Ansuya

Ansuya serves as Assistant Professor - Selection Grade in the Department of Community Health Nursing at Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Her research focuses on critical public health issues affecting vulnerable populations in Southern India.

Her primary research interests include:

• Maternal and child health interventions in resource-limited settings
• Nutritional rehabilitation for malnourished preschool children
• Reproductive health access in urban slums
• Community-based health worker training programs
• Intergenerational childcare dynamics

Her work demonstrates strong methodological expertise in survey design, randomized controlled trials, and community-based participatory research.

Her publication trends reveal consistent focus on underserved populations, particularly women and children in Karnataka's slum communities. Research spans nutritional interventions, contraceptive access barriers, breastfeeding promotion, and psychosocial aspects of childcare, showing increasing engagement with high-impact journals since 2017.

Her work has garnered significant attention with 169 Mendeley readers, coverage in 9 news outlets, and mentions by 8 X users, though formal scientific awards aren't documented in available materials.

She actively collaborates with researchers including Nayak, Unnikrishnan, Shashidhara, Mundkur, Sowmya, and Vinish on community health initiatives. Her research outputs show steady productivity with 11 publications between 2017-2023, including impactful work in Scientific Reports and Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health.