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Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
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WHO Collaborating Centre For Research and Training On Diarrhoeal Diseases

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Dr. Falguni Debnath

Dr. Falguni Debnath

General Information
Name Dr. Falguni Debnath
Designation Scientist E
Date of joining ICMR 11 November 2011
Date of joining present post 01 September 2016
Discipline Epidemiology
Division Epidemiology
Specialization  
Email falgunidebnath@yahoo.in ; debnathf.niced@gov.in
Academic Qualification  
Graduation MBBS
Post Graduation MPH (Epidemiology & Health System)
   

Profile

Research Experience

Dr. Falguni Debnath is a medical epidemiologist. Her major works in this field were related to strengthening public health programs; finding out ways to build capacity among health care workers for improved delivery of maternal and child health care services; understanding societal, familial factors hindering optimum infant feeding outcomes; public health determinants of antimicrobial resistance. Apart from conducting research studies, she has also led teams in infectious disease outbreak investigation. She is also a part of research team looking at the interplay of climate and non-climate factors in the occurrence of diarrheal diseases in the eastern part of India; environmental priorities for antimicrobial resistance in India.. 

Research Interest

Dr. Debnath has major interests in health systems research; Maternal & child health (especially social determinants of optimum exclusive breastfeeding, improving community level management of acute respiratory tract infection); antimicrobial resistance.

Projects

Extramural

The interplay of climate and non-climate factors in determining the risks and predicting outbreaks of waterborne. (2017-2020; as Co-investigator)
National sero-surveillance to monitor the trend of SARS-CoV-2 infection transmission in India: Community-based surveillance. (2020; Part of West Bengal Team)

Intramural

Anti-Microbial Resistance Research & Evidence Synthesis for Stewardship implementation and Surveillance program development framework assessment (AMRES) (2020 - till date; as PI)Rates of early initiation of breast feeding (EIBF) and exclusive breast feeding (EBF) up to 42 days of post-partum period and factors associated with failure to early initiation of breast feeding in rural West Bengal (2017 -2019; PI)
A facility based cross sectional study on status of nutrition, immunization and chemoprophylaxis in Children Living with HIV/ AIDS (CLHIV) aged 1- 14 years in a tertiary hospital, Kolkata, India (2019 -till date; as Co-PI)
Dengue fever outbreak investigation at Baranagar Municipal area of North 24 Parganas District of West Bengal. (2016; Team leader)
Acute Gastroenteritis outbreak investigation at Pakapol village of Bhangore II block, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. (2016; Team leader)
 

Publications

2025

  1. Ganguly S, Chakraborty D, Debnath F, Biswas S, Bhatta M, Majumdar A, Deb AK. Effectiveness of dolutegravir based antiretroviral treatment in preventing vertical transmission of HIV in West Bengal, India: A retrospective cohort study. International journal of STD & AIDS. 2025:09564624251361183. Pubmed

2024

  1. Debnath F, De RG, Chakraborty D, Majumdar A, Mukhopadhyay S, Sarkar MD, Singh T, Patra SK, Saha S, Rehman J, Roy D. Antimicrobial stewardship implementation in primary and secondary tier hospitals in India: interim findings from a need assessment study using mixed method design. Scientific Reports. 2024 Nov 14;14(1):28068. Pubmed
  2. Chakraborty D, Debnath F, Giri S, Saha S, Pyne S, Chakraverty R, Majumdar A, Deb AK, Bhatia R, Dutta S. Contribution of veterinary sector to antimicrobial resistance in One Health compendium: an insight from available Indian evidence. Front Vet Sci. 2024 Aug 27;11:1411160. Pubmed
  3. Chakraborty D, Debnath F, Majumdar A, Chakrabarti A, Sharma M, Walia K, Deb AK, Dutta S. Diagnostic validation study of rapid urinary tract infection diagnosis kit at peripheral health facilities of West Bengal, India. Sci Rep. 2024 Jan 2;14(1):297.Pubmed
  4. Chowdhury G, Debnath F, Bardhan M, Deb AK, Bhuina R, Bhattacharjee S, Mondal K, Kitahara K, Miyoshi SI, Dutta S, Mukhopadhyay AK. Foodborne outbreak by Salmonella enterica serovar weltevreden in West Bengal, India. Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2024 Apr 1;21(4):220-7. Pubmed
  5. Bhatta M, Majumdar A, Biswas S, Ghosh U, Ghosh P, Banerji P, Aridoss S, Venkatesh BT, Das N, Royal A, Ray P. Sexually transmitted infections among key populations in India: systematic review with spatiotemporal distribution. medRxiv. 2024 May 6:2024-05.

2023

  1. Chakraborty D, Debnath F, Kanungo S, Mukhopadhyay S, Chakraborty N, Basu R, Das P, Datta K, Ganguly S, Banerjee P, Kshirsagar N. Rationality of prescriptions by rational use of medicine consensus approach in common respiratory and gastrointestinal infections: an outpatient department based cross-sectional study from India. Trop MedInfect Dis. 2023 Jan 28;8(2):88.Pubmed
  2. Chakraborty D, Majumdar A, Debnath F, Naskar S, Dutta S. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health-care delivery system for other diseases and antimicrobial resistance threat in India. Indian JPub Health. 2023 Apr-June;67(2):328-30. Pubmed
  3. Chakraborty D, Debnath F, Kanungo S, Chakraborty N, Basu R, Das P, Datta K, Ganguly S, Banerjee P, Dutta S. Pattern of prescription practices in acute respiratory infection and diarrhoea cases in out patient department of tertiary care hospitals in West Bengal, India; A Cross Sectional Analysis through Rational Use of Medicine Consensus Approach.
  4. Ganguly S, Chakraborty D, Banerjee S, Debnath F, Biswas S, Majumdar A, Dutta S. Vertical Transmission Rate of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Exposed Twin Pregnancies and Associated Factors in West Bengal, India: a Retrospective Cohort Study. Jpn J Infect Dis. 2023 Mar 31;76(2):145-50. Pubmed

2022

  1. Biswas S, Ghosh P, Debnath F, Chakraborty D, Saha MK, Dutta S. Prevalence of syphilis infection and associated sociodemographic factors among antenatal-care attendees in Meghalaya, India: Revisiting HIV Sentinel Surveillance data. Int J STD AIDS. 2022 Feb;33(2):173-9. Pubmed
  2. Debnath F, Chakraborty D, Giri S, Saha S, Pyne S, Chakraverty R, Majumdar A, Deb AK, Diwan V, Bhatia R, Dutta S. Existing policies/guidelines on the environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance in India: an insight into the key facets through review and SWOT analysis. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2022 Oct 29;7(11):336. Pubmed
  3. Mitra S, Lo M, Saha R, Deb AK, Debnath F, Miyoshi SI, Dutta S, Chawla‐Sarkar M. Epidemiology of major entero‐pathogenic viruses and genetic characterization of Group A rotaviruses among children (≤ 5 years) with acute gastroenteritis in eastern India, 20182020. J Appl Microbiol. 2022 Aug 1;133(2):758-83. Pubmed
  4. Bhatta M, Ghosh GK, Chakraborty D, Debnath F, Jaiswal A, Mohanty S, Biswas S, Sengupta S, Sharma M, Majumdar A, Ganguly S. Development of a Framework to Identify Research Priorities for Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change on HIV Response in India: A Scoping Review coupled with Modified Delphi.DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6819162/v1
  5. Chakraborty D, Ganguly S, Debnath F, Biswas S, Saha MK, Dutta S. Socio-Demographic Correlates of HIV Sero-Discordance among Couples in West Bengal, India: a Cross Sectional Analysis. Jpn JInfect Dis. 2022 Mar 31;75(2):169-76. Pubmed
  6. Ganguly S, Chakraborty D, Debnath F, Biswas S, Majumdar A, Saha MK, Dutta S. Epidemiological drivers of mother to child HIV transmission in West Bengal, India: A retrospective cohort study. Int J STD AIDS. 2022 Apr;33(5):472-8.  Pubmed

2021

  1. Debnath F, Chakraborty D, Deb AK, Saha MK, Dutta S. Increased human-animal interface & emerging zoonotic diseases: An enigma requiring multi-sectoral efforts to address. Indian J Med Res. 2021 May 1;153(5-6):577-84. Pubmed
  2. Murhekar MV, Bhatnagar T, Selvaraju S, Saravanakumar V, Thangaraj JW, Shah N, Kumar MS, Rade K, Sabarinathan R, Asthana S, Balachandar R. SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence in India, August-September, 2020: findings from the second nationwide household serosurvey. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Mar 1;9(3):e257-66. Pubmed
  3. Ganguly S, Chakraborty D, Goswami DN, Biswas S, Debnath F, Saha MK. High stillbirth rate among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected pregnant women in West Bengal, India: a retrospective cohort study. Jpn J Infect Dis. 2021 Sep 22;74(5):424-8. Pubmed
  4. Chakraborty D, Banerjee S, Maji D, Dey TK, Vaitheeswaran K, Mondal P, Biswas P, Debnath F, Chatterjee P. Assessment of effectiveness of Japanese encephalitis vaccination in West Bengal, India using sample positivity rate as an alternate measure. J Vector Borne Dis. 2021 Jul 1;58(3):199-205. Pubmed
  5. Murhekar MV, Bhatnagar T, Selvaraju S et al.SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence in India, August-September, 2020: findings from the second nationwide household serosurvey.Lancet Glob Health. 2021; (published online Jan 27.) Link
  6. Debnath F, Mondal N, Deb AK, Chakraborty D, Chakraborty S, Dutta S. Determinants of optimum exclusive breastfeeding duration in rural India: a mixed method approach using cohort and content analysis design. Int Breastfeed J. 2021;16(1):13. Pubmed

2020

  1. Chakraborty D, Debnath F, Biswas S, Bhatta M, Ganguly S, Deb AK, Saha MK, Dutta S. Exploring repurposing potential of existing drugs in the management of COVID-19 epidemic: a critical review. J Clin Med Res. 2020 Jul 22;12(8):463. Pubmed
  2. Debnath F, Chakraborty D, Deb AK. Re:"Outpatient Breastfeeding Champion Program: Breastfeeding Support in Primary Care" by Patterson et al.(Breastfeed Med 2020; 15 (1): 44-48. DOI: 10.1089/bfm. 2019.0108). Breastfeeding Medicine. 2020 May 1;15(5):349-50.Pubmed
  3. Murhekar MV, et al. Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in India: Findings from the national serosurvey, May-June 2020. Indian Journal Med Res. 2020; 152(1): 48-60.
  4. Chakraborty D, Debnath F, Biswas S, et al. Exploring Repurposing Potential of Existing Drugs in the Management of COVID-19 Epidemic: A Critical Review. J Clin Med Res. 2020;12(8):463-471.
  5. Debnath F. A case study on assessment of competency of peripheral health workers using clinical vignettes through cross-sectional design. SAGE Research Methods Cases.2020.
  6. Debnath F, Chakraborty D, and Deb AK. Clinical Skill Building Among Providers Versus Community Skill Building for Optimizing Exclusive Breastfeeding Duration. Breastfed Med. May 2020; 349-50.

2019

  1. Debnath F, Provash CS, Chakraborty A, Dutta S. Dengue fever outbreak by more than one serotype in a municipal area of Kolkata, Eastern India. J Vector Borne Dis 2019;56:380-2
  2. Debnath F, Deb AK, Sinha A, Chatterjee P, Dutta S. Cleanliness: Success in Water Borne Diseases. Indian J Med Res. 2019;149(Suppl):S105-S109.
  3. Mukhopadhyay AK, Deb AK, Chowdhury G, et al. Post-monsoon waterlogging-associated upsurge of cholera cases in and around Kolkata metropolis, 2015. Epidemiol Infect. 2019;147:e167.

2018

  1. Debnath F, Ponnaiah M. Improved timeliness for reporting of acute diarrhoeal disease under surveillance overtime: Evaluation of integrated disease surveillance programme in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, 2015. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health. 2018; 6 (4) :163 - 167.
  2. Debnath F, Mukhopadhyay AK, Chowdhury G, Saha RN, Dutta S. An Outbreak of Foodborne Infection Caused by Shigella sonnei in West Bengal, India. Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2018 Mar;71(2):162-166.

2017

  1. Debnath F, Ponnaiah M, Acharya P. Dengue fever in a municipality of West Bengal, India, 2015: An outbreak investigation. Indian J Public Health 2017;61:239-42.   Pubmed
  2. Debnath F, Ponnaiah M. Improved timeliness for reporting of acute diarrhoeal disease surveillance overtime: Evaluation of Integrated Disease Surveillance programme in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, 2015. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health; 2017. (Available online) DOI:   Link
  3. Debnath F, Bhatnagar T, Sundaramoorthy L, Ponnaiah M. Competency of peripheral health workers in detection & management of common syndromic conditions under surveillance, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, 2016: a cross-sectional study. Glob Health Epidemiol Genom. 2017;2:e15.

2016

  1. Debnath F. Descriptive epidemiology of acute diarrhoeal disease and outbreaks in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, 2010 -2014. Child Newborn, The Journal of West Bengal Academy of Pediatrics. 2016; 20:6-9. Pubmed
  2. Indwar P, Debnath F, Sinha A. Reporting measles case fatality due to complications from a tertiary care hospital of Kolkata, West Bengal 2011 - 2013. J Family Med Prim Care 2016; 5:777-9. Pubmed

Book chapter:

  1. Debnath, F., (2020). A case study on assessment of competency of peripheral health workers using clinical vignettes through cross-sectional design. In Sage Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health. SAGE Publications, Ltd., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529732832
  2. Debnath, F. A case study on assessment of competency of peripheral health workers using clinical vignettes through cross-sectional design. SAGE Research Methods.2020.

Book:

  1. Aguiar S, Debnath F, Kaushik S, editors. Reviews in Antibiotic Resistance and New Antimicrobial Drugs. Frontiers Media SA; 2024 Jun 12.