Dr Sanjay Kinra MBBS MD MRCP MSc PhD FFPHM

Senior Lecturer in Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology

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I am a Clinical Epidemiologist trained in Paediatrics, Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine. I work mainly in India and the UK.

My research in India is mainly epidemiological and focussed on a) understanding the drivers of the non-communicable disease epidemic, in particular, the role of early life risk factors (both undernurtition and overnutrition in pregnancy and childhood), and b) studying the role of lifestyle changes associated with urbanisation and migration. More recently I am moving towards development and evaluation of appropriate public health interventions. I am also involved in building capacity for public health research and training in India, particularly through my role as the Scientific Director (UK) of the Wellcome Trust funded grant to enable faculty development at the Public Health Foundation of India. 

In the UK my research is directed towards improving the assessment and management of overweight children, both from a clinical and public health perspective. The clinical research program is based at the Weight Management Clinic at the University College London Hospitals Trust (where I practice as a Honorary Consultant in Paediatrics), while the public health research program (to improve the assessment, referral and management of overweight children in primary and secondary care) is spread across London and more widely. Along with my research, I supervise masters, doctoral and post-doctoral students at the London School of Hygiene & University College London Hospital. I also teach on the Masters degree program in Epidemiology, which I used to direct previously (2006-08).          

      

Affiliation

• Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology
• Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

• Selected publications

• Health Information Technology in Screening and Treatment of Child Obesity: A Systematic Review.

  Smith, A.J.; Skow, Á.; Bodurtha, J.; Kinra, S.;

  Pediatrics, 2013; 131(3):e894-902

• The impact of childhood obesity on morbidity and mortality in adulthood: a systematic review.

  Park, M.H. ; Falconer, C. ; Viner, R.M. ; Kinra, S. ;

  Obes Rev, 2012;

• Is relative leg length a biomarker of childhood nutrition? Long-term follow-up of the Hyderabad Nutrition Trial.

  Kinra, S.; Sarma, K.V.; Hards, M.; Smith, G.D.; Ben-Shlomo, Y.;

  Int J Epidemiol, 2011; 40(4):1022-9

• Association Between Urban Life-Years and Cardiometabolic Risk: The Indian Migration Study.

  Kinra, S.; Andersen, E.; Ben-Shlomo, Y.; Bowen, L.; Lyngdoh, T.; Prabhakaran, D.; Reddy, K.S.; Ramakrishnan, L.; Bharathi, A.; Vaz, M.; Kurpad, A.; Smith, G.D.; Ebrahim, S.; Indian Migration Study Group, .;

  Am J Epidemiol, 2011; 174(2):154-64

• The effect of rural-to-urban migration on obesity and diabetes in India: a cross-sectional study.

  Ebrahim, S.; Kinra, S.; Bowen, L.; Andersen, E.; Ben-Shlomo, Y.; Lyngdoh, T.; Ramakrishnan, L.; Ahuja, R.C.; Joshi, P.; Das, S.M.; Mohan, M.; Davey Smith, G.; Prabhakaran, D.; Reddy, K.S.; Indian Migration Study group, .;

  PLoS Med, 2010; 7(4):e1000268

• Sociodemographic patterning of non-communicable disease risk factors in rural India: a cross sectional study.

  Kinra, S.; Bowen, L.J.; Lyngdoh, T.; Prabhakaran, D.; Reddy, K.S.; Ramakrishnan, L.; Gupta, R.; Bharathi, A.V.; Vaz, M.; Kurpad, A.V.; Smith, G.D.; Ben-Shlomo, Y.; Ebrahim, S.;

  BMJ, 2010; 341:c4974

• Metformin for obesity in children and adolescents: a systematic review.

  Park, M.H.; Kinra, S.; Ward, K.J.; White, B.; Viner, R.M.;

  Diabetes Care, 2009; 32(9):1743-5

• Effect of integration of supplemental nutrition with public health programmes in pregnancy and early childhood on cardiovascular risk in rural Indian adolescents: long term follow-up of Hyderabad nutrition trial.

  Kinra, S.; Rameshwar Sarma, K.V.; Ghafoorunissa, .; Mendu, V.V.; Ravikumar, R.; Mohan, V.; Wilkinson, I.B.; Cockcroft, J.R.; Davey Smith, G.; Ben-Shlomo, Y.;

  BMJ, 2008; 337:a605

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