Vikash Ranjan Keshri

Dados Biográficos

ID7581472
NOMEVikash Ranjan Keshri
PRENOMESVikash Ranjan
SOBRENOMEKeshri
ASSINATURAKESHRI V R
AFILIAÇÕESUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0001-6668-0107
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Is household contact investigation a missing link for tuberculosis care in Chhattisgarh, India?–Operational research using programmatic data

    Open AccessChetanya Malik, Vishnu Gupta et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Household contact (HHC) investigation helps in early identification of people with tuberculosis (TB) and initiation of TB preventive treatment (TPT) among those at high risk of developing TB. This cross-sectional study uses National TB Elimination Program data of all people notified with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB and their HHCs from October to December 2023, from Chhattisgarh, a central Indian state, to assess coverage of HHC inves…

  • RollBackRTH

    Open AccessSimran Pachar, Veena Sriram et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    The role and influence of interest groups in the healthcare sector, such as the hospital industry, insurers or physicians, are critical aspects of understanding health politics. Yet, scholarship examining the interests and actions of these actors has been surprisingly limited in health politics scholarship on Global South contexts. In India, national- and sub-national health sector reform debates have gained traction. The country's vast, underreg…

  • Examining representation of women in leadership of professional medical associations in India

    Open AccessPratishtha Singh, Veena Sriram et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Women constitute 70% of the global health workforce but are significantly underrepresented in leadership positions. In India, professional medical associations (PMAs) play a crucial role in shaping policy agenda in the health sector, but very little is known about gender diversity in their leadership. Therefore, we analysed the gender representation of current and past leaderships of Indian PMAs. Data of the current and past national leadership a…

  • The health workforce conundrum for burn care in Uttar Pradesh, India

    Open AccessVikash Ranjan Keshri, Samina Parveen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    Delivering specialised care for major burns requires a multidisciplinary health workforce. While health systems 'hardware' issues, such as shortages of the healthcare workforce and training gaps in burn care are widely acknowledged, there is limited evidence around the systems 'software' aspects, such as interest, power dynamics, and relationships that impact the healthcare workforce performance. This study explored challenges faced by the health…

  • Why does a public health issue (not) get priority? Agenda setting for the national burns programme in India

    Open AccessVikash Ranjan Keshri, Jagnoor Jagnoor et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    There is growing scholarly interest in what leads to global or national prioritization of specific health issues. By retrospectively analysing agenda setting for India’s national burn programme, this study aimed to better understand how the agenda-setting process influenced its design, implementation and performance. We conducted document reviews and key informant interviews with stakeholders and used a combination of analytical frameworks on pol…

  • The feudal structure of global health and its implications for decolonisation

    Open AccessVikash Ranjan Keshri, Soumyadeep BhaumikARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The degree of acute improvement in spirometric indices after bronchodilator inhalation varies among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, and depends upon the type and dose of bronchodilator and the timing of administration. Acute bronchodilator responsiveness at baseline was examined in a large cohort of patients with moderate-to-very-severe COPD participating in the Understanding Potential Long-term Impacts on Function with Tio…

  • Reforming the regulation of medical education, professionals and practice in India

    Open AccessVikash Ranjan Keshri, Veena Sriram et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    The regulation of medical education and health professionals is an important aspect of the governance of health systems. This has been an area of concern and institutional weakness in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) including India.1 2 In 2019, the Indian government addressed the long-standing demand to reform medical education by dismantling the Medical Council of India (MCI), a regulatory body formed during the preindependence era,…