Dr Dipesh Tamrakar is general secretary of Nepalese Society of Community Medicine and assistant professor at Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences. He has graduated in Community Medicine and Tropical Diseases from BPKIHS. Besides academics, he is actively involved in infectious diseases research and program. He is currently leading the multi-site multi country epidemiological, serological and environement surveillance of enteric fever in Nepal which try to understand burden, antibiotics resistent, cost of illness of enteric fever disease as well as try to validate low cost serological test to detect enteric fever. He has sucesfuly completed phase III clinical trail of Vi-DT conjugated typhoid vaccine as principal investigator. He is currently leading phase III clinical trail of SCB 2019 COVID 19 vaccine trail as well as Oral Cholera Vaccine at Dhulikhel Hospital.
Relevant Publication
Dipesh Tamrakar, Krista Vaidya, Alexander T Yu, Kristen Aiemjoy, Shiva Ram Naga, Yanjia Cao, Caryn Bern, Rajeev Shrestha, Biraj M Karmacharya, Sailesh Pradhan, Farah Naz Qamar, Samir Saha, Kashmira Date, Ashley T Longley, Caitlin Hemlock, Stephen Luby, Denise O Garrett, Isaac I Bogoch, Jason R Andrews, Spatial Heterogeneity of Enteric Fever in 2 Diverse Communities in Nepal, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 71, Issue Supplement_3, 1 November 2020, Pages S205–S213, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1319
Tamrakar D, Shrestha A, Karmacharya BM, Rai A, Malik V, Mattei J, and Spiegelman D. Drivers of Healthy Eating in a Workplace in Nepal: A Qualitative Study BMJ Open 2020 (accepted)
Andrews JR, Vaidya K, Bern C, Tamrakar D, Wen S, Madhup S, Shrestha R, Karmacharya B, Amatya B, Koju R, Adhikari SR. High Rates of Enteric Fever Diagnosis and Lower Burden of Culture-Confirmed Disease in Peri-urban and Rural Nepal. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2017 Jul 28.
Poudyal N, Shrestha L, Pandit T, Tamrakar D, Yadav DK, Lamsal M,Khanal B. Jaundice Outbreak in Biratnagar Municipality of Eastern Nepal: A Microbiological perspective. International Journal of Biomedical Research (IJBR) 2017: 08 (11)
Tamrakar D, Paudel I, Adhikary S, Rauniyar B, Pokharel P. Risk factors for gallbladder cancer in Nepal a case control study. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2016;17(7):3447-53.
Gautam S, Jha P, Khanal B, Tamrakar D, Yadav DK. Cholera: Small outbreak in winter season of Eastern Nepal. North American journal of medical sciences. 2012 Dec;4(12):657.