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 Central University of Kerala
12 August 2026

Dr. Praveen Balabaskaran Nina


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Dr. Praveen Balabaskaran Nina obtained his B.V.Sc & A.H (1997-2002) from Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Veterinary Education and Research, Pondicherry and M.V.Sc (2003-05) in Avian Diseases from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Uttar Pradesh. He did his Ph.D (2005-10) in Microbiology and Immunology at Drexel University College of Medicine under Dr. Akhil Vaidya. His postdoctoral fellowship (2011-12) was at NIAID/NIH with Dr. Sanjay Desai. His Ph.D and postdoctoral training were extensively on the molecular aspects of Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of malaria. Before joining CUK, Dr. Praveen worked as DST-Inspire faculty (PSG IMS&R and RMRC, Belagavi), Senior Scientist (University of Washington, Seattle in their MESA-ICEMR program) and Assistant Professor (Epidemiology and Public Health, Central University of Tamil Nadu). In 2012, Dr. Praveen was the recipient of the DBT-Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellowship (not availed), DBT-Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award and DST-Inspire Faculty award, all very competitive and prestigious awards of the Indian Govt. His research interest revolves around infectious disease epidemiology, with specific focus on malaria.

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Dr. Praveen Balabaskaran Nina
Associate Professor
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
  
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 Recent and Major Publications

    1. James MM, Balasubmrani K, Balabaskaran Nina P, Gopalan N, Behera SK (2026). "Spatial distribution and risk assessment of dengue incidence at district level across major climatic zones in India". PLOS One, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0350325

    2. Vanlalhriata C, Telugu Prakash P, Balasubramani K, Pautu L, Zawmi L, Hlunpuii L, Pilankatta R, Senthil Kumar N, Bhowmick IP & Balabaskaran Nina P (2026). "Rising burden of Plasmodium vivax in Mizoram: an emerging threat to malaria elimination in Northeast India". BMC Infectious Diseases, https://doi. org/10.1186/s12879-026-13756-y

    3. James MM, Manikandan S, Balabaskaran Nina P, Balasubramani K, Gopalan N and Behera SK (2026). "Associations between climatic variables and dengue incidence in high-burden countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.". Frontiers in Climate, 8:1804553.

    4. Balasubramani K, Nanjappa D, Ramesharavind P, Madhan Raj K, Ramkumar M, Nagarajan R and Balabaskaran Nina P (2026). "Influences of rainfall, river discharge and land use on groundwater quality in the Cauvery River Delta, southern India: Implications on agricultural production and sustainability". Catena, 271 (2026) 110276

    5. Karuppusamy Balasubramani, Syed Shah Areeb Hussain, Sushant Sawant, Abhishek Govekar, Pooja Telugu Prakash, Aparna Naik, Debattam Mazumdar, Jagannath Nayak, Kuldeep Singh, Lokesh Kori, Kalpana Mahatme, Arun Kumar Prasad, Praveen Balabaskaran Nina, Ajeet Kumar Mohanty (2026). "Dengue transmission dynamics in an urban setting in western India". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013636

    6. James MM, Mohanty BS, Kodali NK, Balabaskaran Nina P, Gopalan N, Behera SK (2025). "Temporal Trends of Dengue in India (1990–2021): A Joinpoint and Age-Period-Cohort Analysis". EcoHealth, Ecohealth. 2025 Aug 19

    7. Ajeet Kumar MohanMohanty AK, Deshpande D, Shah D, Balabaskaran Nina P, Karmodiya KK (2025). "Increased heterozygosity and balancing selection in isofemale generations of Anopheles stephensi under laboratory conditions". BMC Genomics, 2025 Jul 11;26(1):658

    8. Mohanty AK, Naik A, Govekar A, Mazumdar D, Prakash TP, Sawant S, Mahatme K, Bharti PK, Balasubramani K and Balabaskaran Nina P (2025). "Spatiotemporal epidemiology of indigenous and imported malaria cases in Goa, western India". Malaria Journal, 24, Article number: 46 (2025)

    9. Mohanty AK, Mazumdar D, Govekar A, De'souza C, Mohapatra A, Balabaskaran Nina P (2024). "Anopheles jamesii Supports Plasmodium vivax Sporogony under Laboratory Conditions.". Am J Trop Med Hyg, Sep 10:tpmd240267

    10. Vanlalhriata C, Lalpianpuii, Wankhar PT, Prakash PT, Amarthaluri C, Pautu L, Vanramliana, Lalmalsawma P, Kodali PB, Balasubramani K, Balabaskaran Nina P (2024). "Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practices toward malaria in the Lunglei district, Mizoram, North-East India.". Malaria Journal, Aug 7;23(1):236.

    11. Balasubramani K, Bharti PK, Amarthaluri C, Chellappan S, Behera SK, Mohanty AK, Sarma DK, Dash AP, Balabaskaran Nina P (2024). "Spatiotemporal Epidemiology of Malaria in India from 2007 to 2022.". Am J Trop Med Hyg., tpmd230688

    12. Ajeet Kumar Mohanty, Abhishek Govekar, Charles de Souza, Abhipsa Mohapatra, Malapati Kuppuswamy Janarthanam, Raja Vukanti, Justin J Montemarano, Praveen Balabaskaran Nina (2024). "Evaluating the carnivorous efficacy of Utricularia aurea (Lamiales: Lentibulariaceae) on the larval stages of Anopheles stephensi, Culex quinquefasciatus, and Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)". Journal of Medical Entomology, tjae038

    13. Balasubramani K, Ravichandran V, Prasad KA, Ramkumar M, Shekhar S, James MM, Kodali NK, Behera SK, Gopalan N, Sharma RK, Sarma DK, Santosh M, Dash AP and Balabaskaran Nina P. (2024). "Spatio-temporal epidemiology and associated indicators of COVID-19 (wave-I and II) in India.". Scientific Reports, Sci Rep. 2024 Jan 2;14(1):220.

    14. Vanramliana, Pautu L, Lalmalsawma P, Rosangkima G, Sarma DK, Chinza H, Malvi Y, Kodali NK, Amarthaluri C, Balasubramani K, Balabaskaran Nina P (2023). "Epidemiology of scrub typhus and other rickettsial infections (2018–22) in the hyper-endemic setting of Mizoram, North-East India". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 17(11): e0011688.

    15. Pachuau Lalmalsawma, K. Balasubramani, Meenu Mariya James, Lalfakzuala Pautu, Kumar Arun Prasad, Devojit Kumar Sarma & Balabaskaran Nina P (2023). "Malaria hotspots and climate change trends in the hyper-endemic malaria settings of Mizoram along the India–Bangladesh borders". Scientific Reports, 13, Article number: 4538 (2023)

    16. Pautu L, Lalmalsawma P, Vanramliana, Balasubramani K, Balabaskaran Nina P, Rosangkima G, Sarma DK, Malvi Y, Hunropuia. (2023). "Seroprevalence of scrub typhus and other rickettsial diseases among the household rodents of Mizoram, North-East India". Zoonoses and Public Health, 10.1111/zph.13025

    17. Balasubramani K, Prasad KA, Kodali NK, Kalladath Abdul Rasheed N, Chellappan S, Sarma DK, Kumar M, Dixit R, James MM, Behera SK, Sekhar S and Balabaskaran Nina P (2022). "Spatial epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in children under 5 years and associated risk factors in India: District-level analysis of health, household, and environmental datasets". Frontiers in Public Health, 10:906248

    18. Devojit Kumar Sarma, Manoj Kumar, Praveen Balabaskaran Nina, Karuppusamy Balasubramani, Malay Pramanik, Rintu Kutum, Swasti Shubham, Deepanker Das, Manoj Kumawat, Vinod Verma, Jigyasa Dhurve, Sekar Leo George, Alangar Balasundreshwaran, Anil Prakash, Rajnarayan R. Tiwari (2022). "An assessment of remotely sensed environmental variables on Dengue epidemiology in Central India". Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(10):e0010859

    19. Paulson W, Balasubramani K, Dixit R, Chellappan S, Behera SK, Balabaskaran Nina P (2022). "Social and Housing Determinants of Dengue and Chikungunya in Indian Adults Aged 45 and Above: Analysis of a Nationally Representative Survey (2017-18)". Archives of Public Health, Apr 20;80(1):125

    20. Balasubramani K, Paulson W, Chellappan S, Ramachandran R, Behera SK, Balabaskaran Nina P (2021). "Epidemiology, Hot Spots, and Sociodemographic Risk Factors of Alcohol Consumption in Indian Men and Women: Analysis of National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16), a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Study". Frontiers in Public Health, Aug 27;9:617311

    21. Mohan I, Kodali NK, Chellappan S, Karuppusamy B, Behera SK, Natarajan G, Balabaskaran Nina P (2021). "Socio-economic and household determinants of malaria in adults aged 45 and above: analysis of longitudinal ageing survey in India, 2017-2018". Malaria Journal, 20(1):306

    22. 5. Balasubramani, K, Sarma, D K, Lalmalsawma P, Pautu L, Karmodiya K, and Balabaskaran Nina P (2021). "Effect of climate change and deforestation on vector borne diseases in the North-Eastern Indian state of Mizoram bordering Myanmar". The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 100015

    23. Balasubramani, K, Paulson, W, Chellappan, S, Behera, S. K, and Balabaskaran Nina P (2021). "District-level epidemiology, hot spots and socio-demographic determinants of tobacco use in Indian men and women: Analysis of national family health survey-4 (2015–16)". Public Health, 194:127-134

    24. Balasubramani K, Leo George S, Anusuya K, Venkatesh R, Thilagaraj P, Gnanappazham L, Kumaraswamy K, Balasundareshwaran A, and Balabaskaran Nina P (2021). "Revealing the socio-economic vulnerability and multi-hazard risks at micro-administrative units in the coastal plains of Tamil Nadu, India.". Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, VOL. 12, NO. 1, 605-630

    25. M Kumar, DK Sarma, S Shubham, M Kumawat, V Verma, Balabaskaran Nina P, S Kumar, B Singh, Rajnarayan R Tiwari (2021). "Futuristic Non-antibiotic Therapies to Combat Antibiotic Resistance: A Review". Frontiers in Microbiology, 12:609459

    26. Chellappan S, Roy S, Nagmoti JM, Tabassum W, Vukanti R, Hoti SL, Bhattacharyya MK, Balabaskaran Nina P (2020). "Functional studies of Plasmodium falciparum putative SURF1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, Oct-Dec;57(4):325-330

    27. Chellappan S, Roy S, Nagmoti JM, Tabassum W, Hoti SL, Bhattacharyya MK and Balabaskaran Nina P (2020). "Functional studies of Plasmodium falciparum's Prohibitin 1 and Prohibitin 2 in Yeast". Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, Apr-Jun;38(2):213-215

    28. Balabaskaran Nina P and Dash AP (2020). "Hydroxychloroquine as prophylaxis or treatment for COVID-19: What does the evidence say?". Indian Journal of Public Health, Jun;64(Supplement):S125-S127

    29. Behera SK, Das D, Balasubramani K, Chellappan S, Rajaram K, Kumar Mohanta H, Balabaskaran Nina P (2020). "Seroprevalence and risk factors of brucellosis in livestock in the wildlife and livestock interface area of Similipal Biosphere Reserve, India". Veterinary World, (3):465-470

    30. Zomuanpuii R, Hmar CL, Lallawmzuala K, Hlimpuia L, Balabaskaran Nina P, Senthil Kumar N (2020). "Epidemiology of malaria and chloroquine resistance in Mizoram, northeastern India, a malaria-endemic region bordering Myanmar". Malaria Journal, 19(1):95

    31. Sarma DK, Mohapatra PK, Bhattacharyya DR, Chellappan S, Karuppusamy B, Barman K, Senthil Kumar N, Dash AP, Prakash A, Balabaskaran Nina P (2019). "Malaria in North-East India: Importance and Implications in the Era of Elimination". Microorganisms, 7(12): 673

    32. Balabaskaran Nina P and Desai SA (2018). "Diverse target gene modifications in Plasmodium falciparum using Bxb1 integrase and an intronic attB". Parasit Vectors, 11(1):548

    33. Mohanty AK*, Balabaskaran Nina P*, Ballav S, Vernekar S, Parkar S, D'souza M, Zuo W, Gomes E, Chery L, Tuljapurkar S, Valecha N, Rathod PK, Kumar A (2018). "Susceptibility of wild and colonized Anopheles stephensi to Plasmodium vivax infection". Malaria Journal, 17(1):225

    34. Gupta A, Balabaskaran-Nina P, Nguitragool W, Saggu GS, Schureck MA, Desai SA (2018). "CLAG3 Self-Associates in Malaria Parasites and Quantitatively Determines Nutrient Uptake Channels at the Host Membrane.". MBio, 9(3):e02293-17

    35. Balabaskaran Nina P*, Mohanty AK*, Ballav S, Vernekar S, Bhinge S, D’souza M, Walke J, Manoharan SK, Mascarenhas A, Gomes E, Chery L, Valecha N, Kumar A, Rathod PK (2017). "Dynamics of Plasmodium vivax sporogony in wild Anopheles stephensi in a malaria endemic region of Western India". Malaria Journal, 16(1):284

    36. Balabaskaran Nina P, Morrisey JM, Ganesan SM, Ke H, Pershing AM, Mather MW and Vaidya AB (2011). "ATP Synthase Complex of Plasmodium falciparum: Dimeric Assembly in Mitochondrial Membranes and Resistance to Genetic Disruption". Journal of Biological Chemistry, 286(48):41312-41322

    37. Balabaskaran Nina P, Dudkina NV, Kane LA, Van Eyk JE, Boekema EJ, Mather MW, Vaidya AB (2010). "Highly Divergent Mitochondrial ATP Synthase Complexes in Tetrahymena thermophila". PLoS Biology, 8(7):e1000418


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 Research Projects Undertaken

Project TitleProject TypeCommencement YearCompletion YearFunding Agency
A novel strategy for rapid gene replacements in a gene linked to organelle division in Plasmodium falciparumMajor research project (PI)20132015DBT
Understanding the molecular mechanism of mitochondrial division in malaria parasites,Major research project (PI)20122015DST
Development of an aptamer NanoZyme based colorimetric assay for pediatric scrub typhusMajor research project (Co-PI)20242027DBT
Capacity building and promoting good husbandry practices among livestock owners for livelihood, sustainable livestock production and upholding public healthMajor research project (Co-PI)20212025DST-SEED
Molecular Characterization of the Cytochrome c oxidase complex in Plasmodium falciparum.Major research project (PI)20202023SERB-CRG
Climatic variability and its impact on vector-borne diseases – A GIS modelling of different climate zones of India,Major research project (PI)20222023DHR

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Full Name
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