Dr. (Mrs.) Madhusmita Bal

Address(O):

Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, ODISHA (INDIA) 751023

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Telephone no:

06742301322

Fax no:

06742301351

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Email Id:

bal.madhusmita@icmr.gov.in

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Educational Qualifications:

M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D

About Profile:

Research Interests :     Molecular Epidemiology and Public health

Educational Qualification (UG onwards):

• Graduation in Science from Utkal University in the year 1988.
• Post graduation in Botany (Biochemistry) from Utkal University in the year 1990.
• Phil in Botany (Biochemistry) from Utkal University in the year 1992.
• PhD in Life Science from Utkal University in the year 1998.

Professional experience:

Projects being handled as PI/Co-PI/Co-I:

Publications in the last 5 years:

1. Dixit S, Das A, Samal P, Sandeepta S, Panigrahi SS, Jain HK, Biswas S, Suar M, Pati S, Ranjit M, Bal M. Inflammatory Cytokines in Association With High Fetal Hemoglobin Level Reduce the Episodes of Vaso-Occlusive Crisis in Sickle Cell Patients. J Hematol. 2025 Jun;14(3):124-132. doi: 10.14740/jh1353. Epub 2025 Apr 14. PMID: 40501516; PMCID: PMC12151094
2. Surti, S.B., Patel, S., Sharma, Y. et al. Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Reliability and Validity of MOS Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) in Sickle Cell Disease Patients in India. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus 42, 441–448 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12288-025-01992-2
3. Biswas, Subhojeet; Rana, Ramakanta; Bal, Madhusmita1,✉; Pati, Sanghamitra1; Suar, Mrutyunjay2; Ranjit, Manoranjan1,✉. Escherichia coli associated urinary tract infection: Epidemiology and possible strategies for control. One Health Bulletin 5(2):p 51-57, June 2025. | DOI: 10.4103/ohbl.ohbl_56_24
4. Shaily B. Surti, Shubhangi Patel, Yogita Sharma, Parikipandla Sridevi, Deepa Bhat, Jatin Sarmah, Manoranjan Ranjit, Madhusmita Bal, Bontha V. Babu,Primary healthcare utilization patterns among sickle cell disease patients in tribal India: A multi-centric study,Journal of the National Medical Association,Volume 117, Issue 3,2025,Pages 158-169,ISSN 0027-9684, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2025.04.004.
5. Babu BV, Sharma Y, Sridevi P, Bhat D, Surti SB, Sarmah J, Bal M, Ranjit M, Jena RK. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-Sickle cell disease (SCD) Stigma Scale for India (ISSSI): development and psychometrics. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2025 May 21;37:100603. doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.100603. PMID: 40496143; PMCID: PMC12149447.
6. Khuntia HK, Manna P, Barik DK, Biswas S, Bramha PK, Pati S, Ranjit M, Bal M and Kerketta AS (2025) High prevalence of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains in hospitalized diarrhea patients: a preliminary study from a cholera-endemic area in India (2022). Front. Microbiol. 16:1470783. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1470783
7. Ghosal, J., Nanda, A., Behera, P. et al. Coverage of continuum of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) care in a nationally representative sample of 40,687 mother–child dyads of India: a report from NFHS-5. BMC Public Health 25, 2727 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23697-x
8. Surti, S.B., Sharma, Y., Sridevi, P. et al. Health System-Led Multimodal and Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Sickle Cell Disease-Related Stigma Among Tribal Populations in India: An Implementation Research Protocol. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-025-02658-5

9. Nayak, P., Dwibedy, S.K., Mohammad, S. et al. Leptospirosis-associated acute kidney injury in Odisha, India. Int Urol Nephrol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-025-04855-x
10. Jain HK, Das A, Dixit S, Kaur H, Pati S, Ranjit M, Dutta A and Bal M (2024) Development and implementation of a strategy for early diagnosis and management of scrub typhus: an emerging public health threat. Front. Public Health 12:1347183. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1347183.
11. Ghosal, J., Bal, M., Das, A. et al. To leave no one behind: Assessing utilization of maternal newborn and child health services by all the 13 particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs) of Odisha, India. Health Res Policy Sys 22, 12 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-01101-7
12. Panda BB, Krishnamoorthy K, Das A, Jain HK, Dixit S, Rahi M, et al. (2023) Mini-TAS as a confirmatory mapping tool for remapping areas with uncertain filarial endemicity to exclude/ include for mass drug administration: A report from field validation in India. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0293641. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.029364
13. M Bal, J Ghosal, A Das, S Sandeepta, S Pati, A Dutta impact of Sub-patent Malaria During Pregnancy on Birth-Weight in Odisha, India: Time-to-Event Analysis of Prospective Longitudinal Follow-Up of a Survey. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2023
14. Das, A, Dixit S, BarikMK, GhosalJ, Babu B, Bal M, Ranjit M. Knowledge and perception related to sickle cell disease among tribal community, India: A mixed-method study,Journal of the National Medical Association,2023,ISSN 0027-9684,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2023.06.007
15. Ghosal J, Bal, M, Ranjit M, Das A, Behera MR, Satpathy SK, Dutta A, PatiS. To what extent classic socio-economic determinants explain trends of anaemia in tribal and non-tribal women of reproductive age in India? Findings from four National Family Heath Surveys (1998–2021). BMC Public Health, 2023, 23(1): 856.
16. Ghosal J, Dutta, A, Kshatri JS, Das A, Kanungo S, Singh A, Kerketta, S, Ghosal S, Kaur H, Bal, M,Ranjit, M,Satpathy SK, PatiS, Development, validation & pilot testing of a questionnaire to assess healthcare seeking behavior, healthcare service utilization & out-of-pocket expenditure of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups of Odisha, India. Indian Journal of Medical Research 2023, 157(5):412-420| DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_3570_21
17. Rana, Ramakanta & Khan, Nikhat &Sandeepta, Sonali & Pati, Sanghamitra & Das, Aparup &Bal, Madhusmita& Ranjit, Manoranjan. (2022). Molecular surveillance of anti-malarial drug resistance genes in Plasmodium falciparum isolates in Odisha, India. Malaria Journal. 21. 10.1186/s12936-022-04403-
18. Dixit S, Das A, Rana R, Khuntia HK, Ota AB, Pati S, Bal M, Ranjit M. A communitybased study on haemoglobinopathies and G6PD deficiency among particularly vulnerable tribal groups in hard-to-reach malaria endemic areas of Odisha, India: implications on malaria control. Malaria Journal. 2022 Nov 16;21(1):340. doi: 10.1186/s12936-022-04358-5. PMID: 36384674; PMCID: PMC9670505.
19. Bal, M., Rana, R., Das, A, Khuntia H K, Somalkar N, Sahoo N, Ghosal J, Pati S, Dutta A, Ranjit M R. Neglected malaria parasites in hard-to-reach areas of Odisha, India: implications in elimination programme. Malar J 2021,20: 482. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-04010-8
20. Bal M, Kar CR, Behera HK, Kar PC, Biswas S, Dixit S, Khuntia HK, Pati S, Ranjit M. Scrub typhus associated acute kidney injury: An emerging health problem in Odisha, India. J Vector Borne Dis. 2021 Oct-Dec; 58(4):359-367. doi: 10.4103/0972-9062.318318. PMID: 35381826.
21. Bal MS, Ranjit MR, Khuntia HK, Satapathy AK, Achary KG, Dwibedi B, Pati S High Tregs and systemic IL-10 expressions linked to the absence of sheath antibodies in lymphatic filariasis: implications on the persistence of residual infection. Immunol Res2021, 69: 90–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12026-021-09175-7
22. Dixit S, Das H, Bal M, Khuntia HK, Ranjit MR. Compound Heterozygote Hemoglobin Lepore-Baltimore Haplotype with β-Thalassemia. Indian J Pediatr.2021 doi:10.1007/s 12098 -021-03706-8.
23. Bal, M., Dixit, S., Rath, S.K., Hussain, T., Nayak, N.R., Pati, S. and Ranjit, M., 2021. Prevalence and Risk Factors of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension Including Preeclampsia/Eclampsia in Women of Odisha, an Eastern Indian State. Acta Scientific Women's Health (ISSN: 2582-3205), 3(5).
24. Bal M, Das A, Ghosal J, Pradhan MM, Khuntia HK, Pati S, Dutta A, Ranjit MR, Assessment of Effectiveness of DAMaN: A Malaria Intervention Program Initiated by Government of Odisha, India. Plos One8^th Sep 2020.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238323
25. Sahoo KC, Negi S, Barla D, Badaik G, Sahoo S, Bal M, Padhi AK, Pati Sand Bhattacharya D. The Landscape of Anthrax Prevention and Control: Stakeholders’ Perceptive in Odisha, India. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 3094; doi:10.3390/ijerph17093094.
26. Rana R,Ranjit MR, Bal M, Khuntia HK, Pati S,Krishna S, Das A. Sequence Analysis of the K13-Propeller Gene in Artemisinin Challenging Plasmodium FalciparumIsolates from Malaria Endemic Areas of Odisha, India: A Molecular Surveillance Study. Biomed Research International, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8475246

Recognitions:

1. Nodal Officer for Sickle Cell Kit validation
2. Member State Technical advisory committee Meeting for ELF/Mass drug administration.
3. Member State Technical advisory committee Meeting for Sickle Cell Disease NHM, Govt. of Odisha
4. Member, Technical Evaluation & Managerial Committee, Odisha State Medical Corporation Ltd, (OSMCL) Govt. of Odisha.
5. Member of Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting of of the Regional Institute for Homeopathy,

PhD/PDF students:

1. Dr Barsa Baisalini Panda joined as DHR women scientist from ((2023-continuing)
2. Ms Sonali sandeepta registered for PhD under KIIT University, Bhubaneswar (2022- continuing)
3. Ramakanta Rana , PhD from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (Awarded)
4. Mrs Sujata Dixit registered for PhD under KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. (Awarded)