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Niranjan Saggurti

Niranjan Saggurti

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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42
Citations
7289
World Ranking
4757
National Ranking
4

Overview

Niranjan Saggurti is affiliated with the Population Council in India. The primary area of research lies within Medicine, with a focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Finance, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Gender Studies.

The scholar's work encompasses several main topics including Global Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Reproductive Health and Contraception, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences, Child Nutrition and Water Access, and Global Health Care Issues.

Among recent publications, the following papers exemplify the scope and focus of their research:

  • Determinants of School dropouts among adolescents: Evidence from a longitudinal study in India, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Vulnerability of agriculture to climate change increases the risk of child malnutrition: Evidence from a large-scale observational study in India, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Improving primary health care delivery in Bihar, India: Learning from piloting and statewide scale-up of Ananya, 2020, Journal of Global Health
  • Effect of exposure to PM10 on child health: evidence based on a large-scale survey from 184 cities in India, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • Improving primary health care delivery in Bihar, India: Learning from piloting and statewide scale-up of Ananya, 2020, PubMed

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sowmya Ramesh
  • Nizamuddin Khan
  • Jewel Gausman
  • Suchandrima Chakraborty
  • Ernest Kenu

Publication venues where this researcher has contributed repeatedly include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • BMJ Open
  • UNC Libraries
  • Studies in Family Planning

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of child marriage and its effect on fertility and fertility-control outcomes of young women in India: a cross-sectional, observational study

    Anita Raj;Niranjan Saggurti;Donta Balaiah;Jay G Silverman

  • Intimate partner violence and HIV infection among married Indian women

    Jay G. Silverman;Michele R. Decker;Niranjan Saggurti;Donta Balaiah

  • Disrupting gender norms in health systems: making the case for change

    Katherine Hay;Lotus McDougal;Valerie Percival;Sarah Henry

  • The Effect of Maternal Child Marriage on Morbidity and Mortality of Children Under 5 in India: Cross Sectional Study of a Nationally Representative Sample

    Anita Raj;Niranjan Saggurti;Michael Winter;Alan Labonte

  • Intimate partner violence functions as both a risk marker and risk factor for women's HIV infection: findings from Indian husband-wife dyads.

    Michele R. Decker;George R. Seage;David A. Hemenway;Anita Raj

  • Stigma, violence and HIV vulnerability among transgender persons in sex work in Maharashtra, India.

    Deepika Ganju;Niranjan Saggurti

  • Association between adolescent marriage and marital violence among young adult women in India

    Anita Raj;Niranjan Saggurti;Danielle A. Lawrence;Donta Balaiah

  • Infection prevention preparedness and practices for female sterilization services within primary care facilities in Northern India.

    Abhishek Kumar;Abhishek Gautam;Arnab Dey;Ruhi Saith

  • Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of a Gender Equity and Family Planning Intervention for Married Men and Couples in Rural India.

    Anita Raj;Mohan Ghule;Julie Ritter;Madhusudana Battala

  • Experience of violence and adverse reproductive health outcomes, HIV risks among mobile female sex workers in India.

    Suvakanta N Swain;Niranjan Saggurti;Madhusudana Battala;Ravi K Verma

  • Abuse from In-Laws during Pregnancy and Post-Partum: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings from Low-income Mothers of Infants in Mumbai, India

    Anita Raj;Shagun Sabarwal;Michele R. Decker;Saritha Nair

  • HIV risk behaviours among contracted and non-contracted male migrant workers in India: potential role of labour contractors and contractual systems in HIV prevention.

    Niranjan Saggurti;Ravi K Verma;Anrudh Jain;Saumya RamaRao

  • Sex Trafficking and Initiation-Related Violence, Alcohol Use, and HIV Risk Among HIV-Infected Female Sex Workers in Mumbai, India

    Jay G. Silverman;Anita Raj;Debbie M. Cheng;Michele R. Decker

  • Migration, Mobility and Sexual Risk Behavior in Mumbai, India: Mobile Men with Non-Residential Wife Show Increased Risk

    Niranjan Saggurti;Stephen L. Schensul;Ravi K. Verma

  • Community collectivization and its association with consistent condom use and STI treatment-seeking behaviors among female sex workers and high-risk men who have sex with men/transgenders in Andhra Pradesh, India.

    Niranjan Saggurti;Ram Manohar Mishra;Laxminarayana Proddutoor;Saroj Tucker

  • Relationship between mobility, violence and HIV/STI among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Sowmya Ramesh;Deepika Ganju;Bidhubhusan Mahapatra;Ram Manohar Mishra

  • Are female sex workers able to negotiate condom use with male clients? The case of mobile FSWs in four high HIV prevalence states of India.

    Shalini Bharat;Bidhubhusan Mahapatra;Suchismita Roy;Niranjan Saggurti

  • Alcohol and sexual risk behavior among migrant female sex workers and male workers in districts with high in-migration from four high HIV prevalence states in India.

    Ravi K. Verma;Niranjan Saggurti;Ajay K. Singh;Suvakanta N. Swain

  • Indicators of Mobility, Socio-Economic Vulnerabilities and HIV Risk Behaviours Among Mobile Female Sex Workers in India

    Niranjan Saggurti;Anrudh K. Jain;Mary Philip Sebastian;Rajendra Singh

  • Effects of health behaviour change intervention through women's self-help groups on maternal and newborn health practices and related inequalities in rural india: A quasi-experimental study

    Avishek Hazra;Yamini Atmavilas;Katherine Hay;Niranjan Saggurti

  • Associations Between Mistreatment by a Provider during Childbirth and Maternal Health Complications in Uttar Pradesh, India

    Anita Raj;Arnab Dey;Sabrina Boyce;Aparna Seth

  • Alcohol Use and Sex Risk Behaviors Among HIV-Infected Female Sex Workers (FSWs) and HIV-Infected Male Clients of FSWs in India

    Jeffrey H. Samet;Christine A. Pace;Debbie M. Cheng;Sharon Coleman

  • Effect of health intervention integration within women's self-help groups on collectivization and healthy practices around reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in rural India.

    Niranjan Saggurti;Yamini Atmavilas;Akash Porwal;Janine Schooley

Frequent Co-Authors

Anita Raj
Anita Raj University of California, San Diego
Jay G. Silverman
Jay G. Silverman University of California, San Diego
Michele R. Decker
Michele R. Decker Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth Reed
Elizabeth Reed San Diego State University
Stephen Moses
Stephen Moses University of Manitoba
Sarah Hawkes
Sarah Hawkes University College London
Heather L. McCauley
Heather L. McCauley Michigan State University
Edwine Barasa
Edwine Barasa KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Jody Heymann
Jody Heymann University of California, Los Angeles
Jean J. Schensul
Jean J. Schensul University of Connecticut

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