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Ekta Jain
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Ekta Jain

Gurgaon

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Open to work
Desired start date: Flexible

Desired Job Title

Public Health ExpertDirector (Research, Public Health)Medical ResearcherScientist Project LeadPublic Health Advisor

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Full TimePart TimeContract WorkConsultingSeasonal WorkGig Work

Location Preference

RemoteOn-SiteHybrid
Location: Gurgaon, INSingapore
Open to relocation: Yes

Salary Range

₹3000000/yr - ₹5000000/yr

Important To Me

Career advancementWork-life balanceFlexible work hoursWork from home optionCompany Culture

Summary

Epidemiologist and public health expert with 18+ years experience in UK, India & Singapore. A motivated and polymath individual, who loves to learn and implement new ideas. Demonstrated ability and skills in public health and digital health research in a variety of diseases, managing diverse portfolios. An excellent team player as well as an independent researcher. Proven ability to work proactively in a busy work environment. My hands-on experience and knowledge are best suited to pursue advanced research in epidemiology and policy making.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Research Management and Strategy Consultant

Health Innovation Technology Lab (HITLAB)
New York (Remote)
04.2023 - Current
  • Developed strategic frameworks for digital healthcare tools, enhancing operational efficiency, patient outcomes and usability.
  • Managing and leading research projects on rare diseases, women's health, tele-health, cardiac conditions, biomarkers, dementia, Alzheimer's, mental health, pediatrics, hospital systems, patient management systems.
  • Develop strategy on research methods and analysis of data for digital health research studies and digital health tools.
  • Presented findings and recommendations to senior leadership, influencing strategy direction and resource allocation decisions.
  • Testing of AI models for clinical diagnosis and patient outcomes, patent research and image analysis
  • Heuristic evaluations of digital health tools - around 200 mobile applications and web platforms
  • Preparing IRB/ethics review applications.
  • Statistical data analysis and data visualization using R and Python
  • Market research and competitor landscape analysis.

Public Health Data Consultant, APVAX

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
India
01.2022 - 04.2023
  • Manage the COVID-19 response and recovery project on vaccine financing and technical assistance Asia Pacific Vaccine Access (APVAX) grant by Asian Development Bank to MoHFW, GoI in partnership with WHO and Unicef.
  • Responsible for monthly and quarterly reports (on vaccination coverage, changes in vaccination policies, loan utilization, vaccine financing, project indicators monitoring framework).
  • Analyzed health data trends as part of these reports which helped inform decision- and policy-making.
  • Coordinated with various departments within the Ministry for project progress, obtaining approvals from senior officials in MoHFW and execution of tasks.
  • PROJECTS: Vaccine barriers survey and solarization of health facilities in India (Unicef) and Biomedical waste management at vaccination centers (WHO).
  • Advise on public health research studies on COVID-19 vaccination uptake/acceptance and on vaccine hesitancy.

Commissioned Author

Observer Research Foundation
09.2021 - Current
  • Writing scientific briefs and analyses on issues governing public health and epidemiology.

PhD Scholar and Team Member on the Singapore Social, Lifestyle and Infections Networks Group (SLING)

Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
Singapore
01.2016 - 09.2020
  • Analysed self-reported activity level data of ~7000 individuals surveyed in the Ranga Reddy district of Hyderabad, erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, India from www.apcaps.lshtm.ac.uk
  • The biomarkers studied include systolic and diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, high and low-density lipoprotein, fasting plasma glucose and fasting insulin for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
  • Spatial analysis of physical activity spaces in the study villages and their association with activity levels
  • Built environment analysis Investigate associations of physical activity and sedentary behaviour with residential densities of shops, health services, education centres and transport services.
  • Kids-in-view study for influenza surveillance in child-care centers in Singapore: recruitment of participants, maintaining server and back-end platforms for the data collected.

Research Consultant, Andhra Pradesh Child and Parent Study (APCAPS)

Public Health Foundation of India
Gurugram, India
11.2015 - 12.2016
  • Conceptualize and develop a database for Andhra Pradesh Child and Parent Study (APCaPS) : a study investigating the trans-generational influences of environmental and genetic factors on chronic diseases in rural India.
  • DB contained more than 200 database tables to store data across multiple follow-ups. Data included medical history, anthropometry and clinical measurements, food frequency, physical activity, pregnancy, lifestyle, etc.
  • Set-up systems for automatic data processing and upload, and protocols for data standardization
  • Train staff members on database query and usage
  • Draft specification for vendors for web applications or tablet use and applications for data collection in field data collection.
  • Analysis of SNP dataset in GenomeStudio.

Research Associate, Director General’s Office and

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
New Delhi, India
09.2013 - 11.2015
  • Initiate research projects and joint collaborations in environment and human health.
  • Managed projects between TERI and G2E Mexico on Energy using waste in India and Mexico (Ministry of Environment, Mexico), UBrainTV (Japan) for climate change awareness dissemination material, Lahore Waste Management, Pakistan, and with India-EU strategizing for opportunities in public health and climate change.
  • Established collaborations with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to study impacts of degrading water quality on population in the Malwa region of Punjab and New Delhi Municipal corporation to study current trends and predict future trends of vector-borne diseases due to changes in temperature and precipitation levels - Integrating GIS, climate data and disease incidence rates to develop a model to forecast epidemics of dengue and other vector-borne diseases.
  • Developed scientific proposal inviting relevant stakeholders from India and the UK on board, liaising with government authorities for clinical data of cancer patients in Punjab for retrospective analysis - Projects were selected by KIIT – Technology Business Incubator Grant subject to completion of pilot study.
  • Co-organized the Public launch of the Inter-governmental panel on climate change’s Assessment Report 5 for Asia region in New Delhi, Aug 2014 and organising team for DSDS 2013 and DSDS 2014 (Delhi Sustainable Development Summit) and International Conference on Mycorrhizae Research in 2012.
  • Systems biology and molecular dynamics of algal cells with solvents for extraction of lipids for biofuels
  • Bioinformatics analysis of rice genome and pathogen interaction using R.

Senior Research Associate

Jubilant Drug Discovery
Bengaluru, India
01.2012 - 07.2012
  • Analysis and management for bioinformatics client projects
  • Supervising interns and trainees on java and bioinformatics projects - design project outline and manage progress.
  • Managing in-house databases of disease and molecular functions
  • Bioconductor package in R for analysis
  • Supervised students on bioinformatics project to automate PCR Primer creation in java and jsp web pages.

Database Developer & Programmer

Centre for Land and Warfare Studies
Delhi Cantt., New Delhi, India
01.2011 - 12.2011
  • Provided data management solutions for all data generated by CLAWS and external publications.
  • Field work in Srinagar and Kupwara areas of Kashmir for a qualitative study on understanding the local perception towards the Indian Army, administration - interviews with media personnel, local villagers, surrendered anarchists, women and school going children.

Scientific Officer

Institute of Cancer Research
Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
09.2007 - 01.2011
  • Responsible for bridging the interface between lab and analysis; to work closely with the wet-lab scientists
  • Developing and maintaining the in-house oracle database, BRCAbase housing private as well as public data integrated from various bioinformatics resources of genes, proteins, interactions, pathways, mutations, homology etc.
  • Responsible for maintaining and running updates on the entire database. Synchronize DB update with respect to the public DBs
  • Innovate computational ways in java , perl, jsp and or ajax to integrate pathway, experimental (Microarray and aCGH) information in BRCABase
  • Designing DB tables/schemas (using SQL workbench, CaseStudio).
  • Set-up pipelines for data analysis of microarray and gene expression datasets and in GeneSpring.
  • Set-up automated tools for database updating, data standardization and analysis.
  • Curated and annotated 80 gene expression human studies and 90 RNAi screens for Drosophila melanogaster for a database called FLIGHT, curated similar studies on Homo sapiens for BRCABase

Education

Ph.D. - Epidemiology

National University of Singapore
Singapore (Jan 2016 To September 2020)

M.res - Bioinformatics

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK (Sept 2005 To Dec 2006)

B.Sc Honours - Botany

University of Delhi
New Delhi, India
07-2005

Skills

  • Project management, monitoring and evaluation, team leadership
  • Epidemiology research and analysis
  • R and Python for data analysis
  • Health technology assessment
  • Usability testing, AI models testing
  • Market and strategy research
  • Technical and scientific writing
  • Databases

One health and animal welfare

  • Founder of animal welfare charity that focuses on established scientific methods of management of community dogs i.e. sterilization and vaccination.
  • Petitioner in Hon'ble Supreme Court for mitigating transmission of rabies in India and formulation of national policy on management on management of community animals.
  • Leading and initiating community initiatives on animal welfare, public health and safety.
  • Set-up portal for consolidation of sterilization and vaccination records of community animals pan-India

Consulting Faculty

National Information Technology Academy, Saudi Arabia | Practitioners Diploma in AI and Machine Learning

(Remote), Dec 2023 - Jun 2025

  • Mathematics for AI and Data Science, Data Processing
  • Statistics, Data Visualization
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Basic and Advanced programming in R and Python
  • Cloud Computing
  • Machine Learning, Big Data
  • Natural Language Processing

Gravitas AI and Kshamata Innovation Foundation | Artificial Intelligence, data science and machine learning

(Remote) Apr 2021 - Sep 2021

  • Case studies on AI and health using in-house AI tools.
  • White paper on AI; Handbook on Artificial Intelligence, data analytics for SABIC and Prince Mohammad Bin Fahad University (Saudi Arabia)

SYBGEN - Lovely Professional University, India | Multivariate Statistics, data visualisation, Predictive & Marketing Analytics

(Remote), May 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Teaching MBA year 2 students.
  • Setting assessments, exams, and evaluations of answers.

Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia | Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence using R and Python

(Remote), Dec 2020 - Mar 2021

  • Teaching undergrad & graduate students
  • Designing course curriculum, teaching material, mid-course assessments and end-course exams

SYBGEN - Reva University, Bengaluru | Data Analytics and Python

(Remote), Oct 2020

  • Bootcamp course for Year 2 Engineering students

Consulting Bioinformatician | Central Drug Research Institute

Lucknow, India (Remote), Jun 2016 - Dec 2016

  • Provide bioinformatics and analytic expertise to the lab scientists at CDRI
  • Analysed gene expression dataset for differentially expressed genes in Leishmania donovani
  • Pathway analysis
  • Creating publication ready graphs in R
  • Deep Learnin

Timeline

Research Management and Strategy Consultant

Health Innovation Technology Lab (HITLAB)
04.2023 - Current

Public Health Data Consultant, APVAX

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
01.2022 - 04.2023

Commissioned Author

Observer Research Foundation
09.2021 - Current

PhD Scholar and Team Member on the Singapore Social, Lifestyle and Infections Networks Group (SLING)

Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
01.2016 - 09.2020

Research Consultant, Andhra Pradesh Child and Parent Study (APCAPS)

Public Health Foundation of India
11.2015 - 12.2016

Research Associate, Director General’s Office and

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
09.2013 - 11.2015

Senior Research Associate

Jubilant Drug Discovery
01.2012 - 07.2012

Database Developer & Programmer

Centre for Land and Warfare Studies
01.2011 - 12.2011

Scientific Officer

Institute of Cancer Research
09.2007 - 01.2011

Ph.D. - Epidemiology

National University of Singapore

M.res - Bioinformatics

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

B.Sc Honours - Botany

University of Delhi

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