D Praveen

About Dr D Praveen

Global Strategic Priority Lead - Better Care & Director Primary Health Care

  • Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney
  • MBBS,
  • MD,
  • PhD

Dr. Praveen is a public health specialist with thorough knowledge of epidemiological study designs and having a keen interest in systems based innovations to address inequities related to chronic diseases. 

His research experience is related to planning and managing large scale public health research projects and surveys. He is currently leading the SMARThealth program in India and Indonesia that aims to bridge the implementation gap in blood pressure control for individuals with high risk of cardiovascular diseases using technology and task-sharing.

He is the Director of the primary healthcare research at The George Institute India, based in Hyderabad. He has been awarded the competitive Australian Leadership Awards Scholarship in 2012 to pursue his PhD in the University of Sydney. His current focus is on health systems and in understanding the system level barriers to address health system delivery.

Does integration matter? an international cross-sectional study on the relationship between perceived public health and primary care integration and COVID-19 vaccination rates

PLOS ONE Date published:

Using primary and routinely collected data to determine prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity in rural China: a representative cross-sectional study of 6474 Chinese adults

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific Date published:

Mobile health (mHealth) interventions for health promotion during the perinatal period in India: a scoping review

Frontiers in Global Women's Health Date published:

Design and development of a mobile health intervention for rehabilitation support after knee arthroplasty: TeleRehabilitation after knee ArThroplasty (TReAT) project

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders Date published:

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