Sohel Saikat

Biographic Data

ID7581271
NAMESohel Saikat
GIVEN NAMESSohel
FAMILY NAMESaikat
SIGNATURESAIKAT S
AFFILIATIONSWorld Health Organization
ORCID0000-0003-0952-6036
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Health policy, collaboration and investment in the post-Covid era

    Open AccessSohel Saikat, Sohel Quaderi Saikat et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    The COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in health systems globally, highlighting chronic underinvestment, fragmentation, and a lack of preparedness with catastrophic impact on public health, economies and societies. Lessons learned reconfirmed the necessity to build health systems resilience, integrating efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and health security in tandem. This study identified 63 global and regional policies, collab…

  • Conceptually mapping how investing in essential public health functions (EPHFs) and common goods for health (CGH) can improve health system performance

    Open AccessMichelle Amri, Dheepa Rajan et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Calls for investing in essential public health functions (EPHFs) and common goods for health (CGH) are numerous, but it is often unclear to policymakers how such investments lead to health system improvements. Objectives: To showcase plausible pathways between actions taken to improve specific health system functions-in other words, investments in EPHFs and CGH-and their impact on health system performance, the health systems performa…

  • Operationalising health in the humanitarian–development–peace nexus (HDPN) in Africa

    Open AccessAmbrose Talisuna, Sohel Saikat et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Humanitarian needs are escalating globally, with around 300 million people requiring assistance—over half in Africa. These crises are increasingly driven by conflict, climate-related disasters and emergencies and economic instability, all severely impacting public health and disrupting health systems. A new approach is essential to address root causes of humanitarian crises and develop durable solutions. In response to this need, the WHO develope…

  • A synthesis of concepts of resilience to inform operationalization of health systems resilience in recovery from disruptive public health events including Covid-19

    Open AccessGeraldine McDarby, Redda Seifeldin et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict ’ Health systems resilience has become a ubiquitous concept as countries respond to and recover from crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, war and conflict, natural disasters, and economic stressors inter alia . However, the operational scope and definition of health systems resilience to inform health systems recovery and the b…

  • Liberia health system's journey to long-term recovery and resilience post-Ebola

    Open AccessLouis Ako-Egbe, Redda Seifeldin et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict ' Liberia is one of the three countries worst hit by the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola Virus disease (EVD) outbreak, during which it recorded over 10,000 cases, including health workers. Estimates suggest that the non-EVD morbidity and mortality resulting from the collapse of the health system exceeded the direct impact of EVD. Le…

  • A novel approach to utilizing the essential public health functions in Ireland's health system recovery and reform

    Open AccessTriona McNicholas, Louise Hendrick et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict .’ The COVID-19 pandemic presented a challenge to health systems and exposed weaknesses in public health capacities globally. As Ireland looks to recovery, strengthening public health capacities to support health systems resilience has been identified as a priority. The Essential Public Health Functions (EPHFs) provide an integr…

  • Multisectoral action towards sustainable development goal 3.d and building health systems resilience during and beyond Covid-19

    Open AccessSiri Bjerkreim Hellevik, Siri Hellevik et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict ’. As the world faces global health crises such as pandemics, epidemics, climate change and evolving disease burdens and population demographics, building strong and resilient public health systems is of critical importance. The need for an integrated approach to building health system resilience; the widening of inequalities; a…

  • Developing technical support and strategic dialogue at the country level to achieve Primary Health Care-based health systems beyond the Covid-19 era

    Open AccessJeremy Cheong Chi Mo, Archana Shah et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict ’. Pursuing the objectives of the Declaration of Alma-Ata for Primary Health Care (PHC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and global health partners are supporting national authorities to improve governance to build resilient and integrated health systems, including recovery from public health stressors, through the long-term…

  • Towards applying the essential public health functions for building health systems resilience

    Open AccessYu Zhang, Geraldine McDarby et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change-related events, protracted conflicts, economic stressors and other health challenges, call for strong public health orientation and leadership in health system strengthening and policies. Applying the essential public health functions (EPHFs) represents a holistic operational approach to public health, which is considered to be an integrated, sustainable, and cost-effective means for supporting universal heal…

  • The humanitarian, development and peace nexus (HDPN) in Africa

    Open AccessAmbrose Talisuna, Mayur Lalji Mandalia et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

  • Covid-19 Preparedness and Response Plans from 106 countries

    Open AccessSaqif Mustafa, Yu Zhang et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

    Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has exposed long-standing fragmentation in health systems strengthening efforts for health security and universal health coverage while these objectives are largely interdependent and complementary. In this prevailing background, we reviewed countries’ COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plans (CPRPs) to assess the extent of integration of non-COVID-19 essential health service continuity considerations alongside emer…

  • Building the evidence base for global health policy

    Open AccessZsuzsanna Jakab, Duncan Selbie et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    National public health institutes and WHO collaborating centres, and their global networks, are a key resource to support public health system strengthening with essential public health functions and generate evidence for health policy central to national health and socioeconomic development. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare global inequities in public health capacities, made urgent the need to examine sources of global knowledge and understan…