FRONTIERS
Research Projects in India

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2008
"India: Quality assurance procedure monitors and improves quality of services," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 76. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Khan, M.E., Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Vikas Kishor Desai, Pratibha Patel, B.P. Itare, and Sandhya Barge. "Increasing the accessibility, acceptability and use of the IUD in Gujarat, India,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 636 KB)

Khan, M.E., Anurag Mishra, Vivek Sharma, and Leila Caleb Varkey. "Development of a quality assurance procedure for reproductive health services for district public health systems: Implementation and scale-up in the state of Gujarat," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 560 KB)

Varkey, Leila Caleb, Anurag Mishra, and M.E. Khan. “Creating the conditions for scale-up of the Men in Maternity intervention in India,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 473 KB)

2007
Das, Rumeli, Kaushik Biswas, Pradeep Panda, M.E. Khan, and Rick Homan. "Strengthening financial sustainability through integration of voluntary counseling and testing services with other reproductive health services," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 248 KB)

Khan, M.E., Jim Foreit, Sohini Roychowdhury, F. Ram, and Chander Shekhar. "Developing regional operations research training capacity in South Asia," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 619 KB)

Kumar, Shiv, Chander Shekhar, N.K. Gupta, Malabika Roy, M.E. Khan, Mary Philip Sebastian, Rukma Idnani, Ardash Bhargava, and Vinita Salvi. “Provision of emergency contraceptive services through paraprofessionals in India,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 914 KB)

2006
Foreit, James R. “Systematic screening: A strategy for determining and meeting clients’ reproductive health needs,” FRONTIERS Program Brief no. 6. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 348 KB)

Vernon, Ricardo, James R. Foreit, and Emma Ottolenghi. Introducing Systematic Screening to Reduce Unmet Health Needs: A Manager’s Manual, FRONTIERS manual. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

2005
Das, N.P., Urvi Shah, Varsha Chitania, Pratibha Patel, M.E. Khan, Anurag Mishra, and James R. Foreit. "Systematic screening to integrate reproductive health services in India,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 135 KB)

"India: Broad representation supports credibility of village committees," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 52. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

"India: Enhancing girls' life skills requires long-term commitment," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 53. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Sebastian, Mary P., Monica J. Grant, and Barbara S. Mensch. “Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health programme for urban slum dwellers in India.” New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 330 KB)

Sebastian, Mary P., M.E. Khan, Shiv Kumar, Chander Shekhar, and N.K. Gupta. “Studying the utilization of emergency contraceptive services through paramedics in India," FRONTIERS Research Update no. 5. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 1.32 MB)

2004
Foundation for Research in Health Systems (FRHS). "Community involvement in reproductive health: Findings from research in Karnataka, India," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council.
(PDF, 654 KB)

"India: Men’s involvement in partner’s pregnancy yields health benefits," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 45. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

"Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health program for urban slum dwellers in India," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 2.1 MB)

Population Council, CARE, and the Centre for Operations Research and Training. "Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health program for urban slum dwellers in India." New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 330 KB)

Varkey, Leila Caleb, Anurag Mishra, Anjana Das, Emma Ottolenghi, Dale Huntington, Susan Adamchak, M.E. Khan, and Frederick Homan.  "Involving men in maternity care in India," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1.7 MB)

2003
“Introducing DMPA injectable contraceptives to private medical practitioners in urban Gujarat,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1.2 MB)

2002
Das, Anjana, Leila Caleb Varkey, Anurag Mishra, Emma Ottolenghi, and Dale Huntington. "Men in maternity study," FRONTIERS Research Update no. 2. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 1 MB)

Mishra, Anurag, Leila Caleb Varkey, Emma Ottolenghi, Anjana Das, Dale Huntington, and Susan Adamchak. "Men in maternity study: Results from the pre-intervention survey of pregnant women and their husbands at the three intervention, and of only women at three control Employees’ State Insurance Corporation Dispensaries in Delhi, India—Baseline report," FRONTIERS Research Update. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 986 KB)

Mishra, Anurag, Leila Caleb Varkey, Emma Ottolenghi, Anjana Das, Dale Huntington, Susan Adamchak, and Shahina Begum. "Men in maternity study: A summary of the findings from pre-intervention interviews with women and their husbands attending ante-natal clinics at ESIC facilities in Delhi—Baseline summary results," FRONTIERS Research Update. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 689 KB)

Sebastian, Mary Philip, Dale Huntington, Wesley Clark, Barbara Mensch, and Bella Patel Uttekar. "Baseline survey results: Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health program for urban slum dwellers in India," FRONTIERS Project Update no. 2. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 496 KB) 

Sebastian, Mary Philip, Dale Huntington, Wesley Clark, Barbara Mensch, Bella Patel Uttekar, Shahina Begum, and Sohini Roychowdhury. "Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health program for urban slum dwellers—Mid-line survey results," FRONTIERS Project Update no. 1. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 533 KB)

Sebastian, Mary Philip, Dale Huntington, Barbara Mensch, Wesley Clark, Shahina Begum, Bella Patel Uttekar, and Sohini Roychowdhury. "Midline survey results: Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health program for urban slum dwellers in India," FRONTIERS Project Update no. 3. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 533 KB)

1998
Varkey, Leila Caleb, John W. Townsend, Sneh Vishwanath, and Sudha Tiwari. "Analysis of price change on the perceptions and use of DMPA among clients using reproductive health services in Uttar Pradesh, India," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Final Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 521 KB)

1997
Khan, M.E. and Bella C. Patel. "Male involvement in family planning: A KABP study of Agra District, Uttar Pradesh," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Final Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 808 KB)

Khan, M.E., Saumya RamaRao, R.B. Gupta, Bella Patel, Leila Caleb Varkey, Jayanti Tuladhar, Sanjeev Kumar, and John W. Townsend. "Integrating RTI services in primary health care system: Observations from an operations research in Uttar Pradesh," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Special Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 98 KB)

Khan, M.E., John W. Townsend, Ranjana Sinha, and Seema Lakhanpal. "Sexual violence within marriage: A case study of rural Uttar Pradesh," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Special Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 73 KB)

Tiwari, Sudha, Saumya RamaRao, Sneh Vishwanath, John W. Townsend, Harbans Singh, and Leila Caleb Varkey. "DMPA provision in PSS clinics in Uttar Pradesh: Costs and prices," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Technical Paper no. 10. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 105 KB)

1996
Foo, Gillian H-C. "A synthesis of research findings on quality of services in the Indian Family Welfare Programme," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Special Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 134 KB)

Khan, M.E., Saumya RamaRao, R.B. Gupta, Sulbha Swaroop, Leila Caleb Varkey, Anoop K. Saxena, and Anil Mishra. "Rapid appraisal of IPP-VI training of ANMs in Uttar Pradesh," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Special Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 286 KB)

RamaRao, Saumya, John W. Townsend, and M.E. Khan. "A model of costs of RTI case management services in Uttar Pradesh," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Technical Paper. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 147 KB)

1995
Jejeebhoy, Shireen J. "Addressing women's reproductive health needs; priorities for the Family Welfare Programme," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Special Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 140 KB)

Khan, M.E., Bella C. Patel and R.B. Gupta. "Quality of family planning services from provider's perspective. Observations from a qualitative study in Sitapur District, Uttar Pradesh," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Special Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 150 KB)

RamaRao, Saumya, John W. Townsend, and M.E. Khan. "A model of costs of a CBD programme," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Special Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 231 KB)

Ravindran, T.K. Sundari. "A study of user perspectives on the diaphragm in an urban Indian setting," Asia and the Near East OR/TA Final Report. New Delhi: Population Council. (PDF, 263 KB)

Copies of conference reports, summaries, program briefs, and research updates are available free of charge. Contact frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the USAID/DEC Web site, www.dec.org.

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