Afsan Bhadelia
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Contact Information Email: abhadeli@purdue.edu Office: MTHW 226 Map Phone: 765-494-4825 Homepage: Homepage |
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Google Scholar Listing  View Vita
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Education
PhD Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Health Systems Program 2017
Research Interests
Comparative health systems performance analysis and assessment, value-based care, social accountability on health, health justice, chronic care across life course and care continuum, palliative and end-of-life care, healthy longevity, gender- and age-responsive health systems
Teaching Interests
Global health, value-based healthcare, people-centered health systems
Grants
2022 - 2025 - Medical Research Council (UK) (joint Health Systems Research Initiative) through University of Edinburgh (Subaward)
2022 - Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy Bridgetown, U.S. Department of State
2021 - 2022 - Fulbright U.S. Scholar Teaching and Research Award, U.S. Department of State
Selected Publications
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Kwete XJ, Bhadelia A, Rosa WE, et al. The evolution of serious health-related suffering from 1990 to 2021: an update to the Lancet Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief. Lancet Global Health 2025; 13(3): e422-e436.
Knaul FM, Arreola-Ornelas H, Kwete XJ, Bhadelia A, Berterame S, Connor SR, De Lima L, Downing J, Krakauer EL, Mendez-Carniado O, Pastrana T, Perez-Cruz PE, Portenoy RK, Rosa WE, Vargas Enciso V, Radbruch L. Distributed opioids in morphine equivalent: a global measure of availability for palliative care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2025;69(2):204-215 (Online October 26, 2024).
Kwete XJ, Bhadelia A, Arreola-Ornelas H, et al. Global assessment of palliative care need: serious health-related suffering measurement methodology. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2024;68(2):e116-e137.
Doubova SV, Bhadelia A, Perez-Moran D, Martinez-Vega IP, Garcia-Cervantes N, Knaul FM. Dimensions of suffering and the need for palliative care: experiences and expectations of patients living with cancer and diabetes and their caregivers in Mexico. BMJ Open 2023; 13(12):e075691.
Sallnow L, Smith R, Ahmedzai S, Bhadelia A, Chamberlain C, et al. Rebalancing and revaluing death and dying: bringing death back into life. Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death. Lancet 2022; 399(10327):837-884.
Rosa WE, Bhadelia A, Knaul FM, Travers JL, Metheny N, Fulmer T. A longevity society requires integrated palliative care models for historically excluded older people. Lancet Healthy Longevity 2022; 3(4): E227-8.
Bhadelia A. Promoting value-based cancer care in India: opportunities for systems strengthening. Indian Journal of Medical Research 2021; 154(2):329-337.
Bhadelia A, Oldfield L, Cruz JL, Singh R, Finkelstein EA. Identifying the core domains to assess health system performance on end-of-life care: a scoping review. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2021; 63(4): e365-e386.
Finkelstein EA, Bhadelia A, Goh CR, Baid D, Singh R, et al. Cross country comparison of expert assessments of the quality of death and dying 2021. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2021; 63(4): e419-e429.
Bhadelia A. Evidence for the path to cervical cancer elimination. Lancet Global Health 2020; 8(2): e155-e156.