Research Interests
- Environmental health
- Climate change and health
- Environmental exposure modeling
- Exposome
- Causal inferential methods
Education
- Ph.D in Biostatistics: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Masters in Statistics: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- BSc(Hons) in Statistics: Presidency College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta)
Overview
Dr. Siddhartha Mandal is currently an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. He is a biostatistician by training with a PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, USA and has been working on environmental epidemiology for over a decade.
His major scientific contributions include development of city-specific and national models for ambient PM2.5, and establishing linkages between PM2.5 and chronic diseases in Indian cohort studies. Dr Mandal’s main research interests lie in environmental exposure assessment, its effects on health and causal inferential methods. He is keen to carry out policy-relevant research on the disparate effects of environmental exposures, including climate metrics and pollutants, on chronic diseases in the diverse South Asian population, with a long-term goal of generating holistic evidence to tackle the dual burden of environment and chronic diseases in India.
Dr. Mandal is currently involved in multiple projects related to environmental health in India, including the Precision-CARRS project (with a focus on progression of atherosclerosis), GEOHealth-HEALS project (effect of environment across the lifecourse), COINCIDE project (effect of different exposure domains on childrens health) and his own startup grant focusing on urban-rural differences in environmental exposure and its relationship with cardiovascular diseases.