Varun Vasudevan

Biographic Data

ID7773159
NAMEVarun Vasudevan
GIVEN NAMESVarun
FAMILY NAMEVasudevan
SIGNATUREVASUDEVAN V
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of Mathematical Statistics
ORCID0000-0001-5013-6836
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Assessment of Covid-19 data reporting in 100+ websites and apps in India

    Open AccessVarun Vasudevan, Abeynaya Gnanasekaran et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    India is among the top three countries in the world both in COVID-19 case and death counts. With the pandemic far from over, timely, transparent, and accessible reporting of COVID-19 data continues to be critical for India’s pandemic efforts. We systematically analyze the quality of reporting of COVID-19 data in over one hundred government platforms (web and mobile) from India. Our analyses reveal a lack of granular data in the reporting of COVID…

  • Disparity in the quality of Covid-19 data reporting across India

    Open AccessVarun Vasudevan, Abeynaya Gnanasekaran et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Our assessment informs the public health efforts in India and serves as a guideline for pandemic data reporting. The disparity in CDRS highlights three important findings at the national, state, and individual level. At the national level, it shows the lack of a unified framework for reporting COVID-19 data in India, and highlights the need for a central agency to monitor or audit the quality of data reporting done by the states. Without a unifie…