Pallab K Maulik

Biographic Data

ID4599208
NAMEPallab K Maulik
GIVEN NAMESPallab K
FAMILY NAMEMaulik
SIGNATUREMAULIK P K
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0001-6835-6175
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Feasibility, acceptability, and pilot effectiveness of a social-contact-based intervention to reduce mental health-related stigma among primary care providers in China, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, and Tun…

    Open AccessDristy Gurung, Bethel Ayele et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2026

    Feasibility, acceptability, and pilot effectiveness of a social-contact-based intervention to reduce mental health-related stigma among primary care providers in China, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, and Tunisia: Findings from a multi-site pre-post study

  • Development of the Indigo partnership knowledge exchange strategy

    Open AccessTatiana Taylor Salisbury, Anish V Cherian et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2026

    Background: Knowledge exchange, a process of equitable learning, is an important aspect of research. However, there is limited published evidence about whether and how researchers plan for and document this process. This paper describes the collaborative development of the knowledge exchange strategy for a mental health research programme (the INDIGO Partnership), including monitoring and evaluation methods. Method: Knowledge gaps and needs were …

  • Barriers and facilitators for adolescents seeking mental health care in India

    Open AccessSudha Kallakuri, Prachi Kaistha et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2026

    Common mental disorders (CMDs) and psychological distress contribute substantially to morbidity among adolescents in India yet help-seeking remains limited. Understanding determinants of help-seeking behaviour is essential to designing context-specific, adolescent-friendly mental health interventions. This systematic review was conducted following MOOSE guidelines and reported in line with PRISMA 2020 framework. Searches across PubMed, EMBASE, Ps…

  • Responding to experienced and anticipated discrimination training for health professionals working in mental health services (Read-MH)

    Open AccessHend Jemli, Bethel Ayele et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2026

    BACKGROUND: Stigmatisation and discrimination towards people with mental health problems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is pervasive. Health professionals working in mental health services can play a critical role in stigma reduction. This study examines the feasibility, costs, and potential effectiveness of READ-MH for such professionals in LMICs. METHODS: This multisite, nonrandomized pre–post mixed-methods feasibility study was co…

  • Perinatal mental health in India in the states of Haryana and Telangana

    Open AccessLucy Mellers, Sudhir Raj Thout et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2025References: 117

    Women in the perinatal phase are at an increased risk of experiencing mental health problems, but in low and middle-income countries such as India, perinatal mental health (PMH) care provision is often scarce. This situational analysis presents the formative findings of the SMARThealth Pregnancy and Mental Health (PRAMH) project (Votruba et al. 2023). It investigates the nature and availability of maternal mental health policies, legislation, sys…

  • Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021

    Open AccessMichael Brauer, Gregory A Roth et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to specific health outcomes, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 aims to provide comprehensive estimates of exposure levels, relative health risks, and attributable burden of disease for 88 ri…

  • Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021

    Open AccessMohsen Naghavi, Kanyin Liane Ong et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021

    Open AccessJaimie D Steinmetz, Katrin Seeher et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Neurology2024

    BACKGROUND: Disorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19. Previous publications from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor Study estimated the burden of 15 neurological conditions in 2015 and 2016, but these analyses did not include neurodevelopmental disorders, as defined by…

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • Cultural adaptation of Indigo mental health stigma reduction interventions using an ecological validity model in north India

    Open AccessMercian Daniel, Sudha Kallakuri et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Stigma reduction strategies with varied target groups, based on culturally appropriate adaptations, are more likely to be acceptable to the stakeholders involved in the intervention, and to be effective in terms of the program impact

  • Adapting and piloting a social contact-based intervention to reduce mental health stigma among primary care providers

    Open AccessDristy Gurung, B A Kohrt et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2023

    Stigma among primary care providers (PCPs) is a barrier to successful integration of mental health services in primary healthcare settings globally. Therefore, cross-culturally adaptable and feasible strategies are needed to reduce stigma among PCPs. This protocol is for a multi-site pilot study that aims to adapt and evaluate cross-cultural feasibility and acceptability of a social contact-based primary healthcare intervention in 7 sites in 5 lo…

  • The systematic medical appraisal, referral and treatment (SMART) mental health programme

    Open AccessMercian Daniel, Amanpreet Kaur et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2023

    Gaps exist between prevalence and treatment options for mental disorders in India. Limited awareness, poor help-seeking, scarcity of trained mental health professionals, limited mental health services and stigma are few examples of reasons contributing to treatment gap. This paper highlights findings from formative research of a primary mental healthcare model comprising of a preliminary feasibility testing of the Electronic Decision Support Syst…

  • The Lancet Commission on ending stigma and discrimination in mental health

    Open AccessGraham Thornicroft, Charlene Sunkel et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

  • Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year

    Open AccessDana Bryazka, Marissa B Reitsma et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

    BACKGROUND: The health risks associated with moderate alcohol consumption continue to be debated. Small amounts of alcohol might lower the risk of some health outcomes but increase the risk of others, suggesting that the overall risk depends, in part, on background disease rates, which vary by region, age, sex, and year. METHODS: For this analysis, we constructed burden-weighted dose-response relative risk curves across 22 health outcomes to esti…

  • Methodological adaptations to a theory of change model

    Open AccessSandhya Kanaka Yatirajula, Sudha Kallakuri et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2022

    This article discusses methodological adaptations that were made to the Theory of Change (ToC) process by incorporating imagery during a ToC workshop organized as part of a cluster randomize control trial in India, entitled ARTEMIS. The objective of this adaptation was to make the ToC interesting and interactive for adolescents who are the primary stakeholders in the project. This in turn led to a demystification of the concepts of ToC making it …

  • Engaging with adolescents to navigate the Adolescents’ Resilience and Treatment nEeds for Mental health in Indian Slums (Artemis) trial

    Open AccessSandhya Kanaka Yatirajula, Sudha Kallakuri et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Adolescence causes rapid changes at physical, mental, and social levels rending adolescents vulnerable to stress, depression, and increased risk of self-harm/suicide [1] In India, mental illness is one of the leading causes of death and disability for this age group [2]. Many adolescents with mental disorders worldwide are left untreated and unidentified [3] due to [...]

  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health

    Open AccessKatherine R Paulson, Katherine Paulson et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

    BACKGROUND: Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years to less than 25 per 1000 livebirths, for each country by 2030. To understand current rates, recent trends, and potential trajectories of child mortality for the next decade, we present the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, a…

  • Why do strategies to strengthen primary health care succeed in some places and fail in others? Exploring local variation in the effectiveness of a community health worker managed digital health interv…

    Open AccessGill Schierhout, Devarsetty Praveen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Digital health interventions (DHIs) have huge potential as support modalities to identify and manage cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in resource-constrained settings, but studies assessing them show modest effects. This study aims to identify variation in outcomes and implementation of SMARTHealth India, a cluster randomised trial of an ASHA-managed digitally enabled primary healthcare (PHC) service strengthening strategy for CVD …

  • Evaluating a community based mental health programme in West Bengal, India

    Open AccessAbha Tewari, Tasneem Raja et al.ARTICLEEvaluation and Program Planning2021

  • Directly engaging with People with lived experiences of mental illness from the communities in India

    Open AccessAmanpreet Kaur, Sudha Kallakuri et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2021

    Stigma and discrimination dissuade people with mental illnesses from talking openly about their problems. In India, these experiences are influenced by local cultural factors. Interventions to reduce mental health stigma in India indicated that very few studies have involved people with lived experiences (PWLEs) of mental illness and their families. As evidence shows that having interpersonal contact with a person with mental illness reduces stig…

  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Open AccessChristopher J L Murray, Cristiana Abbafati et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019

    Open AccessChristopher J L Murray, Aleksandr Y Aravkin et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Rigorous analysis of levels and trends in exposure to leading risk factors and quantification of their effect on human health are important to identify where public health is making progress and in which cases current efforts are inadequate. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a standardised and comprehensive assessment of the magnitude of risk factor exposure, relative risk, and attribu…

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019

    Open AccessTheo Vos, Stephen S Lim et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: In an era of shifting global agendas and expanded emphasis on non-communicable diseases and injuries along with communicable diseases, sound evidence on trends by cause at the national level is essential. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic scientific assessment of published, publicly available, and contributed data on incidence, prevalence, and mortality for a mutually exclusive…

  • Public support for alcohol control initiatives across seven countries

    Open AccessMaria R Dekker, Alexandra Jones et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2020

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017

    Open AccessDaniel Dicker, Grant Nguyen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part of previous iterations of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD). Previous iterations of the GBD used population estimates from UNPOP, which were not derived in a way that was internally consistent wit…