Articles by Ramanan Laxminarayan
The health leadership opportunity for India
The public health ecosystem in the country will benefit if New Delhi ups its engagement with WHO in light of the US withdrawing from the global body
Updated on Jan 23, 2025 08:17 PM IST
Vaccine stockpile could help in battling bird flu
H5N1 is potentially a far more serious threat than Covid-19. While it is too early to ring the alarm, it would be foolish to not be prepared
Published on May 11, 2024 10:10 PM IST
Rational taxation can help improve health
Many countries have used fiscal policies as levers of behavioural change and sometimes even increased revenues while improving public health. India should also follow suit
Updated on Jan 30, 2023 08:03 PM IST
The clear and present threat of antibiotic resistance
Antibiotics don’t work as well as they used to. This is worrying for the global medical industry that is heavily reliant on them. The surveillance efforts by ICMR can help, but the world must do more to push vaccines
Published on Jan 05, 2023 08:14 PM IST
Oxygen for India: Building a more resilient health system
The coronavirus pandemic has given us the opportunity to build back better. We can, and should, develop a medical oxygen infrastructure that can keep pace with our ongoing needs, the pandemic, and any future threat
Updated on Aug 09, 2021 07:53 PM IST
Ramanan Laxminarayan and Indu Bhushan
Time will reveal value of India’s lockdown
Viruses spread rather predictably – and the scenario we were modeling was rather straightforward, yet terrifying – the spread of a new coronavirus through a completely susceptible population.
Updated on Apr 24, 2020 05:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Ramanan Laxminarayan
Covid-19 endgame: How India could move from lockdowns to disease control
A more feasible option is to achieve herd immunity – a concept which predicts that all of India would be protected as long as at least 65% of the population has experienced the infection, even if without symptoms or in its mildest form.
Updated on Apr 13, 2020 09:29 AM IST
Ramanan Laxminarayan
State-wise shutdowns may be only way to prepare for spike in Covid-19 | Opinion
On the one hand, shutdowns have helped in other countries. Every infectious disease model supports a total shutdown. But there are many unknowns. The virus could mutate to be less virulent as most viruses tend to.
Updated on Mar 23, 2020 07:13 AM IST
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Covid-19: A response now will help mitigate impact | Opinion
It is better to react now, than be unprepared later and risk millions of lives. Individuals must take responsibility
Updated on Mar 09, 2020 06:48 PM IST
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Decoding the risks of the coronavirus outbreak
Don’t panic. India’s best defence is to improve public health and infection control within hospitals
Updated on Jan 29, 2020 08:01 PM IST
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Drug-resistant fungi are a threat to modern medicine
To prevent the outbreak of deadly infections such as Candida auris, hospital infection control must be taken seriously
Updated on Apr 19, 2019 07:40 PM IST
Isabel Frost and Ramanan Laxminarayan
We are all in it together
It’s that time of the year again: dengue is on everybody’s mind. So far in this year, more than 17,000 cases have been reported in India though the true number is likely to be much higher because roughly three-quarters of the cases show no symptoms. Ramanan Laxminarayan writes.
Updated on Nov 04, 2012 10:34 PM IST
Ramanan Laxminarayan, New Delhi