Validation Study of Community Health Workers
Assessment of Oral Hygiene

Geetha Loganathan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Dental Surgery from the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital under the Dr.M.G.R. Medical University in Chennai, and a Master of Public Health from the SRM School of Public Health, SRM University, Chennai. She has been awarded several Certificates of Achievements including one from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, for her outstanding performance in the ‘Introduction to clinical classification ICD-9-CM and Advanced clinical classification ICD-9-CM’ course conducted by them. She has worked as a clinical coding specialist at the Changi General Hospitals, Singapore, and has tutored in the Department of Pedodontia at the Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Chennai, prior to which she was an assistant dental surgeon at the Jagir Dental Center, Chennai.

Ravikumar Chockalingam graduated from Madras Medical College, one of the oldest in India, in 2003. He has five years of post-graduate clinical experience including training in Surgical Laparoscopy and Intervention Gastroenterology in Buffalo, NY. He worked as a Registrar in the Critical Care unit in Apollo Hospitals for a year and a half after which he joined ICTPH as Assistant Vice-President – Human Capacity. Dr. Chockalingam is the founding member of the CHW (Community Health Worker) focus at ICTPH, looking at alternate disease focus areas e.g. mental health, oral health and sexual health. Dr. Chockalingam also played an instrumental role in operationalizing the CHW pilot in Tanjore district of Tamil Nadu – from coordinating field teams for mobilizing the CHWs to designing and implementing the in-house three phase training programs. Dr. Chockalingam is currently pursuing his Masters in Public Health (MPH) at the Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, USA.