State specific research activities in NE

    1. Assam

 

      Malaria epidemiology, transmission and control, antimalarial drug resistance, malaria vector(s) biology and vector control; Epidemiology of filariasis and control in tea garden set up, filariasis vector bionomics; Epidemiology, distribution and control of Japanese encephalitis, JE vector(s) bionomics and incrimination, development of Early warning system for JE ; Prevalence of West Nile virus activity; Mosquito fauna survey ; Diarrhoeal diseases and their etiology; Extent and correlates of substance abuse, sero-surveillance and diagnosis of HIV, mapping and size estimation of injecting drug users; Etiology of endemic goiter and role of environmental goiterogens, prevalence of iodine deficiency disorders, outreach and evaluation of iodized salt, iron deficiency anemia and work efficiency, anthropometric studies in tea garden children, nutritional studies on unconventional food items, sub-clinical vitamin A dificiency; Epidemiology and risk factors analysis of oesophageal cancer, population based cancer registry ; Immunization coverage and status of neo-natal deaths in tea gardens, fertility and socio-economic factors of rural women ; Schistosomes causing farmers dermatitis , food borne trematodes; Status of haemoglobinopathies, effect of maternal haemoglobinopathy on pregnancy outcome, community control of thalassaemia syndrome; Status of hypertension and coronary heart disease in Assamese and tea garden populations; Disease burden of leptosporiasis ; Molecular epidemiology of methycillin resistant

Staphylococcus aureaus

      ; Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis; Epidemiology of sporotrichosis; Risk factors analysis of non-communicable diseases; Health consequences of domestic violence ; Multi site monitoring of human influenza virus.



    1. Meghalaya

 

      Malaria vector(s) biology, operationalization of insecticide treated mosquito nets; Mosquito fauna surveys; Extent and correlates of Substance abuse, sero-surveillance and diagnosis of HIV, mapping and size estimation of injecting drug users; Prevalence of iodine deficiency disorders ; Pulmonary paragonimiasis ; Health consequences of domestic violence; Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis



    1. Arunachal Pradesh

 

      Malaria epidemiology, transmission studies and control, antimalarial drug resistance especially in Indo-Myanmar border areas, malaria vector(s) biology and vector control ; operationalization of insecticide treated mosquito nets; Mosquito fauna surveys; Extent and correlates of substance abuse, sero-surveillance and diagnosis of HIV; Pulmonary paragonimiasis; Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis ; Immunization coverage.



    1. Mizoram

 

      Malaria vector(s) biology, operationalization of insecticide treated mosquito nets; Mosquito fauna surveys; Extent and correlates of Substance abuse ; mapping and size estimation of injecting drug users, studies on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse; Population based cancer registry; risk factors analysis of stomach cancer, mutagenecity of tuibur; immunization coverage; Reproductive health among adolescent and adult girl students; Status of hypertension and coronary heart disease; Integrated disease surveillance programme; Etiology of endemic goiter and role of environmental goiterogens.



    1. Nagaland

 

      Malaria vector(s) biology, operationalization of insecticide treated mosquito nets; mosquito fauna surveys, prevalence of dengue and its vectors; Extent and correlates of Substance abuse, mapping and size estimation of injecting drug users, integrated biological and behavioural assessment of HIV/AIDS, studies on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse; Risk factors analysis of nasopharyngeal cancer, mutagenecity of food items ; Dietary survey of CRPF jawans; Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis.



    1. Manipur

 

      Malaria vector(s) biology, mosquito fauna surveys; Mapping and size estimation of injecting drug users, integrated biological and behavioural assessment of HIV/AIDS ; population based cancer registry.



    1. Tripura

 

      Malaria vector(s) biology, mosquito fauna surveys; Immunization coverage; Haemoglobinopathies and viral markers among primitive tribes of Tripura; Cancer registry.



  1. Sikkim

    Population based cancer registry; Morbidity surveillance; Food borne trematodes ; Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis; Health consequences of domestic violence.

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