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Work Profile
• In Consultant position I provided specialised technical support to United Nation Development Programm [UNDP] Orissa for implementation of the various communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology related initiatives undertaken by UN House II, with focus on the emergency post-disaster disease surveillance activities in Bihar.
• Collaborate with the government line departments and other stake holders

PG [EPIDEMIOLOGY], (PhD) [PUBLIC HEALTH]

Christian Medical College [CMC Vellore], India

Jun 1999 - Jun 2001

Rajan R Patil. Application of 'Public Health Epidemiological Logic' in devising a vaccination policy: A broad public health criterion for routine immunization" Human Vaccines, 2011. Volume 7 Issue 5 : pp 576-578. Abrstract There is a need to develop clear cut public health criteria for consideration of new vaccines for use in public health. Most of the vaccines which have become recently available or will soon be available are mostly recommended for use in clinical/office practice. A new vaccine that is highly recommended for use in clinical setting may not be effective at all for larger public health use or may even lack rationale to put it in use for public health. It is stressed that a new vaccine which is proven to be good clinical tool for preventing particular disease at individual level need not necessarily be good public health tool in combating the same disease at community level. The present paper takes a closer look at the logical basis for use of any vaccine in public health. Rabies vaccine is used as a case study to set the background to scrutinize the criteria for eligibility for considering any new vaccine to be included in routine immunization program A rough & ready algorithm is proposed as a check list for a new vaccine as a likely candidate for inclusion in Universal immunization programme.The suggested new algorithm is basically a public health criteria called as Public Health Epidemiological Logic (PHEL) Criteria. The public health debate and the arguments against inclusion of Rabies vaccine in routine national immunization programme in India is a argued in the frame work of PHEL criteria in this paper Rabies vaccine to drive home the point, that a vaccine which is a good clinical tool need not always be a good public health tool, where as a vaccine which is proven to be a good public health tool will always invariably be a good clinical tool as well.

9) Rajan R Patil. Investigating Genetic Outcomesfollowing 1984 Toxic Union Carbide Disaster In India:Epidemiological Challenges. International Jounrnal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2010;23(4): 397 – 398. DOI 10.2478/v10001-010-0025-4

6. Susanta K Ghosh, Rajan R Patil, Satyanarayan Tiwari, Aditya P Dash. A community-based health education programme for bio-environmental control of malaria through folk theatre (Kalajatha) in rural India. Malaria Journal 2006, 5:123 Abstract Background: Health education is an important component in disease control programme. Kalajatha is a popular, traditional art form of folk theatre depicting various life processes of a local socio-cultural setting. It is an effective medium of mass communication in the Indian sub-continent especially in rural areas. Using this medium, an operational feasibility health education programme was carried out for malaria control. Methods: In December 2001, the Kalajatha events were performed in the evening hours for two weeks in a malaria-affected district in Karnataka State, south India. Thirty local artists including ten governmental and non-governmental organizations actively participated. Impact of this programme was assessed after two months on exposed vs. non-exposed respondents. Results: The exposed respondents had significant increase in knowledge and change in attitude about malaria and its control strategies, especially on bio-environmental measures (p < 0.001). They could easily associate clean water with anopheline breeding and the role of larvivorous fish in malaria control. In 2002, the local community actively co-operated and participated in releasing larvivorous fish, which subsequently resulted in a noteworthy reduction of malaria cases. Immediate behavioural changes, especially maintenance of general sanitation and hygiene did not improve as much as expected. Conclusion: This study was carried out under the primary health care system involving the local community and various potential partners. Kalajatha conveyed the important messages on malaria control and prevention to the rural community. Similar methods of communication in the health education programme should be intensified with suitab

Ravi Kumar, Rajan R Patil et all. Perceptions of Mosquito-Borne Diseases. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.2003;57:392 http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/57/5/392 We report our findings from a community based study on Knowledge Attitude Practice of community on various vector (mosquito) borne diseases, conducted in 1998. The respondents (n=850) in a sample (systematic random) were chosen from the population of 10 000 of an urban locality in India

2. Rajan R. Patil. Circumstances leading to death of Indian Cotton farmers.International Jounral of Occupational Medicine & Environmental Health, vol.15 No.4, 2002. Investigates possible links between farmcers suciides in India and Pesticide exposure

Rajan R Patil. Chikungunia outbreaks in new regions- A sign of ecological ill health?Re-examining vector borne disease in the context of climate change. International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences Vol 3(4) pp. 87-88, April 2011. www.academicjournals.org/ijmms/PDF/Pdf2011/April/Patil.pdf

Rajan R Patil. Public Health Controversies : Common Characteristics. J Glob Infect Dis. 2011 Jan-Mar; 3(1): 97–98. Analyses and Identifies Common characteristics that run as common thread across all the Public Health Controversies

13) Rajan R Patil. Demystifying concepts of epidemic and causal association for public health students- A pedagogical approach to promote critical and analytical thinking. Educational Research and Reviews Vol. 6(2), pp. 1050-1052, February 2011. This paper gives a case study on how epidemiology could be taught using analogy

8) Rajan R Patil. The Controversy of MMR Vaccination & Autism: Learnings & implications Human Vaccine. 2010. Volume 7 ; Issue 2 : 281-282. This paper looks at MMR-Autism controversy and its fallout

Academia-Industry collaboration need not necessarily be a conflict of Interest. Quality education/research comes at cost, it requires significant amount of money, government does not have enough money or lacks the will to provide it. All the universities are encouraged to generate funds to support their research activities, so they turn towards industry to provide funding. Industry-Academia feed into each other and benefit out of each other. That explains why most of the academic bodies are beginning to have corporate Chief Executives Officers (CEOs) as board members. Most of the criticisms against academia-industry collaboration is embedded in leftist ideological base. In the larger perspective industrialists and academicians joining hands together for various collaborations is in align with larger policy that encourages academic institutions to court industry. Industry benefits from Research and Development (R and D) of academia and in turn universities/research Institutions get funds- extra mural funding in that way they are in symbiotic relationship

3. Rajan R. Patil (2012). Climate Change and Health Effects, International Perspectives on Global Environmental Change, Stephen S. Young and Steven E. Silvern (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-815-1, InTech, http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/climate-change-and-health-effects

Rajan R Patil. Environmental health impact assessment of national aluminum company, Orissa. Indian J Occup Environ Med 2011;15:73-5.

Rajan R Patil, Ghosh SK, Tiwari SN. Assessing perceptions about malaria among the elected representatives in rural India. Trop Parasitol 2011;1:83-7.

The author reports first case of Anthrax in Hyena reported from India. Also analyses the Sociio-Epidemiological determinatnts of Anthrax in India