Employment
September 2025 - Ongoing – ESKAS Postdoc Fellow (Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Scholarship), University of Bern
April 2025 - Ongoing – Senior Consultant, JH CreIndia Foundation
March 2025- August 2025- Senior Research Officer at Department of Community Medicine & Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar
July 2023- March 2025 – Project Manager at School of Health Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)
September 2024 to March 2025 – International Companion Animal Management (ICAM) Coalition Consultancy on Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dog Population Management
August 2022- November 2022 – Consultant for WHO SEARO Project, with Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
2014- 2017 – Ayush Medical Officer National Health Mission, Government of Odisha
2013- 2014 – Medical Officer, Paramount Health Services & Insurance TPA Pvt. Ltd.
Education
2019- 2023 – Ph.D. in Community Medicine
IMS & SUM Hospital, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Deemed to be University
Research title: - Dietary Pattern and its Association with Health Status of Older People: A Study from Odisha, India
2017-2019 – Master of Public Health (MPH)
KIIT School of Public Health, KIIT Deemed to be University
2006-2011– Bachelor of Homoeopathy Medicine and Surgery (BHMS)
Dr. A. C. Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar