CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

Dr. Asha Kamath is Associate Director, PSPH, and is Professor & Head Department of Applied Statistics and Data Science, PSPH, 必威体育betway888 Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), 必威体育betway888. Dr Kamath is an expert in research methodology and biostatistics. ?She regularly undertakes statistical consultancy for medical researchers and supervises research among medical postgraduates. She is a panel member on the PhD committee of MAHE.?

Dr. Kamath has worked extensively in the designing and analysis of epidemiological studies, clinical trials, model building, Bayesian analysis, Time series analysis of health and climate data, and allied health fields such as adolescent health and geriatrics. She has been a part of several collaborations, both nationally and internationally and has been an investigator/co-investigator on several projects for ICMR and other reputed institutions grant from the University of Alabama at Birmingham 必威体育betway888 Training and 必威体育betway888 in Environmental and Occupational Health program from the National Institutes of Health-Fogarty 必威体育betway888 Center (NIH-FIC) for developing R manual for time series analysis.

She is a Life member of the Indian Society for Medical Statistics (ISMS). Dr Kamath has published more than 175 articles in national and international journals which have been indexed in SCOPUS and PubMed databases. She has written six chapters in books and has served as a resource person in workshops as a research methodologist as well as a statistician.?

SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING

Subject	Semester / Year
Epidemiology and Health Surveys	Year I
Survival analysis	Year I

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree	Specialisation	Institute	Year of passing
Ph.D.	Bayesian approach to sample size determination	MAHE, 必威体育betway888	2010
MPS		Indian Institute of Population Studies	2003
MPHIL	Natural exponential family with quadratic variance function	Pune University	1990
M.Sc. (Master of Science)	Statistics	University of Mangalore	1985

Experience

Institution / Organisation	Designation	Role	Tenure
Prasanna School of Public Health	Associate Director		2019 - Present
Department of Data Science, PSPH	Professor & Head, Department of Statistics		March 2018- Present
Department of Data Science	Associate Professor		October 2017- Feb 2018
Department of Community Medicine, KMC, 必威体育betway888	Associate Professor		2014-2017
Department of Community Medicine, KMC, 必威体育betway888	Selection Grade Lecturer		2003-2014
Department of Community Medicine, KMC, 必威体育betway888	Lecturer (Biostatistics)		1995-2003
Department of Community Medicine, KMC, 必威体育betway888	Statistician		1990-1995