Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

The Institution has an established and a funded Centre for Advanced Research in Evidence Based Child Health at the Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER. The current centre is led by Prof Meenu Singh who is the Principal Investigator. The centre for advanced research also collaborated with Cochrane South Asia (formerly South Asian Cochrane Network). Professor Meenu Singh was the Site Director South Asian Cochrane Network at PGIMER, Chandigarh and Editor for The Cochrane ARI Group of the Cochrane Library. The centre has staff comprising of scientists and research fellows and information specialists (Library expert).  The centre has been carrying out training activities and so far, more than 1500 healthcare professionals (including doctors, researchers, nurses and other paramedics) have been trained. The centre has also been conducting systematic reviews that have been reviewed and discussed in various policy making forums. The centre is also  providing support for conduct of electronic searches during the process of systematic reviews carried out by the centre staff and also for other researchers. Centre been developing methodologies that have relevance to the Indian scenario and have been enrolling PhD fellows for the same. The centre has produced more than 20 systematic reviews including intervention reviews, disease burden reviews and diagnostic test accuracy reviews. The centre has the capacity of conducting systematic reviews for vaccine efficacy and infectious disease burden. The members from this centre had been invited by the National Technical Advisory Group for Immunization (NTAGI) for pneumococcal vaccine to present their systematic reviews for invasive pneumococcal disease burden in Indian children.

 

The Centre is specialized in using different software’s such as RevMan, GRADE pro, STATA and other statistical software’s. The centre also specializes in capacity building programmes it has conducted over 100 short courses and workshops all over the country. Centre has also started an online course to build capacity in using the systematic reviews and critical appraisal of RCTs and DTAs. The centre has conducted the Health Technology Assessment for the mask use in COVID 19 pandemic and  undergoing HTA of Truenat versus Xpert TB in children. This is being conducted in collaboration with HiTAP and school of public health at PGIMER Chandigarh.

 

Priorty: Conducting regular workshops to build capacity amongst the relevant groups to conduct and use Cochrane reviews. Encouraging medical and paramedical professionals to become authors for Cochrane reviews. Use of the social media and other platforms to disseminate the results of latest Cochrane reviews and Cochrane activities in Indian scenario.

Centre Director
 
Dr Meenu Singh. MD, FCCP, FIAP, FAMS
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology, Advanced Pediatrics Centre
Principal Investigator:  ICMR Advanced Centre for Research in Evidence-based Child Health.
Head, Department of Telemedicine
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research. Chandigarh.
Landline- 0091-172-2755306
Mobile - 9914208306, 9814117152
Email ID - meenusingh4@gmail.com
 
 
Faculty
   
Dr Joseph Mathew, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics 
Co-Investigator: ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence-based Child Health 
Dept. of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre 
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. 
Email: dr.joseph.l.mathew@gmail.com
Dr Samir Malhotra, MD
Professor & Head, Dept. of Pharmacology
Co-Investigator: ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence-based Child Health 
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
Email: samirmalhotra345@yahoo.com 
   
Dr Nusrat Shafiq, MD, DM (Pharmacology)
Professor Of Pharmacology
Co-Investigator: ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence-based Child Health 
Dept. of Pharmacology 
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 
Email: nusrat.shafiq.pgi@gmail.com
Dr Sourabh Dutta, MD, DM (Neonatology) 
Professor of Pediatrics 
Co-Investigator: ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence-based Child Health 
Dept. of Pediatrics 
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 
Email: sourabhdutta1@gmail.com 
   
Dr Anil Chauhan, MSc, PhD
Consultant, Evidence-Based Health Informatics & HTA unit,
Regional Resource Centre, Dept. of Telemedicine, PGIMER,
Chandigarh 160012
Email: anilpgi83@yahoo.com
Dr Manvi Singh, MD Pediatrics
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Telemedicine
PGIMER Chandigarh 160012
Email: drmanvisingh89@gmail.com
   
Dr Amit Agarwal, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor (Non-Medical), Dept. of Telemedicine
PGIMER, Chandigarh 160012
Email: agarwal.amit1982@gmail.com
Mrs Pranita Pradhan, M.Lib.Sc
Technical Assistant, ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence-based Child Health
Dept. of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,
Chandigarh.
Email: pranita2009@gmail.com
   
Mrs Monika Rana, MSc Maths
Technical Assistant, ICMR Advanced Centre for Evidence-based Child Health
Dept. of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, 
Chandigarh.
Email: monapgirana@gmail.com