Dr. Asha Kamath
Associate Director - PSPH; Professor & Head - Department of Data Science
Department of Applied Statistics and Data Science
CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Dr. Asha Kamath is Associate Director, PSPH, and is Professor & Head Department of Applied Statistics and Data Science, PSPH, 365体育投注 Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), 365体育投注. Dr Kamath is an expert in research methodology and biostatistics. ?She regularly undertakes statistical consultancy for medical researchers and supervises research among medical postgraduates. She is a panel member on the PhD committee of MAHE.?
Dr. Kamath has worked extensively in the designing and analysis of epidemiological studies, clinical trials, model building, Bayesian analysis, Time series analysis of health and climate data, and allied health fields such as adolescent health and geriatrics. She has been a part of several collaborations, both nationally and internationally and has been an investigator/co-investigator on several projects for ICMR and other reputed institutions grant from the University of Alabama at Birmingham 365体育投注 Training and 365体育投注 in Environmental and Occupational Health program from the National Institutes of Health-Fogarty 365体育投注 Center (NIH-FIC) for developing R manual for time series analysis.
She is a Life member of the Indian Society for Medical Statistics (ISMS). Dr Kamath has published more than 175 articles in national and international journals which have been indexed in SCOPUS and PubMed databases. She has written six chapters in books and has served as a resource person in workshops as a research methodologist as well as a statistician.?
SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING
Subject | Semester / Year |
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Epidemiology and Health Surveys | Year I |
Survival analysis | Year I |
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
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Ph.D. | Bayesian approach to sample size determination | MAHE, 365体育投注 | 2010 |
MPS | Indian Institute of Population Studies | 2003 | |
MPHIL | Natural exponential family with quadratic variance function | Pune University | 1990 |
M.Sc. (Master of Science) | Statistics | University of Mangalore | 1985 |
Experience
Institution / Organisation | Designation | Role | Tenure |
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Prasanna School of Public Health | Associate Director | 2019 - Present | |
Department of Data Science, PSPH | Professor & Head, Department of Statistics | March 2018- Present | |
Department of Data Science | Associate Professor | October 2017- Feb 2018 | |
Department of Community Medicine, KMC, 365体育投注 | Associate Professor | 2014-2017 | |
Department of Community Medicine, KMC, 365体育投注 | Selection Grade Lecturer | 2003-2014 | |
Department of Community Medicine, KMC, 365体育投注 | Lecturer (Biostatistics) | 1995-2003 | |
Department of Community Medicine, KMC, 365体育投注 | Statistician | 1990-1995 |
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of 365体育投注
Design and conduct of epidemiological studies, Randomization in intervention studies, Data analysis, Linear modeling, survival analysis, Sample size determination, Bayesian analysis.
Professional Affiliations & Contributions
- Memeber of 365体育投注 Biometric Society (India chapter)
- Life member of Indian Society for Medical Statistics (ISMS)
- Reviewer: Indian Journal of Medical 365体育投注
- Article Editor for SAGE OPEN
- Grant Reviewer for Welcome Trust Proposals