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Sylvia Jayakumar

Summary

Multi-tasking statistical Consultant well-known for successfully taking projects from beginning stages to
completion.

Commended for consistently
meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions to satisfy customer needs.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Proprietor

STATS HUB
06.2017 - Current

I am the proprietor of this consulting firm which
was registered under Indian law in the year 2018.
Sample selection and sample size calculation
Training the survey personnel and subsequent
follow-up
Review meetings on the progress of the data
collection
Data management includes data entry, data
cleaning, data analysis, syntax writing and
presentation
Data presentation and manuscript preparation
Member of the scientific committees and ethics
committee includes screening study proposals,
preparing agenda for the institutional ethics
committee.

Consultant

SURGO FOUNDATION
11.2015 - 06.2016

Field visits and periodic meeting and discussions
with both national and international research teams
on the study progress
Annotating, Compilation community based
tracking survey round 1 datasets on maternal
deaths in Uttar Pradesh, India
Data management, analysis, writing syntax,

Consultant

Bills And Melinda Gates Foundation
06.2010 - 06.2015

Annotating, Compilation and integrating of large datasets like parent-child HIV transmission (PPTCT),
Integrated-counselling and testing centre(ICTC), HIV sentinel surveillance (HSS) datasets
Statistical software was used for writing codes to analyse the final data
Data trend analysis for all data sets for HIV high priority states and presentation
Collating country-wise data for data analysis on Male circumcision in Africa
Country wise data analysis, syntax writing and data presentations.

Bio Statistician

Research Resource Center, The Leprosy Mission Trust India
04.2006 - 01.2008

Responsible as an interface between the research team and the software team in the
physician coding process, trouble shoots , updating physician details in the application and
reassignments
Periodic discussions with the team of researchers on the questionnaire development and manual
preparation with revisions
Training survey personnel for data collection using hand-held device
Developing structure for data entry using Epi-info software
Monitoring data collection and transmission using web based system process in the field
Data management that includes consistency checks and other quality control measures necessary for
the final data analysis, data presentation and interpretation

Associate Research Officer

Institute Of Population Health & Clinical Research
Vellore
07.2004 - 03.2006

Implementing research, training medical records personnel to enter data in The Leprosy Mission
Hospitals

Developing tools for data that was collected in the Leprosy hospitals
Data management – Identifying patient records, Data entry using Epiinfo software, correcting data
errors, looking into data duplication , data quality checks

Data analysis and presentation with research collaborators

Associate Researcher

Christian Medical College
08.2001 - 06.2004

Preparing database documentation – Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Data Dictionary
Preparing data collection instruments & constrain sheet for data capture
Data Management - Monitoring data collection forms to check for errors (quality checks), Tracking study
progress and issuing periodic reports
Syntax writing and Analysing the data using statistical techniques and data presentation

Education

Master of Science - Bio Statistics

University of Madras
Christian Medical College
04.2001

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University of Madras
The Ethiraj College Of Women
04.1998

Skills

  • Business Planning
  • Process Optimization
  • Reports and Documentation
  • Resource Evaluation
  • Subject Matter Expert
  • Data Management and
    Analysis

Accomplishments

    PUBLICATIONS

    Mohanraj R, Kumar S, Jayakumar S et al. Where do mothers take their children for pneumonia care?
    Findings from three Indian states. PLoS ONE 14(4), 2019.

    Fiona K. Lau, Jayakumar S, Sema K. Sgaier. Understanding the socio-economic and sexual behavioural
    correlates of male circumcision across eleven voluntary medical male circumcision priority countries in
    southeastern Africa BMC Public Health. 2015 Aug 22;15:813


    Sema K. Sgaier, Radhay S.Gupta, Raghuram Rao, Ajay Gaikwad, Sonali Harangule, Suvidha
    Dhamne,Sateesh Gowda, Jayakumar S, Banadakoppa M. Ramesh. Prevention of Parent to Child

    Transmission (PPTCT) programme data in India: an emerging data set for appraising the HIV epidemic.
    PLoS ONE 7(11) 2012.


    S K Sgaier, P Mony, Jayakumar S et al. Prevalence and Correlates of Herpes Simplex Virus-2 and
    Syphilis infections in the general population in India. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2011;87:94-100.

Workshops / Short courses completed

Bayesian Computation, St.John’s Bangalore 2018
Geographic Information System (GIS) Workshop for public practitioners/research investigators 2017
Using Geographic Information Systems in disease control programs (GIS), University of Twente and KIT, Netherlands
2015
Advanced Certificate Course in Geoinformatics, CED, Trivandrum 2010
Bayesian Computations using OpenBUGS and R software, Vellore 2010
Hidden Markov Chain Models, Chrisian Medical College, Vellore 2010
Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Disease in collaboration with University of South Wales at Infectious Disease and
Training Centre, Christian Medical College, Vellore 2009
Short Course in Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore 2002 – 2004
Generalized Estimating Equations & Multi-level Modelling, Vellore 2003
Design and Analyses of Cluster- based studies in Health Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore 2002
Methodological Issues in Infectious Disease Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore 2001
Multi centric studies, Christian Medical College, Vellore 2000
Meta- Analyses, Christian Medical College, Vellore 1999

Timeline

Proprietor

STATS HUB
06.2017 - Current

Consultant

SURGO FOUNDATION
11.2015 - 06.2016

Consultant

Bills And Melinda Gates Foundation
06.2010 - 06.2015

Bio Statistician

Research Resource Center, The Leprosy Mission Trust India
04.2006 - 01.2008

Associate Research Officer

Institute Of Population Health & Clinical Research
07.2004 - 03.2006

Associate Researcher

Christian Medical College
08.2001 - 06.2004

Master of Science - Bio Statistics

University of Madras

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

University of Madras
Sylvia Jayakumar