Biography

Dr. Shiv Joshi completed his MBBS, PG Diploma in Geriatric Medicine and MD in Community Medicine from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram. He is presently working as National Consultant for the Government of India - World Health Organization TB Technical Support Network and is based at Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi. His portfolio at the centre is Ni-kshay and Digital Surveillance. He is a clinico-social doctor, and an early career researcher with h-index of 10 and i10 index of 10 with over 400 citations. His current work focusses on TB Modeling.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Impact of scaling-up an automated monitoring system, TB-Watch, on programmatic performance for TB elimination in Uttar Pradesh, India

TB-Watch is a no-cost, highly replicable model for automating the routine monitoring workflow. It provides a user-friendly solution for field-level targeted monitoring with offline action lists and leverages on existing TB surveillance system to enhance data-driven decision-making for improving programmatic performance.

Source: Conference 2024