Monica Rana

Bio

Dr. Monica Rana is the Managing Director of Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC) which is a multi-disciplinary team that studies how resilience, stigma, discrimination, violence, and trauma affect young people’s health. She holds a Ph.D. and Masters in Public Health. She has experience in the field of youth mental health. For her Ph.D. thesis, she worked with youth and their families to understand bullying and its mental health effects and to conduct interventions to reduce bullying perpetration. In addition, she also has experience working with marginalized youth and sexual and gender minority populations. As a South Asian herself, she is also working with ethnic minority youth to understand health disparities among South Asian youth. In her role as a postdoctoral teaching fellow, she is teaching the Health Impacts of Climate Change course.

Profile

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC), School of Nursing, UBC-Vancouver.
PhD (Public health), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India
MPH, Manipal University, India

Publications

• Rana M, Nath R, Saewyc E. Parental accepting and rejecting behaviours: A qualitative study of experiences at home among South Asian gay and bisexual men in Canada. Accepted-Family Relations. 
• Rana M, Gupta M, Malhi P, Kaur M, Grover S. Designing a multicomponent ‘Stop Bullying- School Intervention Program (SB-SIP)’ in Chandigarh, a North Indian Union Territory. Global Health Promotion, June, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759211021061
• Rana M, Gupta M, Malhi P, Kaur M, Grover S. Prevalence and correlates of bullying perpetration and victimization among school going adolescents in Chandigarh, North India. Indian Journal of Psychiatry 2020. 62(5): 531-539.
• Rana M, Gupta M, Malhi P, Kaur M, Grover S. Effectiveness of a multicomponent school based intervention to reduce bullying among adolescents in Chandigarh, North India: a quasi-experimental study protocol. Journal of Public Health research 2018; https://doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2018.1304.
• Kaur M, Gupta Ma, Purayil VP, Rana M, Chakrapani V. Contribution of social factors to maternal deaths in Urban India: Use of care pathway and delay models. PloS One 2018 Oct. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203209
• Gupta M, Bosma H, Angelo F, Kaur M, Chakrapani M, Rana M, van Schayck OCP. A mixed methods study on evaluating the performance of a multi-strategy national health program to reduce maternal and child health program to reduce maternal and child health disparities in Haryana, India. BMC Public Health 2017; 17: 698. DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4706-9.
• Gupta M, Bosma H, Angelo F, Kaur M, Chakrapani M, Rana M, van Schayck OCP. Impact of a Multi-Strategy Community Intervention to Reduce Maternal and Child Health Inequalities in India: A Qualitative Study in Haryana. PLoS One. 2017 Jan; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170175.
• Gupta M, Angeli F, Bosma H, Rana M, Prinja S, Kumar R, van Schayck OCP. Effectiveness of multiple-strategy community intervention in reducing geographical, socioeconomic and gender inequalities in maternal and child health outcomes in Haryana, India. PLoS One. 2016; 11(3): e0150537. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150537.
• Rana M, Kamath R, Ashok L, Guddattu V, Shetty B, Chandrasekaran V. Knowledge and attitude regarding STIs including HIV and RTIs among college adolescent girls in urban Udupi Taluk. GJMEDPH. 2015;4(1).

Teaching

VSP Nursing Package B: Health Impact and Climate Change