Dr.Tanica Lyngdoh
Dr.Tanica Lyngdoh
Dr.Tanica Lyngdoh completed her graduation from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi and has an MD in Community Medicine from University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She further specialized in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. She was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland which she completed in May 2013. Prior to her PhD, she has several years of experience working in large population-based projects in collaboration with the LSHTM in cardiovascular epidemiology and she has had some experience in managing large, multi-centric trials. Her primary focus has been in the area of preventive cardiology, in particular, cardio-metabolic risks and diseases. Her PhD focused on the epidemiology of cardio-metabolic abnormalities, in particular, evaluating genetic and non-genetic associations of uric acid and kidney function with blood pressure and other metabolic abnormalities. This work involved association analyses in multiple population-based epidemiological studiesin Switzerland and Seychelles, including complex and robust statistical analysis of family data and analysis of human genetic data. Her work was accepted for several financial grants that allowed her to present at various international conferences and has resulted in several publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. As a faculty at the Public Health Foundation of India, she was actively involved in training and teaching programmes in epidemiology, biostatistics and clinical research. She led several projects in the area of maternal and child health, mental health epidemiology, routine health information systems, and health systems research. She has worked very closely with several state governments in strengthening health systems research through training and capacity building. Shewas actively involved in providing technical support to the Ministry of AYUSH in implementation of several of their population-based studies. At the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), she is in the Epidemiology and Communicable Disease Division and is a part of the team working on clinical studies and trials.