext/2023/12100/demographic_and_clinical_characteristics_of.50.aspx
  5. P.N. Sylaja, Veena Babu, S. Sivasambath, Feba Zechariah, Sivalekshmi Gireeshan, Geethu Ganesan, Biju Soman, Gurpreet Singh, Jeemon Panniyamakal, Bipin Gopal, Development and Effect of a Coordinated Community Health Worker Intervention Model for the Stroke Survivors in Kerala, South India, Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2024, 10.1159/000536077, https://doi.org/10.1159/000536077
  6. Mathan Kumar, Sudalaimuthu, Saravanan Essakky, Subramania R. Rajasulochana, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Parthibane Sivanatham, Jeyanthi Anandraj, Sreejith Parameswaran, Biju Soman, Kavitha Rajsekhar, and Antony Stanley, Cost-Effectiveness of Population-Based Screening for Microalbuminuria in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in India, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462323002623
  7. Anju, R., R. Sadanandan, K. Vijayakumar, V. Raman Kutty, B. Soman, R. M. Ravindran, and R. P. Varma, Decentralisation, Health and Sustainable Development Goal 3, Public Health Action , 2023, 10.5588/pha.22.0034
  8. Balathandan, Annup Balan, and Biju Soman, Health-Care Facilities and Road Traffic Injuries in Thiruvananthapuram City, HAP Journal of Public Health and Clinical Medicine , 2023, 10.1177/jpm.221115589
  9. Dehghan, Mahshid, Andrew Mente, Sumathy Rangarajan, Viswanathan Mohan, Sumathi Swaminathan, Alvaro Avezum, Scott A. Lear, Annika Rosengren, Paul Poirier, Fernando Lanas, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Biju Soman, Chuangshi Wang, Andrés Orlandini, Noushin Mohammadifard, Khalid F. AlHabib, Jephat Chifamba, Afzal Hussein Yusufali, Romaina Iqbal, Rasha Khatib, Karen Yeates, Thandi Puoane, Yuksel Altuntas, Homer Uy Co, Sidong Li, Weida Liu, Katarzyna Zatońska, Rita Yusuf, Noorhassim Ismail, Victoria Miller, and Salim Yusuf, Ultra-Processed Foods and Mortality: Analysis from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology Study., The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 2023, 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2022.10.014
  10. Iype, Thomas, Veena Babu, P. R. Sreelakshmi, Paul J. Alapatt, Reeja Rajan, and Biju Soman, The Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (Mci) among Older Population of Rural Kerala: A Cross-Sectional Study, Neurology India , 2023, 10.4103/ni.ni_676_21
  11. Kasoju, Naresh, N. S. Remya, Renjith Sasi, S. Sujesh, Biju Soman, C. Kesavadas, C. V. Muraleedharan, P. R. Harikrishna Varma, and Sanjay Behari, Digital Health: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges in Medical Devices, Pharma and Bio-Technology, CSI Transactions on ICT, 2023, 10.1007/s40012-023-00380-3
  12. Kochupurackal Ulahannan, Sabu, Prashanth N. Srinivas, and Biju Soman, Social Determinants of Child Undernutrition in Adivasi Population in Northern Kerala: A Study Using Syndemic Framework, Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2023, 10.1007/s12098-023-04720-8
  13. Krishnan, A., R. P. Varma, R. Kamala, R. Anju, K. Vijayakumar, R. Sadanandan, P. K. Jameela, K. S. Shinu, B. Soman, and R. M. Ravindran, Re-Engineering Primary Healthcare in Kerala., Public Health Action , 2023, 10.5588/pha.22.0033
  14. Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio, Diego Gomez-Arbelaez, Daniel Martinez-Bello, Marc Evans M Abat, Khalid F Alhabib, Álvaro Avezum, Olga Barbarash, Jephat Chifamba, Maria L Diaz, Sadi Gulec, Noorhassim Ismail, Romaina Iqbal, Roya Kelishadi, Rasha Khatib, Fernando Lanas, Naomi S Levitt, Yang Li, Viswanathan Mohan, Prem K Mony, Paul Poirier, Annika Rosengren, Biju Soman, Chuangshi Wang, Yang Wang, Karen Yeates, Rita Yusuf, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Katarzyna Zatonska, Sumathy Rangarajan, and Salim Yusuf, Association of the Triglyceride Glucose Index as a Measure of Insulin Resistance with Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease in Populations from Five Continents (PURE Study): A Prospective Cohort Study, The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2023, 10.1016/S2666-7568(22)00247-1
  15. M, Balasankar J., Hanudha N. K, Neethu M. S, and Biju Soman, Dietary habits and selected noncommunicable disease risk factors among middle-aged adults in rural Kerala, International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 2023, 10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20231709
  16. Mitra, Arun, Biju Soman, Rakhal Gaitonde, Tarun Bhatnagar, Engelbert Nieuhas, and Sajin Kumar, Data Science Approaches to Public Health: Case Studies Using Routine Health Data from India, EasyChair, 2023, https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/DRZB
  17. Murali, Anussha, Arun Mitra, Sundeep Sahay, and Biju Soman, Outbreak and Pandemic Management in MOOCs: Current Status and Scope for Public Health Data Science Education, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2023, 10.1007/978-981-99-1414-2_62
  18. Pray, C, N Narula, E C Wong, J K Marshall, S Rangarajan, S Islam, A Bahonar, K F Alhabib, A Kontsevaya, F Ariffin, H U Co, W Al Sharief, A Szuba, A Wielgosz, M L Diaz, R Yusuf, L Kruger, B Soman, Y Li, C Wang, L Yin, M Erkin, F Lanas, K Davletov, A Rosengren, P Lopez-Jaramillo, R Khatib, A Oguz, R Iqbal, K Yeates, Á Avezum, W Reinisch, P Moayyedi, and S Yusuf, ASSOCIATIONS OF ANTIBIOTICS, HORMONAL THERAPIES, ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES, AND LONG-TERM NSAIDS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: RESULTS FROM THE PROSPECTIVE URBAN RURAL EPIDEMIOLOGY (PURE) STUDY, Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology , 2023, 10.1093/jcag/gwac036.176
  19. Renjith, Vishnu, Biju Soman, Sivasambath Shanmughasundaram, K. Arun, Panniyammakal Jeemon, Roni Antony, Bipin Gopal, and P. N. Sylaja, Stroke Awareness among Community Health Workers from Rural Health Blocks of Thiruvananthapuram, India, Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, 2023, 10.25259/JNRP_222_2023
  20. Roy, Adrija, Arun Mitra, and Biju Soman, Public Health in India: Leveraging Technology for a Brighter Future.” OPINIONS IN Medical Sciences, Technology and Health , 2023, https://omsth.sctimst.ac.in/omsth/article/view/5
  21. Singh, Gurpreet; Soman, Biju; Grover, Gagandeep Singh , Exploratory Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis (ESTDA) of Dengue and its association with climatic, environmental, and sociodemographic factors in Punjab, India, Ecological Informatics, 2023, 10.1016/J.ECOINF.2023.102020
  22. Babu, Veena, P. N. Sylaja, Biju Soman, Ravi Prasad Varma, M. S. Manju, G. L. Geethu, and Suresh B. Kumar, Medication-Adherence and Management of Risk Factors for Secondary Prevention of Stroke Using Smartphone-Based Application: Protocol for MAMORs-Randomized Controlled Trial, Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology , 2022, 10.4103/aian.aian_836_22
  23. Chaudhary S and Soman B, Spatiotemporal analysis of environmental and physiographic factors related to malaria in Bareilly district, India., Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives. Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, 2022, DOI: 10.24171/j.phrp.2021.0304
  24. Krishnamoorthy, Soumya, Gurpreet Singh, Jithu Jose K, Biju Soman, Christian Foerch, W. Taylor Kimberly, Mónica Millán, Milena Świtońska, Ilaria Maestrini, Régis Bordet, Konark Malhotra, Laura Mechtouff, and P. N. Sylaja, Biomarkers in the Prediction of Hemorrhagic Transformation in Acute Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Cerebrovascular Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) , 2022, https://doi.org/10.1159/000518570
  25. Mitra, Arun, Biju Soman, Rakhal Gaitonde, Gurpreet Singh, and Adrija Roy, Data Science Methods to Develop Decision Support Systems for Real-Time Monitoring of COVID-19 Outbreak, Journal of Human, Earth, and Future, 2022, 10.28991/HEF-2022-03-02-08
  26. Narula, Neeraj, Emily C. L. Wong, Cara Pray, John K. Marshall, Sumathy Rangarajan, Shofiqul Islam, Ahmad Bahonar, Khalid F. Alhabib, Anna Kontsevaya, Farnaza Ariffin, Homer U. Co, Wadeia Al Sharief, Andrzej Szuba, Andreas Wielgosz, Maria Luz Diaz, Rita Yusuf, Lanthé Kruger, Biju Soman, Yang Li, Chuangshi Wang, Lu Yin, Mirrakhimov Erkin, Fernando Lanas, Kairat Davletov, Annika Rosengren, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Rasha Khatib, Aytekin Oguz, Romaina Iqbal, Karen Yeates, Álvaro Avezum, Walter Reinisch, Paul Moayyedi, and Salim Yusuf, Associations of Antibiotics, Hormonal Therapies, Oral Contraceptives, and, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2022, 10.1016/j.cgh.2022.11.037
  27. Prosperi, Christine, Jeromie Thangaraj, Alvira Hasan, Muthusamy Kumar, Shaun Truelove, V. Saravanakumar, Amy Winter, Avi Bansal, Sanjay Chauhan, Gagandeep Grover, Ragini Kulkarni, S K Sharma, Biju Soman, Itta Chaaithanya, Sanchit Kharwal, Sunil Mishra, Neha Salvi, Arun Jain, Nilanju Sarmah, and Manoj Murhekar, Added Value of the Measles-Rubella Supplementary Immunization Activity in Reaching Unvaccinated and Under-Vaccinated Children, a Cross-Sectional Study in Five Indian Districts, 2018-20, Vaccine, 2022, 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.11.010
  28. Scaria, Liss, Biju Soman, Babu George, Zulfikar Ahamed, Sankar Hariharan, and Panniyammakal Jeemon, Determinants of Very Low Birth Weight in India: The National Family Health Survey – 4, Wellcome Open Research, 2022, 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17463.2
  29. Singh G, Mitra A and Soman B, Development and use of a reproducible framework for spatiotemporal climatic risk assessment and its association with decadal trend of dengue in India., Indian Journal of Community Medicine 47(1): 50., 2022, DOI: 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_862_21.
  30. Ulahannan, Sabu Kochupurackal, Alby Wilson, Deepshikha Chhetri, Biju Soman, and N. S. Prashanth, Alarming Level of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Indian Districts, BMJ Global Health , 2022, 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007798
  31. Anand, N., Soman, B., Prakash, M., Epidemiological profiling of fatal road crashes in Puducherry, South Coastal India., Indian Journal of Public Health 65, 203., 2021, https://doi.org/10.4103/ijph.IJPH_1436_20
  32. Hasan AZ, Kumar MS, Prosperi C, IMRVI Study Group, et al., Implementing Serosurveys in India: Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Recommendations., The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 105(6): 1608–1617., 2021, DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0401.
  33. Mitra, Arun, Biju Soman, and Gurpreet Singh, An Interactive Dashboard for Real-Time Analytics and Monitoring of COVID-19 Outbreak in India: A Proof of Concept, CoRR, 2021, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09937
  34. Singh, Gurpreet, and Biju Soman., Spatiotemporal Epidemiology and Forecasting of Dengue in the State of Punjab, India: Study Protocol., Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology, July, 100444., 2021, doi:10.1016/j.sste.2021.100444.
  35. Singh, Gurpreet, Biju Soman, and Arun Mitra, A Systematic Approach to Cleaning Routine Health Surveillance Datasets: An Illustration Using National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme Data of Punjab, India., CoRR, 2021, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09963
  36. Swaminathan, Sumathi, Mahshid Dehghan, John Michael Raj, Tinku Thomas, Sumathy Rangarajan, David Jenkins, Prem Mony, Viswanathan Mohan, Scott A Lear, Alvaro Avezum, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Annika Rosengren, Fernando Lanas, Khalid F AlHabib, Antonio Dans, Mirac Vural Keskinler, Thandi Puoane, Biju Soman, Li Wei, et al., Associations of Cereal Grains Intake with Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality across 21 Countries in Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology Study: Prospective Cohort Study, BMJ, 2021, doi:10.1136/bmj.m4948
  37. Sylaja, P. N., Gurpreet Singh, S. Sivasambath, K. Arun, Panniyammakal Jeemon, Roni Antony, Rizwan Kalani, Bipin K. Gopal, and Biju Soman., Secondary Prevention of Stroke by a Primary Health Care Approach: An Open-Label Cluster Randomised Trial., Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 84 (February): 53–59., 2021, doi:10.1016/j.jocn.2020.12.006.
  38. Thompson, Hayley A, Andria Mousa, Amy Dighe, Han Fu, Alberto Arnedo-Pena, Peter Barrett, Juan Bellido-Blasco, Qifang Bi, Antonio Caputi, Liling Chaw, Luigi De Maria, Matthias Hoffmann, Kiran Mahapure, Kangqi Ng, Jagadesan Raghuram, Gurpreet Singh, Biju Soman, Vicente Soriano, Francesca Valent, Luigi Vimercati, Liang En Wee, Justin Wong, Azra C Ghani, and Neil M Ferguson, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Setting-Specific Transmission Rates: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Clinical Infectious Diseases , 2021, doi:10.1093/cid/ciab100.
  39. Thulaseedharan, J., Sarma, Ps., Thankappan, K., Soman, B., Varma, R., Srinivasan, K., Nair, M., Jeemon, P., Kutty, Vr., Consumption of fruits, vegetables and salt in the context of control of type 2 diabetes and hypertension in Kerala, India, J Family Med Prim Care 10, 2646., 2021, https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2469_20
  40. Wang, Chuangshi, Bo Hu, Sumathy Rangarajan, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, Scott A. Lear, Viswanathan Mohan, Rajeev Gupta, Khalid F. Alhabib, Biju Soman, Marc Evans M. Abat, Annika Rosengren, Fernando Lanas, Alvaro Avezum, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Rafael Diaz, Khalid Yusoff, Romaina Iqbal, Jephat Chifamba, Karen Yeates, Katarzyna Zatońska, Iolanthé M. Kruger, Ahmad Bahonar, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Wei Li, and Salim Yusuf, Association of Bedtime with Mortality and Major Cardiovascular Events: An Analysis of 112,198 Individuals from 21 Countries in the PURE Study, Sleep Medicine , 2021, 10.1016/j.sleep.2021.01.057
  41. Arku, R.E., Brauer, M., Ahmed, S.H., AlHabib, K.F., Avezum, Á., Bo, J., Choudhury, T., Dans, A.ML., Gupta, R., Iqbal, R., Ismail, N., Kelishadi, R., Khatib, R., Koon, T., Kumar, R., Lanas, F., Lear, S.A., Li, W., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Mohan, V., Poirier, P., Puoane, T., Rangarajan, S., Rosengren, A., Soman, B. et al, Long-term exposure to outdoor and household air pollution and blood pressure in the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study., Environmental Pollution 114197., 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114197
  42. Arku, Raphael E., Michael Brauer, Suad H. Ahmed, Khalid F. AlHabib, Álvaro Avezum, Jian Bo, Tarzia Choudhury, Antonio ML. Dans, Rajeev Gupta, Romaina Iqbal, Noorhassim Ismail, Roya Kelishadi, Rasha Khatib, Teo Koon, Rajesh Kumar, Fernando Lanas, Scott A. Lear, Wei Li, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Viswanathan Mohan, Paul Poirier, Thandi Puoane, Sumathy Rangarajan, Annika Rosengren, Biju Soman, Ozge Telci Caklili, Shunyun Yang, Karen Yeates, Lu Yin, Khalid Yusoff, Tomasz Zatoński, Salim Yusuf, and Perry Hystad, Long-Term NSAIDS With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Results From the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study, Environmental Pollution, 2020, 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114197
  43. Dehghan, M., Mente, A., Rangarajan, S., Mohan, V., Lear, S., Swaminathan, S., Wielgosz, A., Seron, P., Avezum, A., Lopez-Jaramillo, P., Turbide, G., Chifamba, J., AlHabib, K.F., Mohammadifard, N., Szuba, A., Khatib, R., Altuntas, Y., Liu, X., Iqbal, R., Rosengren, A., Yusuf, R., Smuts, M., Yusufali, A., Li, N., Diaz, R., Yusoff, K., Kaur, M., Soman, B., et al, Association of egg intake with blood lipids, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 177,000 people in 50 countries., The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqz348
  44. Krishnamoorthy, Soumya, Jithu Jose, Gurpreet Singh, Biju Soman, and PN Sylaja, The Role of Circulating Biomarkers in the Early Prediction of Hemorrhagic Transformation in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis., Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2020, https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=201334
  45. Krishnapillai, V., Nair, S., T. N, A., T. P, S., Soman, B.,, Quality of medical prescriptions in diabetes and hypertension management in Kerala and its associated factors., BMC Public Health 20, 193., 2020, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8214-y
  46. Singh G, Patrikar S, Sarma PS, Soman B., Time-dependent dynamic transmission potential and instantaneous reproduction number of COVID-19 pandemic in India., medRxiv., 2020, doi:10.1101/2020.07.15.20154971
  47. Singh, G., Srinivas, G., Jyothi, E.K., Gayatri, L.K., Gaitonde, R., Soman, B., Containing the first outbreak of COVID-19 in a healthcare setting in India: The sree chitra experience., Indian Journal of Public Health 64, 240., 2020, https://doi.org/10.4103/ijph.IJPH_483_20
  48. Valson, Joanna Sara, V. Raman Kutty, Biju Soman, and V. T. Jissa., Using Open-Source Data to Explore Distribution of Built Environment Characteristics across Kerala, India., Indian Journal of Public Health 64 (2): 191., 2020, doi:10.4103/ijph.IJPH_472_19.
  49. Babu, A. N., E. Niehaus, S. Shah, C. Unnithan, P. S. Ramkumar, J. Shah, V. V. Binoy, B. Soman, M. C. Arunan, and C. P. Jose., Smartphone Geospatial Apps for Dengue Control, Prevention, Prediction, and Education: MOSapp, DISapp, and the Mosquito Perception Index (MPI)., Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 191 (2): 393., 2019, doi:10.1007/s10661-019-7425-0.
  50. Mohan, Nisha, HemantDeepak Shewade, Dm Shilpa, SamanthaC Lobbo, AnupamaG Patil, Vivek Gupta, Biju Soman, and ArunK Aggarwal. 2019., Electronic Health and Medical Records for Comprehensive Primary Healthcare in India., The National Medical Journal of India 32 (6): 373., 2019, doi:10.4103/0970-258X.303610.
  51. Panicker, R.O., Soman, B., Sabu, M.K., 2019., Tuberculosis Detection from Conventional Sputum Smear Microscopic Images Using Machine Learning Techniques, Hybrid Computational Intelligence: Research and Applications. pp. 63–80, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429453427
  52. Sarma, P.S., Sadanandan, R., Thulaseedharan, J.V., Soman, B., Srinivasan, K., Varma, R.P., Nair, M.R., Pradeepkumar, A.S., Jeemon, P., Thankappan, K.R., Kutty, R.V., Prevalence of risk factors of non-communicable diseases in Kerala, India: results of a cross-sectional study., BMJ Open , 2019, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027880
  53. Valson, J.S., Kutty, V.R., Soman, B., Jissa, V.T.,, Spatial Clusters of Diabetes and Physical Inactivity: Do Neighborhood Characteristics in High and Low Clusters Differ?, Asia Pac J Public Health , 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/1010539519879322.
  54. Sajeev, Priyanka, and Biju Soman, Prevalence of Noncommunicable Disease Risk Factors among the Kani Tribe in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, Indian Heart Journal, 2018, 10.1016/j.ihj.2018.01.022
  55. Valson, Joanna Sara, and Biju Soman, Spatiotemporal Clustering of Dengue Cases in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, Indian Journal of Public Health , 2017, 10.4103/ijph.IJPH_26_16
  56. Palafox, Benjamin, Martin McKee, Dina Balabanova, Khalid F. AlHabib, Alvaro Jr Avezum, Ahmad Bahonar, Noorhassim Ismail, Jephat Chifamba, Clara K. Chow, Daniel J. Corsi, Gilles R. Dagenais, Rafael Diaz, Rajeev Gupta, Romaina Iqbal, Manmeet Kaur, Rasha Khatib,Biju Soman, et al, Wealth and Cardiovascular Health: A Cross-Sectional Study of Wealth-Related Inequalities in the Awareness, Treatment and Control of Hypertension in High-, Middle- and Low-Income Countries., nternational Journal for Equity in Health 15 (1)., 2016, doi:10.1186/s12939-016-0478-6.
  57. Panicker, Rani Oomman, Biju Soman, Gagan Saini, and Jeny Rajan, A Review of Automatic Methods Based on Image Processing Techniques for Tuberculosis Detection from Microscopic Sputum Smear Images, J. Medical Syst. , 2016, 10.1007/s10916-015-0388-y
  58. Panicker, Rani Oomman, Biju Soman, K. V Gangadharan, and N. V. Sobhana, An adoption model describing clinician's acceptance of automated diagnostic system for tuberculosis, Health and Technology , 2016, 10.1007/S12553-016-0136-4
  59. Saini, G., R. O. Panicker, B. Soman, and J. Rajan, A Comparative Study of Different Auto-Focus Methods for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Detection from Brightfield Microscopic Images, In 2016 IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER, 2016, 10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806223
  60. Sreelakshmi, Pr, Sanjeev Nair, Biju Soman, Rani Alex, K Vijayakumar, and VRaman Kutty, Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Gestational Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study from Southern India, Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care , 2015, 10.4103/2249-4863.161331
  61. Babu, A.N., B. Soman, E. Niehaus, J. Shah, N.L. Sarda, P.S. Ramkumar, and C. Unnithan, Community-Based Early Warning and Adaptive Response System (EWARS) for Mosquito Borne Diseases: An Open Source/Open Community Approach, ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014, 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-8-167-2014
  62. Kuriakose, Anu, Thekkumkara Surendran Nair Anish, Biju Soman, Ron Thomas Varghese, Thekkumkara Prabhakaran Sreelal, Alice Matilda Mendez, and Anitha Abraham, Rate and Risk of All Cause Mortality among People with Known Hypertension in a Rural Community of Southern Kerala, India: The Results from the Prolife Cohort., International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2014, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050680
  63. Platz, M., J. Rapp, M. Groessler, E. Niehaus, A. Babu, and B. Soman, Mathematical Modeling of Spatial Disease Variables by Spatial Fuzzy Logic for Spatial Decision Support Systems., ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XL–8, 2014, 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-8-213-2014
  64. Soman, B, Participatory GIS in Action, a Public Health Initiative from Kerala, India.”, ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014, 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-8-233-2014
  65. Thankappan, K. R., Bela Shah, Prashant Mathur, P. S. Sarma, G. Srinivas, G. K. Mini, Meena Daivadanam, Biju Soman, and Ramachandran S. Vasan, Authors’ Response: Calculation error in estimating low HDL in women, The Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2014, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165019/
  66. Saxena, S., R. P. Varma, and B. Soman, Exposure to Firearm: Impact on Psychological Health in Central India, Indian Journal of Community Health , 2013, https://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/350
  67. Mathews, E., and B. Soman, Are the Disabled at Risk for Developing Non-Communicable Diseases?, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , 2011, 10.1136/jech.2011.142976m.80
  68. Asheel, B. M., B. Soman, V. G. Kuriakose, S. Francis, and T. Mathew, Health System Preparedness for Road Traffic Accidents in a Rural District in Kerala, India., Injury Prevention, 2010, 10.1136/ip.2010.029215.115
  69. Thankappan, K.R., B. Shah, P. Mathur, P.S. Sarma, G. Srinivas, G.K. Mini, M. Daivadanam, B. Soman, and R.S. Vasan, Risk Factor Profile for Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases: Results of a Community-Based Study in Kerala, India, Indian J Med Res , 2009, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=20167974
  70. Raj, Manu, Biju Soman, Anil SR, Kannan BRJ, and Krishna Kumar R, Does the Incidence of Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease Decline with Improved Access to Health Care?, Indian Heart Journal, 2004, ISSN 0019-4832
  71. Soman, Biju, Rheumatic Heart Disease—An Epidemiological Mystery, Percutaneous Mitral Valvotomy, 2018, 10.5005/jp/books/14152_3
  72. Mathews, E., and B. Soman, Are the Disabled at Risk for Developing Non-Communicable Diseases?, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health , 2011, 10.1136/jech.2011.142976m.80
  73. Soman, Biju, How Healthy Is Kerala Population, In Kerala, Fifty Years and beyond : Festschrift for C.R. Soman on His 70th Birthday, edited by C. Chandrasekharan Kartha, 2007, 978-81-89523-33-6
  74. TIFAC, Current Trends in Telemedicine in India, Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council, Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2022,

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  1. Arun Mitra, Kaiz S Asif, Vikram huded, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Nabeel A Herial, Ashutosh P Jadhav, Dileep Yavagal, biju soman, PN N Sylaja, Abstract 26: Regional Inequities in Access to Stroke Facilities in India - Estimating Travel Distance and Times for Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy, Stroke, 2023, 10.1161/str.55.suppl_1.26, https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/str.55.suppl_1.26
  2. Saini, G., R. O. Panicker, B. Soman, and J. Rajan., A Comparative Study of Different Auto-Focus Methods for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Detection from Brightfield Microscopic Images., IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER), 2016, doi:10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806223
  3. Singh, Gurpreet, Seema Patrikar, P. S. Sarma, and Biju Soman, Time-Dependent Dynamic Transmission Potential and Instantaneous Reproduction Number of COVID-19 Pandemic in India, MedRxiv, 2021, doi:10.1101/2020.07.15.20154971
  4. Singh, Gurpreet, Biju Soman, and Arun Mitra, A Systematic Approach to Cleaning Routine Health Surveillance Datasets: An Illustration Using National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme Data of Punjab, India, CoRR abs/2108.09963, 2021, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09963.