Featured Publications

• • September 6, 2016 — Karnataka’s Roadmap to Improved Health

    Cost effective solutions to address priority diseases, reduce poverty and increase economic growth

  • August 2, 2016 — Trends in bidi and cigarette smoking in India from 1998 to 2015, by age, gender and education

     We examine three nationally representative surveys covering over 2.5 million homes and 14 million people to provide estimates of the changing trends from 1998 to 2015 in any tobacco smoking, in bidi and cigarette smoking, and in smoking cessation. We examine these trends by gender, age and generation, education level, and urban and rural residence.

  • April 5, 2016 — Effects of body mass index, tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking and solid fuel use on the risk of asthma

    BMI, smoking, drinking and solid fuel use —in combination— are associated with double or triple the risk of development of asthma. These risk factors might help explain the wide variation in asthma burden across countries.

  • February 25, 2016 — Trends in bidi and cigarette smoking in India 1998 to 2015

    The number of smokers is rising and cigarettes are replacing bidi in India.

  • December 17, 2015 — Causes of Death in India 2010-2013

    Registrar General of India and the Centre for Global Health Research release statistics from the Sample Registration System and MDS

  • November 19, 2015 — Adult mortality risk in India in 2014

    New demographic view of Indian adult mortality shows a east-west differences in the country

  • November 19, 2015 — Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 3. Cancer

    Cancer control in low and middle income countries is possible and will save lives

  • November 11, 2015 — Disease Control Priorities for Cancer control intervention in LMICs – The Lancet

    The DCP-3 Author Group presents key messages for costs, affordability, and feasibility of an essential package of cancer control

  • October 15, 2015 — Research: What makes an eLife paper in epidemiology and global health?

    Editors of the journal discuss quality and effective epidemiology in the global context

  • August 20, 2015 — Deaths from acute abdominal conditions and geographical access to surgical care in India

    Access to surgical care for time sensitive, life saving surgeries is an increasingly important topic in India.

  • June 2, 2015 — Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke and the Risk of Tuberculosis in Children and Adults

    Patra et al publish a new systematic review and meta-analysis of second hand smoke and TB

  • March 13, 2015 — Controlling measles using supplemental immunization activities

    New CGHR pub in Vaccine. A single SIA will not control measles transmission in any of the countries with high measles burden.

  • March 13, 2015 — Deaths and taxes: stronger global tobacco control by 2025

    The Lancet commentary: tobacco taxes are the most effective and rapid method of reducing tobacco-related mortality worldwide

  • March 13, 2015 — Tobacco tax in China – cost-effectiveness model

    A new CGHR pub in The Lancet Global Health says increased tobacco taxes can be a pro-poor policy with health and financial benefits

  • January 27, 2015 — Copenhagen Consensus 2015

    The Benefits and Costs of the Health Targets for the Post-2015 Development Agenda – a new CGHR publication

  • November 25, 2014 — Commentary: The evolving hazards of smoking and benefits of cessation

    A commentary on the 2014 Addiction publication from Lam et al on Hong Kong smokers

  • September 18, 2014 — Lancet: Premature death can be reduced by 40% in 20 years

    A new CGHR/Oxford pub in The Lancet states that premature death can be reduced by 40 percent within the next 2 decades – 2030 goals

  • June 12, 2014 — HPV-avertable cancer risks in India

    A reply in the International Journal of Cancer to Michaud et al on the associations of HPV and risks for various cancers

  • June 12, 2014 — Maternal Survival in India – Montgomery et al

    A case control analysis examines the effect of health-facility admission and skilled birth attendant coverage on maternal survival in India

  • May 8, 2014 — TB Meta-analysis: Tobacco, Alcohol, Diabetes, and BMI

    Patra et al examine the effects of varied risk factors for tuberculosis in 14 high TB burden countries in a Plos One 2014 publication.

  • May 1, 2014 — Economic Contributions of Bidi in India

    Authors target tobacco industry resistance of taxation and questions common criticism of the effect of taxation on India’s bidi industry

  • April 25, 2014 — Reassessing the Value of Vaccines – Lancet

    A Lancet Global Health commentary from the GAVI Alliance of world leading experts on the value of vaccines in the global context.

  • February 21, 2014 — Verbal Autopsy Paper Series in BMC Medicine

    A 4 paper series arguing that verbal autopsy is the best way forward for tackling gaps in global mortality data

  • January 1, 2014 — Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco

    An examination of global smoking deaths and the positive effects of early quitting and higher tobacco taxes

  • October 17, 2013 — Global health: the importance of evidence-based medicine

    Leading global health experts discuss how to use EBM in resource-limited settings to improve health outcomes

  • September 18, 2013 — Child mortality in Indian districts

    Study documents child mortality for 597 Indian districts; only one third of the country’s districts will achieve Millennium Development Goal 4.

  • September 17, 2013 — A healthier approach to Canadian aid

    How to better use Canada’s foreign aid to improve the lives of the world’s poorest citizens.

  • June 16, 2013 — HIV prevention among female sex workers in India reduces HIV and syphilis

    BMJ study finds that levels of HIV fell by 40 per cent among pregnant women between 2003 and 2008.

  • January 23, 2013 — 21st-Century Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation in the United States

    A CGHR study published in NEJM finds that smokers who quit before 40 years save a decade of their lives.

  • November 13, 2012 — Tobacco taxes: a win-win for the economy and public health

    Asian Development Bank report describes how higher tobacco taxes can raise revenues and cut smoking-related deaths.

  • August 31, 2012 — Counting the dead is one of the best public health investments

    Improving cause of death data in places where vital registration is scarce could dramatically transform public health.

  • June 12, 2012 — Suicide is one of top causes of death for young adults in India

    New research published in the Lancet estimates a total of 0.2 million suicide deaths in 2010 in India.

  • May 1, 2012 — Top interventions to tackle global chronic disease

    A Copenhagen Consensus panel, including Prof Prabhat Jha, outlines five key interventions with the greatest “bang for buck” to tackle chronic disease in developing countries.

  • March 29, 2012 — Growing economies urged to avoid private health-care models

    Professors Prabhat Jha and Dean T. Jamison reflect on lessons from the US health-care model.

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