Avishek Hazra

Biographic Data

ID6885272
NAMEAvishek Hazra
GIVEN NAMESAvishek
FAMILY NAMEHazra
SIGNATUREHAZRA A
AFFILIATIONSPopulation Council Institute
ORCID0000-0001-5992-189X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Building a rights-based approach to nutrition for women and children

    Open AccessMonica Shrivastav, Vani Sethi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Women face numerous gender-based barriers that hinder their access to resources, nutritious foods, nutrition services, and maternity entitlements. Evidence shows that certain types of women’s groups can improve women’s access to resources and social capital and in some approaches also improve health and nutrition outcomes. Women’s rights-based organizations in South Asia have a longstanding tradition of collective action toward gender equality. W…

  • Individual interventions, collective lessons

    Open AccessSapna Desai, Neha Kumar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Interventions with women's groups have been widely implemented to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income settings, particularly India. While there is a large evidence base on the effectiveness of single interventions, it is challenging to predict whether a women's group intervention delivered in one setting can be expected to work in another. Methods: We applied realist principles to develop and refine a mid-range theory on…

  • Testing theory of change assumptions of health behavior change interventions

    Open AccessAvishek Hazra, Jaleel Ahmad et al.ARTICLEEvaluation and Program Planning2023

    This paper used a blended approach that involves multiple techniques to, first, test a set of assumptions around a health behavior change communication intervention theory of change (ToC) and, second, surface some unidentified assumptions involving the local context. The intervention was integrated with women's self-help groups (SHGs) in Uttar Pradesh, India. The key assumption tested in this paper was the linkage between SHG membership, program …

  • Measuring potential interest in a postpartum contraceptive vaginal ring among breastfeeding women in India

    Open AccessLorna Begg, Jim Sailer et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Access to safe and effective contraception for postpartum women is an important priority in India, where the unmet need for postpartum contraception is high. In this paper, we estimate the potential market size in India for the progesterone vaginal ring (PVR), a novel user-controlled contraceptive method that offers additional contraceptive choice for lactating women. We integrated results of a one-year phase-3 multicenter clinical trial for the …

  • Perceived Social Networks and Newborn Health

    Open AccessJenny Ruducha, Xinran Huang et al.ARTICLESocieties2018References: 9

    The limitations of individual level interventions in changing behaviors to improve global maternal, newborn and child health have generated more interest in the patterns of social influence and decision making embedded in families, friends and communities. The purpose of this study is to expand the understanding of village dynamics in India and how first degree social and advice networks and cognitive perceptions of 185 recently delivered women (…

  • Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers to Improve Use of Contraception in Low and Middle Income Countries

    Open AccessM E Khan, Avishek Hazra et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2016

    This systematic review synthesizes evidence on the impact of conditional and unconditional cash transfers (CCT and UCT) on contraception in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Scientific and gray literature databases were searched from 1994 to 2016 and 11 papers from ten studies were included. Most of the studies had low risk of bias. Cash transfers were used for increasing school attendance or improving health and nutrition, but not directly for c…