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Dr. Anant Kumar MA, MPhil, PhD

Adjunct Additional Professor

 
Dr Anant Kumar is a Fulbright Scholar and an Associate Professor at Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Public Health Leadership Programme at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He has been trained in Psychology at the University of Allahabad, and in Social Medicine and Community Health at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.Dr. Kumar is associated with various organisations and professional groups and has been published in several national and international journals. He is also on the panel of reviewers for various national and international Journals. He has been the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence fellowship. He was also awarded a Guest Fellow position at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.His areas of work and research interests are public health, women's health, mental health, HIV/AIDS, population and reproductive health, international health, public health policy and leadership. At GIPH, he will take the courses in Health and Development, and Public Health and Policy.
 
MA (Psychology) Allahabad University, Uttar Pradesh, India
MPhil (Social Medicine) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India
PhD (Social Medicine& Community Health), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India

Contact Address:

Dr. Anant Kumar
Adjunct Additional Professor
Global Institute of Public Health, Ananthapuri Hospitals,
Trivandrum 695 024, Kerala, India
Tel: +91 - 471 - 257 99 00
Fax: +91 - 471 - 250 69 69
Mob: +91 - 9934 160 637
Email:pandeyanant@hotmail.com

 

Core Areas

Population studies, Reproductive and Child Heath, Gender and Development, Public health policy and leadership

 

Present Position:

  •  Associate Professor in the Department of Rural Management at Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. (13th Oct 2006 – Contd.).
  •  Adjunct Associate Professor at Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. (June 2016- Contd.); Fulbright Scholar (2015-16).
  •  Adjunct Additional Professor, Global Institute of Public Health, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. (Mar 2016 – Contd.)
  •  Affiliate, Global Gender Center, RTI International, Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA (Oct 2015 – Contd.)
  •  Member, Board of Studies, School of Rural Management, IIHMR University. (9th Jan 2017 – Contd.)
  •  Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Routledge. (Jan 2015 – contd.)
  •  Member, Editorial Board, New Horizons in Translational Medicine, Elsevier. (Oct 2015 – contd.)
  •  Member, Editorial Board, International NGO Journal (INGOJ).
  •  Member, Editorial Board, Jharkhand Journal of Social Development. (2009 – Contd.).
  •  Member, Jharkhand State Mentoring Monitoring Committee under National Rural Health Mission (2007 – Contd.).
  •  Member, Expert Committee, Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI). (2005 – Contd.)

Books

  •  “Visionary Leadership in Health: Delivering Superior Value”. SAGE Publication India Pvt. Ltd. SAGE Publications India • 2014 • 368 pages • 978-81-321-1320-1. Co-authored with Jay Satia and Moi Lee Liow.
  •  “Governance of Commons and Livelihood Security”. Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi, India. 2013. (ISBN: 978-81-904110-2-8). Edited with HimadriSinha.
  •  “Mental Health Services in India: A Case Study of Jahangirpuri”. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. 2010. (ISBN: 978-3-8383-6414-8)

Articles/ Chapters In Edited Books

  •  “Accredited Social Health Activists” Emerging Medical and Health Commons in Rural Jharkhand, India” in “Governance of Commons and Livelihood Security” edited by HimadriSinha and Anant Kumar. XISS, Ranchi, 2013. (with R. V. Kumar, V. K. Gupta, S. K. Prasad, and A. Minz). ISBN: 978-81-904110-2-8.
  •  “Ethical Considerations of Global Health Partnerships” in ‘An Introduction to Global Health Ethics’ edited by Andrew Pinto, Ross Upshur. Routledge, 2012. (with Jill Murphy, Victor R. Neufeld, DemissieHabte, Abraham Aseffa, KoasarAfsana, Maria de Lourdes Larrea and Jennifer Hatfield).
  •  “Population Stabilisation in Bihar, India: Situational Analysis and Future Directions” in Population Trends and Policy Options in Selected Developing Countries, Population Series, edited by Joe Thomas. Partners in Population and Development, Bangladesh, 2012. ISBN: 978-81-8291-132-1 (with Jay Satia).
  •  “Reproductive Health Rights and Issue of Sex-Determination and Sex-Selective Abortions in India”, Women Struggle for Existence, Equity Foundation. 2006 (with SunitaOjha).
  •  “Volunteering Needs in the Disability Sector”, in Volunteering in the Disability Sector: A Tool for Mainstreaming (Ed.), Published by Rehabilitation Council of India, New Delhi. 2006 (with Gregor Wolbring).

Journals (International)

  •  “A Demand For A National Commission For Men In India: A Rationale And Its Possible Consequences”. New Male Studies: An International Journal, Vol 7, Issue 1, 2018, Page 76–80.
  •  “Social determinants of environmental health: A case of sanitation in rural Jharkhand”. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 643, 2018, pp. 762-774. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.239. (with Josef Novotný, František Ficek, Joseph K.W. Hill).
  •  “Prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension among a coastal population in south India: baseline findings from a population-based health registry project in Kerala”. Public Health. 2018 Jan 12; 155:107-109. DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2017.11.012. (with Anand et al.)
  •  “Health and Social Security Needs of Rickshaw Pullers in Ranchi”. Social Work in Public Health. Vol. 31, Issue 31, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2015.1125323.
  •  “Cleft Lip Surgical Intervention in Resource Constraint Settings”. Health, Vol. 8, No.5, 2016. (withLoree K Kalliainen)
  •  “Complementing Gender Analysis Methods”. Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work. Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2016. DOI: 10.1080/15433714.2014.997097
  •  “Monument of Love or Symbol of Maternal Death: The Story Behind the TajMahal”. Case Reports in Womenʼs Health. 1-2 (January-June): 4-7, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.crwh.2014.07.001
  •  “Violence against Women and Mental Health”. Mental Health and Prevention. Vol. 1, 2013, Pp. 4-10. Elsevier. (with S. HaqueNizamie and Naveen Kumar Srivastava). http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.mhp.2013.06.002.
  •  “Operations Research in HIV/AIDS”. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work. Vol. 10, Issue 4, 2013, Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15433714.2012.664044.
  •  “Training Needs Assessment of Service Providers: Targeted Intervention for HIV/AIDS in Jharkhand, India”. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work. Vol. 10, Issue 4, 2013, Routledge. (withPrakash Kumar). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15433714.2012.664053.
  •  “HIV/AIDS Programme in Jharkhand: A Critical Review”. Social Work in Public Health. Vol. 27, Issue 4, 2012, Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2012.655056
  •  “AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children in India: Problems, Prospects, and Concerns”. Social Work in Public Health, Vol. 27, Issue 3, 2012, Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2010.525136.
  •  “Challenges and Opportunities in HIV/AIDS Counselling: A Case of Jharkhand”. Journal of Human Behaviour in the Social Environment. Vol. 22, Issue 2, 2012, Routledge. (withDeepshikhaParashar) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2012.646851.
  •  “Domestic Violence against Men in India: A Perspective”. Journal of Human Behaviour in the Social Environment. Vol. 22, Issue 3, 2012, Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2012.655988.
  •  “Mental health services in rural India: challenges and prospects”. Health. Vol. 3, No. 12. 2011. Pp. 757-761. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/health. 2011.312126.
  •  “Cultural and Social Practices regarding Menstruation among Adolescent Girls”. Social Work in Public Health, Vol. 26 Issue 6, 2011, Routledge. (with Kamiya Srivastava). ISSN: 1937-1918; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2010.525144; PMID: 21932979.
  •  “Brucellosis: Need of Public Health Intervention in Rural India”. Contributions, Sec. Biol. Med. Sci., MASA, XXXI, 1, p. 219–231 (2010) ISSN 0351–3254. PMID: 20703194.
  •  “Health Inequity and Women’s Self-Help Groups in India: The Role of Caste and Class”, Health Sociology Review, pp. 160-168, Volume 16 Issue 2, 2007. ISSN: 1446-1242; http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2007.16.2.160.
  •  “NGOs in Bihar: Voluntary Sector and its Credibility”, International NGO Journal, Vol. 2 (4), pp. 82-84, April 2007.
  •  “Mental Health in India: Issues and Concerns”, Journal of Mental Health and Ageing, Vol.8, No. 3, Fall 2002.

Journals (National)

  •  “Ethnicity, Religion, and Identity Politics among Tribes in Jharkhand”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 53, Issue No. 39, 2018. (with Pramil Kumar Panda).
  •  “Income and Saving Habits among Rickshaw Pullers in Ranchi”. Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies, XISS, Ranchi, Vol. 15, No. 1, January-March 2017, pp. 7197-7209.
  •  “Happy Days Are ‘Not’ Here”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 52, Issue No. 19, 2017. (with Nayar KR, Baht LD, Shaffi, M, and Grace C).
  •  “The Hookah Epidemic: Emerging Public Health Threat in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. Journal of Health Systems. 2016 May 26;2(1):16–8. (with D Jaff).
  •  “Where is “Public” in the Public Health Discourse? Journal of Health Systems. 2016 Jun 7;2(1):19–23. (with Nayar KR, and Bhat LD.)
  •  “Developing a health registry for Coastal Population: Protocol of the Valiyathura Population-Based Health Registry in Kerala, the southern coast of India”. Journal of Health Systems. 2016 May 2;2(1):11–5. (with Shaffi M, Anand TN, Pillai M, Rajendrakumar AL, Sreemathy LS, Nayar KR, et al.)
  •  “The Spittoon Syndrome: How Effective will be the Anti-Spitting Initiatives in India? Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 51, Issue No. 26-27, 2016.
  •  “Banning Child Pornography”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 51, Issue No. 13, 2016.
  •  “Menstruation, Purity and Right to Worship”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 51, Issue No. 9, 2016.
  •  “The politics behind Jharkhand’s domicile policy”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49, No. 17, 2014. Pp. 21-22.
  •  “Tribals in Jharkhand: Religion and identity politics”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49, No. 5, 2014.
  •  “Rural Health Innovation through Leadership Development and Organisational Effectiveness”, Jharkhand Journal of Social Development. Vol. 3, No. 2, 2010 (with Jay Satia).
  •  “Orphan and Vulnerable Children: Health Policy Interventions in India”, Journal of Health and Development, Vol. 4, No. 1-4, 2008, pp. 21-32 (with Toni Schofield).
  •  “Education of Tribals Children in Jharkhand - A Situational Analysis”, Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies, XISS, Ranchi, Vol. 6, No.4, October - December 2008, pp. 3111-3123.
  •  “National Rural Health Mission and Access to Health Services: Issues and Concerns”, Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies, XISS, Ranchi, Vol. 6, No.3, July - September 2008, pp. 2987-2996.
  •  “Communicating Care in Insulin Therapy” Journal of Health Management, No. 3, Volume 9, September – December 2007 (With Sandip Anand). ISSN: 0972-0634; DOI: 10.1177/097206340700900304.
  •  “Non-Governmental Organizations in Health Care”, Health Action, Vol. 19, No. 12, December 2006.
  •  “Self-help Groups, Women’s Health and Empowerment: Global Thinking and Contextual Issues”, Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, July – September 2006.
  •  “Framework of Action in the ‘Disability’ Sector”, YOJANA, Vol. 50, April 2006. (with Vedabhyas Kundu).
  •  “National Rural Health Mission and Mental Health”, Health Action, Vol. 18, No. 11, November 2005.
  •  “Volunteering to Help the Disabled”, Health Action, Vol. 18, No. 10, October 2005.
  •  Health Analysis “Kerala and Bihar: A Comparison”, YOJANA, Vol. 49, July 2005. (with Dr K R Nayar).
  •  “Adolescent Health”, Health Action, Vol. 18, No. 7, July 2005.
  •  “District Mental Health Program in India: A Case Study”, Journal of Health and Development, Vol.1, No. 1, January-March 2005.
  •  “History of Mental Health Services in India”, Journal of Personality and Clinical Studies, Vol.20, No. 1-2, March-September, 2004.
  •  “Rights of the Disabled”, YOJANA, Vol. 48, December 2004.
  •  “Knowing the History of Mental Health Services in India – II”, Health Action, Vol. 17, No. 11, November 2004.
  •  “Knowing the History of Mental Health Services in India – I”, Health Action, Vol. 17, No. 10, October 2004.
  •  “Alzheimer’s – Stop before it starts”, Health Action, Vol.17, No. 9, September 2004.
  •  “Rights of Disabled People”, Health Action, Vol.15, No.7, May 2004.
  •  “Fostering Mental Health”, Health Action, Vol. 16, No. 1, January 2003.
  •  “Volunteer Requirements in Disability Sector in India”, Mainstreaming Persons with Disability: Role of Volunteering and Media, Published by United Nations Volunteers, Team IYV, New Delhi, 2002.
  •  “Bridging the Gap between Policies and Practices”, Health Action, Vol.15, No.7, July 2002.
  •  “Role of Males’ in Reproductive and Sexual Health Decisions”, Women’s Link, Vol.8, No.2, April-June 2002.
  •  “Mental Health”, YOJANA, Vol. 46, March 2002.
  •  “Poverty and Adolescent Girl Health”, YOJANA, Vol. 45, September 2001.
  •  “Mental Retardation – Stop before it Starts”, Health for the Millions, Vol.27, No.3, May-June 2001.
  •  “Schizophrenia – Stop before it Starts”, Health for the Millions, Vol.27, No.2, March-April 2001.
  •  “Higher Education for the Persons with Disability”, Health for the Millions, Vol.26, No.6, November-December 2000.
  •  “Mental Health in a Public Health Perspective”, Health for the Millions, Vol.26, No.5, September-October 2000. (with Dr Anjum Soni)

Case Studies

  •  “Systems Thinking” (A Case-Study), International NGO Journal, Vol. 3 (7), pp. 128-129, July 2008.
  •  “Empowering Stakeholders” (A Case-Study), Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies, XISS, Ranchi, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 2825-2827 (with Alka Minj)
  •  “Society for Health and Development: Developed or Stagnated” (A Case-Study), International NGO Journal, Vol. 2 (5), pp. 106-107, May 2007.

Book Review

  •  “Contextualizing Local level interventions and Programmes of Poverty Alleviation”, Book Review in Journal of Health and Development, Vol.1, No. 4, October - December 2005.
  •  Health and Medical Care: A People’s Movement” by N H Antia, G P Dutta & A B Kasbekar, Reviewed in, Health Action, Vol.16, No.8, August 2003.
  •  “Leprosy in India” by Harshit Sinha, Reviewed in, Health for The Millions, Vol. 27, No. 1, January-February 2001.

Articles In Magazines/Newsletter

  •  “Minting Money in an NGO Way”. The Global Journal. August 9, 2012.
  •  “Realizing Full Potential of Sahiyas: An Action Brief”. Impression, Issue No. 2. June 2009. Pp. 3. (with Jay Satia).
  •  “Mainstreaming Gender in Reproductive Health”, Sutra, LDM Newsletter, Vol.1, No.2, July- December 2004.
  •  “Need of Males’ Involvement in Reproductive Health and Sexual Health Decisions”- Sutra, LDM Newsletter, Vol.1, No.1, January-June 2004.
  •  “Rehabilitation Psychology: Issues and Professional Concerns” Empathy India, Vol. 1, August-October 2002.
  •  “Disability and Higher Education”, JNU NEWS, January-February 2001.

Letters

  •  “Politics around Washrooms”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 52, No. 48, 2017.
  •  “Politics of Assertion”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49, No. 38, 2014.
  •  “Dealing with mass fatalities”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 48, No. 29, 2013.
  •  “Politics of special status”. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 48. No. 48, 2013. Pp. 4-5.

Reports Authored

  •  Population Stabilization in Bihar, India: Situational Analysis and Future Directions. Population Communication, California, USA (with Jay Satia).
  •  Resource Mapping: HIV/AIDS in Bihar: Sexual Health Resource Centre (SHRC), New Delhi
  •  HIV/AIDS and UN Workplace in India: Report on Knowledge and Attitude of UN Personnel on HIV/AIDS in India, Partners in Development Initiatives, New Delhi.

Papers published

Mini GK, Grace CA, Jinbert L. Complementary and alternative medicine use in the prevention of COVID-19 pandemic : a cross-sectional survey in Kerala , India. Int J Community Med Public Heal 2021; 8: 5329–37.
Nair, A.T., Nayar, K.R., Koya, S.F., Abraham, M., Lordson, J., Chitra, G.A., Sreekumar, S., Chembon, P., Swarnam, K., Pillai, A.M., Pandey, A.K., 2021. Social media, vaccine hesitancy and trust deficit in immunization programs: a qualitative enquiry in Malappuram District of Kerala, India. BMC Heal. Res. Policy Syst. 19, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00698-x
Pillai, Anand Marthanda, Koya, S.F., GK, M., Lordson, J.A., Chitra, G.A., Abraham, M., Kumar, V.V., Bijumone, S., Vijayan, B., KV, D., SH, K., Jose, S.D., Vaheed, R., J, R., K, A., Khan, S.R., SB, S., J, G., Sivanand, S., VS, K., VL, N., B, A., TK, M., VM, A., Wilson, G., Sadasivan, L.S., Nayar, K.R., Pillai, A Marthanda, 2021. “How Universal is the Use of Facemask During COVID-19 Pandemic? A Photo-Epidemiology Study from the Indian State of Kerala.” Biomed. J. Sci. Tech. Res. 35, 27741–27746. https://doi.org/10.26717/bjstr.2021.35.005712
Sudha Ramachandra Rao, Grace A Chitra, G Elavarasu, P Kamaraj, Kanagasabai Kaliaperumal, Prabhdeep Kaur, Exposure to mosquito coil and biomass fuel smoke and respiratory health in rural Tamil Nadu, India, Journal of Public Health, April 2021;, fdab119, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdab119
Rajasekharan Nayar, K., Fazaludeen Koya, S., Mohandas, K., Sivasankaran Nair, S., Chitra, G,A., Abraham, M., & Lordson, J. (2020). Public health implications of Sabarimala mass gathering in India: A multi-dimensional analysis to be published in: Travel medicine and infectious disease. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 37(March), 101783.
Rajasekhran K Nayar, Anoop T Nair, Muhammed Shaffi, Kamala Swarnam, Anant Kumar, Minu Abraham, Jinbert Lordson, Chitra Grace. Methods to overcome vaccine hesitancy. The Lancet. 2019; 393(10177): 1203-1204
Anand TN, Shaffi M, Pillai A M, Lathika Rajendrakumar A, Sreemathy LS, Rajasekharan Nayar K, et al. Prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension among a coastal population in south India: baseline findings from a population-based health registry project in Kerala. Public Health. 2018;155:107–9.
Kumar A, Kesavan Rajasekharan, Nayar Muhammed S, Chitra GA, Bhat LD. Happy Days Are “Not” Here! Econ Polit Wkly. 2017;52(19):24–7.
Muhammed Shaffi, Anand TN, Marthanda Pillai A, Aravind Lathika Rajendrakumara, Lal Sadasivan Sreemathya, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Jinbert Lordson, Minu Abraham, ….,Chitra Grace A, Jeejo Jacob; Developing a health registry for Coastal Population: Protocol of the Valiyathura Population Based Health Registry in Kerala, the southern coast of India; Journal of Health Systems, 2016; 2 (1); 17-21
Rakesh, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Muhammed Shaff, Chitra Grace; Do we need to consider Universalising Hepatitis A Vaccine in Kerala, India?; Journal of Health Systems, 2016; 2 (1); 1-2
Chitra Grace, Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar, Lekha D Bhat, Anant Kumar, G Ratheesh Babu, Muhammed Shaffi. The ‘Spittoon Syndrome’ How Effective Will Be the Anti-spitting Initiatives in India? Economic and Political Weekly. 2016; 26; 15- 18.


Book/Book Chapter
Chitra GA. Other Socially Constructed Vulnerabilities: Focus on People Living with HIV/AIDS and Internal Migrants. In: Ravindran TKS, Gaitonde R, editors. Health Inequities in India: A Synthesis of Recent Evidence [Internet]. Singapore: Springer Singapore; 2018. p. 157–88.
Ravindran TKS, Gaitonde R, Srinivas PN, Subramaniam S, Chidambaram P, Chitra GA. Health Equity Research: A Political Project. In: Ravindran TKS, Gaitonde R, editors. Health Inequities in India: A Synthesis of Recent Evidence. Singapore: Springer Singapore; 2018. p. 221–39.