CURRICULUM VITAE

Name : Dr. Neeta Kumar

Date of Birth : 12th March 1969

Official Address:
Dr. Neeta Kumar, MD
Scientist “E”
Division of Child Health (Reproductive Health and Nutrition) & Innovation and
Translation Research
Room no 214- First floor, Indian Council of Medical Research
ICMR Headquarters, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi- 110029

Phone: 011-26589983 (r), 26589493 (o), 9313195247 (m), 9810197511 (m)

E mail- neetak.hq@icmr.gov.in, neetakumar50@gmail.com

Educational qualifications

Qualification Year Marks% Board Division

High School 1985 80% U.P. Board First

I. Sc. 1987 68% U.P. Board First

M.B.B.S. 1993 58% G.S.V.M. Medical College, Kanpur Univ.

Internship 1994 L.L.R.H. & Associated Hospital, Kanpur

M.D. 1999 K.G.M.C. Lucknow. Radiation Oncology

Certificate course in Child Nutrition 2004,
Post graduate diploma in Health and Family welfare-2006
Certified Art of Living Yoga Teacher 2012

Synopsis:

1. Program Officer/Scientist handled Innovation and Technology, Diabetes, MCH

Research at ICMR Head Quarters, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-29, September 2004 - till
date.

2. Research Associate, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (A.I.I.M.S.), New Delhi.
Worked as site team leader on ICMR task force project on Prevalence of osteoporosis in
adult population in India and Indian reference value. March 2003 to September, 2004

3. Registrar, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Department of Oncology and

Radiotherapy, New Delhi. Assigned duties comprised of clinical research, administrative
tasks, teaching and management of patients referred from ENT, Surgery, and Gynecology
departments for cancer management., September 1999 to January 2003

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4. Senior Resident, Batra Hospital and Research Center, Ambedkar Nagar, New Delhi.
July 1999- August 1999

5. Trained at S.G.P.G.I., Lucknow for Remote after-loading Brach therapy & interstitial
implant in Cancer treatment, Dec 1998

6. Post graduation in Radiation Oncology from King George Medical College, Lucknow,
August, 1996 to July, 1999

7. Resident Medical officer, Vivekanand Hospital and Research Center, Moradabad,

May1994 to July1996.

Publications:

1. Role of oxidative stress while

controlling iron deficiency anemia Neeta Kumar et al. Indian J of
among pregnant women- Indian Biochemistry 24 (1): 5-14. 2009
scenario. Full text online indexed journal in Index Copernicus,

2. Salt restriction may jeopardize K. Kumar, Neeta Kumar et al rapid response

the elimination of Iodine Deficiency posted on BMJ. 3 May 2007 Submitted in
Disorder: response to the article with citation 131 in
BMJ 2007;334:885 (28 April), doi:10.1136
3. Kuppuswamy's socioeconomic Kumar N, Shekhar C, Kumar P, Kundu AS.
status scale-updating for 2007. Indian J Pediatr, 74:1131-2, 2007. Ind J
( highest cited article of IJP) Pediatr is SCImago journal rank (SJR): Top 20
Indian journals, SJR .067

4. Prevalence and functional Madhava Rao Vupputuri, Ravinder Goswami,

significance of 25-hydroxyvitamin D
deficiency and vitamin D receptor
gene polymorphisms in Asian
Indians.
5. “Glycemic Index and Glycemic
load- the Key to Manage Diet in
Diabetes”
6. How relevant is CA-125 tumour
marker in cancer of ovary a clinical
study
7. Tumor marker CA-125 as an
evaluator and response indicator in
ovarian cancer: its quantitative
correlation with tumor volume.
Nandita Gupta, Debarti Ray, Nikhil Tandon
and Neeta Kumar. American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition 83 (No. 6): 1411-1419,
2006Online ISSN: 1938-3207
AJCN's impact factor of 6.6 ranks it first
among 36 peer-reviewed journals in ISI's
Nutrition
Neeta Kumar, C Shekhar, A Mukherjee, A
Rao IDR-Indian Drug Review: 12 (1): 2006.
IDR (Indian Drug Review) is monthly
periodical,
P Kumar, MMR, Lalit Kumar, Raju Sharma, R
Choudhary, S Thulkar, Neeta Kumar. Obs&
Gynae Today. 10 (8): 2005
ICMR’s union catalogue of journals in ICMR
libraries, Article comes under popular
category
P. Kumar, M. M. Rehani, L. Kumar, R.
Sharma, N. Bhatla, R. Chaudhary, S. Thulkar,
K. R. Sundaram, Neeta Kumar. Med Sci
Monit 11(2): CR84-89 2005

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8. Ethnic Variation of Host and
risk Factors in Silent epidemic of
Osteoporosis.
9. “Evaluation of post treatment
changes and fertility status in
gestational trophoblastic tumour”.
Impact factor: 1.607 for the year 2007,
article Citation in pubmed-one
Downloads=900,Full text online
Neeta Kumar, AC Ammini, N. Tandon, R.
Goswami, D. Kumar, A. Singh Orthopaedics
Today, 4(4): 240-244, 2004
Available with ICMR’s union catalogue of
journals in ICMR libraries
U. Hemal, Y. Kumar, Neeta Kumar. Obs
Gynae Today, 22(2): 2004
ISSN-0971-8133,
listed at No. 1664 in ICMR’s union catalogue
of journals in ICMR libraries, Article comes
under popular category

10. “Two cases of rare presentation Neeta Kumar, YKS. AKR, RVK, P Kumar
of basal cell carcinoma and sqamous Case Rep Indian Journal of Dermatology
cell carcinoma on the hand.” Venereology and Leprology 68 (6): 349-351
2002.
Available full version at
www.ijdvl.com/article.asp?issn=0378-6323;
IJDVL is indexed Journal with Impact
factor:.588 for 2008
Article got Citations by 2 indexed journals
11. Protective role of radiotherapy Neeta Kumar, Srivastava M, Y.K. Saxena,
on oxidative stress in oral cancer. A.K. Rathi. Rad Oncol 39(1): 18-20, 2003
The official publication of Northern Chapter
Association of Radiation Oncologists of India.
12. Imaging features in uterine AV U Hemal, Neeta Kumar, Y.K.S., M.K.
malformation in a case of Narula.Obs. Gynae. Today 8(2): 87-88, 2003
Gestational Trophoblastic Tumour. ISSN-0971-8133, listed in ICMR’s union
catalogue of journals in ICMR libraries at No.
1664.

13. Host and risk factors in Neeta Kumar, Y.K.S., A.K. Rathi, R. Chitra, P
Gestational Trophoblastic Disease: Kumar. Med. Sci. Monit. 9(10), 442-447, 2003
A hospital based analysis. p-ISSN 1234-1010, e-ISSN 1634-3750,
Impact factor: 1.607 for the year 2007
14. Evaluation of tumor blood flow Neeta Kumar, Y.K.S. U. Hemal, M. Narula.
as indicator of the behavior and Obs. Gynae. Today. 7(12), 708-711, 2002
treatment response in persistent ISSN-0971-8133,
gestational trophoblastic tumor. listed at No. 1664 in ICMR’s union catalogue
of journals in ICMR libraries, Article comes
under popular category

15. Childhood Rhabdomyosarcoma: Neeta Kumar, Y.K.S. Paed Today 1:28-34,

Need for early diagnosis and 2002.
management. ISSN-0972-0537, listed in ICMR’s union
catalogue of journals in ICMR libraries
No. 1706

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16. Cancer prevention: How much Neeta Kumar. Hosp. Today. 7(9): 468-472,
is under our control? 2002. Hospital Today, listed in ICMR’s union
catalogue
17. Y. Kumar, Neeta Kumar. ISSN-NO - 0972-2203
Nutritional care of terminally ill Citations: two
cancer patient. Curr. Med. J. North.
Z. 8(5): 27-32, 2002
18. Kuppuswamy’s Socioeconomic Neeta Kumar et al. Indian Journal of
Status Scale-Updating.for 2007. Pediatrics, Volume 74—December, 2007.
1131-1132.
Cited by 226
19. Role of oxidative stress while Neeta Kumar, N. Chandhiok, B S Dhillon, et
controlling iron deficiency al.Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry.
anemia during pregnancy - 2009: (24); 1, 5-14.
Indian scenario. cited by-6, full length available online

20. Temporal Trends of Arun Kumar et al, Neeta Kumar • Ind J Clin
Malondialdehyde in Stored Human Biochem (Oct-Dec 2012) 27(4):405–409
Plasma. available in 11 versions full length online
21. Kuppuswamy’s Socioeconomic Neeta Kumar et al. Indian Journal of Public
Scale: Updating Income, Ranges Health, Volume 56, Issue 1, January-March,
for the Year 2012. 2012
Topping the list of most popular articles, IJPH.
Cited by 77, downloads: 44000, pdf printed-
3,322, view by 44k
22. Comprehensive Yogic V P Jyotsna, A Joshi, S Ambekar, Neeta
Breathing program improves quality Kumar, A Dhawan, V Sreenivas. Ind J of
of life in patients with Diabetes Endocrinology and metabolism. 3 (16):423-
427, may -June 2012
Cited by 16, Viewed by 1188, Printed-60, PDF
downloads-560.

23. Cardiac autonomic function in Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2013 May-Jun;

patients with diabetes improves
with practice of comprehensive
yogic breathing program.
24. Health Need Assessment and
Health Seeking Behaviour
among Construction Site
Workers and Homeless in South
Delhi.
17(3): 480–485. Viveka P. Jyotsna, Smita
Ambekar, Rajiv Singla, Ansumali Joshi, Anju
Dhawan, Neeta Kumar, K. K. Deepak,
cited by 7,
Indian J Endocrinol Metab
free online, indexed in pubmed
Meenakshi, Neeta Kumar, Neeru Gupta.
Research and Reviews: A Journal of Medicine
ISSN: 2249 –8648, Special Issue 2013 , p123-
129.
online journals stmjournals.com/index

25. Randomized Controlled Trial in Neeta Kumar, Sushma

Advance Stage Breast Cancer Bhatnagar et al Indian J
Patients for the Effectiveness on Palliative Care. 2013 Sep-Dec; 563
Stress Marker and Pain through 19(3): 1 80–185.
Sudarshan Kriya and Pranayam. Citations” 11, 4 in PMC

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 Number of times this article was
viewed online
downloads-73
26 Comparison of haematological H. Shankar, Neeta Kumar, D. N. Rao et al.
and biochemical changes between Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2014;
non-anaemic and anaemic Online: 1–4.
primigravid women in a north Indian Impact Factor: 0.611
population to establish normative
values

26. Occupation and morbidity
pattern in a North Indian site:
need for focused health services
for house wife, pensioners and
unemployed.
27. Sudarshan Kriya yoga improves
quality of life in healthy people
living with HIV (PLHIV):
results from an open label
randomized clinical trial
28. Awareness, Practices and
Treatment Seeking Behavior of
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Patients in Delhi.
29. Kuppuswamy scale update for
2015
30. Weekly iron folic acid
supplementation plays
differential role in maintaining
iron markers level in non-
anaemic and anaemic
primigravida: A randomized
controlled study.
31. Prevalence of Hypertension and
Determination of Its Risk
Factors in Rural Delhi.
32. Teenage Pregnancy.
33. Determination of Prevalence of
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by
Screening Tests using a
Mathematical Formula in Place
of Invasive Blood Tests.
Neeta Kumar et al, Journal of Advance Research in
Medicine, Dec 2014
N. Mawar, T. Katendra, R. Bagul, S.
Bembalkar, A. Vedamurthachar, S. Tripathy,
K. Srinivas, K. Mandar, N. Kumar et al.
Indian J Med Res 141, January 2015, pp 90-99
Impact Factor for 2013 is 1.661
Kishore J, Kohli C, Gupta Neeta Kumar et al.
Annals of Medical and Health Sciences
Research | Jul-Aug 2015 | Vol 5 | Issue 4 |open
access
C Kohli. J Kishore, N Kumar. Int. J. Preven.
Curat. Comm. Med. 2015; 1(2). Full length
available online:
Citation 15
Hari Shankar, Neeta Kumar et al. Saudi
Journal of Biological Sciences, Oct 2015
(open accesses) impact factors: 1.257(2014)
Citation 2
Jugal Kishore, Neeru Gupta, Charu Kohli,
and Neeta Kumar. International Journal of
Hypertension.Volume 2016, Article ID
7962595, 6 pages
Neeru Gupta, Neeta Kumar. Ind. J. Youth
Adol. Health 2016; 3(1)
Full length online at
http://medical.adrpublications.com/index.php/
IJoYAH/article/view/680/588
Citation -4
Neeru Gupta, Jugal Kishore, Prakash Chandra
Ray, Charu Kohli, Neeta Kumar
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research.
2016 Jan, Vol-10(1): LC05-LC09
Citation: one

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34. Assessment and Comparison of Rohini Sehgal, Alka Kriplani , Perumal
Pregnancy Outcome among Vanamail, Leema Maiti, Shobha Kandpal,
Anaemic and Non Anaemic Neeta Kumar. Indian Journal of Public
Primigravida Mothers . Full health. Year : 2016 | Volume : 60 | Issue :
length online 3 | Page : 188-194
35. Role of Vitamin D from sun in Editorial, Epidem. Int. 2016; 1(4) ADR
breast cancer Prevention. Neeta journals, ISSN: 2455-7048. Full length online
Kumar, Jugal Kishore, Neeru
Gupta
36. Micronutrients Drift during Ind J Clin Biochem. (2017) page 1-
Daily and Weekly Iron 7.10.1007/s12291-017-0634-9
Supplementation in Non-
anaemic and Anaemic
Pregnancy. Hari Shankar,
Neeta Kumar et al
37. Differential Iron Status and Accepted for Journal: Clinica Chimica Acta
Trafficking in Blood and
Placenta of Anemic and Non-
anemic Primigravida
Supplemented with Daily and
Weekly Iron Folic Acid
Tablets,
38. Scales used in India to Evaluate The Journal of International Medical Sciences
Socio-economic Status in Academy 2017 (Jan – March); Vol 27; No. 1,
Medical Research: Limitations 69-77.
of Existing Scales and the need
of a more Comprehensive One.
Jugal Kishore, Charu Kohli,
Neeta Kumar, Neeru Gupta,
39. "Dietary intake pattern and accepted for publication in EJON- European
micronutrients deficiency in Journal of Nutrition
pregnant women is associated
with low birth weight"
40. Hypertension and its Associated • Nalini Tripathi, Jugal Kishore, Neeta
Risk Factors Detected Kumar. Epidemiology International
throughPortableMobileLabatPH Volume 3, Issue 3 - 2018, Pg. No. 15-
C,Najafgarh,Delhi.NaliniTripat 21.
hi,JugalKishore,NeetaKumar file:///C:/Users/ICMR/Downloads/201
4-7470-2-PB.pdf.

41. A review on complications of • Neeta Kumar1, Neeru Gupta1, KK

the prolonged use of proton
pump inhibitors (PPIs)
And presenting a case of Barrett’s
Esophagus
Jani2, Meenakshi Nagarkar3 , Nimisha
Upadhyay4. J of Advance Research in
Medicine, Vol 5, No 4 No. 14-24
(2018).
file:///C:/Users/ICMR/Downloads/201
5-7605-2-PB%20(1).pdf

42. Digital Diary Tool Under Health

Account Assessment For
Community Participation And

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 Action: An Implementation
Experience From Rural, Urban
And Tribal Field Sites In India.
Neeta Kumar, Neeru Gupta,
Tulsi Adhikari, Nidhi Tiwari, K.
K Ganguly, Charu Kohli, Jiten
Kh, Peter Nabam
43. Association of dietary intake
below recommendations and
micronutrient deficiencies
during pregnancy and low
birthweight.
44. Prevalence of Tools of Digital
Communications among
Population: A ground study in
tribal, rural and urban slum.
45. Validation of eco-enzyme for
improved water quality effect
during large public gathering at
river bank.
46. Assessment of Growth and
Development in Toddlers: A
Mixed Method Approach for
Developmental Surveillance
and Screening by a Healthy
Baby Contest in an Urban
Resettlement Colony of Delhi,
India
47. Early Diagnosis for Chronic
Kidney Disease and its
Associated Risk Factors among
Adults in a Rural Population of
Delhi: A Cross-Sectional Study.
48. Virucidal Effect of Medicinal
Smoke for Mass Fumigation
using Hawan Techniques during
SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: A
Review.
49. Under publication: Accepted
Face mask use and disposal practices
during COVID19 lockdown in India-
online
Survey report.
50.
Under submission:
International Journal of Health Systems and
Implementation Research-2018; 2(2): 4-17.
Shankar, H., Kumar, N., Sandhir, R., et al.
(2019). Journal of Perinatal Medicine [01
Sep 2019, 47(7):724-731]
Neeta Kumar, Neeru Gupta, Chesta Naval,
Tulsi Adhikari, Jiten K. H.,Meenakshi N.
Nidhi Tiwari, K. K. Jani, R. S. Sharma,
Vishnu V. Rao, V. M. Katoch. The Journal of
International Medical Sciences Academy
2018 ; (April – June); Vol 31; No. 2
N. Kumar; R. Yd; A. Yadav; Himani; N.
Gupta; P. Pushp.International Journal of
Human Capital in Urban
Management.(IJHCUM). Int. J. Hum. Capital
Urban Manage., 4(3): 2019.Online
http://www.ijhcum.net/
Acharya AS,Tiwari N, Thakur A, Rasania
SK, Bachani D Khandekar J. Indian Journal
of Medical Specialities ¦ Volume 10 ¦ Issue 3
¦July-sept 2019p 137-142
Tripathi N, Kishore J, Kumar N, Bhatnagar
A, Kumar R, Verm H. J Adv Res Med 2019;
6(4): 20-26.
Neeta Kumar Scientist, Indian Council of
Medical Research,
India. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7518-
5068. Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020): Journal of
Advanced Research in Medical
Neeta Kumar et al. This article is accepted for
publication in July 2021 issue of JIMSA
(Journal of International Medical Sciences
Academy)
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Health account scheme- e-health
1. Assessment of Growth and Development in Toddlers: A Mixed Method
Approach for Developmental Surveillance and Screening by a Healthy
Baby Contest in an Urban Resettlement Colony of Delhi. Acharya
AS,Tiwari N, Thakur A, Rasania SK, Bachani D Khandekar J. India Indian
Journal of Medical Specialities ¦ Volume 10 ¦ Issue 3 ¦July-Sept 2019p 137-
142
2. Assessment of menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls of East Delhi:
A Community based cross-sectional research from an urban
resettlement colony. Acharya AS,Tiwari N, Rasania SK, Bachani D
Khandekar J . y. Submitted to IJCFM
3. Under submission to International Journal in Management and Social
Science- Title: Acceptability of Individual Health Diary for health
account and factors affecting community participation in generating
health data: National Digital Health Mission

Papers from Task force studies conducted By Dr Neeta Kumar:

Weekly iron folic acid supplementation plays differential role in maintaining

iron markers level in non-anaemic and anaemic primigravida: A randomized …
H Shankar, N Kumar, R Sandhir, S Mittal… - Saudi journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Anaemia during pregnancy is most commonly observed and highly prevalent in South-
East Asia. Various effective programmes have been laid down for its management,
mainly daily supplementation of iron folic acid (IFA) tablets. Following the same,
standard obstetrical …
Cited by 3 Related articles All 10 versions

Micronutrients drift during daily and weekly iron supplementation in non-

anaemic and anaemic pregnancy
H Shankar, N Kumar, R Sandhir, S Mittal… - Indian Journal of Clinical …, 2017 -
Springer
Aims Pregnancy is a phenomenon associated with dynamic changes in physical, mental
and biochemical status of body and demands increased nutritional intake for developing
foetus. Cited by 2 Related articles All 5 versions

Temporal trends of malondialdehyde in stored human plasma

…, BS Dhillon, DN Rao, G Menon, H Shankar… - Indian Journal of Clinical …, 2012 -
Springer
Malondialdehyde (MDA) is widely used as oxidative stress biomarker in biomedical
research. Plasma is stored in deep freezers generally till analysis. Effect of such storage
on MDA values, which may be variable and prolong, was incidentally observed in the
ongoing

Association of dietary intake below recommendations and micronutrient

deficiencies during pregnancy and low birthweight
H Shankar, N Kumar, R Sandhir, MP Singh… - Journal of Perinatal …, 2019 -
degruyter.com
Background Pregnancy is associated with biochemical changes leading to increased
nutritional demands for the developing fetus that result in altered micronutrient status.
The Indian dietary pattern is highly diversified and the data about dietary intake patterns,
blood

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 a) In process to propose two new proposals for medical innovation funds. One is for
health impact of environment sanitation measures on health, another is home
remedy in user-friendly ready to use device for application and for massage using
mechanical massage arm for treatment of pain, inflammation and arthritis
b) 'Prevalence of dyslipidemia and its determinants in rural Delhi'. A copy of the
acknowledgment mail is attached here with for your reference.
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism has received your manuscript
entitled "Prevalence of dyslipidemia and its determinants in rural Delhi" for
consideration for publication. The reference number for this manuscript is
"IJEM_98_17".

Co-opted members of scientific bodies:

• IGNOU expert committee: meeting held IGNOU, New Delhi on 20 Feb 2019 to
refresh the training curriculum of home health guide. To improve trained health
care providers, self employed human resources in health care at grass root level
/at the community for all ailments, since supportive and preventive care is
required at home or nearby home. We needed such a program /curriculum under
Health Account Scheme - ICMR Task Force. The IGNOU Committee members
endorsed my recommendations to include ICMR Validated IM-Techo mobile
education program, ASHA manual, Yoga manual of AYUSH and VVKI program
for soft skills development under this training curriculum of "Home Health
Guide- IGNOU certification course.

• ICMR Review committee of scrutiny of scientist C And D, applications,

screening of 2500 applications was done during June July 2019, at ICMR hqrs,
New Delhi.

• The Secretary DST appointed – Dr Neeta Kumar, co-opted expert committee

member of Science and Technology for Women Scheme (SEED) grant to
develop and adapt appropriate technologies transfer of technologies, drudgery
reduction, addressing the challenges related to women health and nutrition,
gender equality and empowerment of women through inputs of science and
technology vide letter no. SEED/I/WS/07/2017 dated 30-10-2019.

Chapter in book

1. Neeta Kumar. Ovarian Cancer: Management and recent advances. In: Gynaecology
online. (Edt.) Mediworld Publications Ltd., New Delhi, 2002

Co authored- Reports:
• Population based reference standards of Peak Bone Mineral Density of Indian
males and females – an ICMR multi-centre task force study.
http://www.icmr.nic.in/final/ICMR%20Tech%20Report%20_BMDRefStds2010.
pdf

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 • 12th Plan Document of ICMR 2012-17

Research gate analysis on September 2016

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Papers in conferences

1. N. Kumar, M. Srivastava, M. Chandra, A Ghatak. Status of oxy- free radicals in

malignancy and effect of radiation treatment on them. XII UP chapter symposium of
Association of Radiation Oncologists of India, AMU, Aligarh, 4 April 1999.

2. Neeta Kumar, H.R. Mali, M. Chandra, Y.K. Saxena. Effect of Vitamin E in

oxidative stress in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy. Northern India Chapter of
Association of Radiation Oncologists of India, Ludhiana, 1999.

3. Neeta Kumar and Y.K. Saxena. Evaluation of tumour blood flow as indicator of
the behaviour and response to treatment in persistent gestational trophoblastic tumour.
AROI 2001, Chandigarh.

4. Neeta Kumar and Y.K. Saxena. Persistent gestational trophoblastic tumour – post
treatment changes and their significance. AROI 2001, Chandigarh.

5. Y.K. Saxena and Neeta Kumar. Incidence, host-factors and treatment response
analysis of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease. VIIIth Northern Chapter of AORI,
Amritsar, 2001.

6. P. Kumar, P. Douggal, A Kumar, Neeta Kumar. An audit of radioiodine treatment

of differentiated thyroid cancer. International Conference on Medical Physics, Mumbai,
2001.

7. P Kumar, L. Kumar, R Sharma, N Bhatla, Neeta Kumar. Quantitative correlation

between tumour marker CA 125 and ovarian cancer tumour volume: Issue of monitoring
of response. Annual Medical Physics Conference AMPI, Jaipur 15-17 Nov 2002.

8. Y.K. Saxena, Neeta Kumar. Pregnancy outcome in patients of gestational

trophoblastic tumor receiving cancer chemotherapy. North zone annual conference of
AORI, Ludhiana, Oct 2002.

9. Neeta Kumar, Y.K. Saxena, A.K. Rathi. Prognostic significance of speed of

regression of cancer of ovary during Cisplatinum and Cycliphosphamide based treatment.
North zone annual conference of AORI, Ludhiana, Oct 2002.

10. 15th Annual Conference of the Association of Gynecologic Oncologist of India,

AGOICON 2006, at A.I.I.M.S. New Delhi, from November 24-25,2006. Presented Poster
entitled “What After GTD- Neeta Kumar”.

11. Presented Poster entitled “Time trend analysis: prevalence of anemia in India”-
Kumar N et al, at National Symposium on “Problems of anemia in India: Genetics and

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environment”; Held on Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan, Kolkata on November 30,
December 1-2. 2007

12. An analytical review of bone mineral density changes during the menopausal
transition: Neeta Kumar et al. Poster at IMSCON 08, 13th annual conference, held at
Government medical College Jammu, 14-16 march 2008.

13. Poster in the International Conference on Radiobiology and Translational Research

in Radiation Oncology, Jaipur India, 10-12, November 2008. Oxidative stress status
during chemo-surgical management of locally advanced breast carcinoma.

14. “Health Account Scheme- HAS, pioneering multisectoral coordination and

empowering people for health care” Paper presented at 3rd International Conference on
Health GIS 2009, at July 24-26, 2009 , International Convention Center (HICC),
Hyderabad, India

15. Oral presentation of the Paper “Socio-behavioral factors affecting breast self
examination for early detection of breast cancer: assessment of community’s need”
P Gupta, Neeta Kumar, P Kumar at 18th Annual Conference of NARCHI, Delhi on 5-7th
September 2009, JLN AIIMS, New Delhi

16. International Workshop on Micronutrients and Child Health to be held at All India
Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi from 20-23rd October 2009. Hospital based
evaluation of hemoglobin and iron supplementation’s narrow range for optimum
birth outcome.

17. Effect on quality of life and glycemic control, antioxidant status and lipid
profile in patients with diabetes mellitus with rhythmic breathing (Sudarshan Kriya
Yoga and Pranayam) in addition to standard treatment of diabetes. Authors: Ansumali
Joshi, Smita Ambekar, Neeta Kumar, Anju Dhawan, KK Deepak, Mamta Bhushan Singh,
Nandita Gupta, S K Maulik, Nand Kumar, V Sreenivas, Jyotsna VP. Presented in RSSDI
Delhi Chapter meet 2010. on 19th Sept, 2010

18. Presented Paper in conference: International conference on Gyne-Endocrinology,

17-18 April 2011 at AIIMS, New Delhi Title “Increased risk of impaired glucose
tolerance with increasing hemoglobin in pregnancy- ICMR Task force study”

19. Effect on quality of life and Glycemic control in patients with Diabetes mellitus
with rhythmic breathing (Sudarshan Kriya yoga and Pranayam) in addition to standard
treatment of Diabetes. A Joshi, S Ambedkar, Neeta Kumar, A Dhawan, V Sreenivas,
Jyotsna VP. Presented in 4rth Diabetes India International Conference, April 15-17, 2011,
Taj Palace Hotal, New Delhi, India, Theme Changing Paradigms.

20. Health needs and literacy rates of the construction site workers and homeless
in Delhi. Neeta Kumar. Presented at Ist International conference on Occupational and
environmental health. 1-2 March 2013, National Science center, Pragati Maidan, new
Delhi-11001.

21. Paper presented in 1st International conference on occupational and

environmental health. 1-2 March 2013 New Delhi, India, organized by OHS-MCH
and Department of community medicine, MAMC, Delhi. Title: Health needs and
literacy of the construction site workers and homeless in Delhi. Neeta Kumar

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22. Presented One Paper and one poster at International Conference on Stress
reduction skills scientific updates, 30-31st August 2014, IIT Delhi in collaboration
of SriSriGMDA and AIIMS. Title “Antitumor effect observed on prostaglandin
levels in RCT with intervention of Sudarshan Kriya Pranayam in advance stage
breast cancer patients”.

23. Poster “Meditation is controlling blood sugar in uncontrolled diabetes- A case

report” at Conference on Stress reduction skills scientific updates, 30-31st August
2014, IIT Delhi in collaboration of SriSriGMDA and AIIMS.

24. Paper CO-Author- Effect of SKY on pain and quality of life of cancer patients” at
Conference on Stress reduction skills scientific updates, 30-31st August 2014, IIT
Delhi in collaboration of SriSriGMDA and AIIMS.

25. Best paper award authored “Effect of SKY on quality of life of HIV positive
patients” at Conference on Stress reduction skills scientific updates, 30-31st August
2014, IIT Delhi in collaboration of SriSriGMDA and AIIMS Chaired by Hon’ble
Health Minister.

26. Poster- “Need of skill development of health volunteers within the community in
imparting Preventive Health Education: An Experience. Neeta Kumar, Chesta
Naval, Neeru Gupta, Tulsi Adhikari, Kalyan Ganguly. At 2nd International
Conference on Occupational & Environmental Health, 26-28 September 2014,
New Delhi

27. Presented Paper “Relationship between Occupation and morbidity prevalence in a

North Indian site. Neeta Kumar, Chesta Naval, Neeru Gupta, Tulsi Adhikari. At
2nd International conference on occupational & environmental Health, 26-28
September 2014, New Delhi
28. Presented paper Title: IT for healthcare delivery and management: The concept of
Health Account Scheme-HAS, a web based application at National Conference on
Medical Informatics 2014” to be held at AIIMS New Delhi on 30th - 31st Oct
2014.
29. Presented Paper title “Healthcare knowledge management: Use of health
educators and constant status update on health accounts scheme website for
promoting preventive health.” At National Conference on Medical Informatics
2014” to be held at AIIMS New Delhi on 30th - 31st Oct 2014
30. Presented Paper Titled’ Weekly Iron Folic Acid (Ifa) Supplementation During
Pregnancy Plays Differential Role In Anaemic And Non-Anaemic Primigravidas:
Preliminary Analysis. At “2nd International Congress on Micronutrients and
Child Health, 3-6 November 2014 at AIIMS.
31. Co author / Presented Paper Titled “A Comparison of Selected Nutrient Intakes
in Anemic and non-anemic Pregnant Women”. Parmeet Kaur, Arun Kumar, Tulsi
Adhikari, Jiten Singh, Radhika Madhari, Hari shankar, Neeta kumar, At “2nd
International Congress on Micronutrients and Child Health, 3-6 November 2014
at AIIMS.
32. Poster titled “Stress and Medical Professionals: Burden and Evidence Base
solution of comprehensive Yogic Breathing Intervention” presented at SYSCON-
2014: Recent Advances in Biological Sciences, 10-12-2014 at JLN, AIIMS, New
Delhi.

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33. Co-authored poster Number 211, podium 1034 “Health literacy and need assessment
of construction workers and homeless in Delhi” at World congress on public health
February 11-15, 2015 at Science city, Kolkata, India.
34. Presented paper “Occupation of waste segregation: health economics and
environmental evaluation” Hindi Sangoshthi at NIOH Ahmadabad on 20-21
February, 2015 at National Conference of Scientists- Hindi: occupation and health”
Auditorium, NIOH, Ahmadabad.
35. Invited as Yoga Instructor by Director NIMS- Dr Arvind Pandey for session on - Desk-
Top Yoga Demonstrations, on 19th June 2015 at ICMR headquarters, Conference
Room on the occasion of “International Yoga Day” lecture on Yoga and Health at
various occasions.
36. Conducted three yoga camps (each for duration of one week in morning 5-6 AM) at
Panchsheel Park, Dakshin Puri slum and AIIMS campus for senior citizens, slum
dwellers. Trained 96 participants on the occasion of International yoga day during June
2015, continuing this year (2016) too.
37. Team leader- deputed by Ministry of AYUSH- for 50 participants on the
International Yoga day celebrations to make world record at Rajpath on 21st June 2015.
38. Presented Paper: “Emerging issues on environment occupational health and safety
in solid waste management: review of legislation, identified technological
solutions for gaps of implementation” at National conference 22-24th July 2015 at
Regional Occupational Health Centre (Southern), Bengaluru
39. Co authored “Influence of maternal nutritional status on pregnancy outcomes”.
Parmeet Kaur, Suneeta Mittal, Arun Kumar, Tulsi Adhikari, Neeta Kumar. At
International Conference on advances in Human Nutrition, Food Science and
Technology, 26-27 June, 2016- Toronto, Canada. (978-0-9951985-7)
40. Participated discussion in ICMR Hqrs 23-2-2017. “Knowledge to action: dengue
chickungunea outbreaks in Delhi”.

41. Got 2nd Prize from Hon’ble Minister of AYUSH- and cash Rs 2500/- in poster
competition during International Yoga Fest organised by Ministry of AYUSH,
Government of India and MDNIY, New Delhi 8-10 March, 2017 at Talkatora Indoor
Stadium-110004.

42. “व्यावसायिक एवं पिाावरणीि स्वास््ि समस्‍िाएँ एवं यिवारण” यवषि पर दो ददवसीि यितीि
राष्‍ट‍रीि वैज्ञायिक ह ंदी संगोष्‍ट‍ठी 21-22 मार्ा, 2017. Presented two papers :

शीषाक 1. : पिाावरण व स्वास््य की सुरक्षा : एक तुलनात्मक वववेचना .

43. Presented Original research paper titled: Stress status of students after Youth
Leadership Training program (YLTP) – workshop of Yoga, personality and
communication skills” in the National Yoga Seminar at auditorium, Apollo Hospital,
New Delhi on 16th May 2018.
44. Presented paper/literature review titled “Role of Yoga Meditation on aging,
immunity and mortality: Highly cited Research findings showing yoga can beat
aging” at National Seminal Yoga 2019 organized by Archna Yogathan at Auditorium
Apollo hospital, sarita vihar, New Delhi on 16 May 2019.
45. Exhibited ICMR achievements in technology and innovation in three days workshop
at IIT Delhi from 10-12 august 2019, organized by Tech4 Seva, Unnat Bharat
Abhiyaan and Vigyaan Bharti. 35 posters, 12 live models were displayed and explained
to faculties, students, NGOs and industry.

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E- communications / electronic letters to BMJ: Seventeen (separate list)
• Iron supplementation for unexplained fatigue in non-anaemic women: double blind
randomised placebo controlled trial. BMJ 2003; 326 doi:
10.1136/bmj.326.7399.1124 (Published 22 May 2003) Cite this as: BMJ
2003;326:1124

• Hapcidin, serum transferrin receptors etc are better indices of iron status than
erstwhile indicators of serum ferritin and transferring. Published on 2 April
2012, url: http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7399/1124/rr/576991

• What is the time period of storage of samples and what are the normative
values of antioxidant measurements to compare and interpret the results in
mothers/newborns. 9 April 2012. Re:

• Effects of alternative maternal micronutrient supplements on low birth

weight in rural Nepal: double blind randomised community trial. Parul
Christian, Subarna K Khatry, Joanne Katz, Elizabeth K Pradhan, Steven C
LeClerq, et al. 326:doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7389.571.Caring for babies of very low
birth weight.. . 2:doi:10.1136/bmj.2.6145.1105

• Abolishing user fees is a welcome idea but instead of free investigations and
treatment a Health Insurance Model ought to be sought. Jugal Kishore, Neeru
Gupta, Neeta Kumar, KK Jani. 31 October 2012. Re: India proposes free primary
care to help achieve universal healthcare coverage. Meera Kay.
345:doi:10.1136/bmj.e7347

1. Salt is actually essential electrolytes viz., Sodium and chloride. Thu, 2011-12-
01 12:28. Re: Policy options to reduce population salt intake. Francesco P
Cappuccio, Simon Capewell, Paul Lincoln, Klim McPherson.
343:doi:10.1136/bmj.d4995

Seminars and workshop organizer/participation as Delegate/ Invited speaker:

1. Indo-U.S. Maternal and child health and Human Development research Program, New
Delhi, September 29-30, 2004

2. Workshop on “Risk factors for Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in India” 27-28
September 2004, Sponsored by I.C.M.R. and N.I.H. New Delhi.

3. National Seminar on ‘Importance of Zinc in Human Health’, October 25-26, 2004.

4. JWJ meeting on “Role of camel milk in diabetes” October 6, 2004, New Delhi.

5. Journal club seminar “Zinc in severe pneumonia in very young children- double blind
placebo controlled trial”- Lancet, Vol 363, May22, 2004, by W Abdullah et al on 16
October, 2004-12-02

6. Joint parliamentary committee meeting on pesticide level in Indian food, 10 September

04

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7. Project review Group meeting (PRG), 24.12.04, New Delhi.

8. Attended workshop on JCCC@ICMR to update literature search technique on 30

march2005, New Delhi.

9. Expert group meeting on the issue of deworming at mass level to combat nutritional
anemia, on 18 March 2005 at headquarter, New Delhi

10. Fourth task force meeting on project entitled ‘Prevalence of Osteoporosis and
reference value for Indian Population” on 29 March 2005, New Delhi

11. Investigator’s meeting of ICMR Task force study on “Osteoporosis Prevalence and
Indian reference values” on 17th February, 2006 at ICMR Head quarters, New Delhi,
29.

12. National workshop on “Development of Guidelines for effective home based care and
treatment of children suffering from acute severe under nutrition” at A.I.I.M.S. New
Delhi on 13th November 2005.

13. National Conference on “Eradication for better health and higher economic growth”
organized by ILSI with MOHFW at Napoleon hall, Hotel Meridian, New Delhi on
October 28-29, 2005.

14. Presented paper “Combating iron deficiency anemia by improved managerial

strategies and universal deworming” in journal club meeting held on July 16, 2005 at
Conference room, ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi.

15. International workshop on “Socio-behavioral aspects of Microbicide trials for HIV

prevention, New Delhi, December 5-6, 2005 at ICMR Head Quarters.

16. World conference on Expanding Paradigm: Science, Consciousness & Spirituality”

held at Siri forte auditorium, New Delhi on 24-25 February 2006.

17. “Food Safety and Food Rights: Emerging Challenges to Health, Nutrition and Farmers
Livelihood” on 22nd and 23rd March 2006 at India international center, New Delhi.

18. Workshop on “Ethical Review for protection of human participants involved in

research” organized by BMS division at ASSOCHAM House, New Delhi on 29 April
2006.

19. Workshop “Maternal and Early Childhood Infections, Interplay, prevention and
management” by ICMR, DBT &NIH-USA, on 19-20, 2006, at Silver Oak, Habitat
world, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi-03. Prepared document of
workshop proceedings”

20. 5th Meeting of the Joint working group on maternal and child health and human
development research (MCHDR), on 21-22 nd September, 2006 at ICMR Head
quarters, New Delhi. Prepared document of summary of proposal and review
comments for expert review circulation.

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21. Symposium on Indian contraceptive technology, MOHFW &ICMR, Convention
center, SCOPE Complex, New Delhi, on 11-10-2006. Prepared report “Document
of Indian contraceptive technologies”.

22. 1st meeting of Task Force on Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy, held on March
17, 2006, at ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi

23. ICMR-WHO Workshop on “Identifying strategies for data collection In Diabetes” at

India international center, New Delhi, on 28-29 November 2006. Prepared report of
Session III covering topic of “Diabetes data capture-Panel discussion on data
registration”

24. “Workshop on Qualitative Research Methodologies”. 15-19 January, 2007 ICMR head
Quarters, New Delhi.

25. “Committee on budget review for INDO-US collaborative research projects”. 12 Feb.
2007, ICMR Head quarters, New Delhi.

26. Acted as Member organizing committee for stage arrangements in the “Conference on
recent advances and challenges in reproductive health research” 19-21 February 2007,
New Delhi.

27. Reviewed proposals (n- one hundred and eight) which were submitted to ICMR under
“STS research Scheme” during 2-6 March 2007, at ICMR Head quarters, New Delhi

28. Member selection committee for post of statistical assistant at ICMR Head quarters,
New Delhi on 13th March 2007.

29. Assisted in Project Review Group Meeting on Maternal and child health held on 18-
05-2007. Presented one task force study and four ad-hoc research projects.

30. Assistance in Scientific Advisory Group meeting held on 17 July, 2007 at ICMR Head
quarters. Rapporteur for four sessions on maternal and child health and nutrition.

31. Convened Diabetes Project Review Group (PRG) for review of ad-hoc research
proposal on Diabetes Mellitus. 17th August, 2007 at ICMR Head Quarters, New Delhi-
29

32. Sixth Indo –US collaborative JWG on Maternal and Child Health Research. Held on
17-19 September, 2007 at ICMR, New Delhi.

33. IIIrd Medical development congress, September, 2007 at ASSOCHAM HOUSE, New
Delhi. Theme “ Can Traditional Wisdom be Super Modern”

34. 8th Albert Howard Memorial Lecture on “The Politics of Food” by Marion Nestle on
2nd October, 2007 at IIC, New Delhi.

35. Regional meeting on regulatory issues in Microbicide research on 28-31 October 2007
at Hotel Le Meridian, New Delhi, India

36. Conference on role of micronutrients in child development: Give kids a good start on
December 14, 2007, New Delhi

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37. Member, Local organizing committee Microbicide International conference Feb 2008
held at Hotel Ashoka, New Delhi

38. Participated in The Symposium on Ethical Issues Related to sexual & Reproductive
Health Research, organized by WHO-CCR, and ICMR at Department of Obs and
Gyne, AIIMS, New Delhi on 17-18May 2010.

39. Coordinated for the Project Review Group meeting on Diabetes, 13 June 2008 at ICMR
head quarters, New Delhi and prepared minutes.

40. Project Review Group meeting on Maternal Health, 25 June, 2008 at ICMR Head
quarters, New Delhi.

41. Open Forum-Strategies and Guidelines for safe second trimester abortion in India, 29-
30 June-2008, At AIIMS, New Delhi.

42. NIAID, NIH Grants Policy and Management Training taking place in New Delhi, July
30 – August 1, 2008

43. Third Sub-Committee of Parliament on official language on 26-11-2008 at Vigyan

Bhawan, committee Hall A, New Delhi.

44. Lancet India Series workshop on “Health information system of India” held on 6th
November 2008, Hotel Le meridian, New Delhi India.

45. Ranbaxy: lifestyle and cancer, 28th November, 2008, JLNA. AIIMS, New Delhi.

46. Member committee to draft guidelines for safe second trimester abortion in India, held
on June 29-30, 2008 at Department of Obs and Gyne, AIIMS, New Delhi.

47. 9th Seminar on critical appraisal of a randomized control trial report: Validity, held at
Clinical Epidemiology unit, AIIMS on 8th March 2009

48. “How to critically appraise an article” Seminar of Clinical Epidemiology unit at

AIIMS, New Delhi held on 31 Jan. 2009.

49. Coordinated for the Project Review Group meeting on Maternal Health 26th May
2009 at ICMR head quarters, New Delhi.

50. Coordinated for the Project Review Group meeting on Diabetes, 31st July 2009 at
ICMR head quarters, New Delhi and prepared minutes.

51. Member Organizing committee “Research Methodology workshop for North-East”

sponsored by ICMR in collaboration of Government Medical College & Hospital,
Guhawati, Assam on 3-5th September, 2009.

52. Attended lecture - "Epidemiology Without Borders" Prof. Peter

Byass from Epidemiology and Global Health, Dept. of Public Health and Clinical
Medicine, Umea University, Sweden on November 10, 2009 (Tuesday) at 3.30 p.m. in
Lecture Theatre _ III, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

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53. Project Review Group Meeting: Diabetes, 24-2-2010, 2nd Floor, Conference Hall,
NIMS (National Institute of Medical Statistics) ICMR

54. Project Review Group Meeting: Diabetes, (Ad-Hoc, ICMR- UoM & Glucometer
development), 11-6-2010, 2nd Floor, Conference Hall, NIMS (National Institute of
Medical Statistics) ICMR

55. Member Organizing committee “Indo-US Joint Working Group on Maternal and Child
Health and Human Development Research Programme Workshop on “Maternal &
Neonatal Sepsis” Venue: National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Auditorium,
Teaching Block,, Munirka, New Delhi-110067, October 25-26, 2010

56. Members organizing committee- “Workshop on Adolescent Obesity and Diabetes

Indian Council of Medical Research, Govt. of India & The University of Sydney and
The George Institute. Date: 10-11/2/2010, Venue: Hyderabad

57. Member Organizer : Expert group meeting Development of Glucose sensor, 11 June
2010, ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi

58. Member Organizer: GDM Task force and Diabetes Ad-hoc research projects review
group meeting. 28th October 2010 at ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi
59. Expert Member at the Symposium on “Evidence to action” for reducing maternal
and newborn mortality and morbidity” on 29-30 December 2010 at Board room,
AIIMS, New Delhi. Rapporteur for the session on “Preventing unintended pregnancy and
promoting safe abortion”
60. Attended Workshop on Developing a Cochrane systemic review & Meta-Analysis
protocol, Clinical Epidemiology unit, AIIMS, 26-27 March 2011, designated as faculty
member.
61. IAP-RCPCH-PGI-AIIMS course on “How to teach evidence based medicine, Department
of Pediatrics, AIIMS, 22-24th February 2011
62. Effect on quality of life and Glycemic control in patients with Diabetes mellitus with
rhythmic breathing (Sudarshan Kriya yoga and Pranayam) in addition to standard
treatment of Diabetes. A Joshi, S Ambedkar, Neeta Kumar, A Dhawan, V Sreenivas,
Jyotsna VP. Presented in 4rth Diabetes India International Conference, April 15-17,
2011, Taj Palace Hotal, New Delhi, India, Theme Changing Paradigms.
63. Course Faculty “Workshop on Designing Clinical Research Thesis, 15-16th January
2011 at Ramalingaswami Board Room, AIIMS. Delivered lecture on : Funds from ICMR
for clinical research”.
64. Organised: Meeting of Project Review Group on Diabetes on 14th January 2011 at ICMR
Headquarters, Conference Room, 301. Discussed proposals ICMR University of
Minnesota on diabetes research-3, Glucometer development -3, New ad-hoc research- 14,
Ongoing project report review- 3. Total Projects 23.
65. Rapproteur for women’s health, Diabetes, Indo-US program: MCH Meeting of Scientific
advisory group on 21st October, 2011 at ICMR Hqrs.
66. Co-Organizer- ICMR-INSERM Workshop–(Diabetes Mellitus Research), Workshop on
“Gene Environment interactions, Epigenetics, Nutrition and Drugs in Diabetes”.
October 16-18, 2011 Gatel, Jodhpur
67. Organized: Workshop on the project writing skills and how to submit proposal to ICMR,
Date: 18-10-2011, Jodhpur Medical College, Jodhpur, Convener: Dr Neeta Kumar
68. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GYNAE ENDOCRINOLOGY-2011, 16TH
TH
& 17 APRIL 2011, Venue: J.L.N. Auditorium, AIIMS< New Delhi . Presented paper on
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

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69. Course Faculty “Tutorial - How to quit Tobacco” on 18th June 2011 at Asian Institute of
Medical Sciences, Faridabad.
70. Course Faculty “Workshop on Designing Clinical Research Thesis, 26-27 October, 2011
at CN Center Conference Room, AIIMS.
71. Organizing secretary: Meeting of PRG on Diabetes and glucose sensing device
development on 28-11-2011 at ICMR Hqrs.
72. Member secretary: Meeting for software specification for Health Account Scheme- on
3rd November 2011 and 7-12-2011 at ICMR Hqrs
73. Member secretary” meeting for NIC empanelled companies to evaluate suitability for
Health accounting scheme on 18th Jan 2-12 at ICMR Hqrs
74. Member secretary: PRG on Diabetes and glucose sensing device on 19th Jan, 2012 at
ICMR Hqrs.
75. Training and orientation for Health Accounting Scheme with District Health
Administration at Hardoi, UP on 20th January, 2012
76. Chairman for the session in the National conference “62nd Annual National Conference
of Indian Association of Occupational Health at India Habitat Center, New Delhi on 3rd
February, 2012
77. Member-Organizing committee for hall management in the 22nd International conference
on “Reproductive health with emphasis on strategies for Family planning” 19-22 February,
2012, JLNA, AIIMS, New Delhi-29
78. Member-Dissemination meeting of “Mother & Baby Friendly Health Services Initiative”
organized by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, AIIMS on 20th Feb 2012.
79. Participated in the session on “Aging gracefully” in 2nd international congress on
Gerontology & geriatric Medicine 2012 at JLNA, AIIMS, New Delhi on 25-29 February,
2012
80. Participated in National Advocacy summit on Ageing and Health under the aegis of
World Health Organization and MOHFW, April 07, 2012 on world health day at AIIMS,
New Delhi
81. Organizing team: Scientific committee: Ist International conference on Occupational
and environmental health. 1-2 March 2013, National Science center, Pragati Maidan, new
Delhi-11001.
82. NAMS, NFI- symposium on micronutrient deficiencies, Nutrition foundation of India,
c-13, Qutab Institutional area, New Delhi-10016 on 22-3-2013
83. Organizing Secretary: PRG on Diabetes and glucose sensing device on 1-5-2013 at
ICMR Hqrs, evaluated 71 projects
84. Organizing secretary for PRG on Diabetes and glucose sensing device. 4-5 September
2013 at ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi. Evaluated 37 projects.
85. Course Faculty at Workshop on Designing Medical Research and thesis, organized by
Clinical Epidemiology UNIT, AIIMS, New Delhi, 7-8 September, 2013
86. Guest speaker faculty in “Development of leadership quality” Nursing College 3-5
March 2014 at CMET , AIIMS, New Delhi-29
87. Guest speaker in “Stress Management in administrative leaders”, 12-4-2014 at CMET
organized by CMET, Dr O P Kharbanda. AIIMS.
88. Invited as Guest Speaker in Akashvani (All India Radio) for talk on “Rajbhasha ke
sadupyog se adhunik jeevan shaily main sudhaar ki sambhawnayein.” On 8-7-2014. In
room no 447, 4rth floor, Akash wani bhawan, New Delhi.
89. Member publicity committee, Presented authored one Paper, one poster, CO Authored 2
papers at International Conference on Stress reduction skills scientific updates, 30-31st
august 2014, IIT Delhi in collaboration of SriSriGMDA and AIIMS.
90. Member Scientific Committee, Presented one Papers, One poster and was Chairperson
of Poster Session -1 in 2nd International Conference on Occupational and Environmental
Health- mainstreaming of occupational and environmental health’ organized by OHS-

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 MCS and Department of Community Medicine, MAMC, New Delhi at Convention center
NDMC, 26-28 September 2014
91. CII workshop on Product certification and quality management standards for MSMs, to
increase standards under BIS, 15 October 2014 at CII Hqrs, Lodhi Road.
92. Delhi Environment Summit 2014: Planning today for tomorrow, 30-10-2014 at Leela
Palace, Chanakya Puri, New Delhi-Jointly organized by UNESCO and CII.
93. Participated actively in India-US Technology Summit- tackling 21st century challenges
together, November 18, 2014, India Expo Centre, Greater Noida. Partner USAID
94. Innovations in Technologies for Disaster Rescue Efforts amongst ASEM Countries.
ASEM/EAS Roundtable meetings on 4-5 December 2014 at Vigyan Bhawan New Delhi
95. Invited as resource Faculty in “Recent Advances in Biological Sciences”- SYSCON 2014,
Society of young scientists by 10th December 2014 at JLN, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences.
96. Presented poster Number 211, podium 1034 “Health literacy and need assessment of
construction workers and homeless in Delhi” at World congress on public health
February 11-15, 2015 at Science city, Kolkata, India.
97. Presented oral paper on “Emerging issues on environment occupational health and
safety in solid waste management: review of legislation, identified solutions for gaps
of implementation” in National Conference “Emerging Issues on Environment
Occupational Health & Safety – its National Scenario and Regional Needs” on 22-24th
July 2015 at Regional Occupational Health Centre (Southern), Bengaluru.

98. Digital India Health Summit – Transforming health care through IT, To share health
account scheme updates- August 5-6, 2015 New Delhi. Organized by HiMSS South Asia
Pacific.

99. “Call to action”- ending preventable child and maternal health deaths summit of MOHFW,
Govt of India, 2015 held on 27-8-2015, hotel Taj palace, New Delhi

100. Participated in National consultation on National e-Health authority- NeHA,

organized by centre for health informatics- NHP- National health portal on 4-4-2016 at
AIIMS, new Delhi.

101. Awarded Third prize for Hindi Debate topic “Yog and Swasthya” at ICMR Hqrs
Hindi divas 9-9-2016.

102. Attended International Yoga Day Curtain raiser on 20-4-2016, at Talkatora

Stadium, organized by Department AYUSH.

103. Member Review, IJCB meeting for article-IJCB-D-15-00231, on 4-6-2016

104. Participated stakeholder’s consultative workshop in Health Technology

assessment- (HTA) - held on July 25-27, 2016 at IHC, New Delhi.

105. Organizing Secretary : Project review group meeting on innovation and

translation research- evaluated 60 projects organized by me on 26-27 May 2016 at ICMR
hqrs, New Delhi

106. Organizing secretary member secretary of Project Review Group meeting on

diabetes and glucose sensing technologies- Low Cost Glucometer. Organized on 1-7-2016
at ICMR hqrs , New Delhi

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107. Presented Health Account Scheme in health care conclave organized by E-Health
magazine at Hotel Shangri-la, New Delhi on 12-8-2016.

108. Coordinated for technology exhibition (Especially for Hemoglobin and sugar
testing technologies) at Vigyaan Bhawan in Indo- African summit on 1-3 September, 2016.

109. Participated in National workshop for systematic reviews at ICMR Hqrs, 15-16
September 2016, organized by ICMR advance center and child health division

110. Chairperson for “Technologies for Clean India and make in India” session in 3rd
International Conference on “Occupational and Environmental Health” and Member
Scientific committee, held in NIHFW, Munirka, 23-25 September 2016, New Delhi

111. Guest speaker in the World Hospice care day, 9thth October 2016 organised by D
nip care- NGO providing care to for terminaly ill patients at Shanti Avedana, Safdarjung
hospital

112. Guest speaker in invited lecture on “Where innovations are required to combat
cancer” on 8th November, 2016 at Central University Haryana.

113. Attended NAMS – NFI Symposium on Nutrition and health transition in India:
evidence from National surveys. 30th November, 2016.

114. Organized Educational Talk for science students, delivered by Secretary DHR
and Director General, ICMR on 9th November 2016 at Mothers International school titled:
“Igniting young minds for science and research : special perspective for Diabetes and
Tuberculosis”.

115. Held Slum visit to monitor health account scheme acceptability in the community
on 11 -1-2017. Communicated personally with 6 slum dwellers to seek their health
problems and seeking behaviors, Interacted with study staff and their concerns.

116. Participated as expert Panelist in the session of National Biennial Conference of

Neonatal Diagnostics and therapeutics held at Constitutional club, New Delhi on 15-1-
2017

117. Participated in lecture ''Resilience Building for Success"' with the support from
Amity University on 16th January, 2017 at 3.00 PM (Monday) in the conference Hall
(Room No. 301) of ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi.

118. Participated in “Training program cum workshop on science, Technology and

innovation policy for SAARC countries”, February 13-17, 2017, venue- Indian National
Science Academy (INSA), Auditorium, Bahadurshah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002,
India. Organized by Zaheer Science Foundation, UNESCO, DST.

119. Delivered invited Talk on animal protection and vegetarianism on 26th feb,2017
organized by Dr D C Jain, Ex DGHS, Govt. of India, at constitution club, Rafi marg, new
Delhi.

120. Visited Arunachal Pradesh Site of Health Account Scheme 20-23 February.
Communicated with health functionary, scheme staff and Health diary users. In Tribal belt
around Ita Nagar

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121. Participated in two days workshop at NIMS “Cost effectiveness analysis at 1-2
March 2017 at NIMS, new Delhi.

122. Delivered invited talk on “Healthy life style and cancer of women on 5-3-2017 at
New Delhi- organized by Hear Health Foundation. New Delhi

123. Participated in “International Yoga Day” to present research on yoga- curtain

raiser, organized by AYUSH Ministry at Talkatora stadium, 8-10 march 2017.

124. Delivered talk in training program organized by PSM Department Maulana Azad
Medical College, New Delhi on 7th March 2017. Resource faculty in training of medical
students. Topic: “Cancer Data management and guidelines in breast cancer patients in
Indian context”.

125. Delivered Invited talk in training program organized by PSM Department

Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi on 17th March 2017. Resource faculty in
training of Nursing students, medical officers and paramedical workers. Topic: “Cancer
Data management and guidelines in breast cancer patients in Indian context”.

126. Delivered talk in “व्यावसाययक एवं पयाावरणीय स्वास््य समस्‍

याएँ एवं
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ं ी संगोष्‍ट‍ठी 21-22 मार्च,
2017. शीषचक : पयाावरण व स्वास््य की सरु क्षा : एक तल
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127. Reviewed Manuscript of "Morbidity Profile and Feeding Practices of Under 2

Children, A Community Based Study in A Slum Area of Kolkata", Indian Journal of
Pediatrics, March 2017- IJPE-D-17-00280

128. Workshop on “Grooming a Biotech start-up- (Innovation and Entrepreneurship).

2nd June, 2017, organized by FITT- Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer
at Bharti School, IIT Delhi, New Delhi

129. Shodh Yatraa to Rajshthan villages with central university Haryana students (50)
on 5th July 2017 to documents innovative practices in rural backdrop.

130. A follow up workshop of the economic evaluation, a hands on training on basic

economic modeling using MS-Excel, organised at NIMS in the conference room on 7th
July 2017 from 10AM-5.30 PM. Dr Akriti Chahar- NHSRC
131. Evidence Matters-Leveraging Global, Regional and Local Evidence for Evidence-
based Policy Making in India, 11 JULY 2017 at Tamarind Hall, Indian Habitat Centre,
New Delhi.
132. Second National Civil Society Consultation on Non Communicable Diseases in
India.11-12 July, 2017, Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, organized by
Healthy India alliances for prevention of NCDs.
133. Organised training workshop for glucose sensing device developers to maintain
quality, consistency in manufacturing of glucometers in collaboration of NIB- CSIR- at
Bangalore and Mysore on 8-9 September 2017.

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134. Participated and won first prize in Hindi Divas debates and poem competition on
7 September 2017, ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi.
135. Attended Technology assessment board meeting at NIMS, New Delhi October
2017
136. Attended MOU signing ceremony between FICCI and ICMR on 17 November
2017 at FICCI, Tansen marg, New Delhi. MOU signing for ICMR technologies under the
program "Health Technology Acceleration and Commercialization (HTAC)" on
17.11.2017 at FICCI House, New Delhi.
137. Attended Economical aspect in health technology training at NIMS, organized by
Dr Geetha Menon October 2017 at NIMS, new Delhi
138. Participated in ICMR Ethical Guideline Dissemination and Release on 14
November, 2017 at AIIMS, JLN Auditorium, New Delhi.
139. Attended Anemia technology assessment and field validation exercises at DHR,
ICMR New Delhi on 26 November 2017. Protocol developed by Dr Renu saxena will
include touch-Hb due to efforts taken by Dr Neeta Kumar
140. Organised Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna- Yoga Intstructor Certification
under recognition of prior learning scheme on 11- 13 December 2017 at AIIMS,
Community Center, AIIMS. Inaugurated by Director AIIMS, attended by 80 learned yoga
practitioners from all leading institutions from Delhi, NCR.
141. Attended Evidence Gap- MAP training workshop on how to write manuscript.
Organized by Campbell Collaboration at NSIC, Vasant Kunj, 13-14 December 2017.
142. Chaired the session, speaker in the Tamil, Malyali group meeting organized by D-
Nip Care, Delhi- NGO promoting preventive education and terminal care.
143. Chaired the session titled “Health promotion and education: Nutritional and
social Health” in the National Conference on holistic Health and wellness, unifying body,
mind and spirit. 22-24 March, 2018 held at Department of Community medicine, VMMC
and SJH, MOHFW, New Delhi.
144. Participated in equity considerations and cost effectiveness analysis on 12-4-2018
at Convergence block, AIIMS, New Delhi. Organised by ICMR New Delhi.
145. Participated in ICMR- FICCI: Technology Assessment Board Meeting held in
Ethiopian culture center on 16-4-2018.
146. Participated as expert panel in Seminar on “Challenges in Public Health” on 17-
2-2018 in the department of community medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical college
and Safdarjung Hospital.
147. Public lecture: Delivered Invited Talk on “Role of Yoga in Cancer and Diabetes
management” during Seminar “Yoga for occupational hazards” by International
Federation of Yoga Professionals (IFYP) in Auditorium, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi on
18.2.2018.
148. Participated in the First Conference on Environmental and Occupational
Determinants of Cancer: Interventions for Primary Prevention. JLN auditorium, AIIMS,
New Delhi · 28 - 29 May 2018.
149. Public lecture: Delivered invited talk on “Disease prevention and palliative care
awareness” organized by D-Nip-care and RWA Nehru Nagar, New Delhi on 3rd June
2018. 110 persons of different age and gender attended from local area.
150. Delivered Invited Talk in DST Department of Science popularization- on 12-6-
2018 at DST, Noida office. Attended by 108 children and parents.
151. Delivered Invited talk at NIMS on International Yoga Day : “Yoga at work place”
on 19-6-2018 at NIMS, New Delhi-29
152. Earned 320 points by contributing ideas to PMO at MyGov.in by 29 July 2018.
Ref https://secure.mygov.in/users/neeta-kumar-0/
153. Worked as Exhibitor of ICMR at 3 Days Expo “Government Achievements and
schemes Expo-2018” held on 27-29 July at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

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154. Delivered invited talk at Central University (CUH) of Harayana, Mahendergarh
during International Nutrition week on 7th September 2018 on the topic “Malnutrition and
disease: extent of problem and solutions”. Organized by Nutrition Biology Department,
CUH, Haryana.
155. Won First Prize at Hindi Divas in Poem writing and debate on Zika virus.
Organised on 10 September 2018 at ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi.
156. Organised Two days residential workshop on October 4th - 5th, 2018, for
conducting the ICMR- NIB For Participants From The Five Collaborating
Laboratories On ‘Requirements Of Iso 15197’ And ‘Continuous Validation of Laboratory
Reference Method For Glucose’ at NIB Noida to train workers from sites to follow quality
standards while validating technologies developed with ICMR Support.
157. Delivered invited talk in Jamia Nagar “Community awareness on disease
prevention and screening cancer” organized by Al khair Foundation-Dr Daraksha Firdaus
and Govt. of Delhi on 21st October, 2018.
158. Participated in Two days Meeting to evaluate the WHO guidelines for antennal
care during pregnancy, its implementation in Indian situations, held at ICMR hqrs on 25-
26 October, 2018. Chaired by Dr M K Bhan.
159. Training workshop “ICMR-FICCI health technology accelerated
commercialization program H:TAC for “converting research into value through
technology transfer and commercialization. November 11-16, 2018 at GOA, India.
160. Participated in Scientific advisory group meeting of Division of RBMCH at
ICMR Hqrs on 22 November 2018.
161. Coordinating the monitoring visit meetings at north eastern states MDRUs.
162. Presented “Access to electronic tools of communication in health care:
experience from grass root level” for the 4rth National workshop cum CME on Health
system strengthening , from Dec 17-21, 2018 jointly organized by Department of
community medicine and school of public health, PGIMER Chandigarh and Association
for Health System analysis and Strengthening.
163. Scientific Advisory Board meeting on 4 December 2018 at ICMR Hqrs, New
Delhi.
164. Conducted screening of 2500 application for scientist “C” in ICMR. 2 Feb. to 14
Feb. 2019 at ICMR Hqrs. New Delhi.
165. Delivered invited lecture at the National Yoga Symposium at Auditorium Apollo
Hospital by Archna Yogathan on the topic “Role of yoga in managing longevity and
healthy aging: evidence from genetic research” on 16 May 2019.
166. Participated in Expert group meeting to review formative Research proposal on
improving antenatal care” on 3 June 2019 at NIMS conference room, ICMR new Delhi.
167. Attended World Tobacco Day 2019 release of white paper at ICMR HQRS, 31 st
May 2019.
168. Attended patent review committee meeting on 4 June 2019 and review of ITR
ongoing grants and fellowships by ITR Div. Chairman.
169. Organized International Yoga Day activities- Expert lecture, demo workshop and
CYP demo as ICMR Nodal Person for IYD 2019. At ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi.
170. Organised 5th International Yoga Day programs Of ICMR Hqrs on 21st June
2019. Mass yoga Demo, Public Lecture by experts and Quiz competition from Comon
Yoga protocol was organized to invoke enthusiasm for yoga for healthy life style.
171. Delivered Invited talk on “Yoga at workplace for skill improvement” at NIMS,
ICMR on 21st June 2019.
172. Participated in consultation on “Improved access to medicine and evidence
based policy in health”, organized by PHFI, RIS on 28th June 2019 at Casurina Hall,
India Habitat center, Delhi.

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173. Attended National conference on “One health-anti microbial resistance and
disease of public health importance: preparedness for early diagnosis and
prevention” on 3rd July 2019 at LT3, VMMC and safdarjung hospitals, New Delhi,
organized by Prof Jugal Kishore, PSM Department.
174. Attended as Member, Staff selection committee meeting held for establishing
ART clinics and Clinical trials of Beta HCH vaccines. At ICMR Hqrs on 7-8 July 2019.
175. Member, staff section committee meeting of Socio-behavioral Science on project
related to nutritional needs of adolescent girls on 30 July, 2019 at ICMR Hqrs.
176. Participated and provided comments on how ICMR Task Force study “Health
Account Scheme” has paved way for NHS in MOHFW stakeholder consultation to
contribute to National Digital health Blueprint report on 6th August 2019 in Constitution
club of India, rafi marg, New Delhi, for seeking comments/ suggestion on National
Digital health Blueprint (NDHB).
177. Nominated by DG- ICMR to be part of ICMR team of exhibitors at 3 days
workshop and Expo on “Technology outreach as an enabler for inclusive and
sustainable development-Tech for Seva” 10-12 August, 2019 at lecture hall complex,
IIT Delhi.
178. Attended conference of AMPI Chapter Cancer Therapy and Medical Physics
conference on 8 September 2019, at Kanya Kumari- Organised by Kanyakumari cancer
Institute, Tamilnadu.
179. Attended Expert Group meeting to assess Biodesign Innovation lab for
presentation on bubble CPAP, a respiratory support device for pediatric use. On 20
September 2019 at C G Pandit Conference Room. ICMR Hqrs.
180. Part of Organising Team of “Short Course on Skill Building for evidence based
child health in North East region of India”. Workshop was well attended (63 Participants)
by Researchers and faculties from 7 states in North east India on 26-27 September 2019
in Guwahati, India.
181. Invited as expert reviewer in the DST project Review group meeting for SEED
grant (for women) on 25 September 2019 at Anusandhan bhawan, Qutub institutional area,
Delhi.
182. Attended 59th Meeting of Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) at ICMR Hqrs, on 13
December 2019, room no 301 ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi-
183. Expert member: Attended 106th Meeting of the Expert committee on Science and
technology for women 17-19 December 2019 at INSA, New Delhi, catalyzed by Science
for equality empowerment and development (SEED) division, DST, and New Delhi.
184. Organized Review committee meeting to refine protocol of non invasive
glucometer and ongoing projects in ITR division on 20th December 2019 at DG committee
room, ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi.
185. Invited lecture and Life time achievement award at National AYUSH
Conference 2020 “New Paradigm of Holistic Wellness”, at NDMC Convention center,
New Delhi, 31st January-1st February 2020.
186. Organized Review committee meeting -Innovation and Translation Research to
Review 46 ad-hoc projects from DHR and 168 applications of fellowships, 17 of DHR and
95 of fellowships got approvals in PRG Held on 11-12 Feb 2020 at A S Pental Board
Room, ICMR Hqrs.
187. Organized Review committee meeting of Innovation and Translation Research
to Review 267 ad-hoc proposals submitted online. 68 projects got approved in the review
group meeting held on 19-20 Feb. 2020 at ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi.
188. Attended the talk on Gandhi and Health by Mark Lindley today (on 17th
February, 2020) at 4.00 pm in Ramalingaswami Board Room, AIIMS, New Delhi.

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189. Chairperson for the scientific session in the International Conference of
Cardiovascular Sciences-2020 (ICCS-2020) February 21-23. 2020 organized by Delhi
Pharmaceutical Sciences and research University (DPSRU), Delhi.
190. Invited Expert member in various review groups of DST committee-SEED-
th
28 February celebration as the National Science Day in commemoration of the discovery
of Raman Effect “National Science Day held on Friday the 28th February 2020 at Vigyan
Bhawan at 10.30 am, organized by Department of Science and technology in presence of
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Hoble Minister of Health and family welfare.
191. Attended GEMS Meet of alumni on 1st March 2020, organized at the residence of
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Hon’ble Minister of S&T, Earth Science and Health & Family Welfare
at 8, tees January lane, New Delhi.
192. Four papers were submitted and accepted for IPHACON on 29 Feb to 2 nd March
2020 at AIIMS, New Delhi- 64th Annual National Conference of Indian Public Health
Association- IPHACON 2020. Won First prize- theme- National Health Mission 437,
431
193. Attende training workshop “Digicon on Skill Building for Evidence Based
Child Health in North East Region of India" to be held from 19th Oct to 4th
Nov, 2020. 2nd November at 2:30pm. By ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence-
Based Child Health,Advanced Pediatrics Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh.
194. Attended weekly Wednesday webinars for 7 weeks during September-
November 2020-online training workshops webinar of CDSA, Clinical
Development Services Agency,Translational Health Science & Technology
Institute, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology,
Government of India.NCR Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone, Gurgaon-
Faridabad Expressway, Faridabad 121001

Presented 4 papers In
1. Use of Health diaries in resource-poor settings for data collection and Health
planning: Lessons learnt from Health Accounting Scheme, New Delhi. Acharya
AS, Tiwari N , Rasania SK, Bachani D, Khandekar J, Kumar N.
2. Risk assessment of Diabetes using the Indian Diabetes Risk Score in an urban
resettlement colony of East Delhi. Acharya AS , Rasania SK, Tiwari N, Khandekar
J, Debbarma S, Kumar N
3. Comparison between different communities for acceptability for health diary and
its updating. Dr. Nidhi Tiwari, Dr. R S Sharma, Dr. Neeru Gupta, Dr Anita
Acharya. Dr S K Rasania, Neeta kumar.
4. Human Resources in Public Health-: Situation analysis of grassroots manpower
availability in the community for health diary and its updating. Dr Neeta Kumar,
Dr Neeru Gupta, Dr. Nidhi Tiwari, Dr Anita Acharya, Dr. R S Sharma, Dr. S. K.
Rasania.

195. Organized online Meeting on webex to review ongoing 100 fellowship under ITR
division on 30 May and 2 June 2020. Project review group (7 experts and Chairman Prof
Alok Ray) evaluated the personal presentations done online by all fellows.
196. Organised Online meeting to discuss protocol of Task Force study titled: Field
implementation study to assess feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of
improved logistics for individual Health Diary and e-health account envisaged
in National Digital Health Mission” on 30 June 2020 and discussed protocol
refining issues with all stakeholders from VMMC- Delhi, HRRC Kanpur, Jaipur,
Mysur, MOHFW.

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197. Attended five webinars online to update knowledge o ongoing pandemic
COVID19- webinars by CDC, CDSCO, MOHFW, VMMC-SJH-Delhi and BMJ
during May-June 2020.

198. Submitted research proposals against call n covid Research ( Protocol related
to Yoga sequence on immunity to Satyam-DST, Medicinal smoke for virucidal
effect to SERB, KAP and effect of IEC on COVID knowledge and practices in
slum community to CSSR).

197.

Training Programmes attended

1. Acquired the Certificate in Nutrition and Child Care (CNCC) course (one-year
duration) conducted by Indira Gandhi National Open University through correspondence
in November 2005.

About the course: This course gives the in-depth theoretical as well as practical knowledge
related to nutrition in community, early childhood care and education. It has two
components: 1) Nutrition for the community, 2) Organizing Child Care Services. It is a
broad – based package covering the basics of nutrition as well as some of its major
applications. The course helped to select the right kind of food keeping cost in mind; plan
reasonably priced nutritious meals/snakes for population at large for my upcoming studies.
In addition the course would provide chance to familiarize with meal patterns in different
regions of the country, recognize and identify common illnesses that arise out of eating the
wrong types of food, acquaint one self with the various programmes organized by the
government to tackle nutritional problems.

2. Workshop on “Essentials of Epidemiology and Research Methods” held on 28th April

to Ist May 2005, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences. This workshop lucidly
addressed various day-to-day job related questions i.e. Formulation of research questions,
Types of study design, Measurement of variables and Descriptive statistics, Association,
causation, Bias, Confounding, Interaction and Role of chance, Measures of disease
frequency, Hypothesis testing and estimation, Cross sectional study (design, conduct and
analysis), Cohort study (design, conduct and analysis), Diagnostic tests, Clinical trial
(design and conduct), Epi-Info, Qualitative research methods etc. The coarse included
Critical appraisal and Interactive sessions.

3. “Post Graduate Certificate course of Health and Family Welfare management”

form National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), Munirka, New Delhi.
This highly valuable course enables one to understand country’s health care system, its
lacunae and remedies in very focused and effective manner. I recently appear in
examination and declared successful in 2005-6 sessions.

4. ICMR” workshop on Qualitative Research Methodology” on 14-15 Jan 2007, at

ICMR Headquarters.

5. Workshop on “Ethical guidelines in qualitative and quantitative research on human

being” organized by the department of Basic medical sciences, ICMR Head quarters New
Delhi on August 2007.

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6. Training programme on biomedical information retrieval for beginners. 22nd- 25
August, 2007.NIC (National Informatics Center)

7. Essentials of Research Methods in Reproductive Health organized by WHO-CCR in

department of Obst. And Gynecology in collaboration with K.L. Wig Center for Medical
education & Technology & Clinical Epidemiology Unit at All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi from July 1-4, 2008.

It was practical training workshop encompassing sessions on basics of research, qualitative

research, deriving diagnostic tests, ethics in research, quantitative research, planning a
research trial, data recording, search, analysis, reporting, documentation, choosing a
funding agency etc.

8. Successfully completed the workshop on Good Clinical Practice conducted by family

health international, ICMR Headquarters, Delhi India on 19-20 January 2009.

9. Successfully completed “Certificate Course in Palliative care and pain management”

under the aegis of IAPC.

10. Symposium cum training programme for Developing Capacity Building of Young
Scientists for Carrying out basic, clinical and operational research in the Field of Nutrition.
Held on 21-23rd March 2009 at National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and other
Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra (U.P.)

11. Research Methodology Seminar, Writing Cochrane Review (Meta-Analysis) Protocol:

How to begin? by Clinical Epidemiology Unit, AIIMS, New Delhi on 25 August 2009

12. Workshop: Informatics in medicine, Date May 25-26, 2010, Conference hall, JLN
Audi, AIIMS, New Delhi. Training material comprised of introducing database, current
trends in medical informatics, sequence analysis tools, proteomics, genomics, tools for
scientific writing, understand cancer through bioinformatics, hands on sessions and
rational structure based drug design.
13.Training workshop “ICMR-FICCI health technology accelerated commercialization
program H:TAC for “converting research into value through technology transfer and
commercialization. November 11-16, 2018 at GOA, India.

Successfully completed online CMEs on osteoporosis, diabetes, and anemia, earned

several remarks and credits.
Online training courses:
• Recent advances in breast cancer management
• Type –2 Diabetes CME-Certified series: Advancing care with insulin therapy.
November 2006
• IFPRI online courses to improve research paper writing skills.
• Successfully completed training workshop on the use of the A V
Magnivisualizer at ICPO, Noida- MAMC, Delhi from 24-26the Feb. , 2015.

Program-officer: Major research programmes initiated and conducting:

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 • First Indian multi-center study conducted by ICMR as task force study to check
out prevalence of Osteoporosis in our adult community and reference value of the bone
density for the Indians since March’ 2003. This task force study completed on 4
Centers (Lucknow, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Delhi) with mainly two Objectives:

• To establish peak bone mineral density (BMD) reference values for Indian men
and women. To assess the prevalence of osteoporosis in Indian adults.

• Estimation of Oxidative stress in iron deficiency anemia in daily vs weekly doses

among anemic pregnant mothers.

• Evaluation of maternal hemoglobin spectrum (including lowest/ highest), iron

consumption pattern and its effect on maternal and child health status.

• Estimation of oxidative stress in placenta of anemic women during daily vs

weekly iron consumption.

• Health Account Scheme: (HAS): Indian population is known for poor health
awareness and record keeping behaviors are also poor. It has no channel of
communication with the existing health system. There is no data in real time dynamic
/ and authentic data on-age, person, place, disease specific health information with the
Government too. Keeping in the view of scarcity of district level estimates of
morbidities for NRHM, which is necessary for deciding funneling of funds, a unique
scheme of HAS -Health Accounting Scheme has been initiated. This would not only
generate health awareness under right to health but also provide usable information to
the Government one click away. Such information is useful for need based real time
service delivery, as well as provides community a channel for communication and
sense of belongingness.

▪ Contributed in the designing of tools for the ICMR evaluating plan of research to
bring out reasons for blind new born children in villages of Bhaluipur, Barahra, Bihia,
Shahpur and Sandesh of Bhojpur distrct of Bihar in 2010.

• Prepared original drafts for Annual Reports

• Prepared Original Draft- 12th five year plan document which was widely
appreciated in Planning Commission

Guide: MSc Student (2008-9) of ICRI, affiliated to Cranfield University

Course faculty: Research Methodology workshops:

Workshop on “Designing Clinical Research”, 23rd- 24th January, 2010, Clinical

Epidemiology nit, AIIMS, New Delhi.

Workshop on “Evidence Based Medicine”, 16-17th March, 2010, Clinical Epidemiology

Unit (CEU), Ramalingaswami Board Room, AIIMS, New Delhi. Resource person for the
plenary session of “Introduction to critical appraisal of RCT- CONSORT
Guidelines”.

Departmental responsibilities:

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 1. Organization of Project review group (PRG) meetings on Maternal and child health
(2004-08)

2. Organization of PRG on Diabetes Research Projects (2007-onwards- till date)

3. Assisting in Indo-US, JWG on Maternal and child health (2009-12)

4. Assisting processing of Ad-hoc Research projects 110 projects were processed in

2011-13) in Diabetes ad-hoc research, 24 concepts, 18 full proposals were processed
for Glucose sensing devices development during 2011-13. Reply of the Parliamentary
questions during both parliament sessions every year: Diabetes and maternal anemia
& Technology related subjects.

5. Emergency Medical assistance for staff on duty at ICMR

6. Central Public information Officer (CPIO) for Indian Council of Medical Research
(DHR), this responsibility includes addressing to litigations under RTI 2005 (Right to
information Act 2005)

7. Currently managing projects in Diabetes ad-hoc research and indo-foreign

research. Program officer for 2 Task force studies in anemia, diabetes and gestational
diabetes and Health account Scheme.

8. Evaluating proposals and final reports of the research projects submitted by STS
scholars on 100s of proposals every year since 2011, at ICMR Hqrs, New Delhi-29.

9. Has been instrumental in generating 37 projects for indigenous glucometer

development and 17 funded from 37 projects. Has been largely acclaimed for first
indigenous Glucometer of India. The latest is noninvasive Glucometer in pipeline,
which would be first of the world in quest to make in India movement.

10. Due to successful venturing in medical technology developments, Then Director

General and Secretary DHR. Dr. V. M. Katoch created new Department of Innovation
and Translation research, in which I became program officer to conduct evaluation of
technology projects, currently handling 60 new projects in Innovation and Translation.

Member:

• Clinical Epidemiology unit -CEU, INCLEN. AIIMS

• Member: selection committee for ASHA HIV Health promotion intervention in

India.

• Editorial Board and Reviewer With British Journal of Medicine and Medical
Research, International Journal: International Journal of Medicine and Medical
Sciences (IJMMS), International Journal of Bio Sciences and Technology (IJBST)
ISSN: 0974-3987 ,International Journal of Medical Sciences and Technology
IJMST (ISSN: 0974-5343), International Journal of BioSciences, Healthcare
Technology and Management www.ijbhtm.org (ISSN: 0975-3893),International
Journal of BioSciences, Agriculture and Technology (IJBSAT) www.ijbsat.org
(ISSN: 0975 - 4539), and IJP- Indian Journal of PEDIATRICS.

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 • Member committee for the Evaluation of Research proposals submitted to Council
for Short Term student research mentorship- An ICMR initiatives to promote Bio
-Medical research.

• Honorary Faculty of Art of Living for teaching yoga meditation in rural and slum
areas, Vyakti Vikas Kendra, Ved Vigyan Vidya Peeth

• Member, Judges Committee for Raj Bhasha Hindi work done in file drafting and
noting at the Council 2010. Evaluation committee for Scientist-C selection committee
under National Talent Search scheme- evaluated 750 applications.

• Member: Sri Sri Global Meditating Doctor Association

Published in British Medical journal -E letters/ responses: 2010

1. Treatment with DOTS may cause multi drug resistance in third world. Neeta Kumar, et
al, published BMJ, 9 August 2010 in response to EDITORIALS:
Increasing drug resistant tuberculosis in the UK
Lewis and Chihota (31 May 2008)

2. Papaya leaves for speedy rise of platelet count in Dengue. Neeta Kumar et al, Published
BMJ, 22 October 2010 in response to: Dengue: an escalating problem. Gibbons, et al.
324:1563-1566 doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7353.1563

3. Iron should not be supplemented in isolation in malnourished children and pregnant

women. N Gupta, Neeta Kumar et al. Published in BMJ on 9/11/2010 in response to the
article: Effect of iron supplementation on incidence of infectious illness in children:
systematic review BMJ 2002;325:1142

4. Manuscript submitted in Clinical Chemistry “Effect of prolonged storage on

Malondialdehyde activity” Author(s): ICMR Task Force study (team enlisted
alphabetically). Corresponding author- Neeta Kumar

5. When, who all and what doses ought to be supplemented with synthetic vitamin A for
safety of both mother and infant. Neeru gupta, Neeta Kumar, KK Jani. Published in
response to BMJ 338:doi:10.1136/bmj.b919 (Published 27 March 2009) on 17-3-2011

E letters Published in BMJ-British Medical journal -E letters/ responses: 2011

1. Calcium and vitamin D Supplementation as double edged sword. N Gupta, Neeta
Kumar. KK Jani
2. Breast cancer mortality in organised mammography screening in Denmark:
comparative study. Karsten Juhl Jørgensen, Per-Henrik Zahl, and Peter C
Gøtzsche. Rapid Response ID: bmj_el;260025
Article ID: 340/mar23_1/c1241
Breast cancer detection in early stages could be elusive and inconclusive to both
mammography and palpation: A case Report. Kumar Neeta
3. Effectiveness of strategies incorporating training and support of traditional birth
attendants on perinatal and maternal mortality: meta-analysis. Tue, 2011-12-06.
Kumar neeta 09:53.Re: Effectiveness of strategies incorporating training and
support of traditional birth attendants on perinatal and maternal mortality: meta-

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 analysis. Amie Wilson, Ioannis D Gallos, Nieves Plana, David Lissauer, Khalid S
Khan, et al. 343:doi:10.1136/bmj.d7102
4. Salt is actually essential electrolytes viz., Sodium and chloride. Thu, 2011-12-01
12:28. Kumar Neeta. Re: Policy options to reduce population salt intake.
Francesco P Cappuccio, Simon Capewell, Paul Lincoln, Klim McPherson.
343:doi:10.1136/bmj.d4995

Review- 2015
Reviewed article for OMJ-Manuscript ID OMJ-D-15-00112 entitled "Invasive Growth
Hormone producing pituitary adenoma with lymphocytic infiltration: A case report and
review of literature" submitted to the Oman Medical Journal.

ICMR talent Search scheme for appointment of Scientist C: Screened 750 applications
(scoring done on the basis of publication and authorship, experience basis listing for
quantitative assessment) of From 4/11/2015 to 12/11/2015 at ICMR Hqrs.

Extra curricular:
Several medals and appreciation certificates for Hindi poems, plays, sketching, Rangoli
and cultural activities held at Yearly Hindi Pakhwara.
Have delivered health talks in Hindi- on Durdarshan, Narrations on gender inequality on
Akashvani. Delivered invited guest lecture at Akshavani on use of Hindi in Government
offices.
Bestowed Ist prize by Hon’ble Minister of Health and Family Welfare for Anemia
Campaign- Painting Competition at AIIMS, 2013.
First prize from Hon’ble Minister of Health and Family Welfare to paper on Cancer
and Sudarshan kriya at IIT Delhi, on science and spirituality in August 2014.
Have been instrumental in designing the study protocol, study tools for the funding of the
projects - pain management in advanced stage breast cancer, breast self examination Indian
version of techniques, gender inequity, effect of SKPY on quality of life of HIV / AIDS
patients.

Have empowered myself as trained teacher in Pranayam Dhyan techniques to improve health.

Yoga: Participated in National events of International Yoga Day as well as events by Vyakti
Vikas Kendra “Yogathon- a salutation for good health” at Sahodaya grounds, New Delhi
on 7th April 2012 on World Health Day and Won the Gold Certificate by completing 108
Rounds of Surya Namsakaar.

Again won gold certificate -Competed 108 Surya Namaskaar rounds on 16-12-14 and
7-12 14 in Yogathon organized by VVKI, India at Connaught place inner circle, New
Delhi. Certificates of appreciation awarded for participating in International Yoga Day
events in 2015, 2016

Conducted more than 25 yoga camps every year for last 3 years (2015-17) for
International Yoga day celebrations in Delhi NCR.

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The mentoring and capacity building:
- of underprivileged to foster innovations has been attempted:
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Mr Rishipal (phone number- 9416151515), Student, Deen dayal Kaushal Vikas Kendra,
Mahendar Garh, Haryana: innovator of various devices. I am helping currently on their
village tour to document the technology requirements / needs of villagers for better health,
education, nutrition.

Mr Anees Khan (phone number 9990864336): villager in Hapur village, inventor of

caliper. 12th pass, short term employed and innovating to develop low cost supportive
appliances, calipers for handicapped. I helped in developing protocol and submitted to
DST, DBT.

Mr Anshul Gupta (Ph. 07042077216): Engineer and innovator of indigenous glucometer

device, guided to submit device to NOB and CDSCO for standard e=testing before
marketing.

Dr Abhishek Sen (phone. 9860734346): Founder Biosense was supported to keep the
innovation and Indian interests of providing low cost technologies to community. He has
come up with India first Glucometer which has passed NIB testing and CDSCO regulations
also.

Mr Aneel Antony (phone: 9845320821): The engineer, who has made world first
noninvasive glucose sensing device- currently up for NIB testing’s.

Weekend classes to slum dwellers for health education and yoga education
Speaker at a health and environmenta Awareness and Palliative Care Sensitization
Campaign, 18th November 2017 for the students of the Government Senior Secondary
School, INA Colony, New Delhi.

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Dr. Neeta Kumar, Scientist, ICMR Mr. Suresh TP, Nursing Officer Safdarjung Hospital
and Secretary DNipCare, Mr. Cyriac Antony, Treasurer and KV Hamza, General Secretary
DNipCare held the campaign for students.

Ms. Garima Sharma, Faculty Biology Department of the School inaugurated and presided
over the program. — with Neeta Kumar, Antony Cyriac andSuresh Thaliyaril.

DNipCare conducted a Health Awareness and Palliative Care Sensitization Campaign for
students in Govt.Boys Secondary School, Mehrauli today, ie., 17th October 2015. Mr.
Suresh Thaliyaril, Dr. MM Kunju and Mr. P.K. Abdul Kareem of DNipCare along with
Dr. Neeta Kumar of ICMR conducted the campaign for students. Mr. V. Selvarasu,
Principal inaugurated the program and Mr. SK Paliwal, Faculty coordinated. —
with Neeta Kumar.

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List of patents emerged from the research supported by ICMR through ITR division:

• Title of our invention: "WIRELESS MOUSE AND KEYBOARD DEVICE

FOR HANDICAPPED".
The patent application has been filed on 31st Aug. 2018
Patent application no. 201811032829.
The application is done by The Oxford College of Engineering and ICMR jointly.
• Development and Optimization of a Non-contact Optical Device for
OnlineMonitoring of Neonatal and Maternal Jaundice. RFC Number: ITR/Ad-
hoc/10/2016-17 Dt. 15.02.2017. the technology for non-contact non-invasive
measurement of haemoglobin level from conjunctiva has been transferred to a
company (EzeRx Health Tech Pvt. Ltd., India) for commercialization. Patents:
two- 1. A method and system for non-invasive quantitative estimation of
Billirubin in human body. Indian Pat. Appl. (2009), 467/KOL/2009 dated 17th
March 2009. (Granted 2016) 2. A method and system for non-invasive
quantitative estimation of Hemoglobin in human blood. Indian Pat. Appl. (2009),
466/KOL/2009 dated 17th March 2009.
• Docket No 94474. TITLE OF THE INVENTION: AN OCULAR DRUG
DELIVERY DEVICE. “International Journal of Pharmaceutics” and “Drug
Delivery and Translational Research” with the support of ICMR.
Indian Patent Application number 201811044724, dated 27.11.2018 and titled
“An Ocular Drug Delivery Device.” Project title Development of a Non-Invasive
Biodegradable Polymeric Microprojection Ocular Patch For Effective Corneal
Delivery of Anti-Microbial Agents to Treat Fungal Infections of Eye. PI-Venkata
Vamsi Krishna Venuganti, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, BITS
Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Jawahar Nagar, Shameerpet, Hyderabad 500078
Telangana, INDIA.

• Dr. Balaji Subramanyam,Technical Officer-A,Department of Bacteriology,

National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR),Chetpet, Chennai. Patent
details: File Number: 2819/DEL/2008; Date of Grant:30/10/2015Patent status:
PatentedPatent Number: 269659Application Number: 2818/DEL/2008
Date of Grant: 30/10/2015
Name of Grantee: Indian Council of Medical Research

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