Parimala Mohanty

Federal scholarship holder

Phone
031 684 57 38
E-Mail
parimala.mohanty@unibe.ch
Office
Scharzenburgstrasse 161, 3097 Liebefeld, Gebäude Agroscope U 149
Postal Address
Schwarzenburgstrasse 161
3097 Liebefeld

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

Projects

ECOBITE – Economic Burden & Integrated Bite Management through One Health

This project aims to estimate the comprehensive economic burden of dog-mediated rabies in humans and livestock in India and to develop an application-based integrated bite management system using the One Health approach

Research interests

Epidemiology, Public Health, and One Health

Rabies economics and control strategies

One Health approaches to zoonotic and neglected tropical diseases

Infectious disease surveillance, prevention, and control

Geriatric nutrition and its linkages to One Health

Interconnections between infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

Peer reviewer for journals, like BMC Public Health, PLOS Global Public Health, International Journal for Equity in Health, and the Journal of Social and Economic Development