Dr. Sarit Kumar Rout

Professor

Dr. Sarit Kumar Rout

A Brief Biography:

With a Ph.D. in Health Economics, policy and Financing, Dr Rout has over 22 years of experience in teaching and research. He has developed a strong expertise in the domains of health financing, health insurance, National and State Health Accounts, costing analysis, economic evaluation of health care interventions, and tobacco economics. His academic and research contributions span across a wide spectrum of public health financing issues, with a strong focus on generating evidence to inform policy decisions. Dr Rout offers courses in health economics, health financing, health systems and policy, data to decision making and Health Technology Assessment to the Masters and Post Graduate Diploma Students at the Indian Institute of Public Health Bhubaneswar (IIPHB).

To his credit, in 2006, Dr Rout was awarded the prestigious Health and Population Innovation Fellowship Programme (HPIFP) by the Population Council, New Delhi (formerly the MacArthur Foundation’s Fund for Leadership Development). This fellowship provided him with the opportunity to examine public spending patterns on sexual and reproductive health in Odisha.

In 2013, he was selected for the Global Tobacco Control Leadership Programme, organized by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. As part of this program, he successfully completed an intensive short course at the university, enhancing his expertise in global tobacco control policies and leadership.

Before Joining, IIPH B and PHFI , he worked with multiple national and international organizations – WHO India Office, Save the children and Population council. He played a key role as lead researcher in the National Health Accounts (NHA) process, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, and the World Health Organization (WHO).

To date, Dr. Rout has successfully led and completed 17 major research projects, funded by esteemed national and international organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), Medical Research Council UK (MRC UK), UNICEF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Tata Trusts, NITI Aayog, and various national and state government bodies.

His research has been widely published in peer-reviewed national and international journals, contributing significantly to the evidence base in health economics, health financing, and public health policy.

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D in Health Economics, Policy and Financing, M.Phil A & A Economics

Research Areas

Health Financing, Health insurance, Costing, Economic Evaluation, Health Technology Assesment, Economics of Tobacco-taxation and fiscal policies, Health system research

Number of Publications: 48

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List of Publications

Qadeer, Amatullah Sana; Meher, Ananda; Rout, Sarit K; Dutta, Ambarish. (2024). Economic Evaluation of Total Knee Replacement Compared with Non-Surgical Management for Knee Osteoarthritis in India. Pharmaco Economics-Open (2024): 1-13. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41669-024-00541-3 Impact factor: 0
Rout, Sarit K, Meher, A., Behera, P., de Broucker, G., & Kadam, S. M. (2023). How a low-income state of India managed the unemployment situation during COVID-19? Lessons for future pandemic management. Journal of Public Health Research, 12(4). Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/22799036231208425 Impact factor: 1.6
Gandhi, N., Qadeer, A. S., Meher, A., Rachel, J., Patra, A., John, J., … Rout, Sarit K. (2023). Costs and models used in the economic analysis of Total Knee Replacement (TKR): A systematic review. Plos One, 18(7), e0280371. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280371 Impact factor: 3.24
Bhattacharyya, R., Burman, A., Singh, K., Banerjee, S., Maity, S., Auddy, A., Baladandayuthapani, V. (2022). Role of multiresolution vulnerability indices in COVID-19 spread in India: a Bayesian model-based analysis. BMJ Open, 12(11), e056292. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056292 Impact factor: 2.4
Persai, D., Balu, R. K., Singh, K., Prabhu, R. R., Lahoti, S., Rout, Sarit K, & Panda, R. (2022). Patient satisfaction with quality of primary care health services‐findings from India. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 37(4), 2256–2265. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3467 Impact factor: 2.3
Rout, Sarit K, Chandrashekar, S., & Kadam, S. M. (2022). Resource flow and fund management at district level in Odisha: Evidence for improving district health systems in developing countries. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 37(4), 2135–2148. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3455 Impact factor: 2.3
Rout, Sarit K, Boyanagari, V. K., Pani, S. R., Mokashi, T., Chokshi, M., & Kadam, S. M. (2022). How does Context Influence Implementation Mechanism of Publicly Funded Health Insurance Schemes in Indian States. Journal of Health Management, 24(1), 118–131. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634221078702 Impact factor: 1.4
Pani, S. R., Nallala, S., Rout, Sarit K., Sundari, S., Chokshi, M., Mokashi, T., … Kadam, S. M. (2022). Effects of Various Financial and Non-financial Incentives on the Performance of Accredited Social Health Activist: Evidence from Two Selected Districts of Odisha. Journal of Health Management, 24(1), 74–86. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634221078754 Impact factor: 1
Rout, Sarit K., Ghosh, U., Parhi, A., Chandrashekhar, S., & Kadam, S. M. (2021). State led innovations for achieving universal health coverage in a low resource setting Odisha, India: opportunities and challenges. Int J Community Med Public Health, 8(5), 2338–2345. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20211755 Impact factor: 4
Rout, Sarit K, Sahu, K. S., & Mahapatra, S. (2021). Utilization of health care services in public and private healthcare in India: causes and determinants. International Journal of Healthcare Management, 14(2), 509–516. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/20479700.2019.1665882 Impact factor: 4.72
Rout, Sarit K., & Parhi, A. (2020). Has tax reforms in India been effective in tobacco control: Evidences on affordability of cigarette after introduction of Goods and Service Tax. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 9(12), 5927–5932. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1169_20 Impact factor: 1.1
Dutta, A., Mohapatra, M. K., Rath, M., Rout, Sarit K., Kadam, S., Nallalla, S., … Behera, B. K. (2020). Effect of caste on health, independent of economic disparity: evidence from school children of two rural districts of India. Sociology of Health & Illness, 42(6), 1259–1276. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13105 Impact factor: 2.7
Rout, Sarit K, & Mahapatra, S. (2019). Has the public health system provided adequate financial risk protection for childbirth conditions–evidences from an Eastern Indian state. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 8(3), 145. Available from: https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2018.111 Impact factor: 2.3
Rout, Sarit K, Gabhale, Y. R., Dutta, A., Balakrishnan, S., Lala, M. M., Setia, M. S., … Manglani, M. V. (2019). Can telemedicine initiative be an effective intervention strategy for improving treatment compliance for pediatric HIV patients. PLoS One, 14(10), e0223303. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223303 Impact factor: 3.24
Rout, Sarit K, & Choudhury, S. (2018). Does public health system provide adequate financial risk protection to its clients? The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 33(2), e500–e511. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2490 Impact factor: 2.3
Swain, S. P., Samal, S., Sahu, K. S., & Rout, Sarit K. (2018). Out-of-pocket expenditure and drug adherence of patients with diabetes in Odisha. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 7(6), 1229–1235. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_24_18 Impact factor: 1.1
Pradhan, J., Dwivedi, R., Pati, S., & Rout, Sarit K. (2017). Does spending matters? Re-looking into various covariates associated with Out-of-Pocket Expenditure (OOPE). Health Economics Review, 7, 1–16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-017-0177-z Impact factor: 2.7
Rout, Sarit K., Narayana, K. V., Sahu, K. S., Selvaraj, S., Chatterjee, M., & Arora, M. (2017). Poverty and health status of Beedi workers in Andhra Pradesh. Economic and Political Weekly, 54–59. Available from: View on ResearchGate
Rout Sarit K. (2016). Catalysing the Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Health Care Delivery in Odisha. Odisha Review. Available from: View PDF (Odisha Review)
Rout, Sarit Kumar, Pradhan, J., & Choudhury, S. (2016). Estimating financial resources for universal access to sexual reproductive health care: evidence from two states in India. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 9, 1–6. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2016.05.001 Impact factor: 1.4

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