About
KIRAN PAUDEL
Outcome-oriented, diligent public health professional with an ability to work independently or in a team having research experiences in community health program, mental health, covid-19, and non-communicable disease with hand on skills on:
• Scientific research and publication, proposal development and report writing.
• Large database and registries-based research, tool development, data extraction, management and analysis using KoBo Toolbox, Epi Info, Epi data, SPSS and STATA.
EDUCATION
BACHELORS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
JULY 2021
Institute of Medicine(IOM) , Tribhuvan University,
Kathmandu, Nepal
PLUS TWO
May 2016
KATHMANDU MODEL COLLEGE(KMC),
KATHMANDU, NEPAL
EXPERIENCES
Consultant
August 2022– Present
FHI 360, Kathmandu Nepal•
Research Assistant
May 2022– JULY 2022
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, Brisbane, United Kingdom
• Assisted in research tools development and interview for a Ph.D. research project study entitled on
“Anthropogenic and ecological divers of zoonosis spillover from rodents’ bats and dogs in Nepal.”
• Managed, translated, and analyzed it for draft report to principal investigator.
Research Associate
July 2021 – April 2022
Nepal Public Health Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Assisted on data analysis and manuscript writing on the research project titled “Association of pesticide
exposure and pregnancy outcome from a tertiary care hospital in Chitwan district, Nepal. Also helped in
“Research into Policy to pesticide exposure impact on health, a 5-year project Farming Health and
Environment Nepal Project (FHEN) funded by the Civil Society in Development (CISU), Denmark.”
• Provided training to the staff on “SPSS and STATA”
Research Consultant
Jun 2021 – Aug 2021
One Heart World Wide, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Analyzed data and developed findings report
• Conducted interview, cleaning, recoding and data management of Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH)
emergencies help line project in 14 districts of Nepal to assist rural MNH services providers on clinical
decision support system during the COVID-19.
Research Assistant
Dec 2018– Feb 2019
School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• Assisted in interview management for a Ph.D. research project study entitled on “Towards equity of maternal
and newborn health services in Nepal.”
• Translated and transcribed the in depth interviews taken by the principal investigator.
Data Entry Assistant
Dec 2017 – Jan 2018
One Heart World Wide, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Entering all data of maternal and neonatal death in excel provided by Monitoring and Evaluation team by
verifying information/data and given code.
• Prepared the draft report after analysis of entered data
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ARTICLES AND REPORTS
Recent Publications
• Paudel, K., Bhandari, P., & Joshi, Y. P. (2020). Situation analysis of novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) cases in
Nepal. Applied Science and Technology Annals, 1(1), 9–14. https://doi.org/10.3126/asta.v1i1.30267 .
• Paudel K, Adhikari TB, Khanal P, Bhatta R, Paudel R, Bhusal S, et al. (2022) Sleep quality and its correlates among
undergraduate medical students in Nepal: A cross-sectional study. PLOS Glob Public Health 2(2): e0000012.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000012
• Giri LM, Paudel K, Bhusal S, Adhikari TB, Gulis G (2022) Perceived stress, stigma, and social support among Nepali
health care workers during COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional web-based survey. PLOS Glob Public Health 2(5):
e0000458. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000458
• Khanal, P., Devkota, N., Dahal, M. Paudel K et al. Mental health impacts among health workers during COVID-19 in a
low resource setting: a cross-sectional survey from Nepal. Global Health 16, 89 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-
020-00621-z
• Khanal P, Paudel K, Devkota N, Dahal M, Mishra SR, Joshi D (2021) Corona virus fear among health workers during the
early phase of pandemic response in Nepal: A web-based cross-sectional study. PLOS Glob Public Health 1(12):
e0000083. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000083
• Mehata N, Shah S, Paudel K, Chamlagain R, et al. (2022) Safety and Efficacy of Corona Virus Disease-19 Vaccines in
Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Under Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review.
https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.700
•Bhusal S, Paudel R, Gaihre M, Paudel K, Adhikari TB, Pradhan PMS (2021) Health literacy and associated factors among
undergraduates: A university-based cross-sectional study in Nepal. PLOS Glob Public Health 1(11): e0000016.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000016
• Acharya P, Koirala S, Soti PB, Sharma S, Sapkota A, Kafle S, Paudel K, et al. (2021) Hypertension, awareness, treatment,
and control in Nepal: Results from May Measurement Month 2020 blood pressure screening. American Heart Association
2021;78:AP125 https://doi.org/10.1161/hyp.78.suppl_1.P125
• Bhatta D K, Budhathoki K, Paudel K, Paudel S, Marhatta SB, et al. (2022) The burden of depressive and anxiety
disorders in Nepal, 1990-2017; an analysis of global burden of disease data. Journal of Karnali Academy of Health
Sciences 5(13): https://jkahs.org.np/jkahs/index.php/jkahs/article/view/670
• Paudel K, Adhikari TB, Basel P (2021) Magnitude of sleep quality and factors associated among undergraduate medical
students in Nepal; cross sectional study. Respirology; 26:S3;p407;https://doi.org/10.1111/resp.14150_810
• Nishant Bhurtyal, Paudel K, Sangam Shah, Sandip Paudel, Mukunda Prasad Kafle, Dibya Singh Shah,et.al.
Anxiety and depression among living kidney donors in tertiary care hospital of low resource country setting Nepal,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104119
• Birendra Chand , Sandesh Bhusal , Pranil Man Singh Pradhan , Kiran Paudel , Nisha Adhikari, Tara Ballav Adhikari, Sushan Man Shrestha , et.al Tobacco Use and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduate Public Health Students in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1495779
• Aryal, B., Ranabhat,K., Paudel K, K., Kalauni, B. R., Shrestha, S., Adhikari, D. R., Karki, A. R., & Bhattarai, A. ET al. Knowledge and Perception of COVID-19 Pandemic during the First Wave: a Cross-Sectional Study among Nepalese Healthcare Workers. Tribhuvan University Journal of Microbiology, 8(1), 10–17.
https://doi.org/10.3126/tujm.v8i1.41192
• Zheng, Q., Jones, F.K., Leavitt, S.V. et al. HIT-COVID, a global database tracking public health interventions to COVID19. Sci Data 7, 286 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00610-2
• Kamal Ranabhat, Anil Bhattarai, Bhuvan Saud, Paudel K, et al. Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding COVID-19
infection among chronic disease patients visiting tertiary hospitals of Nepal: a cross-sectional study, 09 May 2022,
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1615003/v1 (Under review: BMC)
• Adhikari TB, Paudel K, Paudel R, Bhusal S, et al. The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in Nepal, 1990-2019: an
analysis of the global burden of diseases study. (Under Review: Health Science Reports)
• Ghimire U, Yasmin S, Timalsena BK, Chand S, Thapa S, Paudel K, Shah S, et al. Cardiovascular disease risk factors
distribution and clustering across different geographic levels in Nepal.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23787
• Rijal D, Paudel K, Adhikari TB, et al. Stress and coping strategies among higher secondary and undergraduate students
during COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal. (Under Review: PLOS Global Public Health)
• Kalauni BR, Joshi Y, Paudel K, et al. Stress, anxiety and depression among the undergraduate health sciences students
during COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal (Under Review: PLOS Global Public Health)
My Affiliations
NCD WATCH
NEPAL
“Making NCDs a National Priority”
NCDWatch Nepal is an initiative to promote evidence-informed policymaking and promote public awareness on non-communicable disease (#NCDs) and related issues in Nepal.
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CO-FOUNDER
NEPAL HEALTH FRONTIERS
“One step ahead for Nepalese Health”
We are a not-for-profit organization working in the sector of health research, programs, and social development.
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FOUNDER
HEALTHY LUNGS NEPAL
“Breathe clean air”
A national campaign all in all about #LungHealth related activities, policies and research in Nepal.
Email: [email protected]
FOUNDER
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