Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD

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Associate Professor, Health Promotion Sciences
Biography
Purnima Madhivanan is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. She holds joint appointments in the College of Medicine, Bio5 Institute and is a member of the UA Cancer Center. She completed her medical training in India and received a MPH/PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California Berkeley. She completed her postdoctoral training at San Francisco Department of Public Health on Clinical Trials Management. She is currently the Director of the NIH funded Global Health Training Program at UA and serves as a co-PI for the GHES consortium in collaboration with Stanford, Yale and University of California, Berkeley.
Cancer Focus
For the last 20 years, Dr Madhivanan’s research has focused on disadvantaged populations, elucidating the dynamics of poverty, gender and the social & environmental determinants of health, in particular the impact on women and children living in rural communities. Her current research focusses on the intersection of infectious diseases and cancer using -omics technology. Her current work is examining the vaginal and gut microbiome and their role in women's reproductive health and cancer. She serves on the planning committee for the NIH/DMID funded STI-Clinical Trials Network. Dr Madhivanan has conducted several large mixed methods epidemiological studies in the US and internationally.
Selected Publications
Adsul, P., V. Srinivas, S. Gowda, S. Nayaka, R. Pramathesh, K. Chandrappa, A. Khan, P. Jayakrishna, and P. Madhivanan, "A community-based, cross-sectional study of hrHPV DNA self-sampling-based cervical cancer screening in rural Karnataka, India.", Int J Gynaecol Obstet, vol. 146, issue 2, pp. 170-176, 2019 Aug. PMCID: PMC6620767 PMID: 31074835
Taskin, T., G. Ibañez, and P. Madhivanan, "Quality Assessment of a Systematic Review for HIV Infection and Advanced-Stage Cancer.", JAMA Oncol, 2019 Jul 18. PMID: 31318384
Degarege, A., K. Krupp, K. Fennie, V. Srinivas, T. Li, D. P. Stephens, and P. Madhivanan, "An integrative behavior theory derived model to assess factors affecting HPV vaccine acceptance using structural equation modeling.", Vaccine, vol. 37, issue 7, pp. 945-955, 2019 Feb 08. PMCID: PMC6351189 PMID: 30655176
Pierre-Victor, D., D. Stephens, K. Gabbidon, N. Jean-Baptiste, R. Clarke, and P. Madhivanan, "Conversations about sexual activity within Haitian families: implications for HPV vaccine uptake.", Ethn Health, pp. 1-14, 2018 Oct 24. PMID: 30353738
Madhivanan, P., D. Pierre-Victor, S. Mukherjee, P. Bhoite, B. Powell, N. Jean-Baptiste, R. Clarke, T. Avent, and K. Krupp, "Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Sexual Disinhibition in Females: A Systematic Review.", Am J Prev Med, vol. 51, issue 3, pp. 373-83, 2016 09. PMID: 27130864