Sanghamitra Pati, a physician cum scientist[1] is currently the director of Public health at RMRC, Bhubaneswar the regional institution of the ICMR & the only institute in Odisha. She is an expert on multimorbidity research in public health settings, having been a lead in the first ever study of multimorbidity in India.[2]

Besides multiple publications on the topic,[3] she has promoted multimorbidity literacy aimed at capacity building of service providers at national and international events,[4] either as a speaker or as a panellist. Her studies relate to the burden of multimorbidity in primary care, psychiatric multimorbidity, patient-physician perspectives on the burden of multimorbidity, mapping of multimorbidity in medical education, and interprofessional education related to multimorbidity.

She received the Odisha Bigyan Academy Samanta Chandra Shekhar Award in Life Sciences Category in 2018.[5]

Pati completed both her MBBS & MD from MKCG Medical College and Hospital, Berhampur.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Loop | Dr Sanghamitra Pati". loop.frontiersin.org. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  2. ^ "Regional Medical Research Center, Odisha". www.rmrcbbsr.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  3. ^ Arokiasamy, Perianayagam; Uttamacharya, Uttamacharya; Jain, Kshipra; Biritwum, Richard Berko; Yawson, Alfred Edwin; Wu, Fan; Guo, Yanfei; Maximova, Tamara; Espinoza, Betty Manrique; Salinas Rodríguez, Aarón; Afshar, Sara; Pati, Sanghamitra; Ice, Gillian; Banerjee, Sube; Liebert, Melissa A.; Snodgrass, James Josh; Naidoo, Nirmala; Chatterji, Somnath; Kowal, Paul (August 3, 2015). "The impact of multimorbidity on adult physical and mental health in low- and middle-income countries: what does the study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE) reveal?". BMC Medicine. 13 (1): 178. doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0402-8. PMC 4524360. PMID 26239481.
  4. ^ "Intl conference on vector-borne diseases from January 9". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019.
  5. ^ "Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award – Odisha Bigyan Academy". Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  6. ^ "କନିଆ ଦେଖା". No. ସମ୍ବାଦ ରବିବାର 17/05/2020 page 10. Eastern Media Ltd. p. 10. Archived from the original on 18 May 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.