Sivan YS

About

Independent Researcher & Research Consultant, Social Determinants of Health.
Teaching, Research, Advocacy.


Member (Senior Collaborator), Global Burden of Disease Collaborator Network (Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, USA).

Member, Expert Advisory Committee, Towards Unity for Health (Committees on: Ageing & Health, Migrant & Refugee Health, and Indigenous Health); 2024 onwards.


Broad areas of interest: Social Determinants of Health, Behavioural & Social Sciences (BSS), Strengthening BSS Teaching in Medical Education, Status of Women and Health, Health Security, Health Literacy, Community Nutrition, Social Gerontology, Improving Research Infrastructure.


Taught 'Behavioural and Social Sciences' and 'Social Determinants of Health' to medical undergraduate and postgraduate Community Medicine students from 2004-2021.


Faculty, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore, India. (2004-2021).


Adjunct Faculty, PSG FAIMER Regional Institute, Coimbatore, India. (2012-2021).


Faculty In-Charge, undergraduate student research programme PSBH (Problem Solving for Better Health) @ PSG IMS&R. (2011-2021).


Consultant, Monitoring & Evaluation of ICDS Scheme in Tamil Nadu, India (2009-2017).


Consultant, Health Policy in the Centre for Public Health Research, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India (2002-2004).


Worked in various capacities including as Fellow Scientist in the CSIR Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram, India (1993-2002)


Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics (2008).

Employment

• PSG Institute of Medical Sciences And Research Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor in Social Research
  2004 - 2021

Education

• PSG FAIMER South Asia Regional Institute Fellow
  2009 - 2011
• University of Kerala PhD
  1988 - 1993

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (66)

• Stillbirths at 22- and 28-weeks’ gestation or longer for the states in India: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2026.100819
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• Measuring the composition and availability of human resources for health by sex in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023, and workforce gaps for universal health coverage: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  The Lancet Public Health 2026 DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(26)00145-3
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• Global, regional, and national burden of HIV/AIDS, 1990–2023, with the estimated burden attributable to intimate partner violence and forecasted impacts of funding cuts through 2030: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  The Lancet HIV 2026 DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3018(26)00147-5
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• A Seven-step Process to Update Dr. B.G. Prasad’s Socioeconomic Status Scale
  Indian Journal of Community Medicine 2025 DOI: 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_825_23
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• Burden of 375 diseases and injuries, risk-attributable burden of 88 risk factors, and healthy life expectancy in 204 countries and territories, including 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2…
  The Lancet 2025 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(25)01637-x
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• Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1950–2023: a demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  The Lancet 2025 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(25)01330-3
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• Global burden of 292 causes of death in 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  The Lancet 2025 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(25)01917-8
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• Global, regional and national burden of dietary iron deficiency from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease study
  Nature Medicine 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03624-8
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• Characterising acute and chronic care needs: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
  Nature Communications 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56910-x
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• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Primary Care for Older Persons, Families, and Communities
  The Network: Towards Unity for Health 2025
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