Anns Issac

About

Health systems professional with a Doctorate in Public Health and over ten years of work experience. My focus is on promoting equity, addressing social determinants of health, and institutionalizing evidence-based practices within healthcare systems.

Employment

• World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia Consultant
  2024 - Present
• World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia Consultant
  2021 - 2022
• World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia Technical Officer
  2019 - 2021
• World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia Consultant
  2018 - 2019

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru University PhD
  2007 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (13)

• “There Is No Link Between Resource Allocation and Use of Local Data”: A Qualitative Study of District-Based Health Decision-Making in West Bengal, India
  Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Anns Issac, Bhushan Girase

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  • Mayukhmala Guha
  • Joanna Schellenberg
  • Bilal Iqbal Avan
  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17218283
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• COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor: Thailand
  World Health Organization 2020
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• Migration health research and policy in south and south-east Asia: mapping the gaps and advancing a collaborative agenda
  Anuj Kapilashrami, Kolitha Prabhash Wickramage, Nima Asgari‐Jirhandeh

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  • Anns Issac
  • Anjali Borharde
  • Ganesh Man Gurung
  • JeevanR Sharma
  WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health 2020 DOI: 10.4103/2224-3151.294303
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• Neglect of low-income migrants in COVID-19 response. The BMJ Opinion
  The BMJ Open 2020
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• Do mass deworming efforts improve the developmental health and well-being of children in low- and middle-income countries? Summary of the evidence and implications for public health programmes
  Clin Epidemiol Glob Health 2018
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• Effectiveness of community health worker-led mental health promotion interventions in low and middle-income countries
  Campbell Collaboration 2018
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• African and Indian health systems have a lot in common: what can they learn from each other?
  International Health Policies 2018
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• Strengthening health systems in India and Africa: a converging agenda.
  Securing the 21st century: Mapping India-Africa engagement, Global Policy 2018
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• Regional inequities in knowledge production – reflections from HSR 2016
  International Health Policies 2017
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• Out of pocket expenditure to deliver at public health facilities in India: A cross sectional analysis
  Anns Issac, Susmita Chatterjee, Aradhana Srivastava +1 more
  Reproductive Health 2016 DOI: 10.1186/s12978-016-0221-1
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• "Neither we are satisfied nor they"-users and provider's perspective: A qualitative study of maternity care in secondary level public health facilities, Uttar Pradesh, India
  Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Anns Issac, Preety R. Rajbangshi

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  • Aradhana Srivastava
  • Bilal Iqbal Avan
  BMC Health Services Research 2015 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-015-1077-8
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• Health of the workers in plantation economy: a study of cardamom plantations in Kerala.
  Health and development - the millennium perspectives 2011
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• Migration of health workers from India: a case study of nurses
  Centre for Trade and Development, New Delhi, India 2009
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