Ivan Marbaniang, MBBS, MPH

Pune, India

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Study Coordinator

Mr. Marbaniang is currenlty pursuing a PhD in epidemiology at McGill University in Montreal.

He is former Study Coordinator at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College Clinical Research Site (BJGMC-CRS) in Pune, India, where he coordinated he antimicrobial/acute febrile illness and non-communicable diseases in HIV studies. He remains active in research with the Indo-JHU clinical research partnership.

He received his Master of Public Health degree concentrating in epidemiology and biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in June 2015, where he was a Fulbright scholar and recipient of the Ruth Rice Puffer scholarship. He completed his medical education at Christian Medical College, Vellore, and joined the BJMC-CRS in October 2015.

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Assessing prevalence and risk of lung morbidities including lung nodules and cancer using non contrast CT among PLHIV in Pune, India

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2022-11-25

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Primary objective Determine the prevalence of pulmonary nodules, including lung cancer using NCCT. Determine the risk of pulmonary nodules, including lung cancer using NCCT. Evaluate the association of smoking, immune suppression, ART, and TB with the prevalence and risk of NCCT-diagnosed pulmonary...

Prevalence of Risk Factors for Lung Cancer and Facilitators and Barriers for Tobacco Cessation among People Living with HIV

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2020-04-01

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India has the world’s third largest HIV epidemic, with 2.1 million people currently living with HIV and an additional 90,000 new infections each year.[29] At the same time, expansion of the HIV response under India’s premier governmental agency - the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), has...

Markers of Lung Impairment in HIV-TB Coinfected Indian Adults

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2019-12-11

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Objectives/Aims We will compare the degree of lung impairment between HIV-TB co-infected adults (HIV-TB group) and TB cases without HIV co-infection (TB group) who successfully complete TB therapy. We hypothesize that the HIV-TB group will have a greater degree of lung...

Assessment of Depression and Anxiety among HIV-infected Adolescents in Pune, India

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2018-07-22

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This study is conducted under the TREAT Asia Network and funded by amfAR. PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to estimate the prevalence of depression and anxiety among adolescents living with HIV in India and their determinants. DESIGN...

TREAT Asia Pediatric HIV Observational Database

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2017-02-09

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Studies conducted under the TREAT Asia Network and funded by amfAR. TREAT Asia Pediatric HIV Observational Database (TApHOD) is a collaborative observational cohort study of infants, children, and adolescents living with HIV. TApHOD study participants are...

TREAT Asia Observational Database

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2017-02-09

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Study conducted under the TREAT Asia Network and funded by amfAR. The TREAT Asia Observational Database's primary study objective is to: Examine HIV natural history, including the relationship between access to ART, demographics, and...

Healthcare-Associated Sepsis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Pune, India

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2017-01-17

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This study is part of CDC's Safe Healthcare, Epidemiology, and Prevention Research Development (SHEPheRD) Program under Domain 7: International HAI and Other Adverse Healthcare Event Prevention. Johns Hopkins neonatologist Dr. Julia Johnson is lead investigator for a systematic study of the...

The Human Virome in Health and Disease

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2016-02-21

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This study was terminated in September 2020. This study is part of the Antimicrobial Resistance study referenced below, Some samples were used from the Cohort for Tuberculosis Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership (C-TRIUMPH), under the Regional...

Prevalence Survey of Risk Factors for Tuberculosis and Non-communicable Diseases in an HIV-positive Population in Pune, India

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2015-08-17

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This study is conducted under the TREAT Asia Network and funded by amfAR. The primary objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of risk factors for tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)--coronary artery disease and diabetes mellitus--...

Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Pune, India: Substudy on Community Health-Seeking Behavior Among Patients Admitted with Acute Febrile Illness

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2015-05-28

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Objectives: To describe the patterns of health-care seeking behavior and prior outpatient care among patients admitted with acute febrile illness to Sassoon Hospital To determine the effects of outpatient behaviors and prior treatments on the antimicrobial...

Cohort for Tuberculosis Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership (C-TRIUMPH)

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2013-09-28

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Collaboratively funded by the US NIH, India’s Department of Biotechnology [DBT], and Indian Council of Medical Research, the Cohort for TB Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership (C-TRIUMPH) is an Indo-US research consortium that is part of RePORT India, a countrywide consortium for TB...

Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Pune, India

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2013-01-10

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This study was terminated September 24, 2019. Evaluate etiology of acute fever and bacterial drug resistance patterns among adults and children in India.

BWI CTU: Baltimore-Washington-India Clinical Trials Unit

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2007-02-02

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Comprising clinical trial sites at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Whitman Walker Health in Washington, DC, and the BJGMC-CCGHE collaboration in Pune, India, the Baltimore-Washington-India Clinical Trials Unit (BWI-CTU) is one of only 25 international HIV/TB clinical trial sites funded by the...

Challenges with the use of Xpert HPV as a screening tool for oral HPV among people living with HIV (PLHIV): experiences from Pune, India

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2023-05-04

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BMC Infectious Diseases

Background: People living with HIV (PLHIV) are at higher risk for human papillomavirus (HPV)-related oropharyngeal cancers compared to the general population. Xpert HPV test is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay capable of rapid HPV detection. Performing the assay requires minimal intervention...

Inflammatory profile associated with insulin resistance in non-overweight versus overweight people living with HIV (PLWH)

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2023-04-21

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Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome

Background People living with HIV have greater diabetes (T2DM) than the general population despite lower prevalence of overweight/obesity. Both insulin resistance (IR), a T2DM precursor, and HIV are independently associated with chronic inflammation. Inflammation may be a pathophysiological link...

Virological Failure among People living with HIV Receiving Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in Pune, India

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2022-12-17

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BMC Infectious Diseases

Background The number of people receiving second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased as global access to ART has expanded. Data on the burden and factors associated with second-line ART virologic failure (VF) from India remain limited. Methods We conducted cross-sectional viral load (VL...

Clinical and Immunological Markers of Pulmonary Impairment Among People With HIV in India

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2022-10-06

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Open Form Infectious Diseases

Dr. Akshay Gupte and team found females were 7 times more likely to have restrictive spirometry pattern and 22 times more likely to have preserved ratio impaired spirometry, compared with men.

Development of shortened HIV-related stigma scales for young people living with HIV and young people affected by HIV in India

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2022-07-31

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BMC Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Background: HIV-related stigma is associated with poor quality of life and poor healthcare-seeking behaviours in young people living with HIV (YPLHIV) and young people affected by HIV (YPAHIV). India has an estimated 120,000 YPLHIV and 4 million YPAHIV, but efforts to measure HIV-related stigma in...

Smokeless tobacco use and oral potentially malignant disorders among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Pune, India: Implications for oral cancer screening in PLHIV

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2022-07-13

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PLOS ONE

Introduction In India, smokeless tobacco (SLT) is a predominant form of tobacco used among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Despite SLT being a risk factor for oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs), no prior studies have quantified the association of OPMDs with SLT use among PLHIV. This...

Inflammatory profile associated with insulin resistance in non-overweight versus overweight people living with HIV in Pune, Western India

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2022-07-01

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Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews

Background: People living with HIV have greater diabetes (T2DM) than the general population despite lower prevalence of overweight/obesity. Both insulin resistance (IR), a T2DM precursor, and HIV are independently associated with chronic inflammation. Inflammation may be a pathophysiological link...

Clinical and Immunological Markers of Pulmonary Impairment among People Living with HIV in India

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2022-05-11

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Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Background Despite antiretroviral therapy, chronic lung diseases remain an important source of morbidity and mortality in people with HIV (PWH). We sought to identify clinical and immunological markers of pulmonary impairment among PWH in India. Methods Two hundred ten adult PWH receiving...

Trends and gender differences in access to HIV care with scale up of national HIV treatment guidelines in India

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2020-06-24

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Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care

Test and treat is the current global standard, yet sex differences persist in access to HIV care. We assessed the differences in presentation and antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake by sex and ART-eligibility period among ART-naive adults registered at a public ART center in India. Four ART...

High prevalence of late presentation of ART-naïve perinatally infected children for care in Pune, India

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2020-02-19

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AIDS Care

AIDS Care : There is an urgent need to identify strategies that improve linkage of perinatally infected ART-naïve children to care, and earlier than what is currently observed.

Incidence of tuberculosis in HIV-infected adults on first- and second-line antiretroviral therapy in India

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2019-10-29

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BMC Infectious Diseases

In this study among people living with HIV, Akshay Gupte and colleagues found that the risk of acquiring tuberculosis was higher in those receiving first-line antiretrovial therapy versus those receiving second-line medications.

High prevalence of insulin resistance and occurrence prior to hyperinsulinemia threshold among people living with HIV in Pune, India

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2019-05-21

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Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews

BACKGROUND Diabetes prevalence in HIV is not well characterized for India, despite the high burden of both individual diseases. Epidemiology of insulin resistance (IR): a precursor to diabetes, and its associated risk factors are also poorly understood in Asian Indian people living with HIV (PLHIV...

Elevated highly sensitive C-reactive protein and d-dimer levels are associated with food insecurity among people living with HIV in Pune, India

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2019-03-04

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Public Health Nutrition

Abstract OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and determinants of food insecurity among people living with HIV (PLWH) in Pune, India and its association with biomarkers known to confer increased risks of morbidity and mortality in this population. DESIGN:...

Drug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae colonization is associated with healthcare utilization and antimicrobial use among inpatients in Pune, India

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2018-10-04

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BMC Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND: Healthcare exposure may increase drug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae colonization risk. Nascent antimicrobial stewardship efforts in low- and middle-income countries require setting-specific data. We aimed to evaluate risk factors for inpatient drug resistant...

Loss to follow‐up and mortality among HIV‐infected adolescents receiving antiretroviral therapy in Pune, India

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2018-06-25

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HIV Medicine

Over 6 years, one-third of HIV+ adolescents in this study discontinued medical treatment, indicating a critical need for retention counselling and closer clinical monitoring.

Antibiotic utilization and the role of suspected and diagnosed mosquito borne illness among adults and children with acute febrile illness in Pune, India

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2018-05-02

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Clinical Infectious Diseases

Mosquito-borne disease identification is associated with reduced empiric antibiotic use and faster antibiotic discontinuation.

Vector-borne disease is a common cause of hospitalized febrile illness in India

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2018-03-26

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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Diagnostic strategies adapted for season and age may reduce diagnostic uncertainty and identify causative organisms in treatable, fatal causes of AFI.

Cardiovascular risk in an HIV-infected population in India

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2017-07-03

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Heart Asia

Findings: HIV+ Indian patients who had cardiovascular disease at a younger age appear to be at imminent risk for morbidity.

High burden of antimicrobial resistance and mortality among adults and children with community-onset bacterial infections in India

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2017-04-15

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Journal of Infectious Diseases

Of 133 isolates from 115 patients, 50% were multi-drug resistant; of 33 isolates tested for carbapenem susceptibility, 36% were resistant.

Pride in Pune: BJGMC TREAT Asia Team Conducts Health Camp

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2019-06-24

TREAT Asia Team Members

Pride in Pune: The BJGMC CRS teamed up with the Udaan Trust to convene a sexual health awareness & screening camp

World AIDS Week Is Local at BJGMC in Pune, India

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2018-12-20

The BJGMC Clinical Research Site convened community awareness activities that focused on HIV and HPV

World AIDS Day: BJGMC Team Offers Community Counseling and Preventive Care

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2017-12-21

150 people participated in a non-communicable diseases awareness camp for people in Pune, India, living with HIV.

Indo-Hopkins Partnership Seeks Causes of Sepsis in the NICU

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2017-08-10

Sepsis among newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a big problem in India, and a complex one to untangle.

Advancing Global TB Research through RePORT

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2016-02-29

Regional Prospective Observational Research for Tuberculosis (RePORT) International is a large, international tuberculosis research effort being undertaken by 4 regional consortia: RePORT Brazil, RePORT South Africa, RePORT Indonesia, and RePORT India. While each region collects and maintains...