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Gagandeep Kang
Gagandeep Kang FRS (born 3 November 1962) is an Indian microbiologist and virologist who has been leading the work on enteric diseases, diarrheal infections and disease surveillance at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2023.Kang previously was the Professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India and from August 2016 to July 2020 was executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, an autonomous institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Her major research focus is on viral infections in children, and the testing of rotaviral vaccines. She also works on other enteric infections and their consequences when children are infected in early life, sanitation and water safety. She was awarded the prestigious Infosys Prize in Life Sciences in 2016 for her contributions to understanding the natural history of rotavirus and other infectious diseases. In 2019, she became the first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. She was on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2020.
Kang is co-author of book ''Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic'', with Chandrakant Lahariya, a leading Indian medical doctor and Public policy and health system expert and Randeep Guleria, the director of AIIMS, New Delhi. The book has been published by publisher Penguin Random House in India. Gagandeep Kang is a renowned Indian microbiologist and virologist. She is the first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Kang is currently the Executive Director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) in Faridabad, India. Her research focuses on understanding the transmission and pathogenesis of infectious diseases, particularly those affecting children in developing countries.
She has made significant contributions to the development of vaccines and diagnostic tools for diseases such as rotavirus, cholera, and typhoid fever. Kang has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including the Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian honors. Provided by Wikipedia
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Exclusive breastfeeding practices among mothers in urban slum settlements: pooled analysis from three prospective birth cohort studies in South India by Vasanthakumar Velusamy, Prasanna S. Premkumar, Gagandeep Kang
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Estimating the incidence of enteric fever in children in India: a multi-site, active fever surveillance of pediatric cohorts by Jacob John, Ashish Bavdekar, Temsunaro Rongsen-Chandola, Shanta Dutta, NSSEFI Collaborators, Gagandeep Kang
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Adherent Escherichia coli in colorectal mucosal biopsies: A histological and ultrastructural evaluation by Susama Patra, Subash C Samal, Gagandeep Kang, Anna Pulimood, Minnie Mathan, Balakrishnan S Ramakrishna
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Exclusive breastfeeding practices in an urban settlement of Vellore, southern India: findings from the MAL-ED birth cohort by Samarasimha Reddy N., Kulandaipalayam Natarajan Sindhu, Karthikeyan Ramanujam, Anuradha Bose, Gagandeep Kang, Venkata Raghava Mohan
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Molecular Identification of Hookworm Isolates in Humans, Dogs and Soil in a Tribal Area in Tamil Nadu, India. by Santosh George, Bruno Levecke, Deepthi Kattula, Vasanthakumar Velusamy, Sheela Roy, Peter Geldhof, Rajiv Sarkar, Gagandeep Kang
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Burden of diarrhea, hospitalization and mortality due to cryptosporidial infections in Indian children. by Rajiv Sarkar, Jacqueline E Tate, Sitara S R Ajjampur, Deepthi Kattula, Jacob John, Honorine D Ward, Gagandeep Kang
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Geographical distribution of soil transmitted helminths and the effects of community type in South Asia and South East Asia - A systematic review. by Zachary A Silver, Saravanakumar P Kaliappan, Prasanna Samuel, Srinivasan Venugopal, Gagandeep Kang, Rajiv Sarkar, Sitara S R Ajjampur
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Predicting the impact of vaccination on the transmission dynamics of typhoid in South Asia: a mathematical modeling study. by Virginia E Pitzer, Cayley C Bowles, Stephen Baker, Gagandeep Kang, Veeraraghavan Balaji, Jeremy J Farrar, Bryan T Grenfell
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Developmental trends in early childhood and their predictors from an Indian birth cohort by Beena Koshy, Manikandan Srinivasan, Anuradha Bose, Sushil John, Venkata Raghava Mohan, Reeba Roshan, Karthikeyan Ramanujam, Gagandeep Kang
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Early Childhood Stimulating Environment Predicts Later Childhood Resilience in an Indian Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study by Beena Koshy, Manikandan Srinivasan, Sowmiya Gopalakrishnan, Venkata Raghava Mohan, Rebecca Scharf, Sushil John, Rachel Beulah, Jayaprakash Muliyil, Gagandeep Kang
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Vaccination coverage and the factors influencing routine childhood vaccination uptake among communities experiencing disadvantage in Vellore, southern India: a mixed-methods study by Mark Rohit Francis, J. Pekka Nuorti, Kirsi Lumme-Sandt, Rajeev Zachariah Kompithra, Vinohar Balraj, Gagandeep Kang, Venkata Raghava Mohan
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Association between head circumference at two years and second and fifth year cognition by Beena Koshy, Manikandan Srinivasan, Timiri Palani Murugan, Anuradha Bose, Pamela Christudoss, Venkata Raghava Mohan, Sushil John, Reeba Roshan, Gagandeep Kang
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Active safety surveillance of rabies monoclonal antibody and rabies vaccine in patients with category III potential rabies exposureResearch in context by Gagandeep Kang, Anand Lakhkar, Chetanraj Bhamare, Abhijeet Dharmadhikari, Jyoti Narwadkar, Arti Kanujia, Dhananjay Kapse, Bhagwat Gunale, Cyrus S. Poonawalla, Prasad S. Kulkarni
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Rotavirus mortality in India: estimates based on a nationally representative survey of diarrhoeal deaths by Shaun K Morris, Shally Awasthi, Ajay Khera, Diego G Bassani, Gagandeep Kang, Umesh D Parashar, Rajesh Kumar, Anita Shet, Roger I Glass, Prabhat Jha
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Low head circumference during early childhood and its predictors in a semi-urban settlement of Vellore, Southern India by Kulandaipalayam Natarajan Sindhu, Prashanth Ramamurthy, Karthikeyan Ramanujam, Ankita Henry, Joseph Dian Bondu, Sushil Mathew John, Sudhir Babji, Beena Koshy, Anuradha Bose, Gagandeep Kang, Venkata Raghava Mohan
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Evaluation of opportunities to implement community-wide mass drug administration for interrupting transmission of soil-transmitted helminths infections in India. by Kumudha Aruldas, Kim Dawson, Malvika Saxena, Angelin Titus, Jabaselvi Johnson, Marie-Claire, Jayaprakash Muliyil, Gagandeep Kang, Judd L Walson, Ajay Khera, Sitara S R Ajjampur, Arianna Rubin Means
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Safety monitoring of ROTAVAC vaccine and etiological investigation of intussusception in India: study protocol by Samarasimha Reddy, Nayana P. Nair, Sidhartha Giri, Venkata Raghava Mohan, Jacqueline E. Tate, Umesh D. Parashar, Mohan D. Gupte, Rashmi Arora, Gagandeep Kang, Indian Intussusception Surveillance Network
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Gender differences in the perceived need for community-wide deworming: Formative qualitative research from the DeWorm3 study, India. by Kumudha Aruldas, Arianna Rubin Means, Angelin Titus, Yesudoss Jacob, Rajeshkumar Rajendiran, Jabaselvi Johnson, Mira Emmanuel-Fabula, Saravanakumar Puthupalayam Kaliappan, Sanjay Kamlakar Juvekar, Gagandeep Kang, Judd L Walson, Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur
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Rotavirus gastroenteritis in Indian children < 5 years hospitalized for diarrhoea, 2012 to 2016 by Sidhartha Giri, Nayana P. Nair, Ann Mathew, B. Manohar, Anna Simon, Tejinder Singh, S. Suresh Kumar, M. A. Mathew, Sudhir Babji, Rashmi Arora, C. P. Girish Kumar, S. Venkatasubramanian, Sanjay Mehendale, Mohan D. Gupte, Gagandeep Kang
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Influences on catch-up growth using relative versus absolute metrics: evidence from the MAL-ED cohort study by Stephanie A. Richard, Benjamin J. J. McCormick, Laura E. Murray-Kolb, Pascal Bessong, Sanjaya K. Shrestha, Estomih Mduma, Tahmeed Ahmed, Gagandeep Kang, Gwenyth O. Lee, Jessica C. Seidman, Erling Svensen, Margaret N. Kosek, Laura E. Caulfield, MAL-ED Network Investigators
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