Rubina Mulchandani is a graduate in Life Sciences (University Rank Holder, Hansraj College, Delhi University) and a post graduate in Clinical Research (batch topper, IIPH-Delhi). She is currently pursuing her PhD in Clinical Research at IIPH-Delhi. Her area of work is cardiovascular epidemiology and pharmacovigilance and her thesis is titled “Statin use related neuro-cognitive changes among adults: a longitudinal pilot study at a large tertiary care hospital in Delhi”. She has considerable teaching experience and regularly takes sessions on Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Research Methodology, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Clinical Trials and Data Management for the on-campus post-graduate courses and short-term trainings and workshops. Her fields of interest include but are not limited to epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases, data science and research ethics. She has 10 scientific publications (9 as the first author) in reputed international and national journals. Apart from research, Rubina thoroughly enjoys teaching as well as learning and participating in science communication activities in an effort to make scientific developments more accessible to the larger community as a whole.
- IIPHD
Rubina Mulchandani has been working on understanding the adverse effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins on patients visiting a tertiary care hospital OPD for primary or secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Her masters’ thesis focused on determining the burden of myalgia among outpatient statin users. Her PhD work focuses on measuring changes in the neuro-cognitive profile of statin users over a period of 2 years. She is following up a patient cohort on statin to assess cognitive scores at different time intervals (using the Montreal Cognitive Scale), calculate a difference between the scores and explore possible reasons for the same.
- Non-Communicable Diseases(NCDs) and Injuries
- Pharmacovigilance
- Research Methods
- Bio Statistics
- Systematic Reviews