Associate Professor
Gandaki Medical College, Nepal
My name is Dr. Sabita Paudel. I am an associate professsor in the Department of Clinical pharmacology at Gandaki Medical College-Teaching Hospital affiliated to Tribhuwan University, Pokhara, Nepal. My job duties are teaching-learning activities to undergraduate and graduate students and conducting research in relevant fields. I am currently working on descriptive health services research and analytical studies. Our qualitative study on the impact of asthma where I am the principal investigator is submitted to the journal and is under peer review. Our research paper entitled ‘Risk Perception and Hesitancy Toward COVID-19 Vaccination Among Healthcare Workers and Staff at a Medical College in Nepal’ was recently published (June 2021) in the journal; Risk Management and Healthcare Policy which has received good citations in a short time. I desired to gain some insight into experimental pharmacology and worked on the study to explore behavioral neurotoxicity and histopathological changes in the organs of albino rats. This study exposed me to the experimental aspects and the approaches to it. The research on the cost-effectiveness of antihypertensives funded by the University Grants Commission of Nepal was completed by us (myself as the PI) and the manuscript is under peer review for publication in the Journal of Nepal Health Research Council. As a co-investigator, I am currently involved in the study of patient-physician communication on traditional and complementary medicine use among pregnant women in developing countries which is our collaborative work with South Korean Researchers. I am the research coordinator of the study investigating perinatal deaths through the Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling (MITS) technique, supported by MITS Surveillance Alliance under RTI International, through the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. In this multicentric collaborative research, my duties are to coordinate trainings, data management and lead the team in forming various guidelines, standard operating procedures, etc.