Dr. Palanivel C
MBBS, MD
Total Number of Publications: 175
Tuberculosis & HIV
1. Vijayageetha M, Kumar AM, Ramakrishnan J, Sarkar S, Papa D, Mehta K, Joseph NM, Rajaram M, Rajaa S, Chinnakali P. Tuberculosis screening among pregnant women attending a tertiary care hospital in Puducherry, South India: is it worth the effort? Glob Health Action. 2019;12(1):1564488.
2. Thekkur P, Kumar AN, Chinnakali P, Selvaraju S, Bairy R, Singh AR, Nirgude A, Selvaraj K, Venugopal V, Shastri S. Outcomes and implementation challenges of using daily treatment regimens with an innovative adherence support tool among HIV-infected tuberculosis patients in Karnataka, India: a mixed-methods study. Glob Health Action. 2019;12(1):1568826.
3. Reddy MM, Thekkur P, Ramya N, et al. To start or to complete? - Challenges in implementing tuberculosis preventive therapy among people living with HIV: a mixed-methods study from Karnataka, India. Global Health Action. 2020 ;13(1):1704540. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2019.1704540.
4. Ayiraveetil R, Sarkar S, Chinnakali P, Jeyashree K, Vijayageetha M, Thekkur P, et al. Household food insecurity among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and its associated factors in South India: a cross-sectional analysis. BMJ open 2020;10(2):e033798
5. Dave P, Vadera B, Kumar AM, Chinnakali P, Modi B, Solanki R, Patel P, Patel P, Pujara K, Nimavat P, Shah A, Bharaswadkar S, Rade K, Parmar M, Nair SA. Has introduction of rapid drug susceptibility testing at diagnosis impacted treatment outcomes among previously treated tuberculosis patients in Gujarat, India? PLoS One. 2015 Apr 13;10(4):e0121996. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121996. PMID: 25874545; PMCID: PMC4395327.
6. Chinnakali P, Thekkur P, Ramaswamy G, Selvaraj K. Active screening for tuberculosis among slum dwellers in selected urban slums of Puducherry, South India. Ann Trop Med Public Health [serial online] 2016 [cited 2021 Apr 15];9:295-6.
7. Prasanna T, Jeyashree K, Chinnakali P, Bahurupi Y, Vasudevan K, Das M. Catastrophic costs of tuberculosis care: a mixed methods study from Puducherry, India. Glob Health Action. 2018;11(1):1477493. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2018.1477493. PMID: 29902134; PMCID: PMC6008578
8. Palanivel C, Kumar AM, Mahalakshmi T, Govindarajan S, Claassens M, Satyanarayana S, Gurumurthy D, Vasudevan K, Purty A, Paulraj AK, Raman KV. Uptake of HIV testing and HIV positivity among presumptive tuberculosis patients at Puducherry, South India. Public Health Action. 2013 Sep 21;3(3):220-3. doi: 10.5588/pha.13.0045. PMID: 26393033; PMCID: PMC4463124.
9. Patel BH, Jeyashree K, Chinnakali P, Vijayageetha M, Mehta KG, Modi B, et al. Cash transfer scheme for people with tuberculosis treated by the National TB Programme in Western India: a mixed methods study. BMJ open 2019; 9(12).
10. Chinnakali P, Lakshminarayanan S, Sarkar S. Nutritional Assessment and Counselling in Patients with TB: Challenges for the Health Care System. International Journal of Health Systems and Implementation Research 2019;3(1):12–5.
11. Pooranagangadevi V, Kumar A, Chinnakali P, Sahu S, Selvaraj M, Valan AS, et al. High loss-to-follow-up among HIV-infected children registered for pre-antiretroviral therapy care at Madurai, south India. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2014 Nov 1;18:S126.
12. Upadhyay R, Chinnakali P. Cash transfer scheme for reducing HIV and herpes simplex type 2. Lancet. 2012 Sep 1;380:802; author reply 802-3.
13. Devi N, Kumar A, Chinnakali P, Rajendran M, VALAN AS, Rewari B, et al. Loss to follow-up among children in pre-ART care under the National AIDS Programme, Tamil Nadu, South India. Public Heal Action. 2017 Jun 21;7:90–4.
14. Selvaraj K, Kumar A, Chawla S, Shringarpure K, Thekkur P, Chinnakali P, et al. Are partners of HIV-infected people being tested for HIV? A mixed-methods research from Gujarat, India. Public Heal Action. 2017 Mar 21;7:46–54.
15. Thiha N, Chinnakali P, Harries A, Shwe M, Balathandan T, Tun STT, et al. Is There a Need for Viral Load Testing to Assess Treatment Failure in HIV-Infected Patients Who Are about to Change to Tenofovir-Based First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy? Programmatic Findings from Myanmar. PLoS One. 2016 Aug 9;11:e0160616.
16. N P, Kumar A, Chinnakali P, Sahu S, M S, VALAN AS, et al. Implementation and Operational Research: High Loss to Follow-up Among Children on Pre-ART Care Under National AIDS Program in Madurai, South India. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2015 Apr 8;69.
17. Dhungana GP, Thekkur P, Chinnakali P, et al. Initiation and completion rates of isoniazid preventive therapy among people living with HIV in Far-Western Region of Nepal: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open 2019;9:e029058. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029058
Viral hepatitis
1. Kumar SS, Chinnakali P, Dhodapkar R, Mohan P, Olickal JJ, Hamide A. Willingness and yield of screening for hepatitis B among outpatients of a tertiary care centre, Puducherry, South India. Trop Doct. 2020. DOI: 10.1177/0049475520975940
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ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8320-1016
• Joint Member Secretary of JIPMER Scientific Advisory Committee, JIPMER, Puducherry
• Nodal person - Centre of Excellence (JIPMER) under the “National Action Plan for Climate Change and Human Health (NAPCCHH)”, Government of India
• Central Team Member, HIV sentinel surveillance, National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), India
• Member of Central Task Force for monitoring and surveillance of COVID-19 (Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India
• Team member, MINERVA network- Ascertaining cause of death using Verbal Autopsy initiated by Registrar General of India
• Senior Mentor for Structured Operational Research Training Initiative (SORT-IT) course under WHO-TDR and The Union