
Overview
Public health research is characterized by its multidisciplinary approach. In its research and administration, it makes use of a variety of fields, particularly epidemiology, biostatistics, the physical and social sciences as they relate to health, biology, genetics, and toxicology. Depending on the nature and scope of the study, it typically requires analyzing data from population samples on a range of scales.
Our Key Research Works
Academic Research: | |
Topic of Ph. D: | Dr. Kabilan Annadurai A study of information flow on sexually transmitted infections treatment – seeking behavioramong female sex workers in Chennai district: a social network approach |
Collaborative Research: | |
Topic: | Dr. Kabilan Annadurai
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Research Outcomes: | |
List of Publications: | Dr. Kabilan Annadurai
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Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | Comprehensive Tribal TB Management program for decentralized TB care services |
Name of PI: | Prof.K.R. John |
Name of Co-PI: | Dr.Kabilan Annadurai |
Duration: | Two Years |
Amount: | Seventy lakhs |
Name of the Funding agency: | ICMR |
Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | Cross-sectional study on Unintentional Childhood Injuries in Chittoor district |
Name of PI: | Prof.K.R. John |
Name of Co-PI: | Dr.Kabilan Annadurai |
Duration: | Two Years |
Amount: | Thirty lakhs |
Name of the Funding agency: | ICMR |
Collaborative Research: | |
Topic: | Dr. Kabilan Annadurai
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Research Outcomes: | |
List of Publications: | Dr. Kabilan Annadurai
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Academic Research: | Dr. S. Bhaskar Naidu |
Topic of PhD: | A Phenomenological study of stress and coping in clinical and non-clinical groups. |
Topic of Ph.D awarded: | Comparative study of stress and coping between rural and urban 12 students |
Research Outcomes: | Dr. S. Bhaskar Naidu |
No. of PhDs awarded: | 01 |
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Academic Research: | |
Topic of PhD: | Dr. Vandana Kaja A Comparative Study of Psycho-Physical Health of Families of Married Employed and Unemployed Women |
Collaborative Research | Dr. Vandana Kaja |
Topic: | Family and welfare of India Mother and child healthcare |
Duration: | Two years |
Name of the Collaborator: | IIHMR Jaipur |
Research Outcomes: | Dr. Vandana Kaja |
No. of PhDs awarded: | 01 |
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Collaborative Research Projects: | Dr. Vandana Kaja |
Title: | The well-being of renal failure patients Study of subjective well-being on patients undergoing dialysis treatment and relaxation. |
Duration: | 2008-2015 |
Research Outcomes: | Dr. Vandana Kaja |
List of Publications: | Patients wear relaxed and come for the dialysis on their need base. |
Academic Research: | |
Topic of Ph.D awarded: | Dr. S. Bhaskar Naidu Perceptive of mental health across life span |
Research Outcomes: | Dr. S. Bhaskar Naidu |
No. of PhDs awarded: | 01 |
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Research Outcomes: | Dr. Vandana Kaja |
No. of PhDs awarded: | 01 |
List of Publications: |
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Academic Research: | |
Topic of PhD Awarded: | Design and Development of artificial niche to expand fetal cells isolated from maternal circulation |
Name of the Guide: | Prof. Rentala Satyanarayana |
Academic Research: | |
Topic of PhD Awarded: | Development of an artificial niche to study drug resistant prostate cancer stem cells medicated tumor angiogenesis |
Name of the Guide: | Prof. Rentala Satyanarayana |
Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | Development of a three-dimensional culture system to produce meat from chicken satellite cells (DSTProject:SERB/MOFPI/0048/2013) |
Name of the PI: | Prof Rentala Satyanarayana |
Duration: | Three years |
Amount: | Rs.30,00,000 |
Name of the Funding Agency: | Ministry of Food Processing Industries–Department of Science and Technology(DST), GovtofIndia |
Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | Prevalence estimation of chronic kidney disease in Supebedapanchayat of Chhattisgarh (ICMR Project F. No. 5/4/7-2/TF/2017-NCD-II,dated26.06.2018) |
Name of the PI: | Prof T. Ravi Raju |
Name of the CO-PI: | Prof Rentala Satyanarayana |
Duration: | Three years |
Amount: | Rs.49,81,500 |
Name of the Funding Agency: | IndianCouncilforMedicalResearch, GovtofIndia |
Collaborative Research Projects | |
Title: | Design and development of three-dimensional culture systems forfetal cells in maternal circulation (DST Project F. No. SR/SO/HS-225/2012) |
Name of the PI: | Prof Rentala Satyanarayana and Prof Aruna Lakshmi Komarraju |
Name of the CO-PI: | Prof Radha Tatapudi |
Duration: | Three years |
Amount: | Rs.46,90,000 |
Name of the Collaborator: | AndhraMedicalCollege, Visakhapatnam |
Research Outcomes: | Prof Rentala Satyanarayana |
No. of Ph. Ds awarded: | 02 |
List of Publications: |
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List of Patents: | Prof Rentala Satyanarayana
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Academic Research: | |
Topic of PhD Awarded: | Studies on the expression of Chemokinesin Prostate Cancer Stem Cells |
Name of the Guide: | Prof Rentala Satyanarayana |
Academic Research: | |
Topic of PhD Awarded: | Development of Piperine conjugates to increase the bioavailability of vitamin A |
Name of the Guide: | Prof. Rentala Satyanarayana |
Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | Role of matrix metallo proteinases and chemokines in prostate cancerstem cells mediated metastasis (F. No. SB/FTP/ETA-0234/2013 dated15thJanuary2014) |
Name of the PI: | Prof Rentala Satyanarayana |
Duration: | Three years |
Amount: | Rs.25,20,000(UnderYoungScientistscheme) |
Name of the Funding Agency: | ScienceandEngineering Research Board, Department of ScienceandTechnology, GovtofIndia |
Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | BioavailabilityenhancementstudiesofvitaminAconjugatedwithpiperine(UGC Project42-221/2013(SR)dated5thMarch2013 |
Name of the PI: | Prof Rentala Satyanarayana |
Duration: | Three years |
Amount: | Rs.10,00,800 |
Name of the Funding Agency: | UniversityGrants Commission, GovtofIndia |
Collaborative Research Projects | |
Title: | Alongitudinalstudyofriskfactorsassociatedwith declineineGFRinPrakashamdistrict,AndhraPradesh,India (ICMRProjectF.No.5/4/7-1/TF/2018-NCD-II,dated25.09.2018) |
Name of the PI: | Prof. T. Ravi Raju |
Name of the CO-PI: | Prof. Rentala Satyanarayana |
Duration: | Three years |
Amount: | Rs.61,22,438 |
Name of the Collaborator: | NationalInstituteofEpidemiology, TamilNadu |
Research Outcomes: | Prof Rentala Satyanarayana |
No. of Ph. Ds awarded: | 03 |
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List of Patents: | Prof. Rentala Satyanarayana
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Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | “ComputationalSimulationsofMatterwaveinterferometryusingBose-Einstein Condensation” |
Name of the PI: | Dr. G Gopi Krishna |
Duration: | April2005toApril2008 |
Name of the Funding Agency: | CoE fundingfor Young Researcher. 21st COE program”Innovation in Coherent Optical Science” And University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan |
Research Outcomes: | |
List of Publications: | Dr.G Gopi Krishna
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Academic Research: | |
Topic of PhD Awarded: | Post – Doctoral Fellowship Sponsored by TIFR Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana |
Name of the Guide: | Dr.GGopiKrishna |
Academic Research: | VisitingFaculty/Scientist at IISER Berhampur, May 2020 to May 2021 |
ResearchOutcomes: | Dr.G Gopi Krishna Open-source software
➢ AutomateddataentryintoICMRwebsitesforreporting.
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Academic Research: | Visiting Faculty/ Scientist at IISER Berhampur, Odisha, during December 2018 to April 2022 |
Research Outcomes: | |
List of Publications: | Dr. G GopiKrishna
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Overview
We committed towards inculcate knowledge to the students to transform the lives through the contribution towards research in and across different fields through grants, academic projects, publications, consultancy etc.,
The Healthcare Technology at The Apollo University deals with the technolgies, including medical systems, algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and blockchain, designed to support healthcare organizations. Our technologies help to improve patient care and experiences, system design and development and real-time information exchange.
Our innovations help the industries to:
- Facilitate models evolving from quantity-based, patient-centric and value-based care systems
- Deal with Clinical Technologies for more centralized and connected enterprise solutions
- Service Clinical devices connected with increasingly automatic data integration
Collaborate communication tools and real-time location sensing devices uniting clinical and life science networks
Developing data centric algorithms and automation products for interdisciplinary research.
Our Key Research Works
Academic Research: |
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Topic of PhD Awarded: |
“An Optimal Load Balancing and Replication Control Techniques for |
Name of the Guide: |
Dr. C. Sunil Kumar |
Research Outcomes: |
Dr. C. Sunil Kumar |
No. of Ph.Ds awarded: |
01 |
List of Publications: |
“An Effective Traffic Monitoring and Analysis in the Cloud |
Sponsored Research Projects |
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Title: |
“Energy and QoS Management in Cloud Computing Environment” (SR/WOS-A/ET-1076/2015). |
Name of the PI: |
Dr. G. B. Hima Bindu |
Duration: |
Three Years (29 th August 2016 to 28 th August 2019) |
Amount: |
19.85L |
Name of the Funding Agency: |
DST WOS – A |
Research Outcomes: |
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List of Publications: |
Dr. G. B. Hima Bindu
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Academic Research: | |
Topic of PhD Awarded: | “Novel Reusable Software Components for Fault Tolerant Architecture (Software Engineering)” |
Name of the Guide: | Dr. C. Sunil Kumar |
Research Outcomes: | Dr. C. Sunil Kumar |
No. of Ph.Ds awarded: | 01 |
List of Publications: | 1. “Novel Reusable software components for fault-tolerant architecture”, Published in InternationalJournal of Advanced Science & Technology (IJAST), ISSN: 2005-4238, Volume: 28 Issue: 9; Dec 2019; Page No: 137-142. |
Academic Research: | Dr. K. R. Sekhar |
Topic of PhD Awarded: | Numerical Study of heat and mass transfer Characteristics in some conducting Nanofluid flows- A Numerical Study |
Research Outcomes: | Dr. K. R. Sekhar |
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List of Conferences: | Dr. K. R. Sekhar
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Academic Research: | |
Topic of PhD Awarded: | Design and Development of artificial niche to expand fetal cells isolated from maternal circulation |
Name of the Guide: | Dr. Hima Bindu |
Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | Development of a three-dimensional culture system to produce meat from chicken satellite cells (DSTProject:SERB/MOFPI/0048/2013) |
Duration: | Three years |
Amount: | Rs.30,00,000 |
Name of the Funding Agency: | Ministry of Food Processing Industries–Department of Science and Technology(DST), GovtofIndia |
Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | Prevalence estimation of chronic kidney disease in Supebedapanchayat of Chhattisgarh (ICMR Project F. No. 5/4/7-2/TF/2017-NCD-II,dated26.06.2018) |
Name of the PI: | Dr. Hima Bindu |
Name of the CO-PI: | Dr. Sunil Charupalli Kumar |
Duration: | Three years |
Amount: | Rs.49,81,500 |
Name of the Funding Agency: | IndianCouncilforMedicalResearch, GovtofIndia |
Collaborative Research Projects | |
Title: | Design and development of three-dimensional culture systems forfetal cells in maternal circulation (DST Project F. No. SR/SO/HS-225/2012) |
Name of the PI: | Dr. Hima Bindu and Prof Aruna Lakshmi Komarraju |
Name of the CO-PI: | Dr. Sunil Charupalli Kumar |
Duration: | Three years |
Amount: | Rs.46,90,000 |
Name of the Collaborator: | AndhraMedicalCollege, Visakhapatnam |
List of Patents: | |
Dr C. Sunil Kumar
Dr. G B Hima Bindu
Prof Rentala Satyanarayana
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Overview
The school of management places a strong emphasis on research. Management research contributes to the understanding and improvement of management practices that enhance an organization’s efficiency and effectiveness. The research in healthcare management plays an important role in enhancing the quality of care, patient safety, and improving the delivery of healthcare services. It involves studying various aspects of management within the hospital and healthcare sector.
Research in hospital and healthcare management is of utmost importance for several reasons. Firstly, research in healthcare management helps in addressing complex healthcare challenges and finding innovative solutions. Secondly, it fosters evidence-based decision-making. Thirdly, it also contributes to continuous learning and improvement.
Key Research Areas
Our key areas of research in healthcare management are: Quality Improvement, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Leadership, Patient Safety, HIS, Telemedicine, EHR, Digital health, AI, Hospital Management, Human Resources Management in Healthcare, Healthcare Operations Management, Healthcare Marketing, Healthcare Finance, Managed Care and Health Insurance and Healthcare Delivery Systems and Procedures.
Our Key Research Works
Evaluation of Service Quality Management in Indian Hospitals: A Study of Select Hospitals
Prof. G.V.R.K Acharyulu & Prof. B. Raja Shekhar
Impact of Experiential Learning on the Employability Skills of Management Students
Prof. P. Premchand Babu
Consumer Behavior of Women towards FMCG products: A case study of Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
Prof. N. Appa Rao & Prof. I. Lokananda Reddy

Overview
Currently all the Faculty members in the Department of social work are PhD degree holders and are exposed to field practice in various domains. can be conducted at various levels. Vizmacro, mezzo, and micro levels and includes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches.We can provide data that can be used to inform policy decisions, inform program and practice development, and identify effective interventions. Our research activitiescan also be used to evaluate existing programs and services and to measure their impact.
By conducting research, faculty members in the departmentof social work can contribute to the development of new knowledge in the field and advance the profession. The faculty members will approach the funding agencies for getting funded projects and other institutions for collaborative research projects. Further the faculty members will guide and supervise scholars leading to the award of doctoral degrees as and when university permits.
Our Key Research Works
Academic Research: | |
Topic of Ph. D: | Dr. A. Sethuramasubbiah
“Rehabilitation as a policy strategy towards combating child labour – a study of Transit schools in in Chennai, a metropolitan city in Southern India” (inter-disciplinary research ) |
Academic Research: | |
Topic of Ph. D: | Dr. R. Mahendranath Chowdary
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Education Performance: A Study in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh |
Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | Secret Ballot System to select the Bargaining Agent In Industries |
Name of PI: | Dr.A.Sethuramasubbiah |
Duration: | 15 months |
Amount: | 2. 50 lakhs |
Name of the Funding agency: | Ministry of Labour, Government of India |
Sponsored Research Projects | |
Title: | Create awareness and promote the other Higher Education Institutions in the district towards Swachhta and Sustainability Practices |
Name of PI: | Dr. R. Mahendranath Chowdary |
Duration: | 1 month |
Amount: | Rs. 25,000/- |
Name of the Funding agency: | Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (MGNCRE), MoE, GoI, Hyderabad. |
Collaborative Research Projects | |
Title: | Impact assessment of Transit schools on elimination of child labour in Chennai metropolitan area |
Name of PI: | Dr.A.Sethuramasubbiah |
Duration: | 8 months |
Amount: | 2.00 lakhs |
Name of the Funding agency: | TNSCB, Chennai, Government of Tamilnadu |
Research Outcomes: | Dr.A.Sethuramasubbiah |
No. of Ph. Ds Awarded: | 10 |
List of Publications: |
Dr. R. Mahendranath Chowdary
Book Publications:
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Research Outcomes: | |
List of Publications: | Dr. S. S. Shani
Shani S S (2021). Distress Marriages in Kerala. Making of Distinctions: Towards a Social Science of Inclusive Oppositions. Edited by Antony Palackal, Nandita Chaudhary, Giuseppina Marsico. Information Age Publishing. ISBN-10 :1648023215, ISBN-13 : 978-1648023217. Pp: 195- 210. |
Research Outcomes: | |
List of Publications: | Dr. S. S. Shani
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Research Outcomes: | |
List of Publications: | Dr. S. S. Shani
Shani S S (2016). Experiencing Poverty in India – Case Study. Lexington Books “Spirituality, Culture and Development: Implications for Social Work” (Co -author), ISBN: 978 – 1- 4985 – 1967 -0, October 2016. |