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Prof Vidhya Venugopal

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Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research

Expertise

  • Environmental Engineering

Publications

Total Articles 132
Books 0
Proceedings 0

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Citations 362
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Professional Recognition

2018

WHO Special Invitee

First Global Forum for Heat and Health at Hong Kong
2017

Visiting Professor

UNA, COSTARICA
2017

Special Invitation

NCDC, Govt. of India
2017

Participant

WHO Global Plan of Action on Workers Health in South Asia, Delhi.
2016

Expert Member

NCDC, Govt. of India
2016

Travel grant

International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).
2015

Visiting Professor

UNA, COSTARICA
2015

Keynote speaker & Travel Award

Lund University
2014

Special Dinner

Ambassador and Minister of Environment, Sweden, Sweden Government
2013

India Representative

International Labor Organization, ILO Torino, Italy
2012

Special invitation

US Secretary of State, for Bilateral Scientific Research discussion.
2007

Encore awards

Johnson & Johnson Group of companies
2000

British Cheverning Scholarship

Young Indian Environmental Managers awarded by British Council, United Kingdom
1998

Travel grant

University Grants Commission Commission for an International Conference in Australia.
1994

CSIR - Senior Research Fellowship

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India
1994

Best Paper award

Environmental Ecology and Coastal System Management, Andaman
1990

Gold medal

University First Rank in Masters of Science (Environmental Chemistry).
2019

Key note speaker

International conference on thermal stress, Japan.
2020

Travel Grant

ISEE 32nd Annual Conference of the international society for environmental epidemiology.
2017

Research Ambassador

Sri Ramachandra University
2020

VISITING FACULTY

Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph
2018

Scientific Advisory Member

La Is La Network, USA.
2017

WHO Workers Health Expert

Implementation and Follow-up of The Global Plan of Action on Workers Health in South Asia meeting at
2017

Guest Lecturer

Occupational Health & Safety Department of Binawan Institute of Health Sciences, East Jakarta- Indon
2017

Expert Member

WHO and Presidential Task Force for Prevention of CKDu in Srilanka, Colombo
2016

Special Expert Invitee

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India
2015

Visiting Professor

UNA via IRET-SALTRA, COSTARICA.
2015

Special Expert member

Health Agriculture Workforce with a Focus on CKDnT" New Delhi
2013

Visiting Faculty

Schools of Global Health, Umea University, Sweden
2012

Visiting Faculty

School of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2011

Program- In charge and Course Director

IGNOU Study Centre at SRU
2010

Nodal Officer

Sri Ramachandra University, Task Force on Biomedical Waste Management, Tamilnadu Health Systems Proj
2019

Travel Grant

ISES-ISIAQ
2018

Plenary Speaker

International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH)
2019

NIEHS Fellowship

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for Attending CENCAM Workshop
2018

Travel Grant

International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH)
2015

Travel Award

ISES in Henderson, Nevada

Community & Membership

2019

The Faculty of Public Health, SRIHER

Examination Committee Member
2019

Faculty of public health

Examination standing committee member
2019

Rajasthan Service Commission, Govt. of India

Expert Panel Member
2016

Jerusalem College of Engineering, Anna University.

Doctoral Committee Member
2019

Consortium for the Epidemic of Nephropathy in Central America and Mexico (CENCAM).

Elected Board Member,

Department of Medical Statistics, Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health London Schoo

Steering Committee member

South Zone: Technical session at Regional Consultation for Drafting State Action Plan on C

Expert Committee Member

special Invitation as a National Expert Group on National Action Plan for Climate Change a

Expert Committee Member
2020

Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research

Member in Research Promotion Committee
2006

Johnson and Johnson

Member in Health and Safety Committee
2008

Johnson and Johnson, Canada

Chair in Health and Safety Committee
2013

international Conference and Exhibition on Occupational health and safety (China)

Organizing Committee Member

Indian Association of Occupational Health (IAOH)

2019
Life time Member

International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH)

2019
Member

International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (IAQC)

2019
Member

National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)

2019
Life time Member

International Society of Exposure Science (ISES).

2015
Diversity Award

Bio

Environmental Health Engineering

Personal Details

  • Female
  • Professor , Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
  • Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
Post-Doctoral Training
Other Institute 2000
Ph.D
Other Institute 1998
M.Sc.
Other Institute 1990
Professor Jun 2009 – Present
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research | Department of Environmental Health Engineering
Research Officer Jul 2000 – Apr 2001
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research | Environmental Health Engineering
Senior Research Fellow Jul 1993 – Sep 1997
Unknown Organization
Junior Research Fellow Jun 1991 – Jun 1993
Unknown Organization

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Scholarly Work

Silica Nephropathy and Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology

Funding Agency: NIH RO1

Principal Investigator

1,492,150

2020 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Protocol of Heat stress and heat strain assessment in Uddanam Community

Funding Agency: George institute of global Health

Principal Investigator

4,26,369

2020 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Nexus of Covid-19 and extreme heat for poor urban populations in the Global South (Covid-19/Heat Nexus)

Funding Agency: The University of EDINBURGH

Principal Investigator

2,05,422

2020 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Geographical Information Systems for Epidemiological research-Case Studies With Focus on Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology

Funding Agency: Swedish Research Link-Gothenburg University

Principal Investigator

19,10,480

2020 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Protection Resilience Efficiency and Prevention for workers in industrial agriculture in a changing climate (PREP)

Funding Agency: BELMONT FORUM

Principal Investigator

1,504,369

2020 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Occupational Heat Stress Implications on Renal Health in the Context of Climate Change

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Principal Investigator

51,88,828

2018 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Heat Stress Index For India: Projections for Near Future HIIPROF

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Co-Principal Investigator

5,98,850

2017 - 2020

Completed
Feasibility Study to explore links between Occupational Heat stress and Renal health in industries in Indonesia

Funding Agency: La Isla Network

Principle Investigator

8,49,000

2017 - 2017

Completed
Chronic kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Central America and Asia – is it the same disease?

Funding Agency: Swedish Research Council

Principal Investigator

0

2017 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Hot Occupational Temperatures and Productivity Suppression

Funding Agency: SIDA

Principal Investigator

1,658,826

2014 - 2014

Completed
Vulnerability Assessment to Heat stress and its impacts on Health and Productivity for select Occupational sectors in the context of Climate Change

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Principal Investigator

46,10,705

2013 - 2016

Completed
Sweden-India cooperation on protection of working people from health and productivity risks due to workplace heat exposure and the links to climate change

Funding Agency: SIDA (UMEA University)

Principal Investigator

36, 00,000

2012 - 2014

Completed

Mold Exposures and respiratory symptoms among adults in thiruvallur and chennai districts in Tamil Nadu

University Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
Year 2019

A study to compare and analyse the influence of occupation on the finger flexion cascade in power grip users and non-power grip users”

University Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
Year 2019

Effect of maternal nutrition and environmental factors on birth weight in selected districts of Tamil Nadu

University Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
Year 2020

Assessment of Heat stress and its impacts on health of worker from different occupational sectors

University Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
Year 2018

Evaluvating DNA damage and HST 70 levels in wokers exposed to occupational Heat Stress in select work places in Tamil Nadu

University Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
Year 2020
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Scholarly Publications

Mapping environmental heat stress variables in relation to climate change: examples from India

Open Access
article
Authors: Rebekah Lucas, Tord Kjellstrom, Vidhya Venugopal, Olivia Hyatt & Bruno Lemke

Occupational heat exposures on working people: A systematic review

Open Access
article
Authors: Vidhya Venugopal, Madhan Chandran, Krishnan Srinivasan, Archana Prabu kumar, Jeremiah Chinnadurai, Padmavathi Ramaswamy & Tord Kjellstrom

Assessment of respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function in relation to mold and dampness in South India: Preliminary results from the SICAPHE study

Open Access
article
Authors: Saraswathy Manivannan ., Durairaj N ., Umamaheswari Sesharamakrishnan ., Srinivasan N ., Vidhya Venugopal ., Padmavathi Ramaswamy ., Priscilla Johnson ., Sriram Chandramohan ., Thangavel Guruswamy ., Santu Ghosh ., Kalpana Balakrishnan .,

Work, Heat, and Climate Change: Outdoors and Indoors

Open Access
article
Authors: Kirk R. Smith, Tord Kjellstrom, Vidhya Venugopal, Bruno Lemke & Rebekah Lucas

Occupational Health and Safety Impacts of Climate Conditions. Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources.

Open Access
book chapter
Authors: Kjellstrom Tord, Bruno Lemke and Vidhya Venugopal

Chapter 32: Strategies or Prevention of Environmental Health Hazards-Human and Animal Health

Open Access
book chapter
Authors: Vidhya Venugopal

Workplace Environmental Hazard Mitigation in Chemical Industries Environmental Health: Human and Animal Risk Mitigation

Open Access
book chapter
Authors: Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay & Vidhya Venugopal

Comparative Assessment of Heat Stress Impacts in Formal vs Informal Work Sectors in Chennai, India

Open Access
conference paper
Authors: Vidhya Venugopal, Jeremiah Chinnadurai, Venkatesh Dasu, Tord Kjellstrom