Bhuputra Panda
Director
Prof. Panda is a well-accomplished public health professional of national repute, with over two decades of teaching, training and practice in public health. He has a doctoral degree from TISS (Mumbai) and a Gold Medalist in Health Administration during his Master’s programme from the same Institute. He worked for about a decade on specific thematic domains and in international organizations, such as, Pathfinder International (adolescent reproductive health), Sightsavers International (eye care), CARE International and CINI (child health), and Ministry of Health, Govt of Odisha (capacity building). From 2010 onwards, he moved to the academics and research world (PHFI) focusing more on health systems health services research, public health teaching, training and advocacy. In 2012, he received national recognition for his work on tobacco control in Odisha and in 2014 he was awarded the Linaeus Palme Fellowship by Karolinska Institute, Govt of Sweden. He served as a visiting professor to Goa Institute of Management (GIM), NIHFW and TISS, besides guiding PhD scholars from Harvard School of Public Health and University of New South Wales, Australia. His key domains of interest are: health systems and health services research, policy and governance in health, maternal and child health, technology in health, heat stress, tobacco control and programme evaluation. Dr Panda has collaborated with several international and national donor agencies, research organizations and academic institutions, and led studies funded by the BMGF, Tata Trusts, Govt of India - Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India as well as the Ministry of AYUSH, UNICEF, Avanta Foundation, World Food Programme, Wellcome Trust, MMV, NHM Odisha, State governments of Odisha, Chhattishgarh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Public Health, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India.
Research Interests
Health Policy and Systems Research, Quality and Equity
Awards & Honours
Gold Medalist in Public Health from TISS
1. Panda, N., Desaraju, S., Panigrahy, R.P. et al. Menstrual health and hygiene amongst adolescent girls and women of reproductive age: a study of practices and predictors, Odisha, India. BMC Women's Health 24, 144 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905- 024-02894-7
2. Patel K, Panda N, Sahoo K C, Saxena S, Chouhan N S, Singh P, Ghosh U, Panda B*. A systematic review of menstrual hygiene management (MHM) during humanitarian crises and / or emergencies in low-and middle-income countries (2022). 2022 Sep 28; 10:1018092. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.1018092. Frontiers in Public Health
3. Panda B*, Zodpey S, Thakur H P. Factors affecting the local self-governance in health: A qualitative study from Odisha, India (2022). (Under review).
4. Kadam S, Panda B*, Nallala S, Pati S, Hussan A, Salunke S, Zodpey S. Repackaging Primary healthcare in Odisha: Can ‘task shifting’ to AYUSH doctors address human resource deficit? (2021). Journal of Health Management. SAGE Publication, vol. 23, 3: pp. 521- 530. September, 20212021.
5. Panda B*, Mohapatra MK, Paital S, Kumbhakar S, Dutta A, Kadam S, et al. (2019). Prevalence of afebrile malaria and development of risk-scores for gradation of villages: A study from a hot-spot in Odisha. 2019. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0221223. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221223
6. Tandon M, Quereishi J, Prassanna R, Tamboli AF, Panda B*. Performance of Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres – A Case Study from Chhattisgarh, India (2019). International Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2019; 10:66. DOI: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_194_17. http://www.ijpvmjournal.net/aheadofprint.asp. Published by Wolters Kluwer – Medknow.
7. Nayak S, Mohapatra M, Panda B*. Prevalence of and factors contributing to anxiety, depression, and cognitive disorders among urban elderly in Odisha – A study through the health systems’ lens (2018). Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Elsevier Publication. 2018. 2019 Jan - Feb;80:38-45. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2018.09.008.
8. Panda B*, Thakur H, P. Decentralization and health system performance – a focused review of dimensions, difficulties, and derivatives in India (2016). BMC Health Services Research. doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1784-9. 2016. http://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-16-supplement-6
9. Panda B*, Zodpey S, P, Thakur, H. P. Local self-governance in health - A study of it’s functioning in Odisha, India (2016). BMC Health Services Research. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016- 1785-8. 2016. http://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-16-supplement-6
10. Panda B*, Thakur H, P, Zodpey S, P. Does decentralization influence efficiency of health units? A study of opinion and perception of health workers in Odisha (2016). BMC Health Services Research. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1786-7. 2016. http://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-16- supplement-6
11. Panda B*, Pati S, Nallala S, et al (2015). How supportive supervision influences immunisation session site practices: a quasi- experimental study in Odisha, India. Global Health Action, 2015. doi: 10.3402/gha.v8.25772. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4297277/
12. Som M, Panda B*, Pati S, et al. (2014). Effect of Supportive Supervision on Routine Immunization Service Delivery-A Randomized Post-Test Study in Odisha. Global Journal of Health Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 6; 2014. ISSN 1916-9736 E-ISSN 1916-9744. June 2014. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v6n6p61. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25363100
13. Baig M B, Panda B, Chauhan A S, Das J K (2013). Is public private partnership an effective alternative to government in the provision of primary healthcare? A case study in Odisha. Journal of Health Management. 16(1) 41–52. DOI: 10.1177/0972063413518679. Sage Publications, January, 2014 http://jhm.sagepub.com/content/16/1/41.abstract
14. Prusty S K, Panda B, Chauhan A S, Das J K (2013). Factors affecting coverage of immunization services in urban slums of Odisha. Healthcare in Low Resource Settings. Vol 1:e18. September, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4081/hls.2013.e18. http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/hls/article/view/hls.2013.e18
15. Panda B*, Rout A, Pati S, et al (2012). “Tobacco Control Law Enforcement and Compliance in Odisha, India - Implications for Tobacco Control Policy and Practice”. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2012;13(9):4631-7. 2012. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23167393
