Staff Details




Dr. Divya Sussana Patil is a Public Health researcher trained in evidence synthesis and qualitative research. Her field of interest includes working in ageing research and using different methodologies such as qualitative methods and evidence synthesis through systematic reviews, overviews of systematic reviews, scoping reviews, evidence and gaps maps, and realist reviews. She has over nine years of total work experience in research, which includes two years of teaching and the ongoing PhD. She is currently a Research Fellow and coordinator of the Centre for Evidence-informed Decision-making (formerly known as Public Health Evidence South Asia), Department of Health Information, Prasanna School of Public Health (PSPH), MAHE. She is also pursuing her doctoral research under the EQUIMOB project [funded by Dutch Research Council (NWO)] at the Transdisciplinary Centre for Qualitative Methods, PSPH, MAHE (https://inclusivemobilities.sites.uu.nl/). Her PhD focuses on understanding the inequalities and barriers older adults face while accessing urban mobility infrastructure to avail healthcare services. She has prior experience of working in different public health projects, intervention programs for HIV in Karnataka, teaching and providing consultancy for conducting systematic reviews and other methods of evidence synthesis for interns, post-graduate students and faculty from different institutions

Dr. Edlin Glane Mathias, is working as a Research Fellow at Centre for Evidence-informed Decision-making, currently involved in conducting systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, proposal writing, manuscript preparation, and coordinating other departmental activities. She has completed her BSc (N), MSc (N), MPhil (N) and PhD from MAHE University. Her area of interest is postoperative pain management in children, self-medication, childhood illnesses, research methodology, RCT’s, systematic and scoping reviews. She has clinical experience in the pediatric setting. Earlier she has attended several workshops and presented papers in National and International conferences. Earlier she was working as a Lecturer and has experience in teaching nursing subjects. She is an active member of International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), life member of Trained Nurses Association of India (TNAI) and Association of Pediatric Nurses (APNI). She has published papers in various National and International journals.

Elstin Anbu Raj S is working as Research Fellow at Centre for Evidence-informed Decision-making. He has completed his bachelor’s and master’s in pharmacy and currently pursuing his Ph.D from Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, MAHE, Manipal. He holds significant experience in providing consultations and conducting various forms of evidence synthesis including scoping review, systematic review, and meta-analysis. He has clinical experience in various healthcare settings and has two years of industrial proficiency in Real-World Evidence (RWE) and Health Economic and Outcome Research (HEOR). His research interests lie in economic evaluations, reviews for health technology assessment and in economic modelling and simulations. He is an active member of The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research, The International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and Indian Society of Clinical Research (ISCR). He has co-authored several publications and served as a guest reviewer in the field of medicine and pharmacy.