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Hire Dr. Sachin D.

India

Public Health Expert | Epidemiology, Research & M&E

Profile Summary

I am a public health expert with 15+ years of experience in HIV program implementation, clinical mentoring, research, and data analysis. I have served as Regional Medical Advisor at PATH (Northeast India), and as a Research Scientist at NARI, Pune. I hold an MPH in Epidemiology from ICMR-NIE and specialize in scientific writing, data analytics (SPSS), and program evaluation. My work includes capacity building, health surveillance, and policy implementation across various public health programs.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ SPSS
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ Infectious Disease
• ☆ HIV/AIDS Treatment
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Epidemiology

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Medical Writing

Research Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Healthcare Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Cleaning, Data Processing

Work Experience

Regional VBD Coordinator

Centre of Health Research and Innovations

April 2025 - Present

Regional Medical Advisor

PATH

January 2023 - Present

Medical Officer

PATH

January 2023 - April 2024

Technical Specialist-HIV

I-TECH India

August 2018 - December 2022

Medical Manager

SAATHII

July 2016 - July 2018

Research Scientist - I

National AIDS Research Institute

March 2009 - May 2013

Medical Officer

Government of Maharashtra

May 2007 - December 2008

Education

Master of Public Health

National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai

July 2013 - June 2016

MBBS

Maharashtra University of Health Sciences

June 2000 - September 2005

Certifications

• Advanced HIV Course

  European AIDS Clinical Society

  September 2012 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sachin Dhande, Shrikala Acharya, Ramesh Reddy Allam, Vijay Kumar Karanjkar, Dhirubhai Rathod, Raman Mahajan, Prashant Deshpande, Amol Palkar, Shashikant Todmal, Sagar Koli, et al. (2023). Implementation of point-of-care testing and prevalence of cryptococcal antigenaemia among patients with advanced HIV disease in Mumbai, India . BMJ Open.

Sachin Dhande, Ameet Dravid, Milind Kulkarni, Amit Borkar (2014). Prevalence of low bone mineral density among HIV patients on long‐term suppressive antiretroviral therapy in resource limited setting of western India . Journal of the International AIDS Society.

A Sadre, N Munshi, S Dhande, A Dravid (2012). Tenofovir‐induced acute kidney injury in HIV‐infected patients in western India: a resource limited setting perspective . Journal of the International AIDS Society.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Dr. Sachin Dhande, Dr. Sachin Dhande (2017). Tenofovir nephrotoxicity in resource limited setting of Western India : Higher rate of renal function decline, acute kidney injury and progression to chronic kidney disease compared to Western data . 7th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention,2013.