Ms. Jayalakshmi Rajeev BSc, MPH Assistant Professor Department Of Public Health and Community Medicine School of Medicine and Public Health(SMPH) Central University of Kerala Periye, Kasaragod Mobile:9400474930, 9496447390 Email: [email protected]

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Warden Nila Women’s Hostel Central University of Kerala Periye, Kasaragod

Specialization Courses Offered

Public Health

Brief profile

MPC 51 6 Environment & Health MPC 52 7 Gender Issues in Health MPC 51 5 Infectious & Chronic Disease Epidemiology MPC 50 6 Public Health Nutrition Ms. Jayalakshmi Rajeev has joined the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Central University of Kerala as an Assistant Professor from 03/10/2016 onwards. She has a post graduate degree in Public Health from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, following the Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Government College of Nursing, Thrissur, Kerala. She is also doing PhD on a part time basis from SCTIMST, Trivandrum. Her areas of interests are Women and child health and nutrition, Health policy, and Geriatric and Palliative care She has nearly two years of research experience in public Health including associations with reputed institutions; Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, CEHAT, Mumbai and Monash University, Malaysia. She has presented research papers in a Scientific symposium and National conference held at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Her work on “To improve the end-of-life care for elderly using Indic perspectives of ageing and dying” has been presented in Sandhi Exhibition held at Kolkata in August 2015. She has attended short term trainings/workshops on Scientific writing, Strategies to successful publishing in international journals, Analyzing health data using Rstatistical software, Ethics in health research and Palliative

care. She had undergone online courses on on “International Leadership and Organizational Behaviour” conducted by University of Bocconi and Introduction to Global Health conducted by University of Copenhagen. Publications 1. Jayalakshmi R, Chatterjee SC, Chatterjee D. Endof-

life characteristics of the elderly: An assessment of home-based palliative services in two panchayats of Kerala. Indian J Palliat Care 2016;22:491-8. Manuscripts accepted 1. Nutritional status of Mid-Day Meal Program beneficiaries: A cross sectional study among primary school children in Kottayam District, Kerala, India. Authors: Rajeev Jayalakshmi, Jissa VT Journal: Indian Journal of Public Health Original article