Dr. Suresh Munuswamy

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Dr Suresh Munuswamy is a medical doctor, scientist and a start-up entrepreneur. He studied M.B.B.S in Chennai, M.P.H in Oxford and PhD in Tokyo. He was the first Indian to be selected for the Public Health Leadership Doctorate Program fully sponsored by the Government of Japan. Before joining IIHMR University, he was the Deputy Director and Professor at Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) for Technology Innovations; Director at Hi Rapid Lab –PHFI’s first faculty led start-up company; and the coordinator for India’s first integrated MSc and PhD Health Informatics program at IIPH- Hyderabad offered jointly by CSIR and PHFI. Prior to working at PHFI, he was part of the team that started India’s first School of Public Health in a private university at SRM near Chennai.
Dr.Suresh’s team was the first in the country to fly medicines with drones in 2015. During and post covid his work was instrumental in the design and launch of Medicines from the Sky project by World Economic Forum and Niti Aayog, which subsequently led to the framing of India’s UAV rules and regulations.
He has 6 years of clinical experience, 7 years of public health experience and over 11 years of experience in design, development of digital health, medical device and mobility platforms for delivering universal primary health care screening and treatment at home.
The platform developed by Dr.Suresh, named COMPREHENSIV, integrates several design and technology approaches, including graphic icons and AR for UI, wide spectrum images (within and beyond visual) for automated feature identification, artificial intelligence and language models for decision making, custom configured ground (two and four wheeler) and unmanned aerial vehicles/ drones for product supply chain. He has about 10 design and process patents, with another 10 in review process, to his credit. Several components of the platform, are currently being field tested in several locations for several applications.
For the idea of home based primary health care, efficient mobility to be sustainable and become part of the health system, he is continuously working on creating an innovation led service ecosystem bringing together public health experts, technologists (software, hardware, devices, mobility, automobile, aerospace), designers, donors, regulators, bureaucrats, field managers, students of various back grounds and grassroot level service providers with the purpose of providing primary health care at home. Further information about his work you can simply search his name on google.

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