Dr Krithiga Shridhar is the Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Health Analytics Research and Trends (CHART) at the Trivedi School of Biosciences; Consultant at the Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi; Adjunct Associate Professor, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram.
She is an Epidemiologist focusing on cancer prevention and control in India. Her work in cancer spans burden and risk factors assessment, biological mechanisms, screening and early detection, referral pathways, clinical epidemiology, and health technology. She currently aims to address evidence gaps in cancer through understanding environmental and human microbial factors, metabolic and inflammatory mechanisms, and clinical and treatment factors for survival and implementation science. She is trained in quantitative data analytics and fundamental principles of molecular epidemiology. She received her doctoral degree in Periodontics at the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India and post-doctoral training in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. She works with cancer registries, cancer care centres, NGOs, and domestic and international academic institutes towards understanding cancer etiology, prevention, early detection, and survival.
Her areas of interest include cancer, cardiovascular disease, environmental toxins, diet and nutrition, the human microbiome, chronic inflammation and metabolomics.
