Sangam Shah.
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Research

Evidence for Nepal, built to be used

Community health, non-communicable disease, mental health and COVID-19 research, plus the programmes I run to train the next group of researchers.

Output

What the work has produced

29
Systematic reviews
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28
Original research
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43
Case reports
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12
Reviews and commentary
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In numbers

The research at a glance

Kinds of paper

How many of each type, and how many I led as first author.

  • Systematic reviews29
  • Original research28
  • Case reports43
  • Reviews and commentary12

18 of 112 papers as first author.

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TypePapersFirst author
Systematic reviews294
Original research284
Case reports438
Reviews and commentary122

Where the work is published

The eight journals with the most papers.

  • Annals of Medicine and Surgery23
  • Clinical Case Reports16
  • Health Science Reports6
  • Medicine6
  • JNMA5
  • Journal of Nepal Health Research Council5
  • Cardiology in Review4
  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases3
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JournalPapers
Annals of Medicine and Surgery23
Clinical Case Reports16
Health Science Reports6
Medicine6
JNMA5
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council5
Cardiology in Review4
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases3

Research themes

Where the papers sit. Grouped by keywords in each title, so one paper can count under more than one theme. Select a theme to see its papers.

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ThemePapers
Cardiology22
Neurology24
COVID-1921
Infectious disease20
Mental health10
Cancer and blood disorders14
Process

How a project moves from question to training

  1. 1

    Question

    Identify a gap in Nepal’s evidence

  2. 2

    Proposal

    Protocol, tools and ethics approval

  3. 3

    Data

    Collect and manage in KoBo Toolbox

  4. 4

    Analysis

    SPSS: statistics, regression, models

  5. 5

    Publication

    Write, submit and revise

  6. 6

    Training

    Teach methods to the next group

Programmes

Research work and leadership

Aug 2022 – present

Founder and Board Member

Health Charioteer for Nepal

Designs and runs research trainings and workshops, and teaches applied biostatistics (simple statistics, regression, modelling) in SPSS.

Aug 2022 – present

Coordinator

Team 11 Research Programs, Larkins Community Hospital, Miami

Coordinates research activities across the team's members.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022

Member

Physicians for Social Responsibility Nepal

Managed data for a sexual and reproductive health and mental health project, and led it for a year with DUF funding.

Aug 2022 – Oct 2022

Research Consultant

Health Charioteer Nepal, Kathmandu

Data analysis and report writing for a short-term breast cancer screening project.

May 2022 – Jul 2022

Research Assistant

Larkins Community Hospital, South Miami, Florida

Led several projects in systematic review and meta-analysis, from methodology to publication.

Methods

How I work

Research

Scientific research and publication, proposal development, and report writing.

Data

Large database and registry-based research, tool development, data extraction, management and analysis in KoBo Toolbox and SPSS.

Teaching

Research methodology workshops, and applied biostatistics with SPSS for bachelor level students.

  • Cardiology
  • Neurology
  • Mental health
  • COVID-19
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Community health
  • Systematic reviews
  • Biostatistics
Funding

Grants and research awards

  • 2024
    Early Career Grant, £5,000Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, with NIHR
  • 2023
    Anita Gyawali Ganesh Gyawali Awardecancer
  • 2022
    Provincial Research Grant (Co-PI)NHRC, for “Screening of breast cancer in Tokha Municipality: a cross-sectional study”
  • 2022
    Undergraduate Health Research GrantNepal Health Research Council, Government of Nepal
  • 2021
    Undergraduate Health Research Grant (Co-PI)Nepal Health Research Council, Government of Nepal
Selected papers

A few highlights

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