Lavanya Vasudevan | Scholars@Duke

Lavanya Vasudevan
Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health

Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD, MPH, CPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Global Health Institute at Duke University. Additionally, Dr. Vasudevan holds the title of faculty affiliate at the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke. Dr. Vasudevan completed her doctoral studies in biochemistry, molecular and cell biology from Cornell University and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco. She subsequently received a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is Certified in Public Health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners. She is currently a Duke Clinical and Translational Sciences KL2 Research and Career Development Award Scholar. She has received several awards and 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.

Office Hours

By appointment.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Science Departments 2018
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2018

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
- Visiting Scholar in the Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2012 - 2013
Recognition
In the News
- 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
- 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 - 2021
- 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
- RAPID: Poirot: From Contact Tracing to Private Exposure Detection awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 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
- University of Texas, Arlington
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - 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?” Int J Med Inform 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, Ceclia Mizelle, Megan von Isenberg, Nimmi Ramanujam, Megan J. Huchko, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “Digital Health Strategies for Cervical Cancer Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Current Implementations and Gaps in Research (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.23350.
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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
  - 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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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

In the News

Awards & Honors

Subject Headings

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Research

Selected Grants

External Relationships

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Conference Papers

Recent Courses

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship