Publications

Peer reviewed

Working Papers

Policy Briefs

Research Briefs

Other Publications

Peer Reviewed

2025

Hypertension diagnosis, awareness, treatment, and control in Sri Lankan adults: a nationally representative cross-sectional study

2025

Healthcare inequity arising from unequal response to need in the older (45+ years) population of India: Analysis of nationally representative data

2025

Surviving Bad News: Health Information without Treatment Options

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2024

Distributionally sensitive measurement and valuation of population health

2024

Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants

2024

Health-related quality of life and its predictors among hypertensive adults 45 years and older in rural Malawi: a population-based study

2024

Missed opportunities for hypertension screening of older people in the Philippines: cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative individual-level data

2024

Mortality risk information and health-seeking behavior during an epidemic

2024

Depression, Poverty, and Economic Shocks: Evidence from India

2024

Machine learning approaches for asthma disease prediction among adults in Sri Lanka

2024

Population Norms and Disutility Catalog for Chronic Conditions in Sri Lanka

2024

Health outcomes and healthcare utilization associated with four undiagnosed chronic conditions: evidence from nationally representative survey data in Sri Lanka

2024

The Prevalence and Epidemiological Features of Ischaemic Heart Disease in Sri Lanka

2024

Mental health prevalence, healthcare use and access between 2018 and 2022 in Sri Lanka: an analysis of survey data

2024

Surprising Gendered Age Differences in Rural Malawians’ Early COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention Efforts

2024

Cohort Profile: The Sri Lanka Health and Ageing Study (SLHAS)

2024

Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviours

2024

The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy

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2023

Barker’s Hypothesis Among the Global Poor: Positive Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects of in Utero Famine Exposure

2023

Resilience, Accelerated Aging, and Persistently Poor Health: Diverse Trajectories of Health in Malawi

2023

Mental health and life-course shocks in a low-income country: Evidence from Malawi

2023

Optimizing cardiovascular disease risk screening in a low-resource setting: cost-effectiveness of program modifications in Sri Lanka modelled with nationally representative survey data

2023

Cognition and Cognitive Changes in a Low-Income Sub-Saharan African Aging Population

2023

Public health insurance coverage in India before and after PM-JAY: repeated cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative survey data

2023

Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative survey data

2023

Aging and hypertension among the global poor—Panel data evidence from Malawi

2023

Sociodemographic and geographic inequalities in diagnosis and treatment of older adults’ chronic conditions in India: a nationally representative population-based study

2023

Prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in Sri Lanka: A new global hotspot–estimates from the Sri Lanka Health and Ageing Survey 2018/2019

2023

Prevalence of pain and its treatment among older adults in India: a nationally representative population-based study

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2022

Cost-Effectiveness and Distributional Impact of Opportunistic Screening for People at High-Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Sri Lanka: A Modelling Study

2022

Associations between health-related quality of life and measures of adiposity among Filipino adults

2022

Missed opportunities for hypertension screening: a cross-sectional study, India

2022

Do time preferences explain low health insurance take-up?

2022

Prevalence and Associations of Hypertension in Sri Lankan Adults: Estimates from the SLHAS 2018–19 Survey Using JNC7 and ACC/AHA 2017 Guidelines

2022

Use of unclean cooking fuels and visual impairment of older adults in India: A nationally representative population-based study

2022

The effects of negative economic shocks at birth on adolescents’ cognitive outcomes and educational attainment in Malawi

2022

A behavioral decomposition of willingness to pay for health insurance

2022

Pain is Widespread and Predicts Poor Mental Health among Older Adults in Rural Malawi

2022

Persistent effects of temporary incentives: Evidence from a nationwide health insurance experiment

2022

Curtailing Covid-19 on a dollar-a-day in Malawi: Role of community leadership for shaping public health and economic responses to the pandemic

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2021

Effectiveness of clinic-based cardiovascular disease prevention: A randomized encouragement design experiment in the Philippines

2021

Awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in adults aged 45 years and over and their spouses in India: A nationally representative cross-sectional study

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2021

Filling Potholes on the Road to Universal Health Coverage in the Philippines

2021

Prevalence and inequality in persistent undiagnosed, untreated, and uncontrolled hypertension: Evidence from a cohort of older Mexicans

2021

Health Screening for Emerging Non-Communicable Disease Burdens Among the Global Poor: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

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2020

Using grip strength to compute physical health-adjusted old age dependency ratios

2020

Financial Protection Against Medical Expense

2020

Deconstructing gender differences in experienced well-being among older adults in the developing World: The roles of time use and activity-specific affective experiences

2020

Healthy, wealthy, wise, and happy? Assessing age differences in evaluative and emotional well-being among mature adults from five low-and middle-income countries

2020

Cohort profile: the mature adults cohort of the Malawi longitudinal study of families and health (MLSFH-MAC)

2020

Assessing and decomposing gender differences in evaluative and emotional well-being among older adults in the developing world

2020

Utilization of research knowledge in sustainable development pathways: Insights from a transdisciplinary research-for-development programme

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2019

Validity of self-rated memory among middle-aged and older Chinese adults: Results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

2019

The Longitudinal Dynamics of Household Composition and Wealth in Rural Malawi

2019

Psychometric evaluation of the Adverse Childhood Experience International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ) in Malawian adolescents.

2019

Universal health coverage: A (social insurance) job half done?

2019

Private Intergenerational Transfers, Family Structure, and Health in a sub-Saharan African Context

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2018

Inequalities in the use of secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease by socioeconomic status: evidence from the PURE observational study

2018

Subjective Expectations of Medical Expenditures and Insurance in Rural Ethiopia

2018

Aging, non-communicable diseases, and old-age disability in low- and middle-income countries: a challenge for global health

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2017

Progressive universalism? The impact of targeted coverage on health care access and expenditures in Peru

2017

The demography of mental health among mature adults in a low-income, high-HIV-prevalence context

2017

Health, and Well-Being in a Rural Sub-Saharan African Population

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Working Papers

This section includes Working papers, Discussion Papers and Preprints

2024
[WORKING PAPER]

Surviving Bad News: Health Information without Treatment Options

2023
[PREPRINT]

Are Sinhala and Tamil PHQ-9 versions comparable across the Sri Lankan population? Psychometric equivalence across translations and between demographic subgroups

2023
[PREPRINT]

Is Retirement Bliss? Assessing the Impact of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being in Russia

2023
[WORKING PAPER]

Effectiveness of Population-Based Hypertension Screening: A Multidimensional Regression Discontinuity Design

2022
[DISCUSSION PAPER]

Depression, Pharmacotherapy, and the Demand for a Novel Health Product (No. 15832)

2020
[WORKING PAPER]

Path Dependence in Disability

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Policy Briefs

2023

Strategies to address challenges associated with the increasing burden of NCDs in Malawi

2021

Use of technology to improve delivery and quality of health care services in Malawi

2023

Disability and access to assistive technology in Malawi

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Research Briefs

2024

Correcting Pessimistic Mortality Beliefs May Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy Malawi Study Shows

2023

Socio-economic and regional inequality in coverage of public health insurance before and after PM-JAY in India

2021

Socio-economic variations in awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in adults aged 45+ in India

2023

Impact of community-based depression treatment: evidence from India

2023

Missed opportunities for hypertension screening: a cross-sectional study, India

2021

Health screening for emerging non-communicable disease burdens among the global poor: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

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Other Publications

2023

Impact of Community-based depression treatment: evidence from India

2019

Who are the Novo Ecijanos at risk of developing CVDs?NECVaRE?

2019

What is NECVaRE?

2017

MLSFH SANE-newsletter

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