Dr Anuraj Shankar

Senior Scientist

Dr Anuraj Shankar leads research in community health at OUCRU Indonesia, and is a research fellow at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

His work spans from biomedicine to global health policy, with a unifying theme of regulation and resilience of complex systems at the biological, behavioral and programmatic level.

Dr Shankar has extensive experience as a principal investigator of trials in low and middle income countries assessing effects of nutrition and other interventions on maternal, newborn and child mortality and morbidity, on child cognitive development, and on malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia, and immune function.

His research in 2020 includes design of digital-assisted serological and molecular diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 infection, and assessment of COVID-19 on pregnancy, and impact of COVID-19-related health system changes on maternal and newborn health in Indonesia.

DSc.

DSc. in Immunology from Harvard University.

BSc.

BSc. in Chemistry, and BSc. in Zoology from Ohio University

Publications

Anis Karuniawati, Ayodhia Pitaloka Pasaribu, Gilbert Lazarus, Vera Irawany, Dwi Utomo Nusantara, Robert Sinto, Suwarti, Maulana Jamil Nasution, Ferawati, Muhammad Riza Lubis, Eka Nurfitri, Mutiara Mutiara, Hasanul Arifin, Hely Hely, Pramaisshela Arinda D Putri, Ariel Pradipta, Anindya Pradipta Susanto, Meutia Ayuputeri Kumaheri, Bonifacius, Yacobus Da Costa, Claus Bogh, Dodi Safari, Kartini Lidia, Hermi Indita Malewa, Nunung Nuraeni, Sabighoh Zanjabila, Mutia Rahardjani, Fitri Agustia Dewi, Fitria Wulandari, Decy Subekti, Henry Surendra, J Kevin Baird, Anuraj H Shankar, Raph L Hamers.

Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia

January 25, 2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2023.100348

Bronner P Gon%E7alves, Waasila Jassat, Joaqu%EDn Baruch, Madiha Hashmi, Amanda Rojek, Abhishek Dasgupta, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Luis Felipe Reyes, Chiara Piubelli, Barbara Wanjiru Citarella, Christiana Kartsonaki, Benjamin Lef%E8vre, Jos%E9 W L%F3pez Revilla, Miles Lunn, Ewen M Harrison, Moritz U G Kraemer, Sally Shrapnel, Peter Horby, Zeno Bisoffi, Piero L Olliaro, Laura Merson; ISARIC Clinical Characterisation Group

September 21, 2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2023.08.005

Kamala Thriemer, Robert James Commons, Megha Rajasekhar, Tamiru Shibiru Degaga, Krisin Chand, Nguyen Hoang Chau, Ashenafi Assefa, Mohammad Nader Naddim, Ayodhia Pitaloka Pasaribu, Awab Ghulam Rahim, Inge Sutanto, Tran Tinh Hien, Asrat Hailu, Mohammad Anwar Hasanzai, Lenny L Ekawati, Adugna Woyessa, Tedla Teferi, Naomi Waithira, Walter R J Taylor, Benedikt Ley, Arjen Dondorp, J Kevin Baird, Nicholas J White, Nicholas P Day, Ric N Price, Julie A Simpson, Lorenz von Seidlein

BMC Med Res Methodol.

September 4, 2023

DOI: 10.1186/s12874-023-02022-3

Henry Surendra, Iqbal R F Elyazar, Evelyn Puspaningrum, Deddy Darmawan, Tiffany T Pakasi, Endang Lukitosari, Sulistyo Sulistyo, Shena M Deviernur, Ahmad Fuady, Guy Thwaites, Reinout van Crevel, Anuraj H Shankar, J Kevin Baird, Raph L Hamers

Lancet Glob Health

September 1, 2023

DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00312-1

Marina Wainstein, Nicholas Spyrison, Danyang Dai, Moji Ghadimi, Jonathan S Chavez-Iniguez, Lilia Rizo-Topete, Barbara Wanjiru Citarella, Laura Merson, Jason D Pole, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, David W Johnson, Sally Shrapnel; ISARIC Characterization Group

Kidney Int Rep.

May 27, 2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2023.05.015