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Medicine

D-Index
99
Citations
101032
World Ranking
8384
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in India Leader Award
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

K. Srinath Reddy is affiliated with the Public Health Foundation of India. The research work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their publication record includes significant contributions to prominent scientific journals. Frequent venues for their research publications include:

  • The Lancet
  • BMJ Global Health
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • Circulation
  • BMJ

The core topics of their work cover a broad spectrum of public health concerns and global health challenges. These topics include:

  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Coauthorship is a notable aspect of their career, with frequent collaborations involving several researchers. The most frequent coauthors are:

  • Dorairaj Prabhakaran
  • Nikhil Tandon
  • Dimple Kondal
  • Siddhartha Mandal
  • Joel Schwartz

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 - Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, The Lancet
  • Health and economic impact of air pollution in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, 2020, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Remdesivir and three other drugs for hospitalised patients with COVID-19: final results of the WHO Solidarity randomised trial and updated meta-analyses, 2022, The Lancet
  • Subnational mapping of under-5 and neonatal mortality trends in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000-17, 2020, The Lancet

K. Srinath Reddy was awarded membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2004. This recognition situates them among internationally acknowledged professionals in the field of medicine and public health.

Best Publications

  • Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

    Walter Willett;Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Brent Loken;Marco Springmann

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

    Julio Frenk;Lincoln Chen;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Jordan Cohen

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution

    Margaret E. Kruk;Anna D. Gage;Catherine Arsenault;Keely Jordan

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 - Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results.

    Hongchao Pan;Richard Peto;Ana-Maria Henao-Restrepo

  • Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis

    Robert Beaglehole;Ruth Bonita;Richard Horton;Cary Adams

  • Towards a common definition of global health

    Jeffrey P Koplan;T Christopher Bond;Michael H Merson;K Srinath Reddy

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • Emerging epidemic of cardiovascular disease in developing countries

    K. Srinath Reddy;Salim Yusuf

  • [Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation].

    Dean T. Jamison;Lawrence H. Summers;George Alleyne;Kenneth J. Arrow

  • Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report

    Felicia Marie Knaul;Paul E Farmer;Eric L Krakauer;Eric L Krakauer;Liliana De Lima

  • Relation of serial changes in childhood body-mass index to impaired glucose tolerance in young adulthood

    Santosh K. Bhargava;Harshpal Singh Sachdev;Caroline H.D. Fall;Clive Osmond

  • Case definitions for acute coronary heart disease in epidemiology and clinical research studies: a statement from the AHA Council on Epidemiology and Prevention; AHA Statistics Committee; World Heart Federation Council on Epidemiology and Prevention; the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Epidemiology and Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

    Russell V. Luepker;Fred S. Apple;Robert H. Christenson;Richard S. Crow

  • Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990–2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study

    Lalit Dandona;Rakhi Dandona;G Anil Kumar;D K Shukla

  • Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action.

    Paul Farmer;Julio Frenk;Felicia M Knaul;Lawrence N Shulman

  • Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

    Julio Frenk;Lincoln Chen;Jordan Cohen;Nigel Crisp

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Dorairaj Prabhakaran Centre for Chronic Disease Control
Nikhil Tandon
Nikhil Tandon All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Cheryl L. Perry
Cheryl L. Perry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Rakhi Dandona
Rakhi Dandona Public Health Foundation of India
G Anil Kumar
G Anil Kumar SRM Institute of Science and Technology Private university in Chennai, India
Shah Ebrahim
Shah Ebrahim London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Stephen S Lim
Stephen S Lim University of Washington
Mohsen Naghavi
Mohsen Naghavi Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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