Dr. Abhishek
Panda
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine
Community physician, educator, and researcher working where epidemiology meets everyday clinical care — building the evidence, the teaching, and the tools that public health needs in a tribal district.
About
I teach and practise community medicine at GMCH Sundargarh — a tribal-majority district in western Odisha where the public-health questions are immediate.
Sickle cell disease, vector-borne illness, maternal and child health, and the occupational risks of a mining economy aren't abstractions here; they're the work. My job sits across three tracks — undergraduate teaching under the competency-based (CBME) curriculum, field- and facility-based research, and a growing set of open, web-based tools for medical educators and district programme staff.
Most of what I build starts from a real classroom or clinic problem: a statistic students keep misreading, a coding task that slows down residents, a calculation a colleague needs for a dissertation. I'm trained in community medicine (MD) and applied epidemiology, and I care most about making good public-health practice a little more usable on the ground.
Selected publications
Research
All publications →-
Burden and determinants of hypertension among adults in a tribal block of Sundargarh district, Odisha
Panda A, et al. — Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Non-communicable disease -
Antenatal care utilisation and birth preparedness in rural Odisha: a mixed-methods study
Panda A, Sahoo S, Mishra R — Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Maternal & child health -
Bridging the classroom and the field: a competency-based approach to teaching community medicine
Panda A — Indian Journal of Public Health
Medical education -
Health-seeking behaviour for febrile illness in a tribal community of western Odisha
Panda A, Behera D — BMC Public Health
Health systems
In the classroom & the field
Teaching
Undergraduate community medicine
Lectures, small-group work, and field postings across epidemiology, biostatistics, and the national health programmes — mapped to competency-based outcomes.
Epidemiology & study design
Measures of association, screening-test evaluation, and reading routine health data — taught with district-grounded, worked examples rather than textbook abstractions.
Competency-based education (CBME)
Linking classroom sessions and field experience to defined competencies, alignment matrices, and assessment that actually reflects them.
National health programmes
RMNCAH+N, NTEP, vector-borne disease control and more — taught from policy down to what it looks like at a sub-centre.
Talks & training
As a resource person
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World No Tobacco Day — district observance & awareness competition
Organiser & speaker — GMCH Sundargarh
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HPV vaccination — operational planning, multi-stakeholder session
Resource person — District health programme
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CHO refresher training — Leprosy / NLEP module
Facilitator — Community Health Officers
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Malaria & dengue — sensitisation for private practitioners
Speaker — Vector-borne disease programme
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Biomedical waste management — staff training
Facilitator — GMCH Sundargarh
#CM-APP Series · open tools — free to use
Tools I build
A growing set of single-file web tools for medical educators, residents, and district programme staff — each one started from a real teaching or clinic problem.
Not-Only-p-Value Calculator
A guided 12-test statistical wizard with a full computation engine — for dissertations and manuscripts.
Open → AI toolBiostatistician Chatbot
Reads your Excel or Word file and walks the analysis with you, worksheet by worksheet.
Open → CalculatorR×C p-Value Calculator
Contingency-table testing, including the Fisher–Freeman–Halton exact test, on mobile.
Open → ReferenceICD-10 Coding Assistant
WHO ICD-10 lookup and coding help built for faculty and residents.
Open → EducationPSM Quiz Arena
Gamified, AI-generated MCQ practice across community-medicine topics.
Open → MCHChild–Mother App
The MCP card, digitised: WHO growth curves, the immunisation schedule, and developmental milestones.
Open →From the notebook
Writing
All posts →How to read routine health data without fooling yourself
Routine health information systems are powerful — and easy to misread. A short guide for students on what these numbers actually mean.
Why community medicine belongs in every clinic
A short note for clinicians on why the population perspective matters even in one-on-one care.
NCD screening in rural Odisha — what we're learning
Notes from operationalising population-based NCD screening through sub-centres and Health & Wellness Centres in Sundargarh.
Contact
Happy to talk research, teaching, or anything in public health.
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