Archive - Hawk Radius

From bench to bedside - small issues which compound to bigger failures

Bringing solutions from the laboratory to the hospital is often filled with small issues which add up to bigger failures. Sometimes, the failure is not…

Jul 2 •

Savyasachee Jha

April 2024

Long term care insurance as public policy

LTCI has begun seeing uptake in Asia. However, creating sustainable, equitable long term care systems remains a problem to be solved.

Apr 13 •

Savyasachee Jha

September 2023

Working with tertiary care facilities

It's harder than it might appear at first blush, but the rewards are very worth it

Sep 11, 2023 •

Savyasachee Jha

December 2021

The state of obesity in India

Obesity is closely related to where in the "nutritional transition" a family is. Surprisingly, the relationship between the two is a bell curve, not a…

Dec 12, 2021 •

Savyasachee Jha

October 2021

The design of Conditional Cash Transfer Schemes in India

A recent paper by von Haaren and Klonner compares two different conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes being offered by the Indian government for the…

Oct 16, 2021 •

Savyasachee Jha

September 2021

The Kingdon Framework: Part 1

A deep dive into Kingdon's America-centric framework of policymaking, starting with the elements of policymaking present within the Executive and…

Sep 12, 2021 •

Savyasachee Jha

May 2021

A cyclical service delivery cascade in the context of HIV

How does changing one tiny bit of a service delivery cascade change the way we think about it? Plus the cost-effectiveness of gene therapies, consumer…

May 29, 2021 •

Savyasachee Jha

Weekly Roundup: Sex differences in Partner Selection

Plus resource allocation in a pandemic, using Twitter to crowdsource symptoms, the relationship between being indebted and subjective well-being, and…

May 22, 2021 •

Savyasachee Jha

Weekly roundup: The NHS needs to be restructured, combating COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and screening for Gastric Cancer

In this week we take a look at how the Lancet believes the NHS should be restructured, ways of combating vaccine hesitancy, the effect of parental…

May 15, 2021 •

Savyasachee Jha

The Right to Health during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Right to Health is an important legal concept. But does it actually make a difference when the time comes?

May 13, 2021 •

Savyasachee Jha

March 2021

The Inverse Care Law

Socially disadvantaged people get less healthcare than socially advantaged people despite all the efforts to the contrary. Why is this? The Inverse Care…

Mar 14, 2021 •

Savyasachee Jha

February 2021

Social Health and Rural Populations

The effect of social health insurance is often thought to be universally positive. The results, however, are mixed at best.

Feb 28, 2021 •

Savyasachee Jha

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