Soumya Swaminathan

Swaminathan in 2016 Soumya Swaminathan (born 2 May 1959) is an Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist known for her research on tuberculosis and HIV. Swaminathan served as Secretary to the Government of India for Health Research and Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (2015–2017), where she prioritized evidence-based health policy, research capacity building in medical schools, and strengthening south-south partnerships in health sciences. From October 2017 to March 2019, she was the deputy director general of programmes (DDP) at the World Health Organization. Subsequently till 2022, she served as the chief scientist at the World Health Organization under the leadership of Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Trends in socioeconomic inequality in mortality during childhood between 1993 and 2021 in India

    Trends in socioeconomic inequality in mortality during childhood between 1993 and 2021 in India by Soumya Swaminathan, Rockli Kim, S V Subramanian, Anoop Jain, Akhil Kumar, Thomas W Pullum

    Published 2025-05-01
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    On the path to Universal Health Coverage: aligning ongoing health systems reforms in India

    On the path to Universal Health Coverage: aligning ongoing health systems reforms in India by Kabir Sheikh, Soumya Swaminathan, Robert Marten, Manoj Jhalani, Zubin C Shroff, Hendrik Bekedam

    Published 2020-09-01
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    Prevalence of Underweight, Stunting, and Wasting among Children Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in South India

    Prevalence of Underweight, Stunting, and Wasting among Children Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in South India by C. Padmapriyadarsini, N. Pooranagangadevi, K. Chandrasekaran, Sudha Subramanyan, C. Thiruvalluvan, P. K. Bhavani, Soumya Swaminathan

    Published 2009-01-01
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    What's coming for health science and policy in 2018? Global experts look ahead in their field.

    What's coming for health science and policy in 2018? Global experts look ahead in their field. by PLOS Medicine Editors, Soumya Swaminathan, Robin S Room, Louise C Ivers, Graham Hillis, Rebecca F Grais, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Peter Byass

    Published 2018-01-01
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    The Tuberculosis Cascade of Care in India's Public Sector: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    The Tuberculosis Cascade of Care in India's Public Sector: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. by Ramnath Subbaraman, Ruvandhi R Nathavitharana, Srinath Satyanarayana, Madhukar Pai, Beena E Thomas, Vineet K Chadha, Kiran Rade, Soumya Swaminathan, Kenneth H Mayer

    Published 2016-10-01
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    Prevalence and risk factors for adult pulmonary tuberculosis in a metropolitan city of South India.

    Prevalence and risk factors for adult pulmonary tuberculosis in a metropolitan city of South India. by Baskaran Dhanaraj, Mohan Kumar Papanna, Srividya Adinarayanan, Chandrasekaran Vedachalam, Vijayaraj Sundaram, Shivakumar Shanmugam, Gomathi Sekar, Pradeep Aravindan Menon, Fraser Wares, Soumya Swaminathan

    Published 2015-01-01
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    Plasma Matrix Metalloproteinases Signature as Biomarkers for Pediatric Tuberculosis Diagnosis: A Prospective Case–Control Study

    Plasma Matrix Metalloproteinases Signature as Biomarkers for Pediatric Tuberculosis Diagnosis: A Prospective Case–Control Study by Nathella Pavan Kumar, Syed Hissar, Arul Nancy, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Velayuthum V. Banurekha, Sarath Balaji, S. Elilarasi, N. S. Gomathi, J. Ganesh, M. A. Aravind, Dhanaraj Baskaran, Soumya Swaminathan, Subash Babu

    Published 2025-05-01
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    Understanding pretreatment loss to follow-up of tuberculosis patients: an explanatory qualitative study in Chennai, India

    Understanding pretreatment loss to follow-up of tuberculosis patients: an explanatory qualitative study in Chennai, India by Soumya Swaminathan, Kenneth H Mayer, Beena E Thomas, Chandra Suresh, J Lavanya, Mika M Lindsley, Amith T Galivanche, Senthil Sellappan, Senthanro Ovung, Amritha Aravind, Savari Lincy, Agnes Lawrence Raja, S Kokila, B Javeed, S Arumugam, Ramnath Subbaraman

    Published 2020-03-01
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    Time for a new global roadmap for supporting evidence into action.

    Time for a new global roadmap for supporting evidence into action. by Tanja Kuchenmüller, John Lavis, Mehrnaz Kheirandish, Ludovic Reveiz, Marge Reinap, Joseph Okeibunor, Siswanto Siswanto, Arash Rashidian, Samuel Sieber, Kaelan Moat, Cristian Mansilla, Fadi El-Jardali, Matthias Helble, John Reeder, Evelina Chapman, Jorge Otávio Maia Barreto, Ahmed Mandil, Soumya Swaminathan

    Published 2022-01-01
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    Piloting Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF Testing on Various Specimens under Programmatic Conditions for Diagnosis of TB & DR-TB in Paediatric Population.

    Piloting Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF Testing on Various Specimens under Programmatic Conditions for Diagnosis of TB & DR-TB in Paediatric Population. by Neeraj Raizada, Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Soumya Swaminathan, Shubhangi Kulsange, Sunil D Khaparde, Sreenivas Achuthan Nair, Ashwani Khanna, Kamal Kishore Chopra, Mahmud Hanif, Gulshan Rai Sethi, K R Umadevi, G Keshav Chander, Brojakishore Saha, Amar Shah, Malik Parmar, Mayank Ghediya, Jyoti Jaju, Catharina Boehme, Chinnambedu Nainarappan Paramasivan

    Published 2015-01-01
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    Mycobacterial antigen driven activation of CD14++CD16- monocytes is a predictor of tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome.

    Mycobacterial antigen driven activation of CD14++CD16- monocytes is a predictor of tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. by Bruno B Andrade, Amrit Singh, Gopalan Narendran, Melissa E Schechter, Kaustuv Nayak, Sudha Subramanian, Selvaraj Anbalagan, Stig M R Jensen, Brian O Porter, Lis R Antonelli, Katalin A Wilkinson, Robert J Wilkinson, Graeme Meintjes, Helen van der Plas, Dean Follmann, Daniel L Barber, Soumya Swaminathan, Alan Sher, Irini Sereti

    Published 2014-10-01
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    Predictors of unfavorable responses to therapy in rifampicin-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis using an integrated approach of radiological presentation and sputum mycobacterial burden.

    Predictors of unfavorable responses to therapy in rifampicin-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis using an integrated approach of radiological presentation and sputum mycobacterial bur... by Narendran Gopalan, Vignes Anand Srinivasalu, Ponnuraja Chinnayan, Banurekha Velayutham, Adhin Bhaskar, Ramesh Santhanakrishnan, Thirumaran Senguttuvan, Sridhar Rathinam, Mahilmaran Ayyamperumal, Kumar Satagopan, Dhanalakshmi Rajendran, Tamizhselvan Manoharan, Sekar Lakshmanan, Paulkumaran Paramasivam, Dhanalakshmi Angamuthu, Mangalambal Ganesan, John Washington Easudoss Arockia, Ramesh Babu Venkatesan, Venkatesan Lakshmipathy, Shivakumar Shanmugham, Balaji Subramanyam, Shakila Shankar, Jawahar Mohideen Shaheed, Baskaran Dhanaraj, Narayanan Paranji Ramiyengar, Soumya Swaminathan, Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran

    Published 2021-01-01
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    Translational Research for Tuberculosis Elimination: Priorities, Challenges, and Actions.

    Translational Research for Tuberculosis Elimination: Priorities, Challenges, and Actions. by Christian Lienhardt, Knut Lönnroth, Dick Menzies, Manica Balasegaram, Jeremiah Chakaya, Frank Cobelens, Jennifer Cohn, Claudia M Denkinger, Thomas G Evans, Gunilla Källenius, Gilla Kaplan, Ajay M V Kumar, Line Matthiessen, Charles S Mgone, Valerie Mizrahi, Ya-Diul Mukadi, Viet Nhung Nguyen, Anders Nordström, Christine F Sizemore, Melvin Spigelman, S Bertel Squire, Soumya Swaminathan, Paul D Van Helden, Alimuddin Zumla, Karin Weyer, Diana Weil, Mario Raviglione

    Published 2016-03-01
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    PreVenTB trial: protocol for evaluation of efficacy and safety of two vaccines VPM1002 and Immuvac (Mw) in preventing tuberculosis (TB) in healthy household contacts of newly diagnosed sputum smear-positive pulmonary TB patients: phase III, randomised, double-blind, three-arm placebo-controlled trial

    PreVenTB trial: protocol for evaluation of efficacy and safety of two vaccines VPM1002 and Immuvac (Mw) in preventing tuberculosis (TB) in healthy household contacts of newly diagn... by Raman R Gangakhedkar, Ravindra Mohan Pandey, Rakesh Kumar, Randeep Guleria, Manjula Singh, Soumya Swaminathan, George D’Souza, Rashmi Rodrigues, Anand Krishnan, Sanghamitra Pati, Sudipta Mohakud, Anant Mohan, Ramesh Kumar, Prasanta Raghab Mohapatra, Parul Kodan, Rohit Sarin, Baijayantimala Mishra, Geeta Yadav, Deepak Gupta, Anuj Bhatnagar, Sriram Selvaraju, Ritu Gupta, Sandeep Patil, Sourin Bhuniya, Sanjay Mehendale, Samiran Panda, Subrata Kumar Palo, Debasish Hota, Sangeeta Sharma, Srikanth Tripathy, Kiran Katoch, Sindhu Joshi, Somashekar Narasimhaiah, Sangeeta Bhaskar, Rajni Rani, Abdul Mabood Khan, Urvashi B Singh, D K Mitra, Neelam Roy, Amitva Sen Gupta, Vikram Vohra, Neeta Singla, Vijaya Valluri Ansari, Chitra Iravatham, Shilpa Rakh, D K Prudhula, Chala Devi, N Rupa, K Sailaja, Sheela Godbole, Seema Sahay, Suchit Kamble, Megha Mamulwar, Arati Kishor Mane, Ashwini Vinod Shete, Abhijit Vasantrao Kadam, Vineet Chadha, S Uma Shankar, C Ravichandra, S K Tripathy, Dasarathi Das, Tahziba Hussain, B Dwibedi, P R Mohapatra, S C B Cuttack, M R Pattnaik, Sabita Mohapatra, Banu Rekha, Mohan Natarajan, P K Bhavani, D Bella Devaleenal, Syed Hisar, S Devarajulu Reddy, Paul Kumaran, Makhesh Kumar, Poorna Ganga Devi, Sunny Omkar Singh, Devi Pratyush, Vidushi Gupta, Parvathi

    Published 2024-08-01
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