K Sananthya
Biostatistician and Research Professional
Qualification : M.Sc Statistics
Email : sananthk@srmist.edu.in
Sananthya Karthikeyan is a biostatistician and research professional with over a decade of experience in public health research, spanning infectious disease epidemiology, health technology assessment, and reproductive health. She holds a Master's degree in Statistics from Pondicherry University and has worked with leading institutions, including the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR-NIRT, ICMR-NIE) and private research consulting firms, contributing to national health programmes, economic evaluations, and decision-analytic modelling. She currently guides researchers in evidence synthesis methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, while also supporting statistical analysis for original research articles, She also works on research questions for guideline development with the Technical Resource Centre for the Centre for Evidence-Based Guidelines, Department of Health Research (DHR), and is pursuing her Ph.D. in health technology assessment, focusing on fertility treatment pathways for PCOS-related infertility among Indian women.
- PG: Master's Degree in Statistics, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry (2006-2008)
- UG: Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Indira Gandhi College of Arts & Sciences, Pondicherry (2003-2006)
| Name of Organisation | Designation | From | To |
| SRM Institute of Science and Technology | Research Associate | 03/02/2025 | Present |
| ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE) | Consultant (Statistics) | 19/11/2024 | 31/01/2025 |
| Nathan Economic Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. | Senior Analyst | 20/05/2022 | 31/03/2024 |
| ICMR – National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR-NIRT) | Junior Consultant | 12/12/2019 | 15/12/2021 |
| ICMR – National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR-NIRT) | Project Technical Assistant (Statistics) | 05/10/2017 | 11/12/2019 |
| ICMR – National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR-NIRT) | Project Technical Assistant (Field) | 20/05/2015 | 31/03/2016 |
| ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE) | Project Technical Assistant (Statistics) | 02/11/2011 | 31/03/2014 |
| ICMR – Vector Control Research Centre (ICMR- VCRC) | Project Data Entry Operator | 14/06/2010 | 28/03/2011 |
| SBM Tutors | Statistics Tutor | 01/06/2008 | 24/10/2009 |
| United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | Data Collection Assistant | 14/07/2008 | 31/12/2008 |
- Reproductive health and infertility-related research
- Research capacity-building and training in evidence synthesis methodology
- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and economic evaluation of health interventions
- Decision-analytic modelling (predictive models, decision trees, Markov models)
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- Network meta-analysis (NMA)
- Infectious disease epidemiology (tuberculosis, viral hepatitis)
- Biostatistics and applied statistical analysis for public health research
Publications
- V P, K H, Karthikeyan S, Murugadoss H, Haridoss M. Health-related quality of life in patients with cervical cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of EQ‑5D utility scores. Sci Rep. 2026 Jun 20. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-58466-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42323363.
- Bhuvaneswaran MV, Karthikeyan S, Ramamurthy D, Haridoss M. Stereopsis deficits in schizophrenia: a systematic review with exploratory meta-analysis. BMC Psychiatry. 2026 May 25;26(1):554. doi: 10.1186/s12888-026-08218-3. PMID: 42185870; PMCID: PMC13390137.
- Swetha RK, Gayathri B, Haridoss M, Kuppuraman D, Karthikeyan S. Efficacy and safety of perioperative magnesium on postoperative pain in adult patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgeries- a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2026 May 7;21(1):462. doi: 10.1186/s13019-026-04252-0. PMID: 42098865; PMCID: PMC13321671.
- Swetha RK, Gayathri B, Kumar V, Sananthya K. Randomized, open-label study of the short-term pharmacokinetics of oral magnesium oxide in healthy volunteers. Sci Rep. 2026 May 6;16(1):20933. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-50427-z. PMID: 42091979; PMCID: PMC13338401.
- Sebastian AM, Aswathy B, Sathya ER, Karthikeyan S, Maradana MR, Haridoss M. Systematic review and meta-analysis on the prevalence of cryptosporidiosis among children in India. Gut Pathog. 2026 Apr 27. doi: 10.1186/s13099-026-00836-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42046141.
- Karthikeyan S, Alwar S, Janardhanan R, Haridoss M. Reproductive health seeking behaviour and its determinants in Indian women-a systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Reprod Health. 2026 Mar 25;8:1769536. doi: 10.3389/frph.2026.1769536. PMID: 41959711; PMCID: PMC13056874.
- Murugadoss H, K H, K S, V P, Haridoss M. Health-related quality of life in South Asian adults with type 2 diabetes - a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2026 Feb 19;16(1):9888. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-39476-6. PMID: 41708745; PMCID: PMC13018546.
- Velayutham B, Hissar S, Thiruvengadam K, Narayan Sivaramakrishnan G, Subramanyam B, Navaneethapandian P, Reddy D, Nair D, Kannabiran B, Balaji S, Selladurai E, Ganesh J, Aravind MA, Rathinam P, Chellaiah LR, Rose W, Luke Elizabeth H, Sakaya A, Joseph B, Sundaralingam V, Karthikeyan S, Dhanaraj B, Natrajan M, Swaminathan S. Xpert MTB/RIF assay in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children in tertiary care setting in South India. J Trop Pediatr. 2024 Aug 10;70(5):fmae024. doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmae024. PMID: 39152039.
- Muniyandi M, Sellappan S, Chellaswamy V, Ravi K, Karthikeyan S, Thiruvengadam K, Selvam JM, Karikalan N. Diagnostic accuracy of mercurial versus digital blood pressure measurement devices: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 1;12(1):3363. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-07315-z. PMID: 35233077; PMCID: PMC8888622.
- Malaisamy M, Nagarajan K, Kirti T, Malkeet S, Venkatesan P, Senthilkumar S, Sananthya K, Rajendran K, Kavitha R, Vivekanandan S, Selvavinayagam TS. Economic Evaluation of Implementing a Rapid Point-of-Care Screening Test for the Identification of Hepatitis C Virus under National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme in Tamil Nadu, South India. J Glob Infect Dis. 2021 Aug 31;13(3):126-132. doi: 10.4103/jgid.jgid_394_20. PMID: 34703152; PMCID: PMC8491813.
- Muniyandi M, Tyagi K, Singh M, Prakash V, Karikalan N, Senthilkumar S, Karthikeyan S, Krishnan R, Rajsekar K, Shanmugam V, Selvavinayagam TS. Economic evaluation of implementing a decentralised Hepatitis B virus diagnostic intervention under National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme in Tamil Nadu, South India. Trop Med Int Health. 2021 Mar;26(3):374-384. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13528. Epub 2020 Dec 10. PMID: 33190357.
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