V. Ramankutty
V. Ramankutty (also known as V. Raman Kutty) is an Indian health economist, and epidemiologist, currently research director of Amala Cancer Research Centre, Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thrissur and an emeritus professor at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology. He is the son of former Chief Minister of Kerala, C. Achutha Menon. Education M.B.B.S. (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery); Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram; 1976 PGDCH (Post Graduate Diploma in Child Health); Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram; 1980 M. D. (Doctor of Medicine-Pediatrics); Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram; 1983 M. Phil. (Master of Philosophy, Applied Economics); Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; 1987 M.P.H. (Master of Public Health); Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1988 Career Upon receiving his 1983 MD in pediatrics, Ramankutty became Consultant Pediatrician in Archana Hospital, Thodupuzha in 1983 and later joined the department of Pediatrics in Government Medical College, Thrissur as Tutor. He then obtained a Master of Philosophy ( 1987) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a Master of Public health M.P.H. (1988) from Harvard University, He joined AMCHSS, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology as a research scientist in 1988 and was promoted to Scientist D SCTIMST in 1993. He then left SCTIMST in 1997 where he worked as an Associate professor from 1994. He joined Health Action by People in Thiruvananthapuram in 1997 as executive director. From 2002 to 2003 he worked as a Domain Expert (Health) in Fiscal Reforms Project, Government of Kerala. He returned to academics and joined as a Professor in St Johns Institute of Population Health, Bengaluru in 2003. After a year he became Domain Expert and consultant, Modernising Government Programme (Project of Government of Kerala) (2004 to 2006); he was then an Independent Consultant for one year (2006–2007) in SOMA after which he rejoined AMCHSS SCTIMST, Trivandrum as a professor ad stayed until retirement. Ramankutty officially retired as a professor from Achuta Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, SCTIMST on 31 December 2018. He was then elevated to the status of Emeritus Professor'. Publication His most cited publications, according to Google Scholar are: 1. Bhandari TR, Womena??s Autonomy and Its Correlates in Western Nepal: A Demographic Study, PLoS ONE, 2016, 11, 2. Vinitha A, . PPIA rs6850: A>G single nucleotide polymorphism is associated with raised plasma cyclophylin A levels in patients with coronary artery disease, Mol Cell Biochem, 2016, 412(1,2):259–68 3. Dagenais GR, Gerstein HC, Zhang X et al. (including, Variations in Diabetes prevalence in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries: Results from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology Study, Diabetes Care, 2016, 39,5:780–7 4. James T, V Raman Kutty, Jennifer Boyd, Patrick Brzoska, Validation of the Malayalam version of the Internalised Stigma of Mental Illness inventory, Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2016, 20:22–9 5. Joseph M Pappachan, Diana Raskauskiene, Excess mortality associated with hypopituitarism in adults: a meta-analysis of observational studies, J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 2015, 100(4):1405a??1411 6. A Rosengren, K Theo, S Rangarajan et al. (including, Psychosocial factors and obesity in 17 high-,