Adjunct Professor
M_Epidemiology & Biostatistics
+1 415 205-8780
Kala is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Kala also teaches clinical research methods to undergraduates, medical students, residents, fellows, and international faculty.
Kala received her DSc. in Epidemiology from the Erasmus University Medical School in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and has obtained post-graduate specialization in epidemiology and clinical research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco.
Publications
The Pre-Medical Health Coach (PHC) program: pre-medical students as volunteer health coaches at a safety-net hospital in California, 2016-2020.
BMC medical education
Investigating the Impacts of a Modified Mindfulness Practice on Minoritized College Students' Chronic Stress.
Integrative medicine reports
AMD Injection Frequency: Effects of Distance Traveled and Travel Support.
Retina (Philadelphia, Pa.)
The Danish-American Research Exchange (DARE): a cross-sectional study of a binational research education program.
BMC medical education
Improving the precision of maternal, newborn, and child health impact through geospatial analysis of the association of contextual and programmatic factors with health trends in Bihar, India.
Journal of global health
Traditional Healers as Health Care Providers for the Latine Community in the United States, a Systematic Review.
Health equity
A Randomized Study to Assess the Effect of Including the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Results on Reviewers Scores for Underrepresented Minorities.
American journal of epidemiology
Designing a biomedical coding program focused on inclusivity and agency.
Nature computational science
Adaptation of an online training and support program for caregivers of people with dementia to Indian cultural setting.
Asian journal of psychiatry
Feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of an online training and support program for caregivers of people with dementia in India: a randomized controlled trial.
International journal of geriatric psychiatry
Patterns of torture among forcibly displaced Eritrean men in California: A cross-sectional study.
Torture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
Research Beyond the Ivory Tower: Partnering with Safety-Net Health Systems for Equity.
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
Evaluation of a large-scale reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition program in Bihar, India, through an equity lens.
Journal of global health
Health impact of self-help groups scaled-up statewide in Bihar, India.
Journal of global health
Health layering of self-help groups: impacts on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition in Bihar, India.
Journal of global health
Impact of mHealth interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition at scale: BBC Media Action and the Ananya program in Bihar, India.
Journal of global health
Impact of the Ananya program on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition in Bihar, India: early results from a quasi-experimental study.
Journal of global health
Best practices in global health evaluation: Reflections on learning from an independent program analysis in Bihar, India.
Journal of global health
Geospatial variations in trends of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition indicators at block level in Bihar, India, during scale-up of Ananya program interventions.
Journal of global health
Improving primary health care delivery in Bihar, India: Learning from piloting and statewide scale-up of Ananya.
Journal of global health
Trends in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition indicators during five years of piloting and scaling-up of Ananya interventions in Bihar, India.
Journal of global health
Social innovation research checklist: A crowdsourcing open call and digital hackathon to develop a checklist for research to advance social innovation in health.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Using Best Subsets Regression to Identify Clinical Characteristics and Biomarkers Associated with Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury.
American journal of physiology. Renal physiology
Perspectives on Components of an Online Training and Support Program for Dementia Family Caregivers in India: A Focus Group Study.
Clinical gerontologist
Use of mobile technology by frontline health workers to promote reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition: a cluster randomized controlled Trial in Bihar, India.
Journal of global health
iSupport: a WHO global online intervention for informal caregivers of people with dementia.
World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
Stroke epidemiology and stroke policies in China from 1980 to 2017: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society
Higher Birthweight and Maternal Pre-pregnancy BMI Persist with Obesity Association at Age 9 in High Risk Latino Children.
Journal of immigrant and minority health
Prevalence, incidence and predictors of volunteer community health worker attrition in Kwale County, Kenya.
BMJ global health
Duration of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients.
Annals of intensive care
Shorter preschool, leukocyte telomere length is associated with obesity at age 9 in Latino children.
Clinical obesity
Beta-blocker subtype and risks of perioperative adverse events following non-cardiac surgery: a nationwide cohort study.
European heart journal
Systematic Motorcycle Management and Health Care Delivery: A Field Trial.
American journal of public health