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Ajit Poudel

Ajit Poudel

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apoudel@oucru.org

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Ajit Poudel

DPhil candidate

  • Clinical Researcher at OUCRU Nepal

Ajit Poudel focuses on infection prevention and antimicrobial resistance in critical care settings. His doctoral research evaluates a multimodal hygiene and infection prevention intervention in intensive care units in Nepal. By assessing locally co-designed hygiene bundles and linking clinical outcomes with genomic analysis and transmission modelling, his work generates robust evidence to reduce healthcare-associated infections and inform scalable strategies within national antimicrobial resistance frameworks.

His broader research programme is grounded in a One Health approach, examining how interactions between healthcare systems, communities, and environmental reservoirs influence pathogen transmission and antimicrobial resistance in resource-constrained settings. His work integrates clinical epidemiology, microbiology, genomics surveillance, and operational research.

He has also contributed to multidisciplinary projects on zoonotic surveillance, wastewater pathogen detection, antimicrobial resistance monitoring, and biosecurity, with a sustained focus on strengthening local capacity in genomic epidemiology and implementation research to ensure that evidence directly informs policy and practice.

Study

Studying Hygiene Interventions to Reduce Nosocomial Infections in Southeast Asian Intensive Care Units (SHINIA-ICU)

Publications