Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Cornell University 2008
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Visiting Scholar in the Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2012 - 2013
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • MAY 9, 2017

    Duke Global Health Institute

    DGHI’s Lavanya Vasudevan Receives Emerging Global Health Leader Award
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Child Health
  • Digital Health
  • Global health
  • Maternal Health
  • Vaccine Hesitancy
  • Vaccines
  • mHealth
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Ghana (Country) 
    • Honduras (Country) 
    • Peru (Country) 
    • United Republic of Tanzania (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • A tailored school-based intervention to increase vaccine uptake among adolescents in the rural South awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018 - 2021
  • mHealth-supported telecolposcopy for cervical cancer programs in low-resource settings. awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2020
  • An mHealth case management system for reducing pediatric cancer treatment abandonment awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2020
  • mHealth-assisted conditional cash transfers to improve timeliness of vaccinations awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2018
  • Notification and/or registration of births via mobile devices: A systematic review awarded by World Health Organization 2017
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Labrique, A, Vasudevan, L, Mehl, G, Rosskam, E, and Hyder, AA. "Digital Health and Health Systems of the Future." Global Health, Science and Practice 6, no. Suppl 1 (October 10, 2018): S1-S4.  Full Text
    • Labrique, A, Vasudevan, L, Weiss, W, and Wilson, K. "Establishing Standards to Evaluate the Impact of Integrating Digital Health into Health Systems." Global Health, Science and Practice 6, no. Suppl 1 (October 10, 2018): S5-S17.  Full Text
    • Orton, M, Agarwal, S, Muhoza, P, Vasudevan, L, and Vu, A. "Strengthening Delivery of Health Services Using Digital Devices." Global Health, Science and Practice 6, no. Suppl 1 (October 10, 2018): S61-S71. (Review)  Full Text
    • Rivenbark, J, Martyn, L, Whetten, K, and Vasudevan, L. "A survey of healthcare-seeking practices and related stigma among community- and street-based children in Cambodia." International Health 10, no. 3 (May 2018): 211-213.  Full Text
    • Agarwal, S, LeFevre, AE, Lee, J, L'Engle, K, Mehl, G, Sinha, C, Labrique, A, and WHO mHealth Technical Evidence Review Group, . "Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist." Bmj : British Medical Journal 352 (March 17, 2016): i1174-null.  Full Text
    • Uddin, MJ, Shamsuzzaman, M, Horng, L, Labrique, A, Vasudevan, L, Zeller, K, Chowdhury, M, Larson, CP, Bishai, D, and Alam, N. "Use of mobile phones for improving vaccination coverage among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets of Bangladesh." Vaccine 34, no. 2 (January 2016): 276-283.  Full Text
    • Vasudevan, L, Labrique, AB, Mehra, S, Wu, L, Levine, O, Feikin, D, Klemm, R, Christian, P, and West, KP. "Maternal determinants of timely vaccination coverage among infants in rural Bangladesh." Vaccine 32, no. 42 (September 2014): 5514-5519.  Full Text
    • Bloomfield, GS, Vedanthan, R, Vasudevan, L, Kithei, A, Were, M, and Velazquez, EJ. "Mobile health for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the literature and strategic framework for research." Globalization and Health 10 (June 13, 2014): 49-null. (Review)  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Majeed, SR, Vasudevan, L, Chen, C-Y, Luo, Y, Torres, JA, Evans, TM, Sharkey, A, Foraker, AB, Wong, NML, Esk, C, Freeman, TA, Moffett, A, Keen, JH, and Brodsky, FM. "Clathrin light chains are required for the gyrating-clathrin recycling pathway and thereby promote cell migration." Nature Communications 5 (May 23, 2014): 3891-null.  Full Text
    • "Maternal determinants of timely vaccination coverage among infants in rural Bangladesh." Vaccine 32, no. 42 (January 1, 2014): 5514-5519.  Full Text
    • Labrique, AB, Vasudevan, L, Kochi, E, Fabricant, R, and Mehl, G. "mHealth innovations as health system strengthening tools: 12 common applications and a visual framework." Global Health, Science and Practice 1, no. 2 (August 6, 2013): 160-171.  Full Text
    • Labrique, A, Vasudevan, L, Chang, LW, and Mehl, G. "H_pe for mHealth: more "y" or "o" on the horizon?." Int J Med Inform 82, no. 5 (May 2013): 467-469. (Letter)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Bonazzi, M, Kühbacher, A, Toledo-Arana, A, Mallet, A, Vasudevan, L, Pizarro-Cerdá, J, Brodsky, FM, and Cossart, P. "A common clathrin-mediated machinery co-ordinates cell-cell adhesion and bacterial internalization." Traffic 13, no. 12 (December 2012): 1653-1666.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Bonazzi, M, Vasudevan, L, Mallet, A, Sachse, M, Sartori, A, Prevost, M-C, Roberts, A, Taner, SB, Wilbur, JD, Brodsky, FM, and Cossart, P. "Clathrin phosphorylation is required for actin recruitment at sites of bacterial adhesion and internalization." The Journal of Cell Biology 195, no. 3 (October 2011): 525-536.  Full Text
    • Agarwal, S, Vasudevan, L, Tamrat, T, Glenton, C, Lewin, S, Bergman, H, Henschke, N, Mehl, GL, and Fønhus, MS. "Digital tracking, provider decision support systems, and targeted client communication via mobile devices to improve primary health care(Published online)." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews .  Full Text
    • Vasudevan, L, Henschke, N, Glenton, C, Lewin, S, Maayan, N, Eyers, J, Fønhus, MS, Tamrat, T, and Mehl, GL. "Birth and death notification via mobile devices(Published online)." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews .  Full Text

  • Book Sections

    • "mHealth and its role in disease surveillance." In Disease Surveillance: Technological Contributions to Global Health Security, 131-138. April 27, 2016.

  • Conference Papers

    • Baird, B, Vasudevan, L, Calloway, N, Wagenknecht-Wiesner, A, Elzer, K, and Holowka, D. "Phosphoinositides in Ca2+Signaling and Plasma Membrane Biogenesis: Roles for Electrostatic Interactions." CELL PRESS, February 1, 2009.  Link to Item
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • GLHLTH 393: Research Independent Study in Global Health 2019
  • GLHLTH 396: Connections in Global Health: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • GLHLTH 796: Connections in Global Health: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2019
  • GLHLTH 395: Connections in Global Health: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2018
  • GLHLTH 570S: Introduction to mHealth Technologies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries 2018
  • GLHLTH 795: Connections in Global Health: Interdisciplinary Team Projects 2018
  • GLHLTH 590S: Special Topics in Global Health 2017
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. Data+ Project Lead. 2018  2018
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. Vaccine Misinformation and Its Link to Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Durham. 2018 - 2019  2018 - 2019
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. mHealth for Better Routine Immunization Data in Honduras. August 2017 - May 2018  2017 - 2018
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Pocket Colposcope: Increased Distribution and Adoption . August 2016 - May 2017  2016 - 2017
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Interculturally Competent Analysis of the Uptake of Routine Vaccination. August 2015 - May 2016  2015 - 2016
  • Global Health Outreach. mHealth-assisted conditional cash transfers to improve timeliness ofnchildhood vaccinations. Mfinanga, National Institute for Health Research. July 2015  2015
  • Duke Global Health Outreach. Using mobile technologies to improve outcomes for orphaned and separated children. October 2014  2014

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