Lavanya Vasudevan | Scholars@Duke

Lavanya Vasudevan
Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health

Lavanya Vasudevan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Global Health Institute at Duke University. She is also a member of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and a faculty affiliate with the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research and the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. Her research focuses on studying the timeliness of vaccinations, identifying vaccination barriers, and understanding the role of misinformation in driving vaccine hesitancy. In addition, she works on developing and evaluating novel interventions, including those that leverage digital health technologies, for health information or service delivery. In her research, Dr. Vasudevan seeks to study and alleviate the complex challenges with vaccination delivery and uptake in low resource settings and in populations experiencing health disparities. In the context of these challenges, Dr. Vasudevan is interested in the use of multidisciplinary collaborations, mixed methods and implementation science frameworks. Dr. Vasudevan has led or collaborated on studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Vasudevan is a recipient of the Duke Clinical and Translational Sciences KL2 Research and Career Development Award. She has received several honors including induction in the Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health and the Triangle Global Health Consortium’s Ward Cates Emerging Leader in Global Health award. Dr. Vasudevan completed her doctoral training in molecular biology and genetics at Cornell University and received her Master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Vasudevan is Certified in Public Health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners.

Office Hours

By appointment.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Science Departments 2021
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2018
Member of the DHVI, Medicine, Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Medicine 2020

Contact Information

2200 West Main Street, Suite 600 Room 606, Durham, NC 27705
lavanya.vasudevan@duke.edu (919) 613-1423
Duke Family Medicine and Community Health

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- M.P.H., Johns Hopkins Unversity, Bloomberg School of Public Health 2012
- Ph.D., Cornell University 2009
- Ph.D., Cornell University 2008
Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Science Departments 2018 - 2020
- Visiting Scholar in the Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2012 - 2013
Recognition
In the News
- JUL 26, 2021 Duke Magazine
  
  Making a Scientific Miracle Count in the Real World
- SEP 25, 2020
  
  Remembering RBG, Fearing a 'Twindemic' and Deep-Diving Whales: Duke in the News This Week
- NOV 20, 2019 Duke Research Blog
  
  To Change Vaccine Hesitancy, You Have to Understand Hesitant Parents First
- APR 8, 2019 Bass Connections
  
  Bass Connections and Creating Better Immunization Services for Children in Africa and South America
- MAY 9, 2017 Duke Global Health Institute
  
  DGHI’s Lavanya Vasudevan Receives Emerging Global Health Leader Award
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Subject Headings
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - India (Country)
- Research
Research
Selected Grants
- "An adaptive prenatal (ADEPT) intervention to encourage childhood vaccinations awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021 - 2024
- Duke Creating ADRD Researchers for the Next Generation - Stimulating Access to Research in Residency Program (CARiNG-StARR)" awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2023
- Duke CTSA (KL2) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
- Reducing disparities in adolescent HPV vaccination coverage in the Carolinas awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018 - 2022
- RAPID: Poirot: From Contact Tracing to Private Exposure Detection awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 2022
- mHealth-supported telecolposcopy for cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2021
- A digital case management system for reducing pediatric cancer treatment abandonment awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2021
- 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
External Relationships
- GapHealth
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Pieters, Michelle M., Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell, Emily Coffey, Megan J. Huchko, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding cervical cancer screening among women in metropolitan Lima, Peru: a cross-sectional study.” Bmc Womens Health 21, no. 1 (August 18, 2021): 304. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-021-01431-0.
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  - Vasudevan, Lavanya, Claire Glenton, Nicholas Henschke, Nicola Maayan, John Eyers, Marita S. Fønhus, Tigest Tamrat, Garrett L. Mehl, and Simon Lewin. “Birth and death notification via mobile devices: a mixed methods systematic review.” Cochrane Database Syst Rev 7 (July 16, 2021): CD012909. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012909.pub2.
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  - Rossman, Andrea H., Hadley W. Reid, Michelle M. Pieters, Cecelia Mizelle, Megan von Isenburg, Nimmi Ramanujam, Megan J. Huchko, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “Digital Health Strategies for Cervical Cancer Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review of Current Implementations and Gaps in Research.” Journal of Medical Internet Research 23, no. 5 (May 27, 2021): e23350. https://doi.org/10.2196/23350.
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  - Vasudevan, Lavanya, Emmanuel Walter, and Geeta Swamy. “Vaccine Hesitancy in North Carolina: The Elephant in the Room?” N C Med J 82, no. 2 (March 2021): 130–37. https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.82.2.130.
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  - Mackness, Jessica, John A. Gallis, Raymond Kofi Owusu, Mohammed Ali, Safiyatu Abubakr-Bibilazu, Haliq Adam, Raymond Aborigo, et al. “Prevalence and correlates of maternal early stimulation behaviors during pregnancy in northern Ghana: a cross-sectional survey.” Bmc Pregnancy Childbirth 21, no. 1 (January 4, 2021): 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03476-9.
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  - Vasudevan, Lavanya, Sandra Stinnett, Cecelia Mizelle, Katherine Melgar, Christina Makarushka, Michelle Pieters, Luis Enrique Roman Sanchez, Jose Jeronimo, Megan J. Huchko, and Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell. “Barriers to the uptake of cervical cancer services and attitudes towards adopting new interventions in Peru.” Prev Med Rep 20 (December 2020): 101212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101212.
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  - Vasudevan, Lavanya, Joy Noel Baumgartner, Sara Moses, Esther Ngadaya, Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga, and Jan Ostermann. “Parental concerns and uptake of childhood vaccines in rural Tanzania - a mixed methods study.” Bmc Public Health 20, no. 1 (October 20, 2020): 1573. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09598-1.
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  - Bhardwaj, Anvita, Prasansa Subba, Sauharda Rai, Chaya Bhat, Renasha Ghimire, Mark J. D. Jordans, Eric Green, Lavanya Vasudevan, and Brandon A. Kohrt. “Lessons learned through piloting a community-based SMS referral system for common mental health disorders used by female community health volunteers in rural Nepal.” Bmc Res Notes 13, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 309. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05148-5.
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  - Ni, Zhao, Namratha Atluri, Ryan J. Shaw, Jingru Tan, Kinza Khan, Helena Merk, Yunfan Ge, et al. “Correction: Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health-Based Female Community Health Volunteer Program for Hypertension Control in Rural Nepal: Cross-Sectional Study.” Jmir Mhealth Uhealth 8, no. 6 (June 11, 2020): e19048. https://doi.org/10.2196/19048.
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  - Vasudevan, Lavanya, Jan Ostermann, Sara Marwerwe Moses, Esther Ngadaya, and Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga. “Patterns of Mobile Phone Ownership and Use Among Pregnant Women in Southern Tanzania: Cross-Sectional Survey.” Jmir Mhealth Uhealth 8, no. 4 (April 8, 2020): e17122. https://doi.org/10.2196/17122.
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  - Vasudevan, Lavanya, Kristin Schroeder, Yadurshini Raveendran, Kunal Goel, Christina Makarushka, Nestory Masalu, and Leah L. Zullig. “Using digital health to facilitate compliance with standardized pediatric cancer treatment guidelines in Tanzania: protocol for an early-stage effectiveness-implementation hybrid study.” Bmc Cancer 20, no. 1 (March 29, 2020): 254. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-6611-3.
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  - Ni, Zhao, Namratha Atluri, Ryan J. Shaw, Jingru Tan, Kinza Khan, Helena Merk, Yunfan Ge, et al. “Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health-Based Female Community Health Volunteer Program for Hypertension Control in Rural Nepal: Cross-Sectional Study.” Jmir Mhealth Uhealth 8, no. 3 (March 9, 2020): e15419. https://doi.org/10.2196/15419.
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  - Ostermann, Jan, Lavanya Vasudevan, Joy Noel Baumgartner, Esther Ngadaya, and Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga. “Do mobile phone-based reminders and conditional financial transfers improve the timeliness of childhood vaccinations in Tanzania? Study protocol for a quasi-randomized controlled trial.” Trials 20, no. 1 (July 4, 2019): 397. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3430-4.
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  - Labrique, Alain, Lavanya Vasudevan, Garrett Mehl, Ellen Rosskam, and Adnan A. Hyder. “Digital Health and Health Systems of the Future.” Glob Health Sci Pract 6, no. Suppl 1 (October 10, 2018): S1–4. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00342.
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  - Labrique, Alain, Lavanya Vasudevan, William Weiss, and Kate Wilson. “Establishing Standards to Evaluate the Impact of Integrating Digital Health into Health Systems.” Glob Health Sci Pract 6, no. Suppl 1 (October 10, 2018): S5–17. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00230.
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  - Orton, Maeghan, Smisha Agarwal, Pierre Muhoza, Lavanya Vasudevan, and Alexander Vu. “Strengthening Delivery of Health Services Using Digital Devices.” Glob Health Sci Pract 6, no. Suppl 1 (October 10, 2018): S61–71. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00229.
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  - Rivenbark, Joshua, Lily Martyn, Kathryn Whetten, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “A survey of healthcare-seeking practices and related stigma among community- and street-based children in Cambodia.” Int Health 10, no. 3 (May 1, 2018): 211–13. https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihy008.
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  - Agarwal, S., L. Vasudevan, T. Tamrat, C. Glenton, S. Lewin, H. Bergman, N. Henschke, G. L. Mehl, and M. S. Fønhus. “Digital tracking, provider decision support systems, and targeted client communication via mobile devices to improve primary health care.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018, no. 1 (January 18, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012925.
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  - Vasudevan, L., N. Henschke, C. Glenton, S. Lewin, N. Maayan, J. Eyers, M. S. Fønhus, T. Tamrat, and G. L. Mehl. “Birth and death notification via mobile devices.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018, no. 1 (January 4, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012909.
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  - Agarwal, Smisha, Amnesty E. LeFevre, Jaime Lee, Kelly L’Engle, Garrett Mehl, Chaitali Sinha, Alain Labrique, and Alain 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 352 (March 17, 2016): i1174. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i1174.
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  - Uddin, Md Jasim, Md Shamsuzzaman, Lily Horng, Alain Labrique, Lavanya Vasudevan, Kelsey Zeller, Mridul Chowdhury, Charles P. Larson, David Bishai, and Nurul Alam. “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 4, 2016): 276–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.11.024.
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  - Vasudevan, Lavanya, Alain B. Labrique, Sucheta Mehra, Lee Wu, Orin Levine, Danny Feikin, Rolf Klemm, Parul Christian, and Keith P. West. “Maternal determinants of timely vaccination coverage among infants in rural Bangladesh.” Vaccine 32, no. 42 (September 22, 2014): 5514–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.06.092.
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  - Bloomfield, Gerald S., Rajesh Vedanthan, Lavanya Vasudevan, Anne Kithei, Martin Were, and Eric J. Velazquez. “Mobile health for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the literature and strategic framework for research.” Global Health 10 (June 13, 2014): 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-10-49.
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  - Majeed, Sophia R., Lavanya Vasudevan, Chih-Ying Chen, Yi Luo, Jorge A. Torres, Timothy M. Evans, Andrew Sharkey, et al. “Clathrin light chains are required for the gyrating-clathrin recycling pathway and thereby promote cell migration.” Nat Commun 5 (May 23, 2014): 3891. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4891.
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  - Labrique, Alain B., Lavanya Vasudevan, Erica Kochi, Robert Fabricant, and Garrett Mehl. “mHealth innovations as health system strengthening tools: 12 common applications and a visual framework.” Glob Health Sci Pract 1, no. 2 (August 2013): 160–71. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00031.
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  - Labrique, Alain, Lavanya Vasudevan, Larry William Chang, and Garrett Mehl. “H_pe for mHealth: more "y" or "o" on the horizon?” International Journal of Medical Informatics 82, no. 5 (May 2013): 467–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.11.016.
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  - Bonazzi, Matteo, Andreas Kühbacher, Alejandro Toledo-Arana, Adeline Mallet, Lavanya Vasudevan, Javier Pizarro-Cerdá, Frances M. Brodsky, and Pascale Cossart. “A common clathrin-mediated machinery co-ordinates cell-cell adhesion and bacterial internalization.” Traffic 13, no. 12 (December 2012): 1653–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/tra.12009.
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  - Bonazzi, Matteo, Lavanya Vasudevan, Adeline Mallet, Martin Sachse, Anna Sartori, Marie-Christine Prevost, Allison Roberts, et al. “Clathrin phosphorylation is required for actin recruitment at sites of bacterial adhesion and internalization.” J Cell Biol 195, no. 3 (October 31, 2011): 525–36. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201105152.
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  - Ni, Zhao, Namratha Atluri, Ryan J. Shaw, Jingru Tan, Kinza Khan, Helena Merk, Yunfan Ge, et al. “Correction: Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health–Based Female Community Health Volunteer Program for Hypertension Control in Rural Nepal: Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.19048.
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  - Ni, Zhao, Namratha Atluri, Ryan J. Shaw, Jingru Tan, Kinza Khan, Helena Merk, Yunfan Ge, et al. “Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health–Based Female Community Health Volunteer Program for Hypertension Control in Rural Nepal: Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.15419.
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  - Rossman, Andrea H., Hadley W. Reid, Michelle M. Pieters, Cecelia Mizelle, Megan von Isenburg, Nimmi Ramanujam, Megan J. Huchko, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “Digital Health Strategies for Cervical Cancer Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review of Current Implementations and Gaps in Research (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.23350.
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  - Schroeder, Kristin, James Maiarana, Mwitasrobert Gisiri, Emma Joo, Charles Muiruri, Leah Zullig, Nestory Masalu, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “Caregiver acceptability of mobile phone use for pediatric cancer care in Tanzania (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.27988.
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  - Schroeder, Kristin, James Maiarana, Mwitasrobert Gisiri, Emma Joo, Charles Muiruri, Leah Zullig, Nestory Masalu, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “Caregiver acceptability of mobile phone use for pediatric cancer care in Tanzania: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study (Preprint).” Jmir Pediatrics and Parenting, n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/27988.
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- Book Sections
  - Vasudevan, L., S. Ghoshal, and A. B. Labrique. “mHealth and its role in disease surveillance.” In Disease Surveillance: Technological Contributions to Global Health Security, 131–38, 2016.
  - Mehl, Garrett, Lavanya Vasudevan, Lianne Gonsalves, Matt Berg, Tamsyn Seimon, Marleen Temmerman, and Alain Labrique. “Harnessing mHealth in Low-Resource Settings to Overcome Health System Constraints and Achieve Universal Access to Healthcare.” In Behavioral Health Care and Technology, 239–63. Oxford University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199314027.003.0017.
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- Conference Papers
  - Zhang, Y., C. Wang, D. Pujol, J. Bater, M. Lentz, A. MacHanavajjhala, K. Nayak, L. Vasudevan, and J. Yang. “Poirot: Private contact summary aggregation: Poster abstract.” In Sensys 2020 Proceedings of the 2020 18th Acm Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 774–75, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3384419.3430603.
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  - Baird, Barbara, Lavanya Vasudevan, Nathaniel Calloway, Alice Wagenknecht-Wiesner, Kirsten Elzer, and David Holowka. “Phosphoinositides in Ca2+ Signaling and Plasma Membrane Biogenesis: Roles for Electrostatic Interactions.” In Biophysical Journal, 96:564a-564a. Elsevier BV, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2008.12.3698.
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Subject Headings

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Research

Selected Grants

External Relationships

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Conference Papers

Recent Courses

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship