Faculty Detail

Dr Roumi Deb

Centre Head & Professor

Amity Institute of Social Sciences

Qualifications
Graduation : B.Sc(-)-1988,Lady Keane College, Shillong, Meghalaya.

Post Graduation : M.Sc(Department of Anthropology)-1990,North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya

Post Graduation : M.Phil(Anthropology)-1992,North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya

Doctorate : Ph.D.(Anthropology)-2000,University of Delhi
Experience
07 Oct 2016 - Present
Centre Head & Professor,
Amity Institute of Social Sciences
Current Courses Taught
Advanced Demography and Population Studies

Archaeological Anthropology – I

Comparative Ethnography

Food, Nutrition and Hygiene

Genetic Perspectives On Modern Human Origins
Publications
Folate supplementation, MTHFR gene polymorphism and neural tube defects: A community based case control study in North India ,
Metabolic Brain Diseases, Springer

Neural Tube Defects: A Review on Maternal Genetic Determinants ,
South Asian Anthropologist, Serials Publication

Age at menarche in Adolescent Khasi girls, Meghalaya ,
Indian Pediatrics, Springer Publication

Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Related to Family Planning Methods among the Khasi Tribes of East Khasi hills Meghalaya ,
Anthropologist, KRE Publications

Variation in Age at Menarche of the Assamese and Bengali Girls of Guwahati (Assam) ,
Anthropologist, KRE Publishers

Evaluation of resources and Service at health centres in East Khasi Hills District of Meghalaya ,
South Asian Anthropologist, SERIALS Publications

Utilization of Services Related to Safe Motherhood among the Khasis of East Khasi Hills (Meghalaya): An Overview ,
Studies of Ethno-Medicine, KRE Publishers

An Anthropometric Study of Mothers of Children with Neural Tube Defect ,
Understanding people of India Anthropological Insight

Environmental Factors Increasing the Risk for Neural Tube Defects in the Population of Delhi (India) ,
Journal of Human Ecology, KRE Publishers

A Crosssectional Growth Study of Adoloescent Assamese and Bengali Kayastha Girls of Guwahati ,
Anthropologist, KRE Publishers

Khasis and Female Foeticide: Report of a Survey of East Khasi Hills Villages of Meghalaya ,
South Asian Anthropologist, SERIALS Publications

Managing Reproductive Health: Exploring the Contours of Private and Public Health Care System in Meghalaya

Population specific risk factors for Neural Tube Defects with respect to MTHFR gene polymorphism and vitamin supplementation: A case-control study among North Indians

MTHFR and Neural Tube Defects: A Case-Control Association Study

Status Awareness and Perception of Childhood Immunization among the Khasi tribes of East Khasi Hills (Meghalaya)

Neural Tube Defects as a result of Oxidative Stress

Association of socio-demographic and nutritional factors with risk of neural tube defects in the North Indian Population: A case-control study.

CYP2C9, VKORC1, CYP4F2, ABCB1 and F5 variants: Influence on quality of long-term anticoagulation.

Women Informal Economy: Its characteristics and legitimacy in the intergenerational

Bleeding Risk Score (GBRS) for patients on oral anticoagulant therapy. International Journal of Genomic Medicine

Implication of novel CYP2C9*57 (p.Asn204His) variant in coumarin hypersensitivity.

Variability in CYP2C9 allele frequency: a pilot study of its predicted impact on warfarin response among healthy South and North Indians

Pharmacogenetic typing for oral anti-coagulant response among factor V Leiden mutation carriers

Effect of maternal Tp53 gene G412C polymorphism on Neural Tube Defects: A Study from North India

Folate supplementation, MTHFR gene polymorphism and neural tube defects: A community based case control study in North-India

Trends of smoking among Indian Youth

Female Foeticide in Delhi/NCR
Projects
Health and Family Welfare Infrastructure (Private and Public Sector) in East Khasi Hills (Meghalaya)(Population Research Centre, Guwhati, Assam)
The study has been conducted in thirty-five villages from all the seven blocks of East Khasi Hill district of Meghalaya. The data collection was on the various health aspects related to women and children in the community. It was on their health profile, the infrastructure available and the role of different government and private institutions in providing health facilities to the population covered in the study. The data was especially collected on abortions conducted in the public and privateby (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India)

Demographic and genetic studies related to the incidence of Neural Tube Defects (NTDs)(Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi)
The project aimed to assess the role of hyperthermia, drug exposure and chronic illness of the mother during pregnancy behind the Neural Tube Defect child. Besides to study the role of PAX-1, 3, 7 & 9 genes in the incidence of Neural Tube Defect and to screen the mothers of Neural Tube Defects and the control mothers for MTHFR C677T polymorphism. To achieve the above mentioned objectives, the study was carried out in different hospitals of Delhi, after the ethical clearances, for the collectioby (Indian Council of Medical Research)

Prevalence and Risk Factors leading to HIV infections among the Tribals of Meghalaya(ICMR)
NILby (ICMR)
Conferences attended
Science and Technology for Inclusive Innovation, Role of Women
Organized By :Indian Science Congress

Knowledge and Value in a Globalising World: Disentangling Dichotomies, Querying Unities
Organized By :International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) and the Association of Social A

National Summit on Higher Education
Organized By :Confederation of Indian Industries, New Delhi

International Symposium on Atherosclerosis from Bench to Bedside (ISARCON-2010
Organized By :Indian Society for Artherosclerosis Research, Delhi.

10th Indo-Pacific Association of Law, Medicine and Science (INPALMS)
Organized By :Association of Law, Medicine and Science (INPALMS), Noida, Uttar Pradesh

National Symposium on ‘Relevance of Human Genome Study in Biological Anthropology
Organized By :Indian Anthropological Congress

Commercialisation of Biotechnology
Organized By :Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL), Delhi

National Symposium on Paradigms in New Anthropology Genomic Diversity, Diseases, Obesity and Health
Organized By :University of Delhi

International conference on ‘Showcasing Cutting Edge Science and Technology by Women’
Organized By :Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi

International conference on ‘Free Radicals and Antioxidant in Human Health, Gene Regulation and Sign
Organized By :All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

Biochemical and Molecular Genetics Techniques
Organized By :Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi

99Indian Science Congress Delhi Chapter
Organized By :Indian Science Congress

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