Dr Swetha Sampathkumar

PhD in Health Sciences

Overview

Dr. Swetha Sampathkumar is a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2023-26) working on the FLOURISH project at DECIPHer (Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement) within the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. Dr. Sampathkumar finished her PhD in Health Sciences at the University of Warwick, UK, during which she co-developed and tested a lifestyle intervention to prevent Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) among Indian women using inter-disciplinary, bottom-up approach of using mixed methods health research. Dr. Sampathkumar’s research interest is effective co-development/adaptation and implementation of behaviour change and health promotion interventions based on mixed methods healthcare research to primarily prevent and treat crucial health conditions and inequalities in underserved groups and low resource settings.