Staff Profile

Educational Qualification

M.B.B.S

Personal Statement

Growing up in a small Indian town with limited healthcare access, I witnessed my father’s struggle with rheumatic heart disease and developed an early interest in medicine. While others prepared for coaching exams, I spent my afterschool hours assisting my father in his workshop. I went on to study medicine in a government institution, where I gained early clinical exposure and refined my skills through teaching. At the Indian Council of Medical Research, my work contributed to national programs on rotavirus vaccination and tuberculosis. These experiences shaped my passion for evidence-based medicine, infectious diseases, and public health.

Research Focus

• Infectious Diseases

• Evidence Based Medicine

• Public Health

• Tuberculosis

• Molecular Epidemiology

Ongoing projects as Principal investigator

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Significant Publications

1. Surie D, Sathyanarayanan MK, Lavanya J, Smith JP, Shanmugam SK, Tamilzhalagan S, Selvaraj A, Ramesh G, Tripathy S, Khaparde SD, Ho CS, Hall-Eidson PJ, Ranganathan UDK, Selvaraju S, Moonan PK. Long-term follow-up of persons diagnosed with multidrug-resistant TB in Chennai, India, 2013-2020. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2024 Jan 1;28(1):54-56. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.23.0272. PMID: 38178300; PMCID: PMC10859871.
2. Inbaraj LR, Daniel J, Sathya Narayanan MK, Srinivasalu VA, Bhaskar A, Scandrett K, Rajendran P, Kirubakaran R, Shewade HD, Malaisamy M, Padmapriyadarsini C, Takwoingi Y. Truenat MTB assays for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2025 Mar 24;3(3):CD015543. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015543.pub2. PMID: 40122135; PMCID: PMC11930391.
3. Inbaraj LR, Sathya Narayanan MK, Daniel J, Srinivasalu VA, Bhaskar A, Daniel BD, Epsibha T, Scandrett K, Rajendran P, Rose W, Korobitsyn A, Ismail N, Takwoingi Y. Low-complexity manual nucleic acid amplification tests for pulmonary tuberculosis in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2025 Jun 25;6(6):CD015806. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015806.pub2. PMID: 40557818; PMCID: PMC12188635.
4. World Health Organization. (2025). WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 3: diagnosis: web annex B: evidence synthesis and analysis. World Health Organization. https://doi.org/10.2471/B09341. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
5. Tamilzhalagan S, Shanmugam S, Selvaraj A, Suba S, Suganthi C, Moonan PK, Surie D, Sathyanarayanan MK, Gomathi NS, Jayabal L, Sachdeva KS, Selvaraju S, Swaminathan S, Tripathy SP, Hall PJ, Ranganathan UD. Whole-Genome Sequencing to Identify Missed Rifampicin and Isoniazid Resistance Among Tuberculosis Isolates-Chennai, India, 2013-2016. Front Microbiol. 2021 Nov 22;12:720436. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.720436. PMID: 34880835; PMCID: PMC8645853.
6. Tamilzhalagan S, Justin ES, Selvaraj A, Venkateswaran K, Sivakumar AK, Chittibabu S, McLaughlin HP, Moonan PK, Smith JP, Suba S, Sathya Narayanan MK, Ho CS, Kumar N, Tripathy SP, Shanmugam SK, Hall-Eidson PJ, Ranganathan UD. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pyrazinamide resistance-India, 2018-2020. Front Microbiol. 2025 Jan 8;15:1515627. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1515627. PMID: 39845030; PMCID: PMC11750862.
7. Inbaraj LR, Daniel J, Rajendran P, Bhaskar A, Srinivasalu VA, Narayanan MKS, Shewade HD, Kirubakaran R, Scandrett K, Malaisamy M, Takwoingi Y, Padmapriyadarsini C. Truenat MTB assays for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2023 Jan 13;2023(1):CD015543. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015543. PMCID: PMC9837843.
8. Inbaraj LR, Daniel J, Sathya Narayanan MK, Srinivasalu VA, Bhaskar A, Rajendran P, Daniel BD, Epsibha T, Scandrett K, Rose W, Takwoingi Y. TB-LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2023 Sep 7;2023(9):CD015806. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015806. PMCID: PMC10483929.
9. Kannabiran BP, Arthanari J, Bhaskar A, Narayanan MKS, Inbaraj LR. Efficacy & safety of high-dose rifampicin in pulmonary tuberculosis: A systematic review & meta-analysis. Indian J Med Res. 2025 May;161(5):449-460. doi: 10.25259/IJMR_1673_2024. PMID: 40844096.
10. Gopalan N, Newtonraj A, Elizabeth LK, Shanmugam SK, Ranganathan UD, Muniyandi M, Ramraj B, Devaleenal B, Venkataraman A, Nagarajan K, Bethunaickan R, Sathya Narayanan MK, Deka M, Selvaraju S, Santhanakrishnan R, Krishnan R, Chinnaiyan P, Palaniyandi K, Vetrivel U, Jeyakumar SM, Natarajan S, Mathur A. Current challenges and future development of India’s healthcare system towards tuberculosis free India – research evidence and programmatic initiatives. The BRICS Health Journal. 2024.1(1) (1). pp. 35-38.

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