1. Report on International Peoples Health University(IPHU) Short Course on Equitable Health Systems IPHU, Nov-Dec. 2022- Bangkok, Thailand
The International Peoples Health University Short Course on Health Systems was held online from November 21 st to December 1st and on-site in Bangkok from December 6th to December 11th. This report is written jointly by the resource persons.
2. Understanding Comprehensive Primary Health Care: The Meghalaya Way
Published Nov 2022 by National Health Mission, this book was collectively written by a team from CPR, and govt of Meghalaya- with Sundararaman playing a lead role- a useful book for understanding what primary healthcare means and how to get there.
3. The Excess Mortality Controversy and its lessons- position paper for public understanding of the issue
The Excess Mortality Controversy and its lessons : an explanatory position paper for public understanding of the issue T Sundararaman 13 th May 2022.
4. Why WHO estimate of death in India is correct: Interview with Sanjiv Sankaran in TOI May 13, 2022
Interview on excess mortality in May 13th , 2022 Times of India- on the then ongoing controversy on excess mortality.
5. Discourses around Stigma and Denial in the COVID-19 Pandemic- EPW, Jan 2022
S Krithi, Kalpana Karunakaran, J Jeyalydia, R Parthesarathy, T Sundararaman.: Discourses around Stigma and Denial in the COVID-19 Pandemic A Case Study from Tamil Nadu EPW Economic & Political Weekly January 22, 2022 vol 57 no 4 , pg 34-39
6. Health Sector Reform at the Covid 19 cross-roads- public good or health markets- an agenda for health systems research, IJPH, 2021Conference IssueThe issue is partially sponsored by Organizing Committee ofAnnual National Conference of IPHA 2020 held at AIIMS, New Delhi
Thiagarajan S. Health sector reform at the COVID-19 cross-roads: Public goods or health markets – An agenda for health systems research. Indian J Public Health 2021;65:332-9. ( this was first presented as the KN Rao Memorial Annual Lecture of the Book)
7. Covid-19 in Rural Areas:A Policy Brief
Sundararaman, T., and Murugan, Ganapathy (2021), “Covid-19 in Rural Areas: A Policy Brief,” Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, available athttp://ras.org.in/4951300f66f01cbb1f2e6e1b304ee8a2
8. Online Book: Learning from Tamil Nadus Response to COVID-19 Pandemic: Peoples Science at Work
Learning from Tamil Nadu s Response to COVID 19 Pandemic Lessons for the Right to Health Agenda A health activist organized research study by Arogya Iyyakkam Resource Collective- eResources.
9. Human Rights and State Policy in Covid 19 pandemic India in Transition, CASI, UPenn
T. Sundararaman: Human Rights and State Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adjudication as Accountability ; India in Transition: Centre for Advanced Studies in India: U. Penn, Politics : Special COVID-19 Series; June 7, 2021 https://casi.sas.upen
10. Learning from the Nipah virus outbreak to inform the COVID-19 response in Kerala ,Learning health systems: pathways to progress
T. Sundararaman, Rakhal Gaitonde in Eds: Sheikh K, Abimbola S, editors. Learning health systems: pathways to progress. Flagship report of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021.
11. Revised policy allows vaccine makers to profit while increasing burden on states
Face-Off in Times of India, May 14, we argue that one is safe till everyone is safe and as we battle this deadly second wave of Covid 19 in India, its vital to vaccinate as much of our adult population and this needs universal public programme.
12. Good public health logistics for resilient health systems during thepandemic: Lessons from Tamil Nadu
Adithyan, G. S., and T Sundararaman. . “Good Public Health Logistics for Resilient Health Systems during the Pandemic: Lessons from Tamil Nadu.” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (blog). April 6th, 2021 Accessed April 30, 2021. Indian Journal of Me.
13. Everyone has an entitlement to vaccination against covid 19- Interview with Rema Nagarajan
Interview in Times of India, May 26th, 2021- describes the changes in Indian policy towards universal vaccination and calls for addressing the equity challenges.
14. Emerging good practices and lessons learnt to maintain essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic
Zakoji, Masahiro, and T. Sundararaman. 2021. “Emerging Good Practices and Lessons Learnt to Maintain Essential Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health 10 (3): 26., March 21, 2021.
15. Vaccination against Covid 19- Challenge and an Opportunity, Cover Story, Frontline
Cover Story in Frontline, January 15th, 2021 critically examines readiness and the challenges in India to undertake universal vaccination.
16. “Pandemic Resilience and Health Systems Preparedness: Lessons from COVID-19 for the Twenty-First Century.” Journal of Social and Economic Development , 2021
Sundararaman, T., V. R. Muraleedharan, and Alok Ranjan. 2021. “Pandemic Resilience and Health Systems Preparedness: Lessons from COVID-19 for the Twenty-First Century.” Journal of Social and Economic Development, 1–11. Jan 6th 2021.
17. Embedded research to advance primary healthcare.
Soumya Swaminathan, Kabir Sheikh, Robert Marten, Martin Taylor….. T. Sundararaman et al, December 2020; BMJ Global Health 5(12):e004684; DOI: 10.1- Discusses an approach to health systems studies.
18. Invest More in Public Healthcare Facilities, What do NSSO 71st and 75th Rounds Say?.
VR Muraleedharan, Girija Vaidyanathan, Sundararaman T Umakant Dash, Alok Ranjan, Rajesh M. Invest More in Public Healthcare Facilities- What Do NSSO 71st and 75th Rounds Say? Econ.& Poli. Wkly Sept 2020 vol lV no 37
19. Challenges to Indias Rural Healthcare System in the Context of Covid-19- Review of Agrarian Studies.
Sundararaman, T., and Alok Ranjan. 2020. “Challenges to India’s Rural Healthcare System in the Context of Covid-19.” Review of Agrarian Studies 1 Vol. 10. No.1 July 2021, (2369-2020–1824). http://ras.org.in/challenges_to_india_s_rural_he
20. Health Systems Preparedness for Covid 19 Pandemic IJPH.
Sundararaman T. Health systems preparedness for COVID‐19 pandemic. Indian J Public Health 2020;64:S91‐3. , June 2020.
21. What makes primary healthcare facilities functional, and increases the utilization? Learnings from 12 case studies.
Lahariya C, Sundararaman T, Ved R, Adithyan GS, De Graeve H, Jhalani M, et al. What makes primary healthcare facilities functional, and increases the utilization? Learnings from 12 case studies. J Family Med Prim Care 2020;9:539-46
22. Is India’s Public Health System Ready to face the pandemic, India in Transition, CASI, U Penn, Apr 9, 2020.
T. Sundararaman: Is India’s Public Health System Ready to face the pandemic India in Transition: Centre for Advanced Studies in India: U. Penn, Politics : Special COVID-19 Series; April 09, 2020 https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/tsundararaman2021
23. Utilisation and financial protection for hospital care under publicly funded healthinsurance in three states in Southern India.
Samir Garg, Sayantan Chowdhury, T.Sundararaman, Utilisation and financial protection for hospital care under publicly funded health insurance in three states in Southern, BMC Health Services Research (2019) 19:1004
https://doi.org/10.1186
24. Revisiting NEET.
JUNE 29 2019 vol lIV nos 26 27 EPW This explains sympathetically the Tamil Nadu position on why they are critical of the imposition of NEET as the sole mode of entry into medical colleges.
25. Skewed vision- Healthcare Education in the New Education Policy.
This article is a comment on Medical Education in the Draft New Education Policy. Briefly covers the main challenges in Medical education.
26. Skewed vision- Healthcare Education in the New Education Policy.
This article is a comment on Medical Education in the Draft New Education Policy. Briefly covers the main challenges in Medical education.
27. Professionalizing public health management.
T. Sundararaman, Daksha Parmar, Seminar, Issue No. 714 , February 2019, 52 — a discussion on public health cadre and such other things
28. Punching above their weight: A network to understand broader determinantsof increasing life expectancy.
Punching above their weight: a network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy : Fran Baum, Jennie Popay, M.A.; Toni Delany-Crowe et al ,International Journal for Equity in Health – IJEH-D-18-00166R1
29. Tackling the primary care access challenge in South Asia
Amit Sengupta; Shehla Zaidi, T Sundararaman, Sharad Onta; Manuj C Weerasinghe; BMJ 2018;363:k4878 doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4878
30. Social and Systemic Determinants of Utilisation ofPublic Healthcare Services in Uttar Pradesh
C .S. Verma, Shivani Singh, Alok Ranjan, T. Sundararaman; Economic and Political Weekly: Vol. 53, Issue No. 45, 17 Nov, 2018
31. Charter for Practicing Responsible Healthcare-Working Document
Prof T Sundararaman: Working document for October Summit 2016 of Responsible Health Care Provider organized by Aravind Eye Hospitals, Madurai.
32. Effectiveness of government strategies for financial protection against costs of hospitalization care in India
Alok Ranjan, Priyanka Dixit, Indranil Mukhopadhyay, Sundararaman Thiagarajan, BMC Public Health, Sept 2018. Original research on effectiveness of publicly funded insurance schemes as a strategy towards UHC
33. Case Study: Enquiry inthe deaths of Newborns at Nashik District Minutes of Discussions with Hon Minister
Enquiry in to the deaths of Newborns at Nashik District in 2017 18 Discussions with Hon Minister and senior officials of Department of Health and Family Welfare, after presentation of the report
34. Case Study: An Enquiryinto the Neonatal Deaths in Nashik District Report
An Enquiry into the Neonatal Deaths in Nashik District Report Submitted to State Human Rights Commission Maharashtra and Department of Public Health Government of Maharashtra May 28 th 2018.
35. Case Study Access to Diagnostics Services in Public Health Sector, Maharashtra
T Sundararaman, Soniya Mishra, Fareen Chaudhury, Sagar Sinha May 2018 Presented in Workshop on Universal Access to Diagnostics under NHM,
36. Case Study: An Enquiry into Deaths of Newborns in Nashik District Hospital, 2018
An Enquiry into Deaths of Newborns in Nashik , 2018 Presented to Department of Public Health April 6 th 2018 On the directions of State Human Rights Commission By team of 1 Prof T Sundararaman Dean
37. Community health workers and accountability: reflections from an international think-in
Community health workers and accountability: reflections from an international “think-in” : Schaaf et al. International Journal for Equity in Health (2018) 17:66 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0781-5
38. Ayushman Bharat: Hopes and Fears
International Journal of Health Systems and Implementation Research 2018 Vol 2 1 1 – early comment on announcement of ayushman bharat
39. Role of district health management teams in child health strategies
Tanya Doherty, Nhan Tran, David Sanders, Sarah L Daglish, David Hipgrave, Kumaran Rasanthan, Sundararaman Thiagarajan, Rajani Ved, British Medical Journal 07/2018; 362, 2823
40. Book:Archetypes of Inclusive Healthcare Where Healthcare for the Poor is not Poor Healthcare
Collection of 16 case studies with contributions from over 15 colleagues, with an introductory and concluding chapter that sets outs the learnings from these case studies for building equitable health systems. Mainly, but not only positive stories.
41. Selection of Performance Measures in Context of Universal Health Coverage
Sundararaman T., Alok Ranjan, Priyanka Dixit, presented in session Bringing Politics to the Analysis of Performance Measurement Programs- Case and Comparative studies in health policy in 3rd International Conference on Public Policy, Singapore 201
42. National Health Policy – A Cautious Welcome
T. Sundararaman, Comment on National Health Policy 2017 in Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.2017 XIV No 2 April – June 2017, pg 68
43. Healthcare Consumption in Uttar Pradesh- Inequitous Growth and Social Factors Contributing to Impoverishment
C S Verma, Shivani Singh Alok Ranjan T Sundararaman EPW march 4 2017 vol liI no 9 pg 73 to 81. On inequity in current health systems design and direction of reforms.
44. Who’s in Charge of Social Determinants of Health? Understanding the Office of the Municipal Health Officer in Urban Areas
Ganesan, Prathibha & Nambiar, Devaki & Sundararaman, Thiagarajan. (2017). In The Social Determinants of Health in India: Concepts, Processes, and Indicators. Eds Devaki Nambiar and Muralidharan Arundati 103-115. 10.1007/978-981-10-5999-5_7
45. No Respite for Public Health- On Health Budget 2016-17
T Sundararaman, Indranil Mukhopadhyay V R Muraleedharan EPW april 16 2016 vol lI no 16 pg 39 to 42. This piece points out that the weakening of public health systems makes us vulnerable to a public health crisis
46. Health Sector in India: Perspective and Way Forward: Yojana, February 2016
Health Sector in India Perspective and Way Forward , addressing new challenges An overview of India’s health sector, In Yojana, February 2016, Pgs 6 to 12
47. NSSO 71st Round Data on Health and Beyond, EPW 2016
T Sundararaman V R Muraleedharan EPW JANUARY 16 2016 vol lI no 3 85 – On financial protection and access to health care
48. Reflections on Participation and Knowledge-Making as Part of Indias National Urban Health Mission, Technical Resourc eGroup Recommendatiosn Exercise
Devaki Nambiar, Rajib Dasgupta, Sundararaman, Pratiba Panwar, Shikha Gupta, International Journal of Health Services, 2016, Sage, 1-20 doi:10.1177/00207514166641496 joh.sagepub.com
49. Out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditure: a cross-sectional assessment from Koderma , Jharkhandt of a rural district of the state of Jharkhand in India
Was associated with this study when in NHSRC-not an author- but important part of this collection: Authors: Rajesh 015Sinha, Keya Chatterjeem Nirmala Nair and Prasantha Tripathy,Ekjut, India, Journal of Disease and Global Health, 4(3): 130-140, 2
50. Out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditure: a cross-sectional assessment from Koderma , Jharkhandt of a rural district of the state of Jharkhand in India
Was associated with this study when in NHSRC-not an author- but important part of this collection: Authors: Rajesh 015Sinha, Keya Chatterjeem Nirmala Nair and Prasantha Tripathy,Ekjut, India, Journal of Disease and Global Health, 4(3): 130-140, 2
51. Falling Sick, Paying the Price, NSS 71st Round on Morbidity and Costs of Healthcare EPW, 2015
T Sundararaman V R Muraleedharan EPW AUGUST 15 2015 vol l no 33 pg 17 -20
On financing of healthcare- points out to growth of public provisioning and limitations of publicly funded insurance programs
52. Towards a Research Agenda on Health Information Systems for UHC- Implications for IT4D Research
S. Sahay and T. Sundararaman in Proceedings of 13 th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries Conference, IFIP working group 9.4, Negombo, Sri Lanka, May 2015 – Pg 137 to 148
53. Comments on the National Health Research Policy
T. Sundararaman, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. VIII, No.2, Apr-June, 2011
54. Strengthening health systems in low-income countries by enhancing organizational capacities and improving institutions
Global Health Watch:: Robert Chad Swanson*, Rifat Atun, Allan Best, Arvind Betigeri, Francisco de Campos, Somsak Chunharas,….David Sanders, T. Sundararaman et al…Globalization and Health 2015, volume; Number:5 doi:10.1186/s12992-015-00
55. Measuring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage: An Approach in the Indian Context
T Sundararaman Girija Vaidyanathan S D Vaishnavi K Rahul Reddy Tushar Mokashi,Jitendra Sharma, Rajani Ved, Umakant Das, VR Muraleedharan, et al. SPECIAL ARTICLE NOVEMBER 22 2014 vol xlIX no 47 Economic Political Weekly
56. Building locally relevant models for universal health cerage and its implications for health information systems: some reflections from India
Sundeep Sahay, T. Sundararaman gmail com 2014 , HELINA and JHIA Open Access article,in Journal of Health Informatics of India. Most work in this area was in the form of internal policy notes and briefs- this is one in public domain
57. Program evaluation of the Janani Suraksha Yojna
Program evaluation of the Janani Suraksha Yojna Rajani Ved, Thiagarajan Sundararaman, Garima Gupta1, Geetha Rana, Ved et al. BMC Proceedings 2012, 6(Suppl 5):O15 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/6/S5/O15
58. Determinants of functionality and effectiveness of community health workers: results from evaluation of ASHA program in eight Indian states
Thiagrajan Sundararaman*, Rajani Ved, Garima Gupta, M Samatha, BMC proceedings: Sundararaman et al. BMC Proceedings 2012, 6(Suppl 5):O30
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/6/S5/O30
59. Designing an information technology system inpublic health: observations from India
Designing an information technology system in public health observations from India Sundararaman Thiagarajan, Pankaj Gupta, Amit Mishra, Itisha Vasisht,Alia Kauser, Sundararaman Thiagarajan, Dilip Singh Mairembem
60. Determinants of Health Management Information Systems performance :lessons from a district level assessment
BMC Proceedings: Amit Mishra Itisha Vasisht Alia Kauser, Sundararaman Thiagarajan, Dilip Singh Marebaum
61. Business models of public private partnerships in publicly-financed emergency response services
BMC proceedings T Sundararaman Arun Nair Tushar Mokashi Gautam Chakraborthy, EPHP 2012, 6 Suppl.5):P8 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/6/55/P8
62. Common Review Mission: reflections on a concurrent evaluation measure
BMC Proceedings, Common Review Mission reflections on a concurrent evaluation measure Pragati Singh T Sundararaman Rajani Ved Padam Khanna From 2nd EPHP conference, 2012, 6(Suppl 5):O20 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/6/55/O20
63. Policy Brief : Human Resource for Health: The Crisis, the NRHM Response and the Policy Options
Draft Policy Brief submitted to MOHFW, 2011. A relevant overview of the issues
64. India: Towards Universal Health Coverage 5Human resources for health in India
Human resources for health in India; Prof Mohan Rao, Dr Krishna D Rao, AK Shiva Kumar, Mirai Chatterjee, Thiagarajan Sundararaman; The Lancet, Volume 377, Issue 9765, Pages 587 – 598, 12 February 2011
65. Series India: Towards Universal Health Coverage: Reproductive health, and child health and nutrition in India: meeting the challenge
Position Paper on RCH in India Series 332 www the lancet com Vol 377 January 22 2011 Lancet 2011
66. Indian approaches to retaining skilled health workers in Rural Areas, Bulletion of WHO, 2011
719. Indian approaches to retaining skilled health workers in rural areas; Thiagarajan Sundararaman & Garima Gupta; Bulletin World Health Organization 2011;89:73–77
67. Community health-workers: scaling up programmes, Lancet ,2007
Community health-workers: scaling up programmes; Sundararaman T.; Lancet. 2007 Jun 23;369(9579):2058-9
68. ICDS Universalisaion of ICDS in Chhattisgarh, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 41 , No. 34, pp 3674- 3679
Economic and Political Weekly is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize preserve and extend access to Economic and Political Weekly http www jstor org Universalisation of ICDS and Community Health