PhD (2008-12) Department of International Health, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, JAPAN
MPH (2003-06) School of Health and Social Care in Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
MBBS (1994-01) at Government Stanley Medical College, Madras (now Chennai), INDIA
Experience
Professor and Dean (2024- Present) at School of Health Sciences, The Assam Kaziranga University, Jorhat
Professor – Digital Public Health (2024) at PHFI Indian Institute of Public Health – Hyderabad, INDIA
Founder and Director (2020- Present) Hi Rapid Lab Pvt Ltd, the first faculty and student led start up supported by Public Health Foundation of India. Further information at https://hirapidlab.com/detail
Deputy Director– Health Informatics and Technology Innovations (2022- 2024) at Public Health Foundation of India – Hyderabad, INDIA
Program Coordinator (2013- 2024) for Govt of India’s first Integrated MSc and PhD in Public Health Informatics program jointly run by Public Health Foundation of India and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - CSIR, INDIA. Lead program design and curriculum development
Coordinator (2013- 2024) GoI Department of Science and Technology funded HI-RapiD Lab (Health Informatics- Rapid Design Lab) with research focus on Graphic Design, Product Design, Computer Vision and Visual Analytics for Health and Social Care.
Mentor – (2018- Present) Atal Incubation Center at CSIR Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology - Hyderabadhttps://aic.ccmb.res.in/supporting-organizations/mentors/
Head – Health Informatics and Technology Innovations (2018- 2022) at Public Health Foundation of India – Hyderabad, INDIA.
Additional Professor (2022- 2024) at PHFI Indian Institute of Public Health – Hyderabad, INDIA.
Youtuber – Channel name: 5.digital health; 60 videos with about 150,000 cumulative views; https://www.youtube.com/@5.DigitalHealthByHiRapidLab/videos
Associate Professor (2018- 2022) at PHFI Indian Institute of Public Health – Hyderabad, INDIA.
Assistant Professor (2013- 2018) at PHFI Indian Institute of Public Health – Hyderabad, INDIA.
Editor (2015- 2020) www.healthinformatics.in : Online resource aggregator website for Health Informatics (in beta stage)
Consultant Innovation Officer (2015- 2020) SuchirSoftech Private Limited- Hyderabad based premium digital presence management agency that focuses on quality, innovation, & speed
Member (2017- 2019) Curriculum Advisory Committee on Public Health Informatics- A GEM NET/ USAID Supported Consortium of Public Health Informatics LMIC Institutions that include: University of North Carolina; University of Pretoria; Kenyatta University; University of Ghana and ACIPH, Ethiopia.
Senior Lecturer (2008- 2013) at Indian Institute of Public Health – Hyderabad, INDIA.
Assistant Professor (2006- 2008) at SRM School of Public Health, SRM University, Chennai, INDIA. Lead MPH program curriculum development.
Researcher (2005-2006) for East Oxford Healthy Living Initiative, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM.
Fund Raiser (2005-2006) and Organizer for United Nations: World Food Programme – London Division; Blenheim Palace Triathlon; Oxford Association for the Blind, UNITED KINGDOM.
Physician (2001- 2003) at SVM Clinic, Jain Medical Relief Centre and Monta Vanis Abode of Social Service, Chennai, INDIA.
Career Highlights & Awards:
Post bachelors managed 3 clinics in North Madras treating about 150-200 patients every day, along with organizing and managing weekly blood donation camps, mass medical camps and CME programs for doctors at IMA
Post masters, was part of a 3 member team that started India’s first School of Public Health in a private university at SRM, Chennai.
The first and only Indian to have received the Monbukagakusho (Japanese Ministry of Education) Scholarship to pursue Public Health Leadership program at WHO Collaborating centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research at Department of International Health: Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, JAPAN
Post PhD designed and started India’s first Masters and Doctorate program in Health Informatics offered by PHFI and CSIR
My team was the first in the country to test fly drones with medicines. The project expanded to medicines from the sky, with world economic forum and niti aayog support and contributed substantially to the drone policy of India
10 - Patents awarded; 12 - Pending; Inventor - Suresh Munuswamy; Institution - Public Health Foundation of India No 403304, 2020, Respirator device for preventing aerosol transmission diseases; No 329198- 001, 2020, Filter cap for face mask; No 329197- 001, 2021, Face mask; No 339679- 001, 2021, hand held device with a probe attachment; No 339677- 001, 2021, Hand held probe; No 339682- 001, 2021, Phase change material case lid; No 339692- 001, 2021, Container with interchangeable insulation and phase change material; No 339683- 001, 2021, Vial holder; No 339689- 001, 2021, Insulated container; No 339681- 001, 2021, Container lid with phase change material.
Developed Unique multi-disciplinary and cross cutting expertise in academics, mission led research, innovation and entrepreneurship. Focus on Digital Public Health/ Primary care service @ Home, with Responsible AI, Point of Care Devices, Human centric UX Design and land, water and air Mobility, working towards the mission of universal primary health care at home.
Ability to manage multiple large projects and interdisciplinary teams in innovative concepts, experimental work, field trials especially in rural and remote areas with large populations and local teams
Projects As Principal Investigator/ Co-PI:
To create an AI based, easy to use solution – DHARA WASH (Digital Home based Artificial Intelligence enabled Real Time Appropriate interventions for Water, Sanitation and Hygeine) – for rural municipal authorities for identifying, documenting and managing un hygienic areas in rural Telangana, JICA and Govt of Telangana, (USD 60,000) 2024-25
Improving primary healthcare for patients with non-communicable diseases during severe flooding in India, National Institute of Healthcare Research, United Kingdom, (USD 3,000,000) 2024-29 https://www.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR204871
Improving primary health care for patients with non-communicable diseases during severe flooding in India, National Institute for Health and Care Research, (USD 3,780,000) 2024-29
Further Design, Development and implementation of digital platform: Comprehensiv, American Leprosy Missions (USD 500,000), 2023 Jun- 2026 May https://hirapidlab.com/concept/COMPREHENSIV
Evaluation of Tibetan Health systems for the Central Tibetan Authority (USD 5,000), 2022 Sept to 2023 June
Design and development of Skill development animations for training Home health aides (USD 22,000) for SHARE foundation, Hyderabad 2022 Sept to 2023 June
Design and Development of CT-PEP App for contact tracing and Post Exposure Prophylaxis in Leprosy (USD 17,000) for NLR, 2022 Jan – 2023 June
Design and Development of digital platform: Comprehensiv, American Leprosy Missions (USD 65,000), 2022 Jun- 2023 May
Validation Project DHARA: Digital @ Home based Artificial Intelligence enabled Real Time Appropriate interventions at Nirmal – Telangana; Samastipur - Bihar, American Leprosy Missions (USD 300,000), 2020 Jun- 2022 May
Project MITH.AI Design and Development of Mass Integrated Transformational health care with Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (USD 350,000), 2020-21
Development Project DHARA: Digital @ Home based Artificial Intelligence enabled Real Time Appropriate interventions, American Leprosy Missions (USD 50,000), 2020 Jan- Dec
Project DREAM-H : Digital Real-time Advanced Medical Modular logistics system—for Home Care, Honda Motorcycles and Scooter India (USD 120,000), 2019-2020
Project FWD3: Food Water contaminant Digital Diagnosis at the point of neeD, PHFI Centre for Environmental Health (USD 60,000), 2019-2021
Ending NTD’s through women led WASH- Accelerating Impact in India and Nepal thru a comprehensive custom built GIS enabled digital model- American Leprosy Mission, (Tech lead) (USD 250,000), 2018-20
GIS based situational analysis of District wide diagnostic services at Nalgonda- Govt of Telangana (USD 27,000), 2017-18
org disability grant for Automated Disability Assessment and Support- Comprehensive (DAS-COM) (USD 115,000), 2016-19
Disability Assessment made Simple (DAS Simple) funded by Grand Challenges, CANADA (USD 110,000), 2015-17
Aero Health System- Drone based medicine delivery- Small grant from DJI - Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and Technology Co., Ltd- CHINA (USD 5,000) 2015
Geo Health Care: GIS based time series mapping of progressive growth in health care infrastructure in Darbhanga Dt, Bihar- INDIA (USD 2,000), 2015
Health Informatics- Rapid Design Lab (HI-RapiD) FIST program grant from Department of Science and Technology, INDIA (USD 100,000), 2013
Design and Develop Cloud based User Friendly Interface variant of Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP2.0) funded by Grand Design Challenge, Keio University, JAPAN (USD 15,000), 2012
Technical feasibility of mHealth system at sub-center level; Indian rural health sytem funded by Grand Design Challenge, Keio University, JAPAN (USD 15,000), 2011
Projects As Co-Investigator/ Consultant:
Process Evaluation of HMIS and MCTS in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Funded by Centre for Good Governance, UNICEF: Hyderabad (USD 120,000), 2015
Project INFORM: Improving Functional Outcomes fo Children with Impairments funded by Grand Challenges, CANADA (USD 110,000), 2013-15
Project TRUMP: Trusted Mobile Platform for the self-management of chronic illness in rural areas funded by Research Council for Digital Economy, UNITED KINGDOM (USD 4,000,000), 2014-16
Project SMART STROKES: a web-based Educational intervention for management of physical disabilities following a stroke. Funded by Wellcome Trust, UK (USD 50,000), 2013-14
Publication and Books
Munuswamy S Digital Innovations for COVID 19 management: present applications, gaps and future strategies. Asia Pacific Tech Monitor; UN ESCAP Vol 37 No 3 Jul-Sep 2020
Sarda A, Munuswamy S, Sarda S, Subramanian V. Using Passive Smartphone Sensing for improved Risk Stratification of patients with Depression and Diabetes. Journal of Medical Internet Research. Preprints. 14/05/2018:11041
Dubey C, Raj S, Munuswamy S, Katta A, Chetty G. Semantic segmentation using deep neural networks in medicine- A survey. International Journal of Science and Engineering. 2018; Volume: 3, Issue: 4,Page No.: 39-48
Katta A, Krishna AKI, M B, Anegawa T, Munuswamy S. Progressive disability in elderly population among tribals of Telangana: a cross sectional study. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2017;16:104
Reddy, A., Naik, H. K. & Munuswamy, S. When, which and where of disease incidence in India: An IDSP analysis. International Journal of Advanced Biological Research. Vol 6(2) 2016
Karthick, K. & Munuswamy, S. 2016. Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude, Practise and Adoption Among Health Care Professionals for Informatics/Computerised Technology Systems. Stud Health Technol Inform, 225, 997-8.
Ashwini Reddy, Chandrakiran Dubey, Suresh Munuswamy. Cancer Burden in India: Evaluating the Cost burden of treatment due to TRIPS. National Journal for Research in Community Medicine. Vol 4(2) 2015
Sureshkumar, K., Murthy, G. V., Munuswamy, S., Goenka, S. & Kuper, H. 2015. 'Care for Stroke', a web-based, smartphone-enabled educational intervention for management of physical disabilities following stroke: feasibility in the Indian context. BMJ Innov, 1, 127-136.
Suresh Munuswamy, Keiko Nakamura, Kaoruko Seino and Masashi Kizuki. Inequalities in use of antenatal care and its service components in India. Journal of Rural Medicine, 2013; 8(2)
Raj Kumari HK, Hira P, Rithuma O, Murthy GVS, Ajitha K, Suresh M. Evaluating the Fixed Nutrition and Health Day (FNHD) program in the rural area of Shamirpet, Ranga Reddy District and the urban area of Dabeerpura, Hyderabad District. National Journal Research Community Medicine, 2012, Volume: 1, Issue: 2,Page No.: 101-105
Ashok T, Chacko T V, Suresh M. Physical disabilities among the rural elderly: Identifying surrogate markers of unmet disability care needs. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 2012, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Page No.: 38-41
Ashok T, Chacko T V, Suresh M. Health care and social needs of the elderly: Assessed by the tool Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly. International Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2011, Volume: 6, Issue: 5, Page No.: 97-99
Ajitha Katta, Gopalakrishnan S, Ganeshkumar P, Christopher Amalraj V, Rajit K Jha, Suresh Munuswamy. Morbidity Pattern and Nutritional Status of Elderly Population in Rural Tamil Nadu. Journal of the Indian Academy of Geriatrics, 2011; Volume: 7, Page.: 6-9
Suresh Munuswamy, Keiko Nakamura, Ajitha Katta. Comparing the cost of electricity sourced from a fuel cell-based renewable energy system and the national grid to electrify a rural health centre in India: A case study. Renewable Energy, Volume 36, Issue 11, November 2011, Page No.: 2978-2983
