Dr Wadhwa trained as a paediatrician and transitioned to become a physician-scientist. She has been doing clinical research for almost two decades and leads her research programme at THSTI. Her pediatric training has steered her research focus towards hypothesis driven studies addressing knowledge gaps in the domain of maternal and child health. Her primary research interest is in evaluating interventions to improve early life morbidity and mortality. She has built and led multisite, multidisciplinary research teams that are capable of performing research to the most exacting standards of good clinical and ethical practices and to use risk and decision science for clinical medicine and public health. Her core expertise design, conduct and analysis of hypothesis driven multicentre hospital based clinical studies and to use risk and decision science for clinical medicine and public health. She has co-established one of the largest pregnancy cohorts in Southeast Asia (GARBH-Ini) with an aim to develop a multidimensional risk prediction algorithm to identify women at high risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth. She has also established a large birth cohort of babies born to the GARBH-Ini women and is following up the different birth phenotypes to evaluate growth and neurodevelopment upto 2 years of age. Additionally, the PI has designed and coordinated several large multicentre RCTs to evaluate interventions for reducing early life morbidity and mortality that will have a quick impact on improving childhood outcomes. The PI has experience of conducting a neurodevelopment follow-up study of small babies enrolled within an RCT. These babies were followed up for a comprehensive neurodevelopmental assessment up to 2 years of age.
Gurgaon, India
Senior Professor
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India