Dr. Rajesh Kumar Rai
CV
Research Interests:
reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
Rai RK, Subramanian SV, Vollmer S (accepted) Association of parental characteristics with offspring anthropometric failure, anaemia, and mortality in India. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Rai RK, De Neve JW, Geldsetzer P, Vollmer S. (2021) Maternal iron-and-folic-acid supplementation and association with low-birth weight and neonatal mortality in India . Public Health Nutrition , 1-29. Rai, R., Kumar, S., Parasannanavar, D., Khandelwal, S., & Rajkumar, H. (2021). Tipping the scale: the role of a national nutritional supplementation programme for pregnant mothers in reducing low birth weight and neonatal mortality in India . British Journal of Nutrition , 1-9 Rai, R. K. (2020) Iron-and-folic-acid supplementation among adolescents (aged 10–19 years) in two North Indian States, 2015–2016: a sex-stratified analysis . Public Health Nutrition , 57(8): 1-6 Rai, R. K., Kumar, C., Singh, L., Singh, P. K., Acharya, S. K. and Singh, S. (2021) Rising burden of overweight and obesity among Indian adults: empirical insights for public health preparedness . Journal of Biosocial Science. , 53(5): 709–723 Rai RK, Bromage S, Fawzi WW (2021) Receipt of Weekly Iron Supplementation among Indian Children, 2005-2016. . Current developments in nutrition , 5(3) Rai, R. K., Barik, A., Mazumdar, S., Chatterjee, K., Kalkonde, Y. V., Mathur, P., Chowdhury, A., & Fawzi, W. W. (2020) Non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of mortality in rural Birbhum, West Bengal, India: a sex-stratified analysis of verbal autopsies from a prospective cohort, 2012-2017 . BMJ open , 10(10) Singh PK, Singh L, Kumar C, Dubey R, Rai RK, Singh S (2020) Examining public health interventions to improve maternal nutrition during pregnancy: a nationally representative study of Iron Folic Acid consumption and food supplementation in India. Public Health Nutrition. (accepted for publication) Sudfeld CR, Rai RK, Barik A, Valadez JJ, Fawzi WW (2020) Population-level effective coverage of adolescent weekly iron folic acid supplementation is low in rural West Bengal, India. Public Health Nutrition . (accepted for publication) Darling AM, Fawzi WW, Barik A, Chowdhury A, Rai RK (2020) Double burden of malnutrition among adolescents in rural West Bengal, India . Nutrition , DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2020.110809 Rai RK, Kumar C, Singh PK, Singh L, Barik A, Chowdhury A (2020) Incidence of prehypertension and hypertension in rural India, 2012-2018: a sex-stratified population-based prospective cohort study . American Journal of Hypertension , DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpaa034 Rai RK, Sudfeld CR, Barik A, Fawzi WW, Chowdhury A (2019) Socio-demographic determinants of preterm birth and small-for-gestational age in rural West Bengal, India . Journal of Tropical Pediatrics , 65(6): 537-546 Singh L, Goel R, Rai RK, Singh PK (2018) Socioeconomic inequality in functional deficiencies and chronic diseases among older Indian adults: a sex-stratified cross-sectional decomposition Analysis . BMJ Open , 9(2): e022787 Rai RK, Jaacks LM, Bromage S, Barik A. Fawzi WW, Chowdhury A (2018) Prospective cohort study of overweight and obesity among rural Indian adults: socio-demographic predictors of prevalence, incidence, and remission . BMJ Open , 8(8): e021363 Singh PK, Rai RK, Singh S, Singh L (2018) Rising caesarean births - a growing concern . Economic & Political Weekly , 53(26-17): 22-24 Rai RK, Fawzi WW, Barik A, Chowdhury A (2018) The burden of iron-deficiency anaemia among women in India: how have iron and folic acid interventions fared? WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health , 7(1): 18-23 Rai RK, Fawzi WW, Bromage S, Barik A. Chowdhury A (2018) Underweight among rural Indian adults: burden, and predictors of incidence and recovery . Public Health Nutrition , 21(4):669-678 Barik A, Das K, Chowdhury A, Rai RK (2018) Metabolic syndrome among rural Indian adults . Clinical Nutrition ESPEN , 23: 129-135 Gorain A, Barik A, Chowdhury A, Rai RK (2017) Preference in place of delivery among rural Indian women . PLoS One , 12(12): e0190117 Sekher M, Parasuraman S, Pritchard B, Kumar SS, Rai RK (2017) Empowering people to power the Public Distribution System: a process mapping analysis of six Indian states . Economic & Political Weekly , 52 (51): 97-107 Barik A, Rai RK (2017) Catch them young: grooming a new generation of physicians in India . Journal of Public Health (Springer) , 25(5): 461–463 Barik A, Sarkhel S, Basu S, Chowdhury A, Rai RK (2017) Probable psychiatric disorder in a rural community of West Bengal, India . Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , 52 (12): 1495-1500 Rai RK (2017) Do the sex composition of living children and the desire for additional children affect future intention to use contraception in Ethiopia? Journal of Biosocial Science , 49 (6): 757-772 Rai RK (2017) Decline in contraceptive use in India: a call for action . Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare , 14: 13-16 Rai RK, Tulchinsky TH (2017) India’s pathetic public health situation . Economic & Political Weekly , 52(44): 4 Rai RK, Singh L, Singh PK (2017) Is maternal body mass index associated with neonatal mortality? a pooled analysis of nationally representative data from nine Asian countries . Nutrition , 41: 68-72 Rai RK, Tulchinsky TH (2017) India badly needs public health education . Economic & Political Weekly , 52(27): 37-39 Rai RK, Luo J, Tulchinsky TH (2017) Vitamin K supplementation to prevent hemorrhagic morbidity and mortality of newborns in India and China . World Journal of Pediatrics , 13(1): 15-19 Barik A, Shah R, Spillahari A, Murthy VL, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Rai RK, Das K, Santra A, Hembram JR, Bhattacharya D, Freedman J, Lima J, Das R, Bhattacharyya P, Das S, Chowdhury A (2016) Hepatic steatosis is associated with cardiometabolic risk in a rural Indian population: a prospective cohort study . International Journal of Cardiology , 225:161-166 Lytton ME, Collin RW, Rai RK (2016) Ambient air pollution from urban transport in India . Economic & Political Weekly , 51 (41): 46-53 Kumar C. Singh PK, Singh L, Rai RK (2016) Socioeconomic disparities in coverage of full immunization among children of adolescent mothers in India, 1990-2006: a repeated cross-sectional analysis . BMJ Open , 6(8): e009768 Barik A, Mazumdar S, Chowdhury A, Rai RK (2016) Physiological and behavioural risk factors of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in rural India . BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care , 4(1): e000255 Kumar S, Rai RK (2015) Role of India’s Anganwadi centre in securing food and nutrition for mothers and children . Journal of Agriculture & Food Information , 16 (2): 174-182 Barik A, Rai RK, Chowdhury A (2016) Tobacco use and self-reported morbidity among rural Indian adults . Primary Health Care Research & Development , 17(5): 514-523 Rai RK, Singh PK, Kumar C (2016) Is the use of maternal healthcare among prospective mothers higher in households that have experienced maternal death? Evidence from India . Health Policy & Planning , 31(7): 844-852 Barik A, Rai RK, Gorain A, Majumdar S, Chowdhury A (2016) Socio-economic disparities in tobacco consumption in rural India: evidence from a Health and Demographic Surveillance System . Perspectives in Public Health , 136 (5): 278-287 Barik A, Rai RK, Chowdhury A (2016) Alcohol use-related problems among a rural Indian population of West Bengal: an application of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) . Alcohol & Alcoholism , 51 (2): 215-223 Rai RK (2015) Utilization of maternal health care services by Muslim women in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, 2005-2007 . Journal of Public Health (Springer), 23(1):37-48 Rai RK, Singh PK (2015) No incentive for postnatal care in IGMSY . Perspectives in Public Health , 135 (2): 73-74 Rai RK (2015) Factors Associated with nutritional status among adult women in urban India, 1998-2006 . Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health , 27(2): NP1241–NP1252 Rai RK (2015) Future intention of contraceptive use among Comorian women, 2012 . Journal of Public Health (Springer), 23(5): 289-296 Rai RK, Kumar S, Sekher M, Pritchard B, Rammohan A (2015) A life-cycle approach to food and nutrition security in India . Public Health Nutrition , 18(5): 944-949 Rai RK, Tulchinsky TH (2015) Addressing the sluggish progress in reducing maternal mortality in India . Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health , 27(2): NP1161–NP1169 Rai RK, Singh PK, Singh L, Kumar C (2014) Individual characteristics and use of maternal and child health services by adolescent mothers in Niger . Maternal & Child Health Journal , 18(3): 592-603 Rai RK (2014) Tracking women and children in a continuum of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Healthcare (RMNCH) in India . Journal of Epidemiology & Global Health , 4(3): 239-243 Singh PK, Kumar C, Rai RK, Singh L (2014) Factors associated with maternal healthcare service utilization in nine high focus states in India: a multilevel analysis based on 14385 communities in 292 districts . Health Policy & Planning , 29(5): 242-259 Singh PK, Rai RK, Kumar C (2013) Equity in maternal, newborn, and child health care coverage in India . Global Health Action , 6: 22217 Kumar C, Rai RK, Singh PK (2013) Reducing infant (0-11 months) and child (0-4 years) mortality in India: a disposition from the Sample Registration System . Journal of Public Health (Springer), 21(6): 575-582 Kumar C, Rai RK, Singh PK, Singh L (2013) Socioeconomic disparities in maternity care among Indian adolescents, 1990-2006 . PLoS One , 8(7): e69094 Singh L, Arokiasamy P, Singh PK, Rai RK (2013) Determinants of gender differences in self-rated health among older population: evidence from India . SAGE Open , 3(2): 2158244013487914 Rai RK, Unisa S (2013) Dynamics of contraceptive use in India: apprehension versus future intention among non-users and traditional method users . Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare , 4(2): 65-72 Rai RK, Singh PK, Kumar C, Singh L (2013) Factors associated with the utilization of maternal health care services among adolescent women in Malawi . Home Health Care Services Quarterly , 32(2):106-125 Kumar C, Singh PK, Rai RK (2013) Coverage gap in maternal and child health services in India: assessing trends and regional deprivation during 1992-2006 . Journal of Public Health , 35(4): 598-606 Kumar C, Singh PK, Rai RK, Singh L (2013) Early neonatal mortality in India, 1990-2006. Journal of Community Health. 2013; 38(1):120-130 PMID: 22797909 . Erratum to: Early neonatal mortality in India, 1990-2006. Journal of Community Health , 38(1):131-132 Singh PK, Rai RK, Alagarajan M (2013) Addressing maternal and child health in post-conflict Afghanistan: the way forward . WHO Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal , 19(9): 826-832 Rai RK, Singh PK, Kumar C, Parasuraman S (2013) Teenage childbearing- a growing public health concern in need of urgent policy and program action . Journal of Public Health (Springer), 21(4): 379-384 Singh PK, Singh L, Kumar C, Rai RK (2013) Correlates of maternal healthcare service utilisation among adolescent women in Mali: analysis of a nationally representative cross-sectional survey, 2006 . Journal of Public Health (Springer), 21(1): 15-27 Rai RK, Kumar C, Singh PK (2012) District level coverage gap in maternal, newborn and child health care services in India . Journal of Epidemiology & Global Health , 2(4): 221-224 Singh PK, Rai RK, Singh L (2012) Examining the effect of household wealth and migration status on safe delivery care in urban India . PLoS One , 7(9): e44901 Rai RK, Singh PK, Singh L (2012) Utilization of maternal health care services among married adolescent women: insights from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey, 2008 . Women's Health Issues , 22(4): e407-e414 Kumar C, Singh PK, Rai RK (2012) Under-five mortality in high focus states in India: a district level geospatial analysis . PLoS One , 7(5): e37515 Singh PK, Rai RK, Alagarajan M, Singh L (2012) Determinants of maternity care services utilization among married adolescents in rural India . PLoS One , 7(2): e31666 Singh L, Rai RK, Singh PK (2012) Assessing the utilization of maternal and child health care among married adolescent women: evidence from India . Journal of Biosocial Science 44(1): 1-26 Singh PK, Alagarajan M, Rai RK, Singh L (2011) Does education lead to contraceptive use? a study of sexually experienced unmarried men in India. Research on Humanities & Social Sciences , 1(4): 23-32 Rai RK, Unisa S (2009) Living arrangement and health status of widows in India. pp. 229-245 in Population, Gender and Health in India - Methods, Processes and Policies, (edited) James KS, Pandey A, Bansod DW, Subaiya L. New Delhi: Academic Foundation
