Smruti Bulsari

I have a wide experience of researching a range of health issues from health economics and public policy perspective.

My current work focuses on health economic modelling for interventions that promote sustainable and healthy food and the alcohol-labelling intervention. Prior to this, I was an NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) fellow, where I studied various dimensions of dementia, ranging from policy analysis, modelling modifiable risk and protective factors, and seeking voices of people living with dementia, with an objective to inform the future dementia strategies. A part of this research was coproduced with Essex County Council. Some of my earlier research include examining regional inequalities in prostate cancer prevalence in Essex, and estimating the costs of menstrual health in Gujarat, India. I have also worked on examining the efficacy of interventions for a range of diseases and conditions (like sickle cell anaemia, leptospirosis, and a range of vector-borne diseases) that were endemic to specific regions; this was a part of the larger study to prepare a status report on Human Development in Surat and Tapi districts of Gujarat, India to inform district-level plans.

I am a co-investigator to Alzheimer’s Society’s Sandpit grant to support the research on “Decision-making support model for whole-pathway dementia workforce commissioning’ (DEMM-COMM)”. I was also awarded the NIHR internship funding, for employing an intern to support the qualitative part of my NIHR ARC research on dementia. I was the LMIC-collaborator, based in India, on the British Academy grant funding, with Durham University, to study the impact of school on cognitive and overall development of children. In India, I was the co-investigator on the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi’s research programme for the research on menstrual hygiene costs.

I have a wide experience teaching applied economics, research methodology and quantitative techniques in a large State University in India. I have co-authored books on R and SPSS.