Assistant Professor of Research
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI
Dr. Preshit Nemdas Ambade
Thank you so much for visiting my website. I am a public health professional with physician training in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery. I currently work as an Assistant Professor of Research at Covenant HealthCare College of Medicine at Central Michigan University. I completed my doctoral degree (DrPH) in the Public Health Policy and Management Program from the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health (MEZCOPH), the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. I am also a professional member of the Public Health Academy of National Academies of Practice (NAP).
I have completed postdoctoral training at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada and Augusta University in the USA, focusing on various health policy topics. Before moving to North America, I served as a “Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow,” appointed by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, to work in one of the country’s development-deficient areas. With extensive academic and non-academic experience in health policy and expertise in applied econometrics, primary and secondary data analysis, and program and economic evaluations, my current research focuses on workplace mental health and well-being, aging-related health policies, healthcare financing models, and global health. I have published my research articles on these topics in several reputed public health journals.
I am a freelance writer and blogger who frequently writes for newspapers and web portals on various public health issues. I enjoy photography and long-distance running in my free time.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing
My current research focus is on workplace mental and health wellbeing.
2015 - 2020
University of Arizona
Doctor of Public Health(DrPH)
Economic and Program evaluations in healthcare
I am particularly interested in economic evaluations of health programs using pharmacoeconomic and econometric research methods.
Healthcare financing and accessibility
My primary research focus is on healthcare financing and related disparities.
2017 - 2018
University of Arizona
Certificate in College Teaching
2003 - 2009
Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, India
Bachelor of Ayruved Medicine & Surgery
2010 - 2012
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Master in Health Administration
Global health
I am interested in understanding healthcare financing mechanisms used in different countries.
Daily Power Consumption in India during the COVID-19 period
This project aims to visualize the power consumption pattern in India during the COVID-19 outbreak. I used the dataset collected by Twinkle Khanna and her colleague. This data set is available for download on Kaggle.com with the name: Covid effect on Power consumption in India.
For data visualization, I followed Kelsey Gonzalez's tutorial on animating ggplots in R. Other useful webpages for animations and plotting maps using ggplot2 are by Michelle Evans and Timo Grossenbacher.
Note: In the above graph, the red, green, yellow, and black lines are respective dates for the beginning of lockdown-1, end of lockdown-1, end of lockdown-2, and end of lockdown-3.
AWARDS AND HONORS
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Winner of the 2023 Nobuo Maeda Global Health Award from the Aging in Public
Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA)
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Winner of the 2023 Travel Scholarship award for best abstract in the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA)
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Received Second Place Scholarship Award for poster presentation in 2019 Public Health Poster Forum at the College of Public Health, University of Arizona
My Non-Professional Interests
I am a traveler and amateur guitar player outside my professional work. I like to visit places and understand local culture. I recently added photography to my hobbies' list. It perfectly complements my passion for traveling and creating memories out of it. I am slowly cultivating my photography skills and wish to take it to the professional level. You can visit my photographic work on my page at the link below.