Dr Uttam Paudel

I am a Health Economist/Researcher, working with UN agencies in the development of policy documents for developing countries including Nepal, Ethiopia and Pakistan.

I (Uttam Paudel) am an economist (health and environmental researcher). I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow (Environmental Health Economics) at University of Sheffield, UK. I am rigorously working on cost analysis of environmental, nutrition and health financing strategy in different countries. I have been rigorously devoting on producing and publishing the scientific papers on health, nutrition and environmental issues for developing countries taking national data sets. In parallel I am preparing national policy documents for Nepal (national and subnational), consulting with World Bank, WHO, the Palladium Group, UNICEF, Nepal Health Research Council and University of Washington.

Selected publications

2022                GBD 2019 AYA Cancer Collaborators (….., Paudel U,…...).The global burden of adolescent and young adult cancer in 2019: An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The lancet Oncology, https://doi.org/10.1016/ S1470-2045(21)00581-7

2021                GBD 2019 Colorectal Cancer Collaborators (….., Paudel U,…...).Global, Regional and National Burden of Colorectal Cancer, 1990-2019: A systematic examination for Global Burden of Disease 2019. The lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Accepted)

2021                KC, D., Paudyal, A., ….., Paudel, U. (2021). Household food security access and nutritional status among early adolescents in a poor neighborhood of Sinamangal, Nepal. Current Development in Nutrition.  https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab127

2021                Paudel, U., Pant, K.P., Adhikari, S.R., ….., Dhimal M. (2021). Factors associated with typhoid fever in Western Nepal: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Health and Social Sciences. Doi: 10.19204/2021/fctr13

2021                Paudel, U., and Pant, K.P. (2021) Understanding Vitality of Public Space: A Review with an Example of Capital City Kathmandu in Nepal. Land Use Policy (Accepted)

2021                Paudel, U., Pant, K.P., Adhikari, S.R., ….., Dhimal M. (2021). Factors associated with Malaria Prevalence in Western Nepal: An Empirical Study. Journal of Health and Social Sciences. (Accepted)

2021                Yadav, M.K., Basyal D., and Paudel, U. (2021) .Determining an author’s impact with f-, c- and mh-indices. International Journal of Bibliometrics in Business and Management. (Accepted)

2020                Paudel, U., and Pant, K.P. (2020) Estimation of household health cost and climate adaptation cost with its health related determinants: empirical evidences from western Nepal. Heliyon,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05492