Josyula K. Lakshmi
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BHMS, MS, PhD
Josyula K. Lakshmi has a Bachelor’s degree in Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery, a Master of Science in Health Promotion, and a PhD in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and Gerontology. She has engaged in research, teaching, training, and student-mentoring in health promotion; environmental health; health governance; the workforce engaged in traditional, complementary and alternative medicine; road safety; communication; physical activity; nutrition; research methods and ethics; and ageing. Her study findings, analyses, and commentaries have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, books, technical and general interest periodicals, and blogs. She has presented at numerous conferences, and participated as a resource person at training workshops and symposia.
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Publications (20 latest)
Ojji D. B., Salam A., Sani M. U., Ogah O. S., Schutte A. E., Huffman M. D., Pant R., Ghosh A., Dhurjati R., Lakshmi Josyula K., Ripiye N. R., Orji I. A., Kana S. A., Abdussalam T., Olawumi A. L., Alfa I. M., Orimolade O. A., Ajayi M. O., Rodgers A. Low-Dose Triple-Pill vs Standard-Care Protocols for Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2024;-(-):[Epub ahead of print].
Yashdeep Gupta, Deksha Kapoor, Josyula K. Lakshmi, Devarsetty Praveen, Joseph A Santos, Laurent Billot, et al. Antenatal oral glucose tolerance test abnormalities in the prediction of future risk of postpartum diabetes in women with gestational diabetes: Results from the LIVING study. Journal of Diabetes. 06 May 2024.
Simone Pettigrew, Michelle I. Jongenelis, Josyula K. Lakshmi, Claire Johnson, Palak Mahajan, D. Praveen, Rachita Gupta. Developing and testing front -of-pack nutrition labels in India: An experimental study. Food Quality and Preference, 112: 105025. ISSN: 0950-3293.
Gupta Y, Kapoor D, Lakshmi JK, Praveen D, Santos JA, Billot L, et al.; LIVING Collaborative Group. The incidence and risk factors of postpartum diabetes in women from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka (South Asia) with prior gestational diabetes mellitus: Results from the LIVING study. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2023 Aug 31;204:110893. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2023.110893. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37657646.
S. Daarwin Subramanee, Kingsley Agho, Josyula Lakshmi, Md. Nazmul Huda, Rohina Joshi, and Blessing Akombi-Inyang. Child Marriage in South Asia: A Systematic Review. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 15138.
Kibuchi, E., Barua, P., Chumo, I., Teixeira de Siqueira Filha, N., Phillips-Howard, P., Mithu, M., Kabaria, C., Quayyum, Z., Whittaker, L., Dean, L., Forsyth, R., Selim, T., Aktar, B., Sai, V., Garimella, S., Saidu, S., Gandi, I., Josyula, L. K., Mberu, B., Elsey, H., Leyland A.H, and Gray, L. (2022). Effects of social determinants on children’s health in informal settlements in Bangladesh and Kenya through an intersectionality lens: a study protocol. BMJ Open, 12(6), e056494.
Bintu Mansaray, Laura Dean, Phil Tubb, Kunhi Lakshmi Josyula, Linet Okoth, Ivy Chumo, et al. (2022) Implications of COVID-19 for safeguarding in international development research: learning, action and reflection from a research hub. BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e008122. doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2021-008122
Nikhil Tandon, Yashdeep Gupta, Deksha Kapoor, Josyula K. Lakshmi, Devarsetty Praveen, Amritendu Bhattacharya, et al., for the LIVING Collaborative Group. Effects of a Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Deterioration in Glycemic Status Among South Asian Women With Recent Gestational Diabetes A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open. 2022;5(3): e220773.
Josyula, LK, Murthy, S, Karampudi, H, and Garimella, S (2021) Isolation in COVID, and COVID in Isolation—Exacerbated Shortfalls in Provision for Women’s Health and Well-Being Among Marginalized Urban Communities in India. Frontiers in Global Women’s Health.
Josyula Lakshmi, Shailaja Tetali, Dane Moran, Shirin Wadhwaniya, Shivam Gupta, Gururaj Gopalakrishna, and Adnan A. Hyder. Traffic, training, and turnover: Experiences of research personnel in collecting road safety data in Hyderabad, India. WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health2021; 10:47-52.
Tewari A, Praveen D, Madhira P, Lakshmi JK, Joshi R, Kokku SB, et al. (2020) Feasibility of a Lifestyle Intervention Program for Prevention of Diabetes Among Women With Prior Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (LIVING Study) in South Asia: A Formative Research Study. Frontiers in Global Women’s Health, 1:587607.
Janani Shanthosh, Deksha Kapoor, Lakshmi K Josyula, Anushka Patel, Yashdeep Gupta, Nikhil Tandon, et al. (2020) Protocol for process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of a Lifestyle InterVention IN Gestational Diabetes (LIVING) in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. BMJ Open;10:e037774.
Josyula K. Lakshmi, Radhika Shrivastav, Kiran Saluja, Monika Arora (2020) Evaluation of a school-based tobacco control intervention in India. Health Education Journal 2020: 79(7): 775-787.
[The ARISE Hub] Aktar B, Alam W, Ali S, et al. (2020) How to prevent and address safeguarding concerns in global health research programmes: practice, process and positionality in marginalised spaces. BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002253. doi:10.1136 bmjgh-2019-002253
Yashdeep Gupta, Deksha Kapoor, Lakshmi K Josyula, Devarsetty Praveen, Aliya Naheed, Ankush K Desai, et al. (2019) A lifestyle intervention programme for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus among South Asian women with gestational diabetes mellitus [LIVING study] – Protocol for a randomised trial. Diabetic Medicine, 36(2):243-251. doi: 10.1111/dme.13850.
Srinivas P. L. N. Patnaik, Lakshmi K. Josyula, Rashmi Pant (2018) Socioeconomic correlates of anemia awareness in adolescent schoolgirls: Insights from a district in India. Journal of Health Management, 20(3): 1–10.
Wadhwaniya S, Gupta S,Mitra S, Tetali S, Josyula LK, Gururaj G, Hyder AA (2017) A comparison of observed and self-reported helmet use and associated factors among motorcyclists in Hyderabad city, India. Public Health, 144: S62 – S69.
Sheikh K, Josyula LK, Zhang X, Bigdeli M, Ahmed SM. Governing the mixed health workforce: learning from Asian experiences. BMJ Global Health 2017;2: e000267.
K. Lakshmi Josyula, Kabir Sheikh, Devaki Nambiar, Venkatesh V. Narayan, T.N. Sathyanarayana, John D. H. Porter. “Getting the water-carrier to light the lamps”: Discrepant role perceptions of traditional, complementary, and alternative medical practitioners in government health facilities in India. Social Science and Medicine, Vol 166: 214-222.
J. K. Lakshmi. Delhi Medical Council ruling on cross-system practice by practitioners of AYUSH. National Medical Journal of India, Vol 29 (2): p114.