Research Themes

Clinical Research

The Centre for Clinical Research and Education specializes in transdisciplinary links within the university, converting research into primary healthcare solutions. They conduct whole system studies, clinical trials, and observational studies on Ayurveda treatments for non-communicable diseases, focusing on anemia, diabetes, brain function, stroke, nervous system disorders, human microbiome, Ayurveda wellness scoring, and predictive medicine tools.

The Centre for Clinical Research and Education specialises in developing transdisciplinary links across the university, turning research into outreach solutions in primary healthcare. Whole system studies, clinical trials and observational studies for the effect, efficacy and safety of Ayurveda based treatment in non-communicable diseases, generating clinical evidence is a key activity in this theme.

Our focal areas of research include
 Anemia
 Diabetes
 Brain functions through Ayurveda
 Stroke
 Nervous system disorders
 Human Microbiome study
 Development of Ayurveda based wellness scoring tool
 Predictive medicine tools with Ayurveda

Research Topics

Research Topics

IDA Community Outreach, leveraging traditional healers as knowledge partners in addressing one of the major public health problems of our country i.e., iron-deficiency anaemia (IDA)

Integrative Health Sciences, pilot proof of practice project to learn lessons for design and execution of a scalable community health program for enhancing general immunity and respiratory health in the communities.

Our team

Team of Researchers

Dr. Girish Kumar

Assistant Professor

Dr. Manjunath NP

Assistant Professor

Dr. Neelambika

Associate Professor

Dr. Poornima Devkumar

Assistant Professor

Dr. Prasan Shankar

Associate Professor, Community Health, Clinical Research and Education

Dr. Prashanth R

Associate Professor

Dr. Rashel Miracle Rego

Assistant Professor

Dr. Vikram Balu

Assistant Professor

Contact us

Program Email

If you have any queries, please feel free to write us a letter. You can mail it to:

Dr. Unnikrishnan Payyapalli
unnikrishnan.p@tdu.edu.in

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