Sr Maheswaran Ravi (Reino Unido )

Disciplina :

• Epidemiological research design

Perfil :

• Ravi joined the Section in October 1998 as Clinical Senior Lecturer and is responsible for undergraduate teaching in Public Health Medicine in Phase 3b of the MBChB. He was previously a Clinical Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College School of Medicine, London (which incorporates the Small Area Health Statistics Unit) and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

  His research interests include geographical and environmental epidemiology and cardiovascular epidemiology. Current research is focussed on geographical variation in health and health care.

  Ravi heads the Public Health GIS Unit based within the Section, which was established in 1999 with a grant from the Public Health Development Fund.

  Ravi chaired the Scientific and Local Organising Committees for the First European Conference on Geographic Information Sciences in Public Health, held in Sheffield in September 2001.

  Ravi's MD thesis was on Alcohol and Hypertension, based on clinical and epidemiological research carried out at the University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham.