Dr. Divya Sussana Patil is a Public Health researcher trained in evidence synthesis and qualitative research. Her field of interest includes working in ageing research and using different methodologies such as qualitative methods and evidence synthesis through systematic reviews, overviews of systematic reviews, scoping reviews, evidence and gaps maps, and realist reviews. She has over ten years of total work experience in research and teaching. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Coordinator of the Centre for Evidence-informed Decision-making, and is the Co-Director of Cochrane Affiliate Centre – MAHE, Prasanna School of Public Health (PSPH), MAHE. In addition, she is a Cochrane member and a part of the Cochrane Geographic group. 

She is a recipient of the Erasmus+ mobility grant to Utrecht University, the Netherlands for her PhD research. Her PhD research focused on the inequalities faced by older adults while using urban mobility infrastructures and how it affected their access to healthcare and overall wellbeing. 

She has the experience of mentoring postgraduate students and PhD scholars in evidence synthesis methods, especially scoping and systematic reviews. At present she is involved in teaching, research, and capacity building in evidence synthesis and is a co-investigator of ongoing funded projects funded by WHO, ICMR-DHR, Government of Karnataka, and NWA (Dutch Research Council). 

Public Health, Ageing, Evidence synthesis methods, Qualitative research

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1. Assistant Professor, Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Prasanna School of Public Health (PSPH), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, India. May 2025 till Present

2. Centre Coordinator: Centre for Evidence-informed Decision making [CEIDeM], Prasanna School of Public Health (PSPH), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, India. May 2024 till present.  

3. Research Fellow: CEIDeM, PSPH, MAHE. October 2022-April 2025  

4. Doctoral researcher: Transdisciplinary Centre for Qualitative Methods, PSPH, MAHE. August 2019- September 2022.        

5. Research Officer: CEIDeM, PSPH, MAHE. April 2017 - July 2019.

6. Program Officer (Karnataka): India Health Action Trust, Bengaluru. December 2016 - April 2017.

7. Intervention Coordinator: St. John's Research Institute, Bengaluru. September 2014 - November 2016. 

Awards and recognition:

Recipient of the Erasmus+ mobility grant.