Dr. Suresh Babu Munuswamy
Associate Professor (Consultant)
Contact Details
Qualifications
MBBS(Madras), MPH(Oxford), PhD(Tokyo)
Dr. Suresh Babu Munuswamy, Associate Professor(Consultant)
Dr Suresh Munuswamy is a medical doctor, scientist and a start-up entrepreneur. He studied M.B.B.S in Chennai, M.P.H in Oxford and PhD in Tokyo. He was the first Indian to be selected for the Public Health Leadership Doctorate Program fully sponsored by the Government of Japan.
Presently he is Professor of Digital Public Health and the coordinator for India’s first integrated MSc and PhD Health Informatics program at IIPH- Hyderabad. Previously he was part of the team that started India’s first School of Public Health in a private university at SRM near Chennai.
He has 6 years of clinical experience, 7 years of public health experience and over 10 years of experience in design, development of comprehensive software, hardware and mobility platforms for delivering universal primary health care screening and treatment at home.
The platform developed by Dr.Suresh, named COMPREHENSIV, integrates several design and technology approaches, including graphic icons and AR for UI, wide spectrum images (within and beyond visual) for automated feature identification, artificial intelligence and language models for decision making, custom configured ground (two and four wheeler) and unmanned aerial vehicles/ drones for product supply chain. He has about 10 design and process patents to his credit and another 10 in pipeline.
Designation
Professor, Digital Public Health, Responsible Artificial Intelligence led Services, Devices and Mobility
Areas of Expertise
Digital Public Health, Responsible Artificial Intelligence led Services, Devices and Mobility, AR/VR/MR, UAV and Drones
Areas of interest
Comprehensive and Universal Primary Health Care at Home
Publications
Current Research activities / Projects
The vision of COMPREHENSIV is to provide @ home universal primary health care to every person in India, thru a community based local Trained Health Care Personnel (THCP). COMPREHENSIV has three interlinked platform’s– the ENGAGEMENT platform, the MOBILITY platform, and the PENTA AI platform. Further information is available at https://hirapidlab.com/concept/COMPREHENSIV
Teaching / Academic Involvement
For MPH Program : Epidemiology, Environmental Health