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Experienced biostatistician and epidemiologist, skilled in analyzing environmental health data and expert in R

Profile Summary

Environmental epidemiologist and a biostatistician by training, whose interests lie in quantitative aspects of biological, medical or environmental research questions. Received my MS from IIT Kanpur, PhD in Biostatistics from UNC Chapel Hill and spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health working on gut microbiome data. Worked at Public Health Foundation of India and Center for Chronic Disease Control on air pollution exposure modelling and health effect studies of air pollution.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Big Data Analytics
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Environmental Science
• ☆ Environmental Health
• ☆ R
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Epidemiology
• ☆ Hypothesis

Services

• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Research Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Insights

Work Experience

Public Health Foundation of India

- Present

Centre for Chronic Disease Control

- Present

PostdoctoralResearcher

Norwegian Institute of Public Health

July 2012 - June 2015

Education

BSc (Statistics)

Presidency University Kolkata

- Present

MSc (Statistics)

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

- Present

PhD (Biostatistics)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

- Present

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Mandal, S., Madhipatla, K.K., Guttikunda, S., Kloog, I., Prabhakaran, D., Schwartz, J.D.(2020). Ensemble averaging based assessment of spatiotemporal variations in ambient PM<inf>2.5</inf> concentrations over Delhi, India, during 2010–2016 . Atmospheric Environment. 224.

Walia, G.K., Mandal, S., Jaganathan, S., Jaacks, L.M., Sieber, N.L., Dhillon, P.K., Krishna, B., Magsumbol, M.S., Madhipatla, K.K., Kondal, D., et al.(2020). Leveraging Existing Cohorts to Study Health Effects of Air Pollution on Cardiometabolic Disorders: India Global Environmental and Occupational Health Hub . Environmental Health Insights. 14.

Neves, A.L.A., Chen, Y., L&#234; Cao, K.-A., Mandal, S., Sharpton, T.J., McAllister, T., Guan, L.L.(2020). Taxonomic and functional assessment using metatranscriptomics reveals the effect of Angus cattle on rumen microbial signatures . Animal. p. 731-744.

Agarwal, A., Jindal, D., Ajay, V.S., Kondal, D., Mandal, S., Ghosh, S., Ali, M., Singh, K., Huffman, M.D., Tandon, N., et al.(2019). Association between socioeconomic position and cardiovascular disease risk factors in rural north India: The SOLAN surveillance study . PLoS ONE. 14. (7).

Iszatt, N., Janssen, S., Lenters, V., Dahl, C., Stigum, H., Knight, R., Mandal, S., Peddada, S., Gonz&#225;lez, A., Midtvedt, T., et al.(2019). Environmental toxicants in breast milk of Norwegian mothers and gut bacteria composition and metabolites in their infants at 1 month . Microbiome. 7. (1).

Hudecova, A.M., Hansen, K.E.A., Mandal, S., Berntsen, H.F., Khezri, A., Bale, T.L., Fraser, T.W.K., Zimmer, K.E., Ropstad, E.(2018). A human exposure based mixture of persistent organic pollutants affects the stress response in female mice and their offspring . Chemosphere. 197. p. 585-593.

Alvarez-Uria, G., Gandra, S., Mandal, S., Laxminarayan, R.(2018). Global forecast of antimicrobial resistance in invasive isolates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae . International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 68. p. 50-53.

St&#248;rdal, K., McArdle, H.J., Hayes, H., Tapia, G., Viken, M.K., Lund-Blix, N.A., Haugen, M., Joner, G., Skrivarhaug, T., M&#229;rild, K., et al.(2018). Prenatal iron exposure and childhood type 1 diabetes . Scientific Reports. 8. (1).

Dahl, C., Stigum, H., Valeur, J., Iszatt, N., Lenters, V., Peddada, S., Bj&#248;rnholt, J.V., Midtvedt, T., Mandal, S., Eggesb&#248;, M.(2018). Preterm infants have distinct microbiomes not explained by mode of delivery, breastfeeding duration or antibiotic exposure . International Journal of Epidemiology. 47. (5). p. 1658-1669.

Kaul, A., Mandal, S., Davidov, O., Peddada, S.D.(2017). Analysis of microbiome data in the presence of excess zeros . Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. (NOV).

Dahl, C., Stanislawski, M., Iszatt, N., Mandal, S., Lozupone, C., Clemente, J.C., Knight, R., Stigum, H., Eggesb&#248;, M.(2017). Gut microbiome of mothers delivering prematurely shows reduced diversity and lower relative abundance of Bifidobacterium and Streptococcus . PLoS ONE. 12. (10).

Criswell, R., Lenters, V., Mandal, S., Stigum, H., Iszatt, N., Eggesb&#248;, M.(2017). Persistent Environmental Toxicants in Breast Milk and Rapid Infant Growth . Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 70. (3). p. 210-216.

Brower, C.H., Mandal, S., Hayer, S., Sran, M., Zehra, A., Patel, S.J., Kaur, R., Chatterjee, L., Mishra, S., Das, B.R., et al.(2017). The prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli in poultry chickens and variation according to farming practices in Punjab, India . Environmental Health Perspectives. 125. (7).

Mandal, S., Godfrey, K.M., McDonald, D., Treuren, W.V., Bj&#248;rnholt, J.V., Midtvedt, T., Moen, B., Rudi, K., Knight, R., Brants&#230;ter, A.L., et al.(2016). Fat and vitamin intakes during pregnancy have stronger relations with a proinflammatory maternal microbiota than does carbohydrate intake . Microbiome. 4.

Forns, J., Mandal, S., Iszatt, N., Polder, A., Thomsen, C., Lyche, J.L., Stigum, H., Vermeulen, R., Eggesb&#248;, M.(2016). Novel application of statistical methods for analysis of multiple toxicants identifies DDT as a risk factor for early child behavioral problems . Environmental Research. 151. p. 91-100.

Stigum, H., Iszatt, N., Polder, A., Mandal, S., Eggesb&#248;, M.(2015). A novel model to characterize postnatal exposure to lipophilic environmental toxicants and application in the study of hexachlorobenzene and infant growth . Environment International. 85. p. 156-162.

Forns, J., Iszatt, N., White, R.A., Mandal, S., Sabaredzovic, A., Lamoree, M., Thomsen, C., Haug, L.S., Stigum, H., Eggesb&#248;, M.(2015). Perfluoroalkyl substances measured in breast milk and child neuropsychological development in a Norwegian birth cohort study . Environment International. 83. p. 176-182.

Mandal, S., Sen, P.K., Peddada, S.D.(2013). A hierarchical functional data analytic approach for analyzing physiologically based pharmacokinetic models . Environmetrics. 24. (3). p. 172-179.

Bhandari, S.K., de Krishna, S., Mandal, S., Pradhan, S., Ghosh, B.(2009). Study of optimal adaptive rule in testing composite hypothesis . Sequential Analysis. 28. (3). p. 394-405.

BOOK CHAPTER

Mandal, S.(2017). Emerging Statistical Methodologies in the Field of Microbiome Studies . Handbook of Statistics. 37. p. 37-52.