Dr. Sanjay Rampal A/l Lekhraj Rampal

Biography

Dr. Rampal is a public health specialist and preventive medicine physician. He is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and heads the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. Dr Rampal was medically trained in India and served in the Ministry of Health Malaysia from 1998 to 2005. The clinical experiences from his early medical career helped him realize that treating one patient at a time was not sufficient and more could be done by intervening at a population level. He improved his basic epidemiology and biostatistics knowledge by completing a MPH degree in 2004 from Harvard University. He joined University of Malaya in 2005 with the idea that intervening at the graduate level would improve the research skills of the medical and public health community. He completed his PhD in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. His research work focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of non-communicable diseases. He is particularly interested in elucidating their roles as common upstream factors utilizing common major pathways leading to the different Non Communicable Diseases. He hopes to further leverage this information to better design and implement more "Horizontal" prevention programs that ultimately would reduce the number of new patients seen by our healthcare system. His methodological interest includes improving causal inference, epidemiological designs, regression models, multiple imputations, measurement error, and propensity scoring.

Research Interest

Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Epidemiology , Biostatistics, Research Methodology, Disease Modeling)