PhD Scholar, Junior Research Fellow

• Mar 2022 - Present

Nutrition Consultant

• May 2021 - Present

Summer Internship

• Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

As a part of my 6 weeks internship at PHFI, under the Indigenous Foods Project I undertook the following tasks:- 1. I assisted the team in calculating and cross-checking the final 24-hour dietary recall of Women of Santhal village and helped in calculating the Minimum Dietary Diversity Score-Women (Number of sheets = 67). 2. I also helped in upgradation of flipbook by clicking and editing pictures of various household measuring utensils and of local food items. 3. I gained hands on experience of DietCal by adding new food items and entering the 24-hour dietary recall data as well as exporting the nutritive values of daily diets of participants to Excel. 4. I reviewed literature covering the topics: a) Food Security and its importance b) Current tools to assess household level food insecurity c) Validation of FIES (food insecurity experience scale) Show less

Graduation Internship

• Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

During the 1 month internship at LNJP hospital I got hands on experience on the following:- - Counselling of IPD patients of varying ailments. - Counselling of patients in OPD diet clinic, catering to around 25-30 people a day for 5-7 days. - Providing diet charts for renal patients, pregnant women, obese individuals & diabetics. - Got the opportunity to visit oncology, pediatric, burn and general wards of the hospital. - Handling main kitchen functioning and enforced smooth process flow. - Observing the work environment of a government hospital. Show less