Dr  Ravendra Kumar Sharma

Department of Economics
Ch Charan Singh University, Meerut
ra********@yahoo.com
+91 942****256

Academic Qualification

BSc (Economics, Statistics, Mathematics), 1994, CCS University, Meerut
MA (Economics), 1996, CCS University, Meerut
MPhil (Economics), 1997, CCS University, Meerut
MPS (Population Studies), 1998, IIPS, Mumbai
PhD (Population Studies), 2003, IIPS, Mumbai

Position held

1. Scientist 'E' from 1st June 2020 15th Dec. 2021 at ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi
2. Scientist 'E' from 1st Sept. 2018 to 30th May 2020 at ICMR-National Institute of Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur (M.P.)
3. Scientist 'D' from 1st Sept. 2014 to 31st August 2018 at ICMR-National Institute of Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur (M.P.)

Publications

1. Rajvanshi H, Bharti PK, Sharma RK, Nisar S, Saha KB, Jayswar H, Mishra AK, Das A, Kaur H, Lal A. 2022. Monitoring of the Village Malaria Workers to conduct activities of Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh. Malar J, 21, 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-04040-2
2. Mishra P, Sharma RK, Yadav R, Mishra P, Nigam S, Lingala MA, Rao VG, Bhat J. Reasons for loss to follow-up (LTFU) of pulmonary TB (PTB) patients: A qualitative study among Saharia, a particularly vulnerable tribal group of Madhya Pradesh, India. Plos One 23;16(12):e0261152.
3. Bhat J, Sharma RK, Yadav R, Mishra P, Nigam S, Lingala MA, Rao VG. Persistent high prevalence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a resource-limited setting: Threat to India’s TB Free campaign. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Dec 9:trab181. doi: 10.1093/trstmh/trab181.
4. Kumar S, Sharma RK, Soan V, Pandey M, Khan AA, Tiwari S, Sharma M. Socio-demographic determinants of high Tobacco use in Gond tribe of central India" accepted for publication in The National Medical Journal of India (accepted for Jan. 2022 issue).
5. Sonkar A, Bishwal SC, Sharma RK, Barde P. 2021. Prevalence of Hepatitis D virus antibodies in Hepatitis B patients treated at tertiary care unit at Jabalpur Central India. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 17;S0255-0857(21)04707-1.
6. Sharma RK, Rao VG, Yadav R, Mishra P, Lingala MA, Nigam S, Bhat J. 2021. Co50mparative yield of Pulmonary Tuberculosis by different symptoms among Saharia tribe of Madhya Pradesh, India. Indian J Community Med, 2021;46:546-9.
7. Mishra P, Sharma R, Yadav R, Bansal G, Rao VG, Bhat J. 2021. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis treated with bedaquiline: a case report in the particularly vulnerable tribal group of Madhya Pradesh, India. Indian J Public Health, Jul-Sep 2021;65(3):318-320.
8. Singh BK, Sharma RK. Scheduled Tribes and Tribal Communities of Himachal Pradesh, India: An Analysis of 2001 and 2011 Censuses. Tribal Health Bulletin, 26 (1&2).
9. Rani M, Singh BK, Sharma RK. Scheduled Tribe Population and Tribal Communities in Uttarakhand State of India: A Spatio-temporal Analysis. Tribal Health Bulletin, 26 (1&2).
10. Singh BK, Sharma RK. Scheduled Tribes of Goa State, India: Some observations from Census 2011.Tribal Health Bulletin, 26 (1&2).
11. Rajvanshi H, Saha KB, Sharma RK, Bharti PK, Nisar S, Jayswar H, Mishra AK, Shukla MM, Das A, Kaur H, Wattal SL, Lal AA. 2021. Assessing community knowledge, attitude, and practices to strengthen communication strategy for Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla. Malar J 20, 354. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03884-y
12. Nigam S, Sharma RK, Yadav R, Rao VG, Mishra P, Lingala MA, Bhat J. 2021. Experiences and needs of patients with MDR/XDR-TB: a qualitative study among Saharia tribe in Madhya Pradesh, Central India. BMJ Open;11:e044698. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-044698
13. Jain V, Thomas T, Basak S, Sharma RK, Singh N. 2021. Sequential dysregulated plasma levels of angiopoietins (ANG-2 and ratios of ANG-2/ANG-1) are associated with malaria severity and mortality among hospital admitted cases in South Bastar Region of Chhattisgarh, Central India. Pathog Glob Health, 26:1-12. doi: 10.1080/20477724.2021.1953685.
14. Rao VG, Muniyandi M, Sharma RK, Yadav R, Bhat J. 2021. Long-term survival of patients treated for tuberculosis: A population-based longitudinal study in a resource-poor setting. Trop Med Int Health. Jun 10. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13636.
15. Kumar G, Mukherjee A, Sharma RK, Menon GR, Sahu D, Wig N, Panda S, Rao VV, Singh S, Guleria R, Bhargava B, N1. 2021. Clinical profile of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in first & second wave of the pandemic: Insights from an Indian registry-based observational study. Indian J Med Res, https://www.ijmr.org.in/preprintarticle.asp?id=320580.
16. Saha KB, Sharma RK, Parihar B, Devi B, Verma A, Shrivastava S. 2021. Reproductive tract infection among the women of high-altitude areas of Lahaul & Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh, India. Int J Community Med Public Health, 8(4).
17. Rajvanshi H, Saha KB, Shukla MM, Nisar S, Jayswar H, Mishra AK, Sharma RK, Bharti PK, Saxena N, Verma A, Kaur H, Wattal SL, Lal AA. 2021. Assessment of ASHA for knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment on malaria in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh as part of the malaria elimination demonstration project, Malar J. 20(1):78. doi: 10.1186/s12936-021-03610-8.
18. Rajvanshi H, Bharti PK, Nisar S, Jayswar H, Mishra AK, Sharma RK, Saha KB, Shukla MM, Wattal SL, Das A, Kaur H, Anvikar AR, Khan A, Kshirsagar N, Dash AP, Lal AA. 2021. A model for malaria elimination based on learnings from the Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project, Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh. Malar J. 16;20(1):98. doi: 10.1186/s12936-021-03607-3.
19. Mishra AK, Nishar S, Rajvanshi R, Bharti PK, Saha KB, Shukla MM, Sharma RK, Jayswar H, Das A, Kaur H, Wattal SL, Lal AA. 2021. Improvement of Indoor Residual Spraying and Long-Lasting Insecticidal Net services through structured monitoring and supervision as part of the Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh. Malar J 20(1):101. doi: 10.1186/s12936-021-03639-9.
20. Rajvanshi H, Nisar S, Bharti PK, Jayswar H, Mishra AK, Sharma RK, Saha KB, Shukla MM, Das A, Kaur H, Wattal SL, Lal AA. 2021. Significance of training, monitoring, and assessment of malaria workers in achieving malaria elimination goal of Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project. Malaria J. 20(1):27. Doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03534-9.
21. Sharma RK, Rajvanshi H, Bharti PK, Nisar S, Jayswar H, Mishra AK, Saha KB, Shukla MM, Das A, Kaur H, Wattal SL, Lal AA. 2021. Socio-economic determinants of malaria in tribal-dominated Mandla district enrolled in Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Madhya Pradesh. Malaria J. 20:7: 2020. Doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03540-x.pdf
22. Kumar S, Sahu D, Mehto A, Sharma RK. 2020. Health inequalities in under-five mortality: An assessment of Empowered Action Group (EAG) states of India. Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research. 7(2):189-196. doi:10.36469/jheor.2020.18224.
23. Mishra AK, Bharti PK, Vishwakarma A, Nisar S, Rajvanshi H, Sharma RK, Saha KB, Shukla MM, Jayswar H, Das A, Kaur H, Wattal SL, Lal AA. 2020. A study of malaria vector surveillance as part of the Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh. Malar J 19, 447 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03517-w.
24. Rajvanshi H, Bharti PK, Nisar S, Jain Y, Jayswar H, Mishra AK, Sharma RK, Saha KB, Shukla MM, Das A, Kaur H, Wattal SL, Singh N, Lal AA. 2020. Study design and operational framework for a community-based Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project (MEDP) in 1233 villages of district Mandla, Madhya Pradesh. Malar J, 2020; 19:410.
25. Bharti PK, Rajvanshi H, Nisar S, Jayswar H, Saha KB, Shukla MM, Mishra AK, Sharma RK, Das A, Kaur H, Wattal SL, Lal AA. 2020. Demonstration of indigenous malaria elimination through Track-Test-Treat-Track (T4) strategy in a Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh. Malaria Journal,2020;19,339.
26. Adhikari T, Gulati BK, Juneja A, Nai S, Rao MVV, Sharma RK, Saha KB, Singh S. Development of behaviour change communication model for improving male participation in maternal and child health services among Saharia Tribes in Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh: a mixed-method approach. Int J Community Med Public Health. 2020 Dec;7(12):5134-5143.
27. Manjunathachar HV, Barde PV, Singh KN, Chouksey V, Kumar R, Sharma RK. Prevalence of Torch infections and its associated poor outcome in high-risk pregnant women of central India: Time to think for prevention strategies. Indian J Med Microbiol Jul-Dec 2020;38(3 & 4):379-384. doi: 10.4103/ijmm.IJMM_20_136.
28. Rasaily R, Saxena NC, Pandey S, Garg BS Swain S, Iyengar SD, Das V, Sinha S, Gupta S, Sinha A, Kumar S, Pandey A, Pandey RM, Sachdev HS, Sankar MJ, Ramji S, Paul VK, Bang AT, ICMR-HBMYI Study Group (Investigators team: D Ganguly, S Kumar, R P Singh, SK Jha, U Prasad, U K Singh, M S Bharambe, P V Bahulekar, A Mohanty, H K Dash, L Kanungo, R K Dattatreya, J K George, K Sen, A Dadhich; A Srivastava, N Agarwal, S Shakir, S Singh; Endline survey team: R J Yadav, R K Gupta, T Adhikari, A Juneja, A Kumar, D Sahu, J Singh, R K Sharma). Effect of home-based newborn care on neonatal and infant mortality: a cluster randomised trial in India. BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Sep;5(9):e000680. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000680.
29. Yadav S, Barapatre R, Sharma RK, Neral A, Barde PV. Proposed algorithm for Hepatitis E Virus diagnosis in the early phase of illness. Intervirology 2020 Oct 6;1-5. doi: 10.1159/000510725.
30. Verma A, Sharma RK, Saha KB. Diversity in child mortality and life expectancy at birth among major tribes in selected states of India. Indian Pediatr 2020 Oct 12;S097475591600252
31. Jain V, Thomas T, Basak S, Sharma RK, Singh N. 2020. Serum levels of Total human Tau associated with axonal damage among severe malaria patients in Central India. Acta Tropica, December, 212, 105675.
32. Singh PP, Bhandari S, Sharma RK, Singh N, Bharti PK. 2020. Association of Angiopoietin Dysregulation in Placental Malaria with Adverse Birth Outcomes. Disease Markers, Article ID 6163487. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6163487
33. Sharma RK, Shukla MK, Minhas N, Barde PV. 2019. Sero-prevalence and risk factors of Hepatitis B virus infection in tribal population of Himalayan district Lahaul and Spiti, India. Pathogens and Global Health, 113(6): 263-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/20477724.2019.1685802
34. Bhat J, Yadav R, Sharma RK, Muniyandi M, Rao VG. 2019. Tuberculosis elimination in India’s Saharia Group 2019. Lancet Global Health. Dec, 7(12):e1618.
35. Mishra AK, Bharti PK, Kareemi TI, Chand SK, Tidgam AS, Sharma RK, Singh N. Field evaluation of zero vector durable lining (ZVDL) to assess its efficacy against malaria vectors and malaria transmission in tribal areas of Balaghat district of Central India. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019 Oct 11;113(10):623-631. doi: 10.1093/trstmh/trz046.
36. Rao VG, Bhat J, Yadav R, Sharma RK, Muniyandi M. Declining tuberculosis prevalence in Saharia, a particularly vulnerable tribal community in Central India: Evidence for action. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019;19(1):180. doi: 10.1186/s12879-019-3815-8.
37. Banurekha Velayutham, Vineet Kumar Chadha, Neeta Singla, Pratibha Narang, Vikas Gangadhar Rao, Sanjeev Nair, Srinivasan Ramalingam, Gomathi Narayanan, Sivarama krishnan, Bency Joseph, Sriram Selvaraju, Shivakumar Shanmugam, Rahul Narang, Praseeja Pachikkaran, Jyothi, Bhat, Chinnaiyan Ponnuraja, Bhoomika Bajaj Bhalla, Bhadravathi Amarnath Shivashankara, George Sebastian, Rajiv Yadav, Ravendra K Sharma, et al. 2018. Recurrence of tuberculosis among newly diagnosed sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, India: A multi-centric prospective study. PLOS One 13(7):e0200150. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200150.
38. Rao, VG, Bhat J, Yadav R, Sharma RK, Mumniyandi M. 2018. A comparative study of the socio-economic risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis in the Saharia tribe of Madhya Pradesh, India. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg.112(6):272-278.
39. Singh Neeru, Ashok K. Mishra, Kalyan B. Saha, Praveen K. Bharti, Dinesh S. Sisodia, Gagan S. Sonal, Akshay C. Dhariwal, Ravendra K. Sharma. 2018. Malaria control in a tribal area of Central India using existing tools. Acta Trop. May, Vol. 181: 60-68.
40. Rao VG, M Muniyandi,J Bhat, R Yadav, R Sharma. Research on tuberculosis in tribal areas in India: A systematic review. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 2018, 65(1):8-14.
41. Sahu M, Singh N, Shukla MK, Potdar VA, Sharma RK, Sahare LK, Ukey MJ, Barde PV, 2018. Molecular and Epidemiological analysis of Pandemic and Post-pandemic Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus from central India. Journal of Medical Virology. 2018 Mar;90(3):447-455.
42. Singh Binod and Ravendra K Sharma. 2018. Scheduled tribe population and Tribal communities in Jammu & Kashmir state of India: A Spatio-temporal Analysis. Tribal Health Bulletin, 25 (1&2): 31-51.
43. Sri Krishna, Ajay Yadav, Sneha Bhandari, Anup Vishwakarma, Praveen Bharti, Prem Mandawi, Pradeep Bahgel, Sanjay Basak, Ravendra Sharma, Neeru Singh. Prevalence of malaria in two highly endemic Community Health Centres of district Bastar, Chhattisgarh showing mixed infections of Plasmodium species. Scientific Reports (Nature Group Journal) 2017 Dec 4;7(1):16860. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16974-2.
44. Bhat J, Rao V G, Sharma R K, Muniyandi M, Yadav R, Bhondley M K. Investigation of the risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis: A case-control study among Saharia tribe in Gwalior district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Indian J Med Res 2017;146:97-104.
45. Chakma T, A. Kavishwar, RK Sharma, PV Rao. 2017. High Prevalence of Hypertension and its Selected Risk Factors among Adult Tribal population in Central India. Pathogens and Global Health 2017 Oct;111(7):343-350.
46. Barde PV, M Sahu, MK Shukla, PK Bharti, RK Sharma, LK Sahare, MJ Ukey, N Singh. 2017. The high frequency of non-aspartic acid residues at HA222 in influenza A(H1N1) 2009 pandemic viruses is associated with mortality during the upsurge of 2015: a molecular and epidemiological study from central India. Epidemiol Infect. 2017 Oct;145(13):2656-2665. doi: 10.1017/S0950268817001595.
47. Kori BK, KN Singh RK Sharma, BS Sharma, P Badkur, PV Barde. 2017. Susceptibility of Rubella Among Pregnant Women Attending the Antenatal Clinic in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Jabalpur, Central India. Viral Immunol. 2017 Mar;30(2):136-139.
48. Shukla MK, Neeru Singh, Ravendra K. Sharma, Pradip V. Barde. 2017. Utility of dengue NS1 antigen rapid diagnostic test for use in difficult to reach areas and its comparison with dengue NS1 ELISA and qRT-PCR, Journal of Medical Virology. Jul;89(7):1146-1150.

Experience

Worked from August 2002 to 15th December 2021 mainly in the field of Population Studies, Tribal Health and Public Health

Area of Specialization

Tribal Demography
Population and Development Studies
Monitoring and Evaluation of Health and Development Program

Membership of other Professional Associations

a) Life Member of Asian Population Association (APA), Bangkok, Thailand.
b) Life Member of Indian Association of Health and Social Sciences (IAHSS), India.
c) Life Member of Indian Society for Medical Statistics (ISMS), India.