SWATI SRIVASTAVA
BDS, MPH
Doctoral Candidate
Swati Srivastava joined the Research Group in Health Economics and Health Financing as a scientific staff member in December 2018. She has a background in clinical dentistry and public health and is trained in quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research. Her research interests include the thematic areas of health care access and utilization, quality of service provision, health insurance systems and universal health coverage; and mixed methods evaluation techniques. Swati’s doctoral research focuses on the effect of the PM-JAY health insurance scheme in India on service provision, including implementation experiences and service quality. Prior to joining HIGH, Swati has worked on quality of maternal and obstetric care, program evaluations of different Indian social health insurance schemes, health financing and tobacco economics, at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Oxford Policy Management and the Public Health Foundation of India.
Education
2019 – present:
Institute of Global Health Dr.sc. hum. candidate
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
2015:
Masters of Public Health, Orientation International Health
Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
2010:
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics, Health care Financing, and Health Policy
Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi, New Delhi, India
2007:
Bachelors of Dental Surgery
Sardar Patel Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, RML Awadh University, Lucknow/Faizabad, India
HONORS/AWARDS
EPIC Scholarship, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 2017.
Research Fellow, Public Health Leadership and Implementation Academy for NCDs, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 2016-17.
Belgian Directorate General of Development Cooperation scholarship to pursue MPH - International Health, 2013.
Bloomberg Scholarship to pursue Global Tobacco Control Certificate Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2012.
Publications
De Allegri M, Srivastava S, Strupat C, Brenner S, Parmar D, Parisi D, et al. (2020) Mixed and multi-methods protocol to evaluate implementation processes and early effects of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana scheme in seven Indian states. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020;17(21):1–15.
Ahmed S, Srivastava S, Warren N, et al. The impact of a nurse mentoring program on the quality of labour and delivery care at primary health care facilities in Bihar, India. BMJ Global Health 2019;4:e001767. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001767
Rao KD, Srivastava S, Warren N, et al. Where there is no nurse: an observational study of large-scale mentoring of auxiliary nurses to improve quality of care during childbirth at primary health centres in India. BMJ Open 2019;9:e027147. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027147
Nazar GP, Chang KC, Srivastava S, et al. Impact of India’s National Tobacco Control Programme on bidi and cigarette consumption: a difference-in-differences analysis. Tobacco Control 2020;29:103-110
Srivastava S, Bose M, Karan A, Selvaraj S. (2016) Benefit incidence analysis of institutional child delivery in India, 2004–2014: improving equity through the National Health Mission? BMJ Global Health, 1(Suppl 1), A4-A5
Bhan N, Karan A, Srivastava S, Selvaraj S, Subramanian SV, Millet C. (2016) Have Socioeconomic Inequalities in Tobacco Use in India increased over time? Trends from the National Sample Surveys (2000-2012). Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2016; doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntw092
Selvaraj S, Srivastava S, Karan A. (2015) Price elasticity of tobacco products among economic classes in India, 2011–2012. BMJ Open 2015;5:e008180. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015008180
Panda R, Srivastava S, Persai D, Mathur MR, Modi B, Dave P, et al. (2015) Preparedness of frontline health workers for tobacco cessation: An exploratory study from two states of India. J Family Med Prim Care 2015;4:298-304.
Arora R, Srivastava S. (2015) Draft National Health Policy 2015: Role of health insurance. IIB Bulletin 04/2015; Volume 1(Issue 4):10-12.
Selvaraj S, Mukhopadhyay I, Kumar P, Aisola M, Datta P, Bhat P, Mehta A, Srivastava S, Pachauli C. (2014) Universal access to medicines: Evidence from Rajasthan, India. WHO South-East Asia J Public Health 2014; 3(3-4): 289–299.
Tharu MB, Harries AD, Goel S, Srivastava S, Kumar AMV, Adhikari M, Shrestha B, Maharjan B, Khadka H. (2014) Screening retreatment TB patients for drug resistance in mid-west Nepal: How well are we doing? Public Health Action 2014; 4(1): 60–65 dx.doi.org/10.5588/pha.13.0104
Chang Y, Duo L, Kumar AMV, Achanta S, Xue H, Satyanarayana S, Ananthakrishnan R, Srivastava S, Qi W, Hu S. (2014) Retention and HIV sero-conversion among drug users on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in Yunnan, China. Public Health Action 2014; 4(1): 28-34 dx.doi.org/10.5588/pha.13.0101
Srivastava S, Malhotra S, Harries AD, Lal P, Arora M. (2013) Correlates of tobacco quit attempts and cessation in the adult population of India: secondary analysis of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey, 2009-10. BMC Public Health 2013, 13:263 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-263
Panda R, Mathur MR, Divya P, Srivastava S, Sulgodu SR. (2013) Health System Preparedness for Tobacco Control: Situational Analysis of Existing Health Programs in Andhra Pradesh, India. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, Vol 13, 2012
Bhan N, Srivastava S, Agrawal S, Subramanyam M, Millett C, Selvaraj S, Subramanian SV. (2012) Are socioeconomic disparities in tobacco consumption increasing in India? A repeated crosssectional multilevel analysis. BMJ Open 2012;2:e001348. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001348
Lal P, Wilson NC, Millet C, Srivastava S. (2012) Should the legal age for the purchase of tobacco be increased to 21 years in India? Global Heart, World Heart Federation (Geneva). Vol. 7, no.2, 2012 ISSN 2211-8160/$36.00 Doi: 10.1016/j.Gheart. 2012.04.001
