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Ajay Mahal is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and health professions. Their work spans key areas including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, global health care issues, healthcare systems and reforms, global maternal and child health, global public health policies and epidemiology, chronic disease management strategies, and health systems economic evaluations and quality of life.

The scientist's main fields of study include Medicine with 70 publications and Health Professions with 29 publications. Subfields of study comprise General Health Professions, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Finance, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Economics and Econometrics.

Ajay Mahal has published numerous papers in prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets include Social Science & Medicine, Gates Open Research, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, CHEST Journal, and PLoS ONE.

Recent notable papers encompass:

  • Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke: a World Stroke Organization-Lancet Neurology Commission (2023, The Lancet Neurology)
  • The state of stroke services across the globe: Report of World Stroke Organization-World Health Organization surveys (2021, International Journal of Stroke)
  • Telerehabilitation for chronic respiratory disease: a randomised controlled equivalence trial (2021, Thorax)
  • Effectiveness of a scalable group-based education and monitoring program, delivered by health workers, to improve control of hypertension in rural India: A cluster randomised controlled trial (2020, PLoS Medicine)

Ajay Mahal has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Anne E. Holland
  • Marie Ishida
  • Narelle S. Cox
  • Christine F. McDonald
  • Brian Oldenburg

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a 2023 title released by the European Organization for Nuclear Research titled Health Seeking Pathways in Four Indian States Of India.

Best Publications

  • Structural approaches to HIV prevention.

    Geeta Rao Gupta;Justin O Parkhurst;Jessica A Ogden;Peter Aggleton

  • Trends in diet, nutritional status, and diet-related noncommunicable diseases in China and India: the economic costs of the nutrition transition.

    Barry M. Popkin;Susan Horton;Soowon Kim;Ajay Mahal

  • Primary stroke prevention worldwide: translating evidence into action.

    Mayowa O Owolabi;Amanda G Thrift;Ajay Mahal;Marie Ishida

  • Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost?

    Susan Horton;Meera Shekar;Christine McDonald;Ajay Mahal

  • Does the AIDS epidemic threaten economic growth

    David E. Bloom;Ajay S. Mahal

  • Extending health insurance to the poor in India: An impact evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on out of pocket spending for healthcare

    Anup K Karan;Winnie Yip;Ajay Mahal

  • Economic impacts of health shocks on households in low and middle income countries: a review of the literature

    Khurshid Alam;Khurshid Alam;Ajay Mahal

  • The Economic implications of Non-Communicable Disease for India

    Ajay Mahal;Anup Karan;Michael Engelgau

  • Action to address the household economic burden of non-communicable diseases

    Stephen Jan;Stephen Jan;Tracey-Lea Laba;Tracey-Lea Laba;Beverley M Essue;Beverley M Essue;Adrian Gheorghe

  • The Economic impact of Non-communicable Diseases on households in India

    Michael Engelgau;Anup Karan;Anup Karan;Ajay Singh Mahal

  • The Health Care Systems Of China And India: Performance And Future Challenges

    Winnie Yip;Ajay Mahal

  • The Contribution of Population Health and Demographic Change to Economic Growth in China and India

    David E. Bloom;David Canning;Linlin Hu;Yuanli Liu

  • Economic security arrangements in the context of population ageing in India

    David E. Bloom;Ajay Mahal;Larry Rosenberg;Jaypee Sevilla

  • The state of stroke services across the globe: Report of World Stroke Organization–World Health Organization surveys

    Mayowa O. Owolabi;Amanda G. Thrift;Sheila Martins;Walter Johnson

  • A peer-support lifestyle intervention for preventing type 2 diabetes in India: a cluster-randomized controlled trial of the Kerala Diabetes Prevention Program

    Kavumpurathu R. Thankappan;Thirunavukkarasu Sathish;Thirunavukkarasu Sathish;Robyn J. Tapp;Robyn J. Tapp;Jonathan E. Shaw

  • Who benefits from public health spending in India

    Vikram Lamba;Ajay Mahal;V. Selvaraju;Jarunejaya Singh

  • Multimorbidity and out-of-pocket expenditure on medicines: a systematic review

    Grace Sum;Thomas Hone;Rifat Atun;Christopher Millett

  • State Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Victoria Fan;Anup Karan;Ajay Mahal

  • The Economic Burden of Cancers on Indian Households

    Ajay S. Mahal;Anup Karan;Victoria Y. Fan;Michael Maurice Engelgau

  • High-end physician migration from India

    Manas Kaushik;Abhishek Jaiswal;Naseem Shah;Ajay Mahal

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Oldenburg
Brian Oldenburg University of Melbourne
Winnie Yip
Winnie Yip Harvard University
Robert J. Donovan
Robert J. Donovan University of Western Australia
Barbara McPake
Barbara McPake University of Melbourne
Andre M. N. Renzaho
Andre M. N. Renzaho Western Sydney University
Rifat Atun
Rifat Atun Harvard University
Shenglan Tang
Shenglan Tang Duke University
Stephen Jan
Stephen Jan George Institute for Global Health
Susan Horton
Susan Horton University of Waterloo
Foad Abd-Allah
Foad Abd-Allah Cairo University

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