Neisha Sundaram

Datos Biográficos

ID6168470
NOMBRENeisha Sundaram
NOMBRESNeisha
APELLIDOSundaram
FIRMASUNDARAM N
AFILIACIONESRoyal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ORCID0000-0003-4159-9518
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS12
TOTAL DE CITAS1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR12
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • The association of positive educational experiences with adolescents’ depressive symptoms

    Open AccessG J Melendez-Torres, Veena Muraleetharan et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction The school environment influences adolescent health through both individual experiences, such as one’s own engagement with school, and broader school-level factors, such as aggregate student levels of engagement, affecting all students. For mental-health outcomes, existing evidence more consistently supports individual-level influences than school-level effects. In relation to depression, negative student-level educational experience…

  • Effects of a whole-school relationships and sexual health intervention on non-competent sexual debut

    Open AccessRuth Ponsford, Rebecca Meiksin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2026Citada por: 1Referencias: 22

    BACKGROUND: Relationships and sex education (RSE) impacts some sexual behaviours but could be strengthened by incorporating whole-school approaches (eg, building engagement, providing contraception). These can prevent pregnancies and sexually-transmitted infections but are unevaluated in UK schools. METHODS: A cluster-randomised trial of 'Positive Choices' compared it with usual practice in English secondary schools. Intervention comprised: RSE, …

  • Headteacher challenges and opportunities of implementing Covid-19 preventive measures in schools in England from 2022 onwards

    Open AccessGeorgia Venner, Gillian McKay et al.ARTICLEHealth Education Journal2025

    Objective: Government guidance to reduce COVID-19 transmission was rapidly implemented by headteachers in primary and secondary schools in England. This study investigated the main challenges and opportunities faced by headteachers during the pandemic recovery period (starting in March 2021 when schools reopened indefinitely). Findings are intended to inform education policy to support schools and for future outbreaks. Design: Qualitative study i…

  • Sexual Harassment in Early Adolescence

    Open AccessG J Melendez-Torres, Rebecca Meiksin et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2025Referencias: 3

    There is little research on sexual harassment among younger adolescents or on how rates vary by gender and other student/school characteristics. Drawing on data from 50 English schools, we explored the prevalence and patterning of victimization in the past year among students aged 12-13. Of 7,060 participants, almost a tenth had experienced sexual harassment. Girls, non-binary students, and sexual-minority students reported the highest rates. Stu…

  • Student-reported relationships and sex education coverage and knowledge among a diverse population of early adolescents

    Open AccessG J Melendez-Torres, Ruth Ponsford et al.ARTICLESex Education2024

    Student-reported quality and coverage of school-based relationships and sex education (RSE) vary, with gender/sexual-minority and disadvantaged students reporting poorer provision. Experience of RSE among younger adolescents is under-explored. We examined student-reported RSE coverage and priorities and how coverage, and sexual-health knowledge and awareness of services, varies between students and schools. The data came from a pre-intervention s…

  • Implementation of Covid ‐19 Preventive Measures and Staff Well‐Being in a Sample of English Schools 2020‐2021

    Open AccessNeisha Sundaram, Tanya Abramsky et al.ARTICLEJournal of School Health2023

    BACKGROUND: We examined fidelity and feasibility of implementation of COVID-19 preventive measures in schools, and explored associations between adherence to these measures and staff well-being, to inform policy on sustainable implementation and staff wellbeing. METHODS: Surveys were conducted across 128 schools in England with 107 headteachers and 2698 staff-members with reference to autumn term 2020, examining school-level implementation of pre…

  • English headteacher perspectives on school responses to protect student and staff mental wellbeing in the later stages of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessGillian McKay, Georgia Venner et al.ARTICLEHealth Education Journal2023

    Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on pupils and staff in English schools. This study aimed to provide an in-depth understanding of the challenges schools faced and the processes they implemented to protect the mental wellbeing of students and staff in the later stages of the pandemic, focusing on January–June 2022. Design: Qualitative study. Setting: Primary and secondary schools in England from April to September 2022…

  • Qualitative longitudinal research on the experience of implementing Covid-19 prevention in English schools

    Open AccessNeisha Sundaram, Nerissa Tilouche et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2023

    Implementation studies rarely examine how health interventions are delivered in emergencies. Informed by May's general theory of implementation (GTI), we undertook qualitative longitudinal research to investigate how schools in England implemented Covid-19-prevention measures and how this evolved over the 2020-2021 school year in a rapidly changing epidemiological and policy context. We conducted 74 semi-structured interviews over two time-points…

  • Strong, vertical TB programme embedded in a developing primary healthcare system

    Open AccessNeisha Sundaram, Richard James et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018

    Health Policy and Planning, doi: 10.1093/heapol/czx079. The authors would like to indicate that the address for the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health was incorrectly given in the original manuscript as ‘0808 Rivergate, 97 Robertson Quay, Singapore 238257, Singapore’. This has now been corrected online to ‘Tahir Foundation Building, 12 Science Drive 2, #10-01, Singapore 117549, Singapore’.

  • A strong TB programme embedded in a developing primary healthcare system is a lose-lose situation

    Open AccessNeisha Sundaram, Richard James et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2017Referencias: 18

    As exemplified by the situation in Cambodia, disease specific (vertical) health programmes are often favoured when the health system is fragile. The potential of such an approach to impede strengthening of primary healthcare services has been studied from a health systems perspective in terms of access and quality of care. In this bottom-up, qualitative study we investigate patient and community member experiences of health services when a strong…

  • Sociocultural determinants of anticipated oral cholera vaccine acceptance in three African settings

    Open AccessNeisha Sundaram, Christian Schaetti et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    These cholera-endemic African communities are especially interested in no-cost OCVs. Health education and attention to local social and cultural features of cholera and vaccines would likely increase vaccine coverage. High demand and absence of insurmountable sociocultural barriers to vaccination with OCVs indicate potential for mass vaccination in planning for comprehensive control or elimination

  • Distinguishing social and cultural features of cholera in urban and rural areas of Western Kenya

    Open AccessErick Otieno Nyambedha, Neisha Sundaram et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2013

    Urban and rural areas have distinctive health problems, which require consideration. To examine sociocultural features of cholera and its community context, a semi-structured explanatory model interview based on vignettes depicting typical clinical features of cholera was used to interview 379 urban and rural respondents in Western Kenya. Findings included common and distinctive urban and rural ideas about cholera, and its prevention and treatmen…