Research Interests: Allergy, Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Chronobiology, Respiratory Epidemiology, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Quality of Life
Professor Subhabrata Moitra is a clinical epidemiologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (UK). He has received several honours and accolades, such as the DST-INSPIRE fellowship from the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, the prestigious Long-Term Research Fellowship, and Young Scientist Award from the European Respiratory Society. He is an Editor of Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, a Review Editor of Frontiers in Public Health, and a reviewer for several respiratory, general medicine, internal medicine, occupational, and environmental medicine journals.
Professor Moitra completed a Bachelor's in Physiology from Krishnagar Government College (affiliated with the University of Kalyani) and a Master's in Physiology from the Erstwhile Presidency College, Kolkata (now Presidency University). He earned a Doctorate in Physiology from the University of Kalyani where his research focused on the work-related health consequences among Indian goldsmiths and other marginal labour sector workers. Professor Moitra briefly worked as a Research Fellow at the Chest Research Foundation and subsequently pursued postdoctoral research at Lund University in Sweden from 2015 to 2016. He also worked as a scientific consultant at Kolkata's Allergy and Asthma Research Centre. He pursued postdoctoral training at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and later moved to Canada, in 2020 as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta.
Professor Moitra's primary research interest is chronic respiratory diseases (primarily asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/COPD) and their perturbations concerning environmental, social, psychological, occupational, and interpersonal factors. He is also interested in interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) and human chronobiology. He has taught several courses in respiratory medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, physiology, and biostatistics to undergraduate, postgraduate, and graduate students in Canada and India. He has an extended network of research collaborations from North America to Europe, India to Australia, and New Zealand.
Professor Moitra’s research interests cover social, environmental, behavioural, clinical, and genetic risk factors for allergic and chronic respiratory diseases, with a particular focus on allergic rhinitis, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He has been part of research projects that received funding from the Allergy and Asthma Research Centre (India), European Respiratory Society, European Council (EU), Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Alberta Innovates, and AstraZeneca (Canada). He has been involved in several large multinational studies in various capacities, as detailed below:
As Principal Investigator
As Co-Investigator
* Corresponding/Senior author
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Editorial Roles
Reviewer
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Annals of Medicine (Elevate), Anesthesiology, Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, Biomarkers, BioMed Research International, BMC Medicine, BMC Public Health, BMC Pulmonary Medicine, BMJ Open, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Canadian Respiratory Journal, Clinical and Experimental Allergy, Clinical and Translational Allergy, E-Biomedicine, Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Pollution, ERJ Open Research, European Respiratory Journal, Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Medicine, Frontiers in Public Health, Global Health Action, Indoor Air, International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, International Journal of Clinical Practice, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Obesity, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - Global, Journal of Asthma, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, Military Medical Research, Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, PLoS One, QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Respiration, Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Research, Risk Analysis, Safety and Health at Work, The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Toxicology and Industrial Health, Tropical Doctor
Abstract Reviewer