Soumya Swaminathan

Dados Biográficos

ID5804759
NOMESoumya Swaminathan
PRENOMESSoumya
SOBRENOMESwaminathan
ASSINATURASWAMINATHAN S
AFILIAÇÕESWorld Health Organization
ORCID0000-0002-6896-2703
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR47
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2004
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Navigating the winds of change

    Open AccessJason Jabbour, D J Davidson et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2026Referências: 13

    In an era of increased complexity, interdependence, uncertainty and rapidly advancing technology, the ability to identify and swiftly adapt to current and future trends is key to progressing sustainability. Intersecting drivers and stressors are converging to destabilize socioecological systems and reshape national, regional and global outlooks. The intersecting and converging crises of the 21st century have exposed the limits of planning that re…

  • Trends in socioeconomic inequality in mortality during childhood between 1993 and 2021 in India

    Open AccessAnoop Jain, Akhil Kumar et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: In India, most child deaths now occur within the first 28 days of birth. Trends in socioeconomic disparities in death during these early and late neonatal stages over the past few decades have been understudied. This paper elucidates these trends in early neonatal and late neonatal mortality by household wealth and maternal education. We also examined these trends for post neonatal and child mortality, thereby examining the risk of …

  • (Wl-3295)-The World Health Organization - Retrospective and Prospective

    Harkabir Jandu Harkabir Jandu, Harkabir Jandu et al.ARTICLEEconomic and political…2025

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  • Socioeconomic inequality in child health outcomes in India

    Open AccessAnoop Jain, Rockli Kim et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2024

    Despite substantial reductions in the socioeconomic gradient in 11 indicators of child health between 1993 and 2021, outcome prevalence remained the highest among children in the lowest socioeconomic groups in most cases. Thus, our findings emphasize the need for a continued focus on India's most vulnerable children

  • Learning is a means to progress and empowerment for health systems

    Open AccessKay Sheikh, David H Peters et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Time for a new global roadmap for supporting evidence into action

    Open AccessTanja Kuchenmüller, John N Lavis et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

  • The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030

    Open AccessIlona Kickbusch, Dario Piselli et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

  • Covid-19

    Open AccessTanja Kuchenmüller, John C Reeder et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has put research evidence and its use in health policy-making under a new spotlight.1 Faced with the need for immediate action, as most recently shown with vaccination roll-out strategies,2 many politicians and other leaders have publicly stressed the need to follow the ‘science’. Scientific advisors and advisory bodies have gained unprecedented visibility. At the same time, the conflicts between researchers/health experts a…

  • The burden of mental disorders across the states of India

    Open AccessRajesh Sagar, Rakhi Dandona et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Psychiatry2020

    BACKGROUND: Mental disorders are among the leading causes of non-fatal disease burden in India, but a systematic understanding of their prevalence, disease burden, and risk factors is not readily available for each state of India. In this report, we describe the prevalence and disease burden of each mental disorder for the states of India, from 1990 to 2017. METHODS: We used all accessible data from multiple sources to estimate the prevalence of …

  • Embedded research to advance primary health care

    Open AccessSoumya Swaminathan, Kay Sheikh et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Realising renewed efforts to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage, manage health emergencies and create healthier populations requires integrated action on system-wide challenges. One of the best ways to do this is to focus on primary health care (PHC). Advancing PHC needs the support of a robust learning agenda—encompassing questions on how to improve both essential and emergency services, engage and empower communities and addr…

  • On the path to Universal Health Coverage

    Open AccessZubin Cyrus Shroff, Rainer Martens et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    The health of India’s population has witnessed significant improvements over the past two decades. The infant mortality rate (IMR) has fallen from over 71 per 1000 live births in 1998 to 31 per 1000 live births in 2017. Maternal mortality has declined even more dramatically, from 540 maternal deaths in 1998 to 170 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births in 2013, a fall of close to 70%.1 These reductions in mortality have been accompanied by a maj…

  • Understanding pretreatment loss to follow-up of tuberculosis patients

    Open AccessBeena Thomas, Beena E Thomas et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Introduction: Pretreatment loss to follow-up (PTLFU)-dropout of patients after diagnosis but before treatment registration-is a major gap in tuberculosis (TB) care in India and globally. Patient and healthcare worker (HCW) perspectives are critical for developing interventions to reduce PTLFU. Methods: We tracked smear-positive TB patients diagnosed via sputum microscopy from 22 diagnostic centres in Chennai, one of India's largest cities. Patien…

  • Implementation research is crucial to countries’ efforts to strengthen learning health systems

    Open AccessAbdul Ghaffar, Soumya Swaminathan et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2020Citada por: 1Referências: 6

  • Setting priorities in child health research in India for 2016-2025

    Open AccessKerri Wazny, Narendra K Arora et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDGs) mobilised countries to reduce child mortality by two thirds the 1990 rate in 2015. While India did not reach MDG 4, it considerably reduced child mortality in the MDG-era. Efficient and targeted interventions and adequate monitoring are necessary to further progress in improvements to child health. Looking forward to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-era, the Indian Council of Medical Research…

  • Association between anthropometric‐based and food‐based nutritional failure among children in India, 2015

    Open AccessWilliam Joe, Sunil Rajpal et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Inadequate dietary intake is a critical underlying determinant of child undernutrition. This study examined the association between anthropometric-based and food-based nutritional failure among children in India. We used the 2015-2016 National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau data where anthropometric outcomes and food intake were both measured for each child. We followed the World Health Organization child growth reference standards to define anthrop…

  • A randomized clinical efficacy trial of a psychosocial intervention to strengthen self-acceptance and reduce HIV risk for MSM in India

    Open AccessMatthew J Mimiaga, Beena Thomas et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02556294 , registered 22 September 2015

  • Nations within a nation

    Open AccessLalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: 18% of the world's population lives in India, and many states of India have populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population health in India requires availability of reliable and comprehensive state-level estimates of disease burden and risk factors over time. Such comprehensive estimates have not been available so far for all major diseases and risk factors. Thus, we aimed to estimate the dise…

  • Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries

    Open AccessNancy Fullman, Ryan M Barber et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in the global ambition of "leaving no one behind". Understanding today's gains and gaps for the health-related SDGs is essential for decision makers as they aim to improve the health of populations. As part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016), we measured 37 of the 50 health-related SDG indicators over the period 1990-2016 for 188…

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016

    Open AccessTheo Vos, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: As mortality rates decline, life expectancy increases, and populations age, non-fatal outcomes of diseases and injuries are becoming a larger component of the global burden of disease. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 328 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016. METHO…

  • Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015

    Open AccessMarissa B Reitsma, Nancy Fullman et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: The scale-up of tobacco control, especially after the adoption of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, is a major public health success story. Nonetheless, smoking remains a leading risk for early death and disability worldwide, and therefore continues to require sustained political commitment. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) offers a robust platform through which global, regional, and na…

  • Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015

    Open AccessRyan M Barber, Nancy Fullman et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality). Previous analyses of mortality amenable to health care only focused on high-income countries and faced several methodological challenges. In the present analysis, we use the highly standardised cause of death and risk factor …

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016

    Open AccessMohsen Naghavi, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Monitoring levels and trends in premature mortality is crucial to understanding how societies can address prominent sources of early death. The Global Burden of Disease 2016 Study (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of cause-specific mortality for 264 causes in 195 locations from 1980 to 2016. This assessment includes evaluation of the expected epidemiological transition with changes in development and where local patterns …

  • Estimates of global, regional, and national morbidity, mortality, and aetiologies of diarrhoeal diseases

    Open AccessChristopher Troeger, Mohammad H Forouzanfar et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Infectious Diseases2017

    BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 (GBD 2015) provides an up-to-date analysis of the burden of diarrhoeal diseases. This study assesses cases, deaths, and aetiologies spanning the past 25 years and informs the changing picture of diarrhoeal disease worldwide. METHODS: We estimated diarrhoeal mortality by age, sex, geography, and year using the Cause of Death Ensemble Model (CODEm), a modelling platfor…

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2016

    Open AccessEmmanuela Gakidou, Ashkan Afshin et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and attributable burden of disease. By providing estimates over a long time series, this study can monitor risk exposure trends critical to health surveillance and inform policy debates on the importance of addressing risks in context. METHODS: We used the comparative risk assessment framework dev…

  • Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016

    Open AccessHaidong Wang, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific populations. Understanding how all-cause mortality has changed with respect to development status can identify exemplars for best practice. To accomplish this, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) estimated age-specific and …