Dr. Rahul Suresh

Assistant Professor

MBBS, MD Community Medicine

Area of Interest

  • Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Infectious disease, Health Economics, Medical Education, Infectious diseases, AI in clinical research

Additional Responsibilities

Main responsibility

  • Teaching Undergraduate and Postgraduate medical students 

Additional responsibility 

  • Academic coordinator for 2022 Batch (Phase 3 Part 1) MBBS students, overseeing curriculum delivery and clinical training
  • Academic coordinator for 2025 CBME Batch
  • Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) Nodal Officer, Sree Gokulam Medical College and Research Foundation
  • Serve as Nodal Person for Block Innovation Cluster of Nedumangad Block Panchayat, facilitating community health innovations
  • Website coordinator Community Medicine Department
  • Guide for ICMR undergraduate short term studentship program
  • Guide for undergraduate research projects (2022, 2023, 2024 CBME MBBS Batch)
  • Integrated health information platform in charge for Interns

Achievements, Memberships, Awards

  • Life member IAPSM
  • Life member IPHA 
  • Participated in Subnational Certification of progress towards End TB organized by IAPSM, WHO, NIRT & ICMR during 2022 
  • G20 Health Summit - Served as rapporteur for technical sessions on global health priorities

Certifications:

  • Basic Course in Biomedical Research, ICMR
  • Basic Course in Medical Education Training
  • Basic Course in Vector Borne Diseases for Health Professionals (ICMR-NIE)
  • ePost Graduate Program in Health Economics, Health Care Financing and Policy - Public Health Foundation of India
  • Basics of Health Promotion and Education Intervention - NPTEL/IIT Kharagpur
  • One Health - NPTEL/ICMR Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar
  • Health Financing for Universal Coverage – World Health Organization
  • Cross Programmatic Efficiency Analysis – World Health Organization

Publications

Title

Journal / Book


Publication details (Year, Volume, Page No. etc.)

Authorship

1st / 2nd / Other

State /Reg / Nat / Int

Indexed in

Allergic Manifestations to Equine Rabies Immunoglobulin: A Case Report

APCRI Journal

2023, Volume 25, Issue 2 

2nd 

Nat

Index Copernicus

Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Self Medication Among Engineering Students in Trivandrum Corporation in 

ISOR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences

Volume 23, Issue 6 Ser. 10 (June. 2024), PP 25-31

DOI:10.9790/0853-2306102531


Other

Nat

Pubmed

Serotype shift and clinical features of dengue in South Kerala, India: findings from test-negative case-control study

Future virology

Volume 20, 2025 - Issue 6-7

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17460794.2025.2508137

Other

Int

Scopus

Web of science

EMBASE

Adverse Events Following Equine Rabies Immunoglobulin Administration among Category 3 Animal Bite Exposures

Preventive Medicine Research & Reviews

2(3): p 111-113, May–Jun 2025.

DOI: 10.4103/PMRR.PMRR_111_24

Other

Nat

DOAJ

Snehitha Brisk Model: A Context Adapted Breast Cancer Risk- Stratification Tool for Women in the Indian Subcontinent

IARC60 Conference Abstract Book

May 2026

1st

Int


Validation of the Snehitha BRISK Model: Incidence patterns and impact of risk stratified communication in a community cohort

IARC60 Conference Abstract Book

May 2026

2nd

Int


Antibody response following rabies vaccination: a retrospective cohort study from a tertiary centre in Kerala, India

Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 

https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trag055

1st 

Int

PubMed

EMBASE

Scopus


Presentations

Topic

Guest Lec/Oral/Poster

Name of event

Conf/cme/workshop

Venue

Date

Level

Descriptive Analysis of Preventive, Surveillance, Testing, Treatment and Laboratory Guidelines Issued by Government of Kerala on Covid-19

Oral

KERALA HEALTH - MAKING THE SDG A REALITY

Conference

Online

13th and 14th February 2021

Interational

Knowledge and attitude towards leprosy among parents and teachers of students of Government schools of Vakkom Grama Panchayat 

Oral

Amrita International Public Health Conference

Conference

Kochi

3rd Dec 2022

International

Trend of H1N1 Cases in India and Kerala

Poster

Kerala University of Health Sciences


Academic Conference 2023

Conference

Online

March 2023

State

Data Collection by Kobo Toolbox

Lecture

Research Methodology 

Workshop

Sree Gokulam Medical College, Trivandrum

2025

Institutional

Data analysis using Jamovi Software

Lecture

Research Methodology 

Workshop

Sree Gokulam Medical College, Trivandrum

2026

Institutional

Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Research

Resource person

INQUISITE 2026

Workshop

Sree Gokulam Nursing College

2026

Institutional

Research Projects

Project

Completed/ Ongoing

Funded (Y/N)

Collaborated (Y/N)

Published (Y/N)

Serotype shift and clinical features of dengue in South Kerala, India: findings from test-negative case-control study

Completed

Yes, Indian Council of Medical Research-Vector Control Research Centre [Grant No: IM-2221].

Yes, ICMR- Vector Control Research Centre

Yes

Antibody response following rabies vaccination: a retrospective cohort study from a tertiary centre in Kerala, India

Completed

State Board of Medical Research, Kerala (Grant Number: A2/SBMR/(2022-23)/23210/2022/MCT)

Yes, State Institute for Animal Diseases, Palode, Kerala

Yes

Assessment of Knowledge regarding STDs among engineering students in

Thiruvananthapuram district: A cross-sectional study.

Completed

No

No

No

Awareness of sexual and reproductive health among adolescents of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation

Completed

No

No

No

Assessment of the prevalence an awareness of anaemia in pregnant

women in Sree Gokulam Medical College

Completed

No

No

No

Prevalence and impact of migraine on college students in Trivandrum

Ongoing

No

No

No

Insomnia among professional and non-professional collage students

Ongoing

No

No

No

Assessment of PEFR and respiratory morbidity among auto rickshaw drivers in Thiruvananthapuram

Ongoing 

No

No

No