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Organising for One Health in a developing country
Author: Nachiket Mor

Health seeking behaviour in four Indian States
Author: Prof. Barbara McPake, Prof. Sumit Kane, Prof. Ajay Mahal

The Vinyasa Tool for mHealth Solutions: Supporting Human-Centered Design in Nascent Digital Health Ecosystems
Author: Verghese Thomas, Bharat Kalidindi, Abijeet Waghmare, Abhishek Bhatia, Tony Raj, Satchit Balsari

We Cannot Tackle Maternal Mortality Without Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Care
Author: Siddhesh Zadey, Nachiket Mor

Population, health and nutrition profile of the Scheduled Tribes in India: a comparative perspective, 2016–2021
Author: S. V. Subramanian, William Joe

Commentary: Developing technical support and strategic dialogue at the country level to achieve primary health care-based health systems beyond the COVID-19 era
Author: Nachiket Mor

The pharmacy as a primary care provider
Author: Nachiket Mor, Dyuti Sen, Sarah Zaheen, Rubayat Khan, Priya Naik, Nayonika Basu

Evidence-based traditional medicine for transforming global health and well-being
Author: Bhushan Patwardhan, L. Susan Wieland, Obijiofor Aginam, Anchalee Chuthaputti, Ricardo Ghelman, Roshanak Ghods, Goh Cheng Soon, Motlalepula G. Matsabisa, Georg Seifert, Sione Tu’itahi, Kim Sung Chol, Shyama Kuruvilla, Kathi Kemper, Holger Cramer, H.R. Nagendra, Anup Thakar, Tanuja Nesari, Sanjeev Sharma, Narayanam Srikanth, Rabinarayan Acharya

Technologies for strengthening immunization coverage in India: a systematic review
Author: Nonita Dudeja, Nonita Dudeja, Tila Khan, Deepak Thomas Varughese, Sebin George Abraham, Marilyn Mary Ninan, Christie Leya Prasad, Rajiv Sarkar, Gagandeep Kang

Evidence-based traditional medicine for transforming global health and well-being
Author: Bhushan Patwardhan, L. Susan Wieland, Obijiofor Aginam, Anchalee Chuthaputti, Ricardo Ghelman, Roshanak Ghods, Goh Cheng Soon, Motlalepula G. Matsabisa, Georg Seifert, Sione Tu’itahi, Kim Sung Chol, Shyama Kuruvilla, Kathi Kemper, Holger Cramer, H.R. Nagendra, Anup Thakar, Tanuja Nesari, Sanjeev Sharma, Narayanam Srikanth, Rabinarayan Acharya

A Guide to Health Reform: Eight Practical Steps
Author: Michael R. Reich, Taro Takemi, Paola Abril Campos, Anuska Kalita, Anya Levy Guyer, Winnie (Chi-Man) Yip

Inducting family physicians to offer primary care in remote areas of India is neither feasible nor necessary
Author: Nachiket Mor

The Politics of Health Policy Agenda Setting in India: The Case of the PMJAY Program
Author: Anuska Kalita, Kevin Croke

Understanding Demand for Healthcare Among Families of High-risk Newborns
Author: Taha Ibrahim Siddiqui, Nayana Nair, Diane Coffey

Universal Health Coverage in Meghalaya
Author: Ali Mehdi

Where lies the future of Ayurveda-inspired drug discovery?
Author: Bhushan Patwardhan

Re-imagining the care delivery system for chronic conditions
Author: Vikram Patel

Health and democracy in India: Do voters care about health?
Author: Oliver Heath, Jyoti Mishra, Louise Tillin, Sandhya Venkateswaran

Report of Task Force on Evidence Based Traditional Medicine for Health Care in India
Author: NAMS – DGHS, Govt. of India, Task Force Series No. 05

Reimagining the journey to recovery: The COVID-19 pandemic and global mental health
Author: Vikram Patel, Daisy Fancourt, Toshi A. Furukawa, Lola Kola

In search of a fix to the primary health care chasm in India: can institutionalizing a public health cadre and inducting family physicians be the answer?
Author: Allen Prabhaker Ugargol, Arnab Mukherji, Ritika Tiwari

Evaluating the status of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery indicators for India
Author: Siddhesh Zadey, Himanshu Iyer, Anveshi Nayan, Ritika Shetty, Swati Sonal, Emily R. Smith, Catherine A. Staton, Tamara N. Fitzgerald, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci

Progress on Sustainable Development Goal indicators in 707 districts of India: a quantitative mid-line assessment using the National Family Health Surveys, 2016 and 2021
Author: S. V. Subramanian, Mayanka Ambade, Akhil Kumar, Hyejun Chi, William Joe, Sunil Rajpal, Rockli Kim

A shot of justice: Priority-setting for addressing child mortality
Author: Ali Mehdi

Catastrophic health expenditure on private sector pharmaceuticals: a cross-sectional analysis from the state of Odisha, India
Author: Annie Haakenstad, Anuska Kalita, Bijetri Bose, Jan E Cooper, Winnie Yip

Health system for a New India: Building Blocks
Author: NITI Aayog

People’s care seeking journey for a chronic illness in rural India: Implications for policy and practice
Author: SumitKane, MadhuraJoshi, SapnaDesai, AjayMahal, BarbaraMcPake

Tribal Development Report
Author: Mihir Shah, P.S. Vijayshankar, Bharat Rural

Small Area Variation in the Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in India
Author: Hwa-Young Lee, Md Juel Rana, Rockli Kim

A virtual bridge to Universal Healthcare in India
Author: Biswanath Ghosh Dastidar, Shailesh Suri, Vikranth H. Nagaraja & Anant Jani

HEALTH STATUS IN INDIA CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Author:

The Political Economy of Public Health Inequalities and Inequities in India: Complexities, Challenges, and Strategies for Inclusive Public Health Care Policy
Author: Nitish Gogoi and S.S. Sumesh

Why Every Body Counts
Author: Satchit Balsari, Caroline Buckee, and Jennifer Leaning

Fact Sheet: Solarizing Rural health Centers in Jharkhand
Author:

Pandemic panic and indiscriminate prescriptions drive India’s antimicrobial resistance
Author: Kamala Thiagarajan, freelance journalist

A democratic health check: why India shows the need for democracies to prioritise healthcare
Author: Dr Louise Tillin and Sandhya Venkateswaran

Strengthening Public Health Delivery Role of Multiple Stakeholders
Author:

The Road Ahead for Smart COVID-19 Testing and Tracing in India
Author:

Walking the Talk : Reimagining Primary Health Care After COVID-19
Author:

EXPERIENCES OF FRONTLINE WORKERS IN RAJASTHAN AND HIMACHAL PRADESH DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Author:

India faces a challenge with its mass vaccination efforts
Author: S V Subramanian

The burden of neurological disorders across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2019
Author: India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Neurological Disorders Collaborators

Contextualising evidence-based recommendations for the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Author: Satchit Balsari , Zarir Udwadia , Ahmed Shaikh, Abdul Ghafur, Sushila Kataria

The social determinates health : Developing an evidence base for political action
Author: Measurement and Evidence knowledge Network

Overcoming Structural Barriers to sharing power with communities in global health research priority-setting: Lessons from the Participation for Local Action project in Karnataka, India
Author: Aatmika Nair, Yash Jawale, Sweta R. Dubey, Surabhi Dharmadhikari & Siddhesh Zadey

REGULATION OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN INDIA A LANDSCAPE STUDY
Author: Sunil Nandraj , Pallavi Gupta , Sonali Randhawa

A democratic health check: why India shows the need for democracies to prioritise healthcare
Author: Dr Louise Tillin and Sandhya Venkateswaran

Healthcare takes center stage, finally!
Author:

भारत के लिए कोविड-19 के साधन: समाधान का हिस्सा बनिए
Author: एक संवाद कार्यान्वयन गाइड

Is indiscriminate use of medicines the main reason for problems faced during the second wave of COVID-19 in India? – Authors’ reply
Author: Zarir Udwadia , Satchit Balsari , Abdul Ghafur

Why do some health care providers disrespect and abuse women during childbirth in India?
Author: KaveriMayra, ZoëMatthews, Sabu S.Padmadas

Digital bodies and digitalised welfare: North-South linkages in the politics of food assistance and social welfare
Author: S. Jaspars (Susanne) , C. Sathyamala (christina)

India COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker
Author: Akhil Kumar, William Joe, Abhishek Kumar, Atif Amin, Weiyu Wang, Rockli Kim, Rakesh Sarwal, S V Subramanian. India COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker for Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies of India. Apr 2021. Geographic Insights Lab at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The uses of knowledge in global health
Author: Seye Abimbola

Managing India’s Second COVID-19 Wave: Urgent Steps
Author: The Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force

Health Workforce in India: Why , Where and How to invest ?
Author:

NFHS Policy Tracker for Districts
Author: Akhil Kumar, Weiyu Wang, Sojin Kim, Weixing Zhang, Rockli Kim, Rakesh Sarwal, S V Subramanian

Universal access to essential health information: accelerating progress towards universal health coverage and other SDG health targets
Author: Geoff Royston , Neil Pakenham-Walsh , Chris Zielinski

Going Granular: Equity of Health Financing at the District and Facility Level in India
Author: Urmila Chatterjee , Owen Smith

India Digital Health Net
Author:

PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TOWARDS UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN INDIA A Roadmap for achieving UHC
Author: NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY BENGALURU THINK TANK ON HEALTH

Child Health in the Hinterland
Author: Pavitra Mohan , Simarn Jain , Gargi Goel , Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan

Do health policies address the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of human resources for health? Analysis over three decades of National Health Policy of India
Author: Sweta Dubey, Jeel Vasa & Siddhesh Zadey

Size, composition and distribution of health workforce in India: why, and where to invest?
Author: Anup Karan, Himanshu Negandhi, Suhaib Hussain, Tomas Zapata, Dilip Mairembam, Hilde De Graeve, James Buchan & Sanjay Zodpey

COVID-19 Global and National Response Lessons for the Future
Author: Dr. Vikram PatelProfessor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Co-Founder, Sangath

Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) Wave-1
Author: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), NPHCE, MoHFW,

Why is women’s utilization of a publicly funded health insurance low?: a qualitative study in Tamil Nadu, India
Author: Rajalakshmi RamPrakash and Lakshmi Lingam

Geo-visualising diet, anthropometric and clinical indicators for children in India.
Author: Akhil Kumar, Weixing Zhang, S V Subramanian. Dashboard on Geo-visualising Diet, Anthropometric and Clinical Indicators for Children in India. December 2020, Cambridge MA, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

First COVID-19 metrics and data visualization for parliamentary constituencies in India.
Author: Akhil Kumar, Weixing Zhang, S V Subramanian. Geovisualizing COVID-19 Metrics across Parliamentary Constituencies in India. December 2020, Cambridge MA, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

India: Towards Universal Health Coverage
Author:

Assuring health coverage for all in India
Author: Prof Vikram Patel, FMedSci Rachana Parikh, MPH Sunil Nandraj, MA Priya Balasubramaniam, MPH Kavita Narayan, FACHE Prof Vinod K Paul, MD A K Shiva Kumar, PhD Mirai Chatterjee, MPH Prof K Srinath Reddy, MD

Is It a Fallacy? India’s Government Health Expenditure as the Ratio to GDP
Author: T R Dilip , Pratheeba J , Sunil Nandraj

India’s Health Status and Emerging Priorities
Author: Sandhya Venkateswaran & Alok Kumar Singh

COVID mortality in India: National survey data and health facility deaths
Author: PRABHAT JHA , YASHWANT DESHMUKH , CHINMAY TUMBE , WILSON SURAWEERA, ADITI BHOWMICK, SANKALP SHARMA , PAUL NOVOSAD , SZE HANG FU LESLIE NEWCOMBE HELLEN GELBAND, AND PATRICK BROWN

A Deep Dive for Big Money The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
Author: INDRANIL

Unshackling Science in India
Author: VIKRAM PATEL

Why is the National Health Authority so focused on the for-profit medical sector?
Author: Sulakshana Nandi

How might technology enable citizen-centred journeys in health care that also empower health workers and professionals? A Vigenette from 2030 in rural india.
Author: : Raghu Dharmaraju, Vijay Chandru, Umakant Soni,

Workforce Problems at rural public health centres in India : a WISN retrospective analysis and national-levels modelling study
Author: Aatmika Nair ,Yash Jawale , Sweta R. Dubey , Surabhi Dharmadhikari & Siddhesh zadey

Disrespectful Maternity Care: Labour Room Violence in Government Health Facilities
Author: Lovey Pant, Kanika Sharma, Nazar Khalid, Nikhil Srivastav

Political Motivation as a Key Driver for Universal Health Coverage
Author: Sandhya Venkateswaran, Shruti Slaria, Sampriti Mukherjee

Measuring the availability of human resources for health and its relationship to universal health coverage for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Author: GBD 2019 Human Resources for Health Collaborators

Framing and the formation of global health priorities
Author: Prof Jeremy Shiffman, Yusra Ribhi Shawar

The politics of universal health coverage
Author: Carmen Jacqueline Ho, Hina Khalid, Kimberly Skead, Prof Joseph Wong

Global health diplomacy—reconstructing power and governance
Author: Ilona Kickbusch, Austin Liu

Political science and global health policy
Author: Eduardo J Gómez, Prerna Singh, Jeremy Shiffman, Lorena Barberia

How can engagement with political science and international relations for health be improved?
Author: Preslava Stoeva

How to work with intangible software in public health systems: some experiences from India
Author: Sudha Ramani, Rakesh Parashar, Nobhojit Roy, Arpana Kullu, Rakhal Gaitonde, Ramya Ananthakrishnan, Sanjida Arora, Shantanu Mishra, Amita Pitre, Deepika Saluja, Anupama Srinivasan, Anju Uppal, Prabir Bose, Vijayshree Yellappa, Sanjeev Kumar

Components of Out-of-Pocket Expenditure and Their Relative Contribution to Economic Burden of Diseases in India
Author: Mayanka Ambade, Rakesh Sarwal, Nachiket Mor

Leverage the power of ritual to improve community health worker efficacy and public health outcomes: Lessons from Bihar, India
Author: Oskar Burger, Tracy Johnson, Nachiket Mor, Neela Saldanha

UHC India – Health Report
Author: The Elders

Social disadvantage, economic inequality, and life expectancy in nine Indian states
Author: Sangita Vyas, Payal Hathi, Aashish Gupta

Health of the nation: Perspectives for a new India
Author: Ali Mehdi, Irudaya Rajan

Prevention of chronic diseases: Reorienting primary health systems in India
Author: Mehdi, Ali, Divya Chaudhry, Priyanka Tomar, Pallavi Joshi
India’s hunger paradox: Self-sufficiency in production does not necessarily mean food security
-S. V. Subramanian, Smriti Sharma
Someone you know has cancer. Should you hide the diagnosis from them?
-Christianez Ratna Kiruba, -Parth Sharma
Union Budget 2023: Health budget is now Covid negative
-Prof. K Srinath Reddy
Young Indians have an intellectual disability crisis. Stigma, lack of reporting adding to it
-Mudit Kapoor, -Mayanka Ambade, -Shamika Ravi, -S.V. Subramanian
Time to build an efficient health system: K. Srinath Reddy on health in India@2023
-K. Srinath Reddy
K Sujatha Rao writes: Policy makers need to take mental health more seriously
-K. Sujatha Rao
What India needs to do to prepare for the next health crisis
-K. Srinath Reddy
View: A safe sub-unit protein vaccine will further enhance booster protection against Covid variants
-Dr. K Srinath Reddy
Covid 2023: Reengineer the response: Next year, instead of hype or fatigue, let’s focus on R&D & data
-Gagandeep Kang
View: India is more than capable of riding out any new Covid wave. All it needs is to be smart
-Dr. Devi Shetty
Covid: How to prepare this time – The world must know what variant is causing China’s Covid wave
-Dr. K Srinath Reddy
The importance of rituals in behaviour change
-Cristine H Legare, Faiz Hashmi , Nachiket Mor, Neela A Saldhana
What the Vande Bharat train says about the lopsided priorities of Indian modernity
-Vikram Patel
How India Can Achieve Universal Health Coverage
-Parth Sharma and Preethi John
Reducing Her Burden: contraception as a critical step toward women’s empowerment
-Poonam Muttreja & Andrea Wojnar
Could telemedicine make universal health care a reality in India?
-Parth Sharma & Siddhesh Zadey
How sitting for long slams your heart and lungs, raises blood sugar and piles up belly fat
-K Srinath Reddy
India needs a life cycle approach to overcome its persisting nutrition-related challenges
-Sanghamitra Singh
India at 75 looking at 100: Equitable access should be the goal
-Gagandeep Kang
India@100: A digitally-powered and sustainable innovation hub
-Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Why young people need better platforms to access health education
-Poonam Muttereja
Global Health Treaty to prevent pandemics and regulate antibiotic use
-K Srinath Reddy
Monkeypox & human folly:Recognise diseases like this spread because we in general act foolishly
-K Srinath Reddy
Assuring health for 1.4 billion Indians: Robust public health system is the need of the hour
-K Srinath Reddy
Schooling in Covid Era: An Opportunity for Young Students to Become Better Global Citizens
-K Srinath Reddy
Cancer Care Is Improving – But at Different Rates for Different People in India
-Parth Sharma and Siddhesh Zadey
Playing chess against Covid: New wave is likely coming. But don’t panic
-K Srinath Reddy
Why India needs to change its approach towards sexuality education
-Riya Thakur & Poonam Muttreja
Screening Now: X Rated Variants. Why We Should Avoid Any Infection, Not Just Severe Illness
-K Srinath Reddy
India will also have to make provisions for poor young persons with fading immunity
-K Srinath Reddy
Why India is still far away from achieving a sustainable healthcare system
-Poonam Muttreja
Covid has been an inflection point for India to emerge as a global life sciences leader
-Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Test cleared, exam on: India did better than most in tackling Omicron. But let’s not get comfortable
-K Srinath Reddy
Removing age cap for NEET aspirants: Age no bar for medical education
-K Srinath Reddy
What the plight of students in Ukraine reveals about medical education in India
-K Srinath Reddy