​WHO Secretariat


Dr. Jotheeswaran Thiyagarajan
Technical Officer (Epidemiologist)

Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan Jotheeswaran is an epidemiologist. In August 2015, he joined the Department of Ageing and Life Course as a Technical Officer (Epidemiologist). He developed evidence-based clinical guidelines for WHO Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE), which aim to enhance the functional ability of older people. He is also involved in the development of the conceptual framework for integrated care for older people and operationalization of WHO's key concepts of Healthy Ageing.

He started his career as a psychotherapist, largely involved in dementia rehabilitation. Between 2004 and 2006 he led research on the implications of different health systems, and the influences of culture on care arrangements for older people with chronic disease in India. He did so in coordination with research centres in China, Africa and Latin America. In 2012, he was awarded a Wellcome Trust /Public Health Foundation of India career development research fellowship to evaluate effectiveness of complex intervention targeting frail older people at primary health care setting in Goa, India.