Dr. Chitra Grace has a key interest in public health, epidemiology, and environmental health with a dual masters in Environmental Sciences and Public Health. Dr. Chitra has done her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai. Later, she was employed with ICMR School of Public Health, National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai. Presently, she teaches Epidemiology, Quantitative Research Methods, and Health and Environment courses at the Global Institute of Public Health. Furthermore, she is Co-Principal Investigator (Kerala) for the project, Community Voices for Vaccines in India (COVVINDIA), funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Dr. Chitra also contributes as a part- time consultant for the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) – Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India project, with the Indian
Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai.

 

 

Contact Address:

Dr.Chitra Grace. A
Associate Professor
Global Institute of Public Health, Ananthapuri Hospitals,
Trivandrum 695 024, Kerala, India
Tel: +91 - 471 - 257 99 00
Fax: +91 - 471 - 250 69 69
Mob: +91- 8589 055 112
Email:achitragrace@gmail.com

 

Core Areas

Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Scientific Writing

 

Publications

⦁ Mini GK, Grace CA, Jinbert L. Complementary and alternative medicine use in the prevention of COVID-19 pandemic : a cross-sectional survey in Kerala , India. Int J Community Med Public Heal 2021; 8: 5329–37.
⦁ Nair, A.T., Nayar, K.R., Koya, S.F., Abraham, M., Lordson, J., Chitra, G.A., Sreekumar, S., Chembon, P., Swarnam, K., Pillai, A.M., Pandey, A.K., 2021. Social media, vaccine hesitancy and trust deficit in immunization programs: a qualitative enquiry in Malappuram District of Kerala, India. BMC Heal. Res. Policy Syst. 19, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00698-x
⦁ Pillai, Anand Marthanda, Koya, S.F., GK, M., Lordson, J.A., Chitra, G.A., Abraham, M., Kumar, V.V., Bijumone, S., Vijayan, B., KV, D., SH, K., Jose, S.D., Vaheed, R., J, R., K, A., Khan, S.R., SB, S., J, G., Sivanand, S., VS, K., VL, N., B, A., TK, M., VM, A., Wilson, G., Sadasivan, L.S., Nayar, K.R., Pillai, A Marthanda, 2021. “How Universal is the Use of Facemask During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Photo-Epidemiology Study from the Indian State of Kerala.” Biomed. J. Sci. Tech. Res. 35, 27741–27746. https://doi.org/10.26717/bjstr.2021.35.005712
⦁ Sudha Ramachandra Rao, Grace A Chitra, G Elavarasu, P Kamaraj, Kanagasabai Kaliaperumal, Prabhdeep Kaur, Exposure to mosquito coil and biomass fuel smoke and respiratory health in rural Tamil Nadu, India, Journal of Public Health, April 2021;, fdab119, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab119
⦁ Rajasekharan Nayar, K., Fazaludeen Koya, S., Mohandas, K., Sivasankaran Nair, S., Chitra, G,A., Abraham, M., & Lordson, J. (2020). Public health implications of Sabarimala mass gathering in India: A multi-dimensional analysis to be published in: Travel medicine and infectious disease. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 37(March), 101783.
⦁ Rajasekhran K Nayar, Anoop T Nair, Muhammed Shaffi, Kamala Swarnam, Anant Kumar, Minu Abraham, Jinbert Lordson, Chitra Grace. Methods to overcome vaccine hesitancy. The Lancet. 2019; 393(10177): 1203-1204
⦁ Anand TN, Shaffi M, Pillai A M, Lathika Rajendrakumar A, Sreemathy LS, Rajasekharan Nayar K, et al. Prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension among a coastal population in south India: baseline findings from a population-based health registry project in Kerala. Public Health. 2018;155:107–9.
⦁ Kumar A, Kesavan Rajasekharan, Nayar Muhammed S, Chitra GA, Bhat LD. Happy Days Are “Not” Here! Econ Polit Wkly. 2017;52(19):24–7.
⦁ Muhammed Shaffi, Anand TN, Marthanda Pillai A, Aravind Lathika Rajendrakumara, Lal Sadasivan Sreemathya, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Jinbert Lordson, Minu Abraham, ….,Chitra Grace A, Jeejo Jacob; Developing a health registry for Coastal Population: Protocol of the Valiyathura Population Based Health Registry in Kerala, the southern coast of India; Journal of Health Systems, 2016; 2 (1); 17-21
⦁ Rakesh, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Muhammed Shaff, Chitra Grace; Do we need to consider Universalising Hepatitis A Vaccine in Kerala, India?; Journal of Health Systems, 2016; 2 (1); 1-2
⦁ Chitra Grace, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Lekha D Bhat, Anant Kumar, G Ratheesh Babu, Muhammed Shaffi. The ‘Spittoon Syndrome’ How Effective Will Be the Anti-spitting Initiatives in India? Economic and Political Weekly. 2016; 26; 15- 18.
Book/Book Chapter
⦁ Chitra GA. Other Socially Constructed Vulnerabilities: Focus on People Living with HIV/AIDS and Internal Migrants. In: Ravindran TKS, Gaitonde R, editors. Health Inequities in India: A Synthesis of Recent Evidence [Internet]. Singapore: Springer Singapore; 2018. p. 157–88.
⦁ Ravindran TKS, Gaitonde R, Srinivas PN, Subramaniam S, Chidambaram P, Chitra GA. Health Equity Research: A Political Project. In: Ravindran TKS, Gaitonde R, editors. Health Inequities in India: A Synthesis of Recent Evidence. Singapore: Springer Singapore; 2018. p. 221–39.

 

Previous Positions

Public Health Consultant (E- Health project of Government)- JK Tech Solutions, Trivandrum.
Scientist - C, Epidemiologist (Project) - ICMR School of Public Health, National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai
Consultant (Environmental Health) - ICMR School of Public Health, National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai
Project Associate, Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), Chennai; Aug 2003 – Aug 2006