Dr. Raghavendra did his MD in Community Medicine from Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada. He works in the areas of Nutrition Epidemiology, Nutritional Surveillance, and field epidemiology. He has involved in various scientific projects that include Diet and Biomarkers Survey in India, Establishment of Nutrition Surveillance Systems, Development of Evidence based Food Models for Children in Chhattisgarh, Outbreak investigations in Muzaffarpur & Eluru, Covid Serosurveillance, Effectiveness of Front of Pack Nutrition Labels, Development of intervention models for prevention of infantile Beri-beri in Assam, etc. He is currently working on longterm outcomes of interventions at Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres, on Efficacy of probiotic curd supplementation in children and is pursuing his PhD. He contributed 2 chapters in the Nutritional Requirements for Indians 2020 and 2 chapters in the 5th Edition of Textbook of Human Nutrition (edited by Mahtab Bamji). He is a member of IPHA, IAPSM, Epidemiology Foundation of India, International Epidemiological Association and has rendered services as a member of Electronic Working Group of the Codex Committee India to work on Front of Pack Nutrition Labelling, FSSAI’s Network for Scientific Co-operation for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (NetSCoFAN), NCDC’s committee working on Mitigation of Nutritional issues of Climate Change. He is on the Executive Committee board of Nutrition Society of India.

1. Jaleel A, Chilumula M, Chukkala Satya S, Pooja S., Usha RT, Raghavendra P. (May 07, 2024) The Assessment of Nutritional Status of Adolescents Aged 15-18 Years Using BMI Cutoffs and BMI Z Scores: A Secondary Analysis of National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-21) Data. Cureus 16(5): e59800. doi:10.7759/cureus.59800
2. Hemalatha R, Samarasimha Reddy N, Sairam Challa, Venkatesh K, Raghu Pullakhandam, Nandeep ER, Teena D, Mahesh Kumar M, Raghavendra P. Efficacy and safety of iron fortified rice in India - A white paper, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad. 2023.
3. Raghavendra P, Usha Rani T, Abdul Jaleel CP, Surya Goud CS, Mahesh Kumar M, Raja Sriswan M. Nutritional Status of Female Children in Comparison to Their Male Siblings in India– A Secondary Analysis of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) Data. Natl J Community Med 2023;14(8):470-476. DOI: 10.55489/njcm.140820233041
4. Rani UT, Basha AD, Raghavendra P, et al. Trajectory of trans-fats in India - from regulations to reality. Insights Nutr Metab. 2022;6(3):111
5. Laxmaiah A, Rao NM, … Raghavendra P, …, Kumar MS. SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in the city of Hyderabad, India in early 2021. IJID Regions. 2022 Mar 1;2:1-7.
6. Pandurangi R, Mummadi MK, Challa S, Reddy NS, Kaliaperumal V, Khadar Babu C, Telikicherla UR, Pullakandham R, Geddam JJB, Hemalatha R. Burden and Predictors of Malnutrition Among Indian Adolescents (10-19 Years): Insights From Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey Data. Front Public Health. 2022 Jun 15;10:877073. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.877073. PMID: 35784251; PMCID: PMC9240318.
7. Mummadi MK, Pandurangi R, Geddam JJB, Sinha SN, Rajendran A, P. S, et al. (2021) Investigation of an acute neurological outbreak in Eluru, India, 2020. PLoS ONE 16(11): e0259192. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259192
8. Raghavendra P, Teena D. Alternate Therapies in Endometriosis Nutritional approach for endometriosis. Endometriosis Update. Volume 2 (July 2021). Endometriosis Update (A publication of Endometriosis Society of India)
9. India Serosurvey group. Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in India: Findings from the national serosurvey, May-June 2020
10. Ganesan Vijayakrishnan, Veluru Chandrasekhar, Pandurangi Raghavendra & Rajan Rushender. "A study on awareness of HIV/AIDS and attitude toward people living with HIV/AIDS among engineering college students of Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, India." International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, 3.5 (2016): 1219-1223.