MBBS, MPH
SCIENTIST-E  
PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION


Email:  ckdolla@gmail.com
Contact:  +91-40-27197364

Brief Profile

23 years community nutrition and diet assesment surveys among urban population, rural and tribal populations and 8years in tuberculosis prevalence surveys among general population, homeless people.

Total Publications: 19
  1. Chandrakumar Dolla , Bhaskar Dhanaraj,  Srikanth Prasad Tripathy Prevalence of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease Among Homeless Persons Staying in NGO Shelters in Chennai; Journal of Health Management; 2023,Volume 25, Issue 4; p.p. 870-873
    https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231214
  2. Chandra Kumar Dolla, C. Padma Priyadarshini, P. K. Bhavani, T. Kannan, P. Kumaravel, K. Devika; Roaming homeless persons, India-pulmonary tuberculosis.Indian Journal of Tuberculosis,2021, Vol. 68, No. 2, 279-280;
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019570720301426
  3. Dolla CK, Dhanaraj B, Chandrasekaran P, Selvaraj S, Menon PA, Thiruvengadam K, et al. (2021) Prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis and associated risk factors: A community survey in Thirvallur District, south India. PLoS ONE, 2021; 16(10):p.p. e0247245.
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247245
  4. Kannan Palaniyandi, Narender Kumar, Maroudam Veerasamy, Ahmed Kabir Refaya, Chandrakumar Dolla, Subramanyam Balaji, Dhanaraj Baskaran, Kannan Thiruvengadam,Ananthi Rajendran, Sujatha Narayanan, Dhinakar Raj, Soumya Swaminathan & Sharon J. Peacock ;Isolation and comparative genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from cattle and their attendants in South India. Scientific Reports | (2019) 9:17892 |
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-54268-x
  5. S. RameshKumar, Chandrakumar Dolla, M. Vasantha, PradeepAravinda Menon,  G. Venkatesan  P. Venkatesan: Strategies for smoking cessation (pharmacologic intervention versus enhanced motivation vs. standard motivation) in TB patients under treatment in the RNTCP, India - A cluster - Randomized trial, Indian Journal of Tuberculosis:2020 , Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 8-14.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019570720300068
  6. AvulaLaxmaiah, NalamMadhusudhanRao, N. Arlappa, JagjeevanBabu, P. Uday Kumar, Priya Singh, Deepak Sharma, V. Mahesh Anumalla , T. Santhosh Kumar, R. Sabarinathan, M. Santhos Kumar, R. Ananthan, D. Anwar Basha, P.P.S. Blessy, D. Chandra Kumar , P. Devaraj, S. Devendra, M. Mahesh Kumar, Indrapal I. Meshram, B. Naveen Kumar, Paras Sharma, P. Raghavendra , P. Raghu, K. RajenderRao, P. Ravindranadh, B. Santosh Kumar, G. Sarika, J. SrinivasaRao, M.V. Surekha, F. Sylvia, Deepak Kumar, G. SubbaRao , KarthikBharadwajTallapaka, Divya Tej Sowpati, SurabhiSrivastava, V. ManojMurhekar, RajkumarHemalatha, Rakesh K. Mishra,SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the city of Hyderabad, India in early 2021 IJID Regions; 2022;Volume 2,  Pages 1-7
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijregi.2021.10.009
  7. Kumar S Siva, Kumar S Ashok, GomathiSekar, K Devika, M Bhasker, S Sriram, C K Dolla, PradeepAravindanMenon, Srikanth Prasad Tripathy, PR Narayanan, Uma Devi Ranganathan, Sujatha Narayanan, Rajesh Mondal; Spoligotype Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis over Two Decades from Tiruvallur, South India; International Journal of Microbiology, 2020
  8. MalaisamyMuniyandi, Beena Elizabeth Thomas,  NagarajanKarikalan, Thiruvengadam Kannan, Krishnan Rajendran,  Chandra Kumar Dolla, Balakrishnan Saravanan,  Ayyakannu Sivaprakasham Tholkappian, Srikanth Prasad Tripathy, SoumyaSwaminathan; Catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis in South India: comparison between active and passive case finding ;Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2021,Volume 114, Issue 3, P.p. 185–192
    https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trz127
  9. MandarParadkar ,ChandrasekaranPadmapriyadarsini ,DivyashriJain,Shri Vijay BalaYogendraShivakumar, KannanThiruvengadam, Akshay N. Gupte, BeenaThomas, AartiKinikar, KrithikaSekar, RenuBharadwaj,Chandra Kumar Dolla, SanjayGaikwad, S. Elilarasi,for the CTRIUMPH-RePORT India Study Team ;Tuberculosis preventive treatment should be considered for all household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in India; PloS One, 2020; 15 (7); 023
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236743
  10. Selvaraju, Sriram1 ; Malaisamy, Muniyandi2, ; Dolla, Chandra Kumar1 ; Murali, Lakshmi; Karikalan, Nagarajan2 ; Saravanan, Balakrishnan2 ; Tholkappian, Ayyakannu Sivaprakasham1 ; Tripathy, Srikanth Prasad;;Application of mobile phone technology as intervention for the management of tuberculosis patients diagnosed through community survey;Indian Journal of Medical Research; 2022; 155(2):p 301-305, .DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_75_20.
  11. Shivakumar, S. V. B. Y.Padmapriyadarsini, C. Chavan, A.Paradkar, M.Shrinivasa, B. M.Gupte, A.  Dhanasekaran, K. Thomas, B.Suryavanshi, N. Dolla C. K., Selvaraju, S. Kinikar, A.Gaikwad, S. Kohli, R Sivaramakrishnan, G. N.Pradhan, N.Hanna, L. E.Kulkarni, V. DeLuca, A.Cox, S. R. Murali, L Thiruvengadam, K. Raskar, S.Ramachandran, G. Golub, J. E. Gupte, N.Mave, V.Swaminathan, S.Gupta, A.Bollinger, R. C. Concomitant pulmonary disease is common among patients with extrapulmonary TB; The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2022;Volume 26, Number 4, pp. 341-347
    https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.21.0501
  12. Chandra Kumar Dolla, C Padmapriyadarsini, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Rahul Lokhande, Aarti Kinikar, Mandar Paradkar, Shrinivas BM, Lakshmi Murali, Akshay Gupte, Sanjay Gaikwad, Sriram Selvaraju, Yashoda Padmanaban, Sathyamurthy Pattabiraman, Neeta Pradhan, Vandana Kulkarni, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, Munivardhan Prithivi, Anju Kagal, Barath Thopili Karthavarayan, Nishi Suryavanshi, Nikhil Gupte, Paul Kumaran, Vidya Mave, Amita Gupta; Age-specific Prevalence of TB Infection among household Contacts of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Is it time for TB preventive therapy?; Trans R Soc. Trop Med Hyg, June 2019
  13. Chandra Kumar Dolla, Baskaran Dhanraj, Muniyandi Malaisamy, C. Padma Priyadarshini S. Syeed Hissar ,Mohan Natrajan ,Rajendran Krishnan, Srikanth Prasad Tripathy; Burden of pulmonary tuberculosis in modern prison: A cross sectional prevalence survey from south India; Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, Vol. 66, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 189-192.
  14. Chandra kumar Dolla, C. Padmapriyadarsini, A. Pradeep Menon, M. Muniyandi, Srividya Adinarayanan, Gomathi Sekara, D. Kavitha, Srikanth Prasad Tripathy and Soumya Swaminathan: Tuberculosis among the homeless in Chennai city, South India, Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Oct; 111(10).pp. 479-481.
  15. AN Gupte, S Selvaraju, M Paradkar, K Danasekaran, SVBY Shivakumar, K Thiruvengadam, C Dolla, G Shivaramakrishnan, N Pradhan, R Kohli, S John, S Raskar, D Jain, A Momin, B Subramanian, A Gaikwad, R Lokhande, N Suryavanshi, N Gupte, S Salvi, L Murali, W Checkley, JE Golub, R Bollinger, P Chandrasekaran, V Mave, A Gupta; Respiratory health status is associated with treatment outcomes in pulmonary tuberculosis; The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Volume 23, Number 4, 1 April 2019, pp. 450- 457(8).
  16. SVBY Shivakumar, P Chandrasekaran, AMV Kumar, M Paradkar, K Dhanasekaran,N Suryavarshini, B Thomas, R Kohli, K Thiruvengadam, V Kulkarni, LE Hannah, GN Sivaramakrishnan, N Pradhan, C Dolla, A Gupte, G Ramachandran, A DeLuca, S Meshram, R Bhardawaj, RC Bollinger, J Golub, K Selvaraj, N Gupte, S Swaminathan, V Mave, A Gupta, The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease,2018,June Vol.22 (6), pp.686-694.
  17. Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran, Vidya Mave, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Nikhil Gupte, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, Luke Elizabeth Hanna, Vandana Kulkarni, Dileep Kadam, Kavitha Dhanasekaran, Mandar Paradkar, Beena Thomas, Rewa Kohli, Chandra kumar Dolla, Renu Bharadwaj, Gomathi Narayan Sivaramakrishnan, Neeta Pradhan3, Akshay Gupte, Lakshmi Murali, Chhaya Valvi, Soumya Swaminathan, Amita Gupta, for the CTRIUMPH Study Team; Tuberculin Skin Test and Quanti FERON-Gold In tube assay for Diagnosis of Latent TB Infection among Household Contacts of Pulmonary TB patients in High TB burden setting. PLoS ONE, 2018 Aug 13 (8), p.p.1-16.
  18. Karun Sandeep Veesa, Kamalabhai Russell John, Patrick K. Moonan, Saravanakumar Puthupalayam Kaliappan, Krishna Manjunath, Karuna D. Sagili, Chinnappareddy Ravichandra, Pradeep Aravindan Menon, Chandra kumar Dolla, Nancy Luke, Kaivan Munshi, Kuryan George, Shantidani Minz; Diagnostic pathways and direct medical costs incurredby new adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients prior to anti-tuberculosis treatment – Tamil Nadu, India. PLoS ONE 13(2), p.p. 1-14, February 7, 2018.
  19. Akshay Gupte, Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarsini, Vidya Mave, Dileep Kadam, Nishi Suryavanshi, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra Shivakumar, Rewa Kohli, Nikhil Gupte, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Anju Kagal, Sushant Meshram, Renu Bharadwaj, Sandhya Khadse, Geetha Ramachandran, Luke Elizabeth Hanna, Neeta Pradhan, NS Gomathy, Andrea DeLuca, Amita Gupta, Soumya Swaminathan; Cohort for Tuberculosis Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership (CTRIUMPH): protocol for a multicentric prospective observational study: BMJ Open, 2016, Vol.6 issue 2, pp.e010542.


Awards and Honours/Recognitions
  1. Netherlands fellowship program for MPH
  2. Travel Grant from Bill Melinda gate foundation