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Dr. Sushil C. Baral

Dr. Sushil C. Baral

Dr Sushil Chandra Baral is an experienced health and development expert of Nepal, specialising in health systems strengthening and health policy and planning at the national and international level. He has twenty five years of experience in health systems and services, health policy and planning, operational research and social development sector in developing countries context. He has got considerable professional experience in health system, health policy and planning, health service delivery, health research and programme management. He has contributed to the design of DFID’s support programme to Nepal Health Sector Programme 1 and 2, including design of technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and responsibly managed DFID support to the Ministry of Health under the health sector programme-1 and 2. He is skilled in programme based operational research and scale-up of evidence based best practices with a long-term involvement in Nepal’s health sector in particular disease control programmes in developing countries. He has also gained considerable knowledge and experience in operational research, development of sector wide approach, health service decentralisation, health sector reform, strategic planning, health policy and management.

Publications:

  1. Yadav P, Saville N, Arjyal A, Baral S, Kostkova P, Fordham M. A feminist vision for transformative change to disaster risk reduction policies and practices. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2021;54:102026.
  2. Thomson DR, Bhattarai R, Khanal S, Manandhar S, Dhungel R, Gajurel S, et al. Addressing Unintentional Exclusion of Vulnerable and Mobile Households in Traditional Surveys in Kathmandu, Dhaka, and Hanoi: a Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study. Journal of Urban Health. 2021;98(1):111-29.
  3. Rawal LB, Kharel C, Yadav UN, Kanda K, Biswas T, Vandelanotte C, et al. Community health workers for non-communicable disease prevention and control in Nepal: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 2020;10(12):e040350.
  4. Mueller S, Soriano D, Boscor A, Saville NM, Arjyal A, Baral S, et al. MANTRA: Improving Knowledge of Maternal Health, Neonatal Health, and Geohazards in Women in Rural Nepal Using a Mobile Serious Game. Frontiers in Public Health. 2020;8(915).
  5. Mueller S, Soriano D, Boscor A, Saville N, Arjyal A, Baral S, et al. MANTRA: development and localization of a mobile educational health game targeting low literacy players in low and middle income countries. BMC Public Health. 2020;20(1):1171.
  6. Marston C, Arjyal A, Maskey S, Regmi S, Baral S. Using qualitative evaluation components to help understand context: case study of a family planning intervention with female community health volunteers (FCHVs) in Nepal. BMC Health Services Research. 2020;20(1):685.
  7. Khatri GK, Tran TD, Baral S, Fisher J. Experiences of an earthquake during pregnancy, antenatal mental health and infants’ birthweight in Bhaktapur District, Nepal, 2015: a population-based cohort study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2020;20(1):414. Källander K, Ward C, Smith H, Bhattarai R, KC A, Timsina D, et al. Usability and acceptability of an automated respiratory rate counter to assess childhood pneumonia in Nepal. Acta Paediatrica. 2020;109(6):1207-20.
  8. Ensor T, Bhattarai R, Manandhar S, Poudel AN, Dhungel R, Baral S, et al. From Rags to Riches: Assessing poverty and vulnerability in urban Nepal. PLOS ONE. 2020;15(2):e0226646.
  9. Cooke P, Shrestha A, Arjyal A, Giri R, Jones N, King R, et al. What is ‘antimicrobial resistance’ and why should anyone make films about it? Using ‘participatory video’ to advocate for community-led change in public health. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film. 2020;17(1):85-107. Walker IF, Kanal S, Baral SC, Farragher TM, Joshi D, Elsey H, et al. Depression and anxiety in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Nepal: an observational study. Public Health Action. 2019;9(1):42-8.
  10. Walker IF, Kanal S, Baral SC, Farragher TM, Joshi D, Elsey H, et al. Depression and anxiety in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Nepal: an observational study. Public Health Action. 2019;9(1):42-8.