Mira Johri
Global child health, social and structural health determinants, health equity, vaccination
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École de santé publique - Département de gestion, d’évaluation et de politique de santé
7101, av. du Parc, room 3078
Profile
Biography
Mira Johri, PhD MPH is Professor in the Department of Health Management, Evaluation and Policy at the School of Public Health, University of Montreal, and Principal Scientist at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM).
Dr. Johri's research explores the social and structural determinants of global child health, with a focus on equitable access to childhood vaccines globally and in India. Mira studied economics, ethics and political philosophy (theories of justice) at McGill University, and public health (quantitative methods for programme evaluation) at Yale University. She has served as Consultant in the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health at the World Health Organization (WHO), Independent Expert to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Chair of the Independent Evaluation Panel at the Global Fund, and Independent Expert to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, where she has held various roles for more than a decade. She currently serves as member of the global Immunization Equity Reference Group (ERG) convened by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UNICEF. Mira’s research has appeared in high-impact journals such as The Lancet, The Lancet Global Health, BMC Medicine, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
As a researcher, Mira's goal is to do applied work that is anchored in field realities, useful to communities, and informative for policy and practice. Notable contributions include co-leading a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission demonstration project in Guatemala from 2004-2009 that was subsequently scaled, research cited by the President of Burkina Faso to inform a national policy change on user fees for child healthcare, and active engagement to shape the global policy dialogue on immunisation equity with Gavi and partners. Mira been leading field research on immunization and child health in rural Uttar Pradesh, India since 2012. In 2020, the team became an official Indian not-for-profit organization, Raah Health and Social Development Foundation www.raah.global, whose mission is to accelerate health equity in rural India through community-driven innovation. Mira was honoured to receive the national Vic Neufeld Mentorship Award from the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (2020), the Innovation in Science and Technology Award from the Drishti Media Group (2021), the faculty Research Excellence Award from the University of Montreal’s School of Public Health (2022), and the Exceptional Contribution Award, University of Montreal (2025-2030).
Awards and recognitions
- Exceptional Contribution Award, University of Montreal, (2025-2030)
- Research Excellence Award (Category: Faculty) from the University of Montreal’s School of Public Health (2022)
- Innovation in Science and Technology Award from the Drishti Media Group (2021)
- Vic Neufeld Mentorship Award by the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (2020)
education
- 1998 — PhD — Philosophie — Université McGill
- 1999 — Postdoctorat — Mesures et évaluation, Santé publique — Université Yale
- 1998 — MPH — Mesures et évaluation, Santé publique — Université Yale
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Raah Health and Social Development Foundation
The Raah Foundation brings together research, technology, and implementation partners united by a common vision: to accelerate innovation in order to transform communities and lives.
Affiliations and responsabilities
Research affiliations
Teaching and supervision
Recruitment in research
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Teaching
Student supervision
Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)
Migration internationale des infirmiers haïtiens au Québec : potentiel des accords bilatéraux
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Prévalence, déterminants et facteurs prédictifs des occasions manquées de vaccination: une étude transversale chez les enfants âgés de moins de 24 mois dans le district d’Hardoi à Uttar Pradesh en Inde
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Impacts et défis de réintégration communautaire chez des victimes de fistule obstétricale après réparation chirurgicale à l’hôpital Jean Paul 2 Conakry de 2017 à 2020
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Évaluation de la fidélité des interventions en santé publique dans le cadre des essais randomisés en grappes dans les pays du Sud : revue systématique et étude de cas
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Relation entre l’éducation des parents et la mortalité des enfants au Bénin
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Développement d’outils de plaidoyer pour la lutte contre le diabète de type 2 en Afrique subsaharienne à partir de l’estimation des coûts de l’inaction et de l’action
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Stratégies visant à accroître la demande de vaccination infantile dans les pays en développement : révision systématique et méta-analyse
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
La télémédecine en radiothérapie : développement d’un modèle et analyse des coûts
Graduate : Laliberté, Benoît
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Access to care for the poor living with chronic disease in India : an analysis of selected national health policies
Graduate : Grimard, Dominique
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Compliance measurement-guided medication management programs in hypertension : a systematic review
Graduate : Golubev, Sergey
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Economic evaluation of prevention of mother – to – child – transmission of HIV/AIDS interventions in developing countries : a systematic review
Graduate : Ako-Arrey, Denis E.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Les répercussions du DR-CAFTA sur l'accès aux médicaments et la santé des populations au Guatemala : la perspective d'acteurs clefs
Graduate : Pelletier, Catherine
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Les états face à leur responsabilité pour l'accès aux médicaments dans les pays en développement : la loi C-9 au Canada
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Vécu moral des parents lors des prises de décision de traitement : rapport d'un service de réanimation pédiatrique français
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Projects
Research projects
Centre de Recherche en Éthique ( CRÉ )
Centre de Recherche en Éthique ( CRÉ )
RCE - IC-IMPACTS - Citizen-lead evaluation of the public health response to COVID-19 in India: harnessing information and communications technology (ICT) to promote real-time learning, human rights and good governance
Processus d'aide à la décision, gestion du risque obstétrical et du mode d'accouchement après césarienne au Québec (PRISMA).
Interventions to increase immunisation coverage among children 12-23 months of age in India through participatory learning and community mobilisation: cluster randomised trial
RCE-NCE (réseau centre excellence) - Dialed In: Tapping community voice to improve child immunization services in India - India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships to Accelerate Community Transformation and Sustainability
Interventions to increase immunisation coverage among children 12-23 months of age in India through participatory learning and community mobilisation: cluster randomised trial.
Urban Health: Scoping Reviews and research gap analysis on urban health interventions for the prevention and control of vector-borne and other infectious diseases of poverty
LEVERAGING A LITERACY INITIATIVE TO EXTEND THE REACH OF IMMUNIZATION IN UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS IN INDIA : A SYNERGY FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT
QUAlité des soins, gestion du RISque obstétrical et du Mode d'Accouchement au Québec (QUARISMA): Des connaissances à la pratique.
(RESEAUTETE) - THE INTEGRATED RESEARCH NETWORK ON PERINATOLOGY
Leveraging a literacy initiative to extend the reach of immunization in underserved populations in India: a synergy for child development
Description
Globally and in India, vaccination rates are lower for children whose families and communities are less educated and whose socioeconomic position is worse. This project proposes to leverage a highly successful child literacy initiative to increase the reach of immunization and other essential child health services in India. The project team will develop novel methods for effective grassroots health education in low-literacy communities and pioneer approaches to improve community engagement in health and health services.
INTRODUCTION OF A TOLL-FREE NUMBER TO INCREASE COMMUNITY DEMAND FOR CHIL IMMUNIZATION SERVICES IN INDIA: A CLUSTER-RANDOMISED PILOT STUDY IN RURAL UTTAR-PRADESH
LEVERAGING LITERACY INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE VACCINE ACCEPTANCE
Outreach
Publications and presentations
Publications
Articles sélectionnés
- Mira Johri, Sunil Rajpal, Rockli Kim, SV Subramanian. Small-area variation in child under-vaccination in India: A multilevel analysis of 36 states and Union Territories, 707 districts, and 22,086 small-area clusters. The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia. 2025;32:100504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lansea.2024.100504 [IF 5.0]
- Mira Johri, Edmond S.W. Ng, Georges K. Koné, Alyssa Sharkey, Delphine Bosson-Rieutort, S.V. Subramanian. The effects of zero-dose vaccination status in early childhood and level of community socio-economic development on learning attainment in pre-adolescence in India: A population-based cohort study BMJ Public Health 2023;1:e000022. doi:10.1136/bmjph-2023-000022
- Rajpal S, Kumar A, Johri M, Kim R, Subramanian SV. Patterns in the Prevalence of Unvaccinated Children Across 36 States and Union Territories in India, 1993-2021. JAMA Network Open. 2023;6(2):e2254919. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.54919 [IF 13.37]
- Johri M, Rajpal S, Subramanian SV. Progress in reaching unvaccinated (zero-dose) children in India, 1992–2016: a multilevel, geospatial analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys. The Lancet Global Health. 2021;9(12):e1697-e706. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00349-1 [IF 26.76]
- Johri M, Agarwal S, Khullar A, Chandra D, Pratap VS, Seth A. (2021) The first 100 days: How has COVID-19 affected poor and vulnerable groups in India? Health Promotion International. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab050 [IF 2.48]
- Mira Johri, Edmond Ng, Clara Bermudez-Tamayo*, Jeffrey S. Hoch, Thierry Ducruet, Nils Chaillet. A cluster-randomized trial to reduce caesarean delivery rates in Quebec: cost-effectiveness analysis, BMC Med 2017 15:96 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0859-8 [IF 7.901]
- Catherine Arsenault*, Mira Johri, Arijit Nandi, José M Mendoza Rodríguez, Peter M Hansen, Sam Harper. Country-level predictors of vaccination coverage and inequalities in Gavi-supported countries, Vaccine 35 (18), 2479-2488. 2017 Mar 29 [IF 3.413]
- Catherine Arsenault*, Sam Harper, Arijit Nandi, José Mendoza Rodriguez, Peter Hansen, Mira Johri. Monitoring equity in vaccination coverage: A systematic analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 45 Gavi-supported countries: Vaccine. 2017 Feb 7;35(6):951-959. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.12.041. Epub 2017 Jan 6. [IF 3.413]
- Catherine Arsenault*, Sam Harper, Arijit Nandi, José Mendoza Rodriguez, Peter Hansen, Mira Johri. An equity dashboard to monitor vaccination coverage for the Sustainable Development Goals, Policy and Practice : Bull World Health Organ 2017;95:128–134 [IF 5.089] http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.178079
- Mira Johri; Stéphane Verguet; Shaun K. Morris; Jitendar K Sharma; Usha Ram; Cindy Gauvreau; Edward Jones; Prabhat Jha; Mark Jit. Adding interventions to mass measles vaccinations in India, Bull World Health Organ 2016;94:718–727 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.15.160044 [IF 5.089]
- Mira Johri, SV Subramanian, Georges K. Koné, Sakshi Dudeja, Dinesh Chandra, Nanor Minoyan*, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, Smriti Pahwa. Maternal health literacy is associated with early childhood nutritional status in India, Journal of Nutrition 2016;146(7):1402-10, doi: 10.3945/jn.115.226290. [IF 4.145]
- Johri M, Perez MC*, Arsenault C*, Sharma JK, Pant Pai N, Pahwa S, Sylvestre MP. Strategies to increase the demand for childhood vaccination in developing countries: Systematic review and meta-analysis 2015 Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2015;93:339-346C. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.146951 [IF 5.089]
- Johri M, Subramanian SV, Sylvestre MP, Dudeja S, Chandra D, Koné GK, Sharma JK, Pahwa S. Association between maternal health literacy and child vaccination in India: a cross-sectional study, J Epidemiol Community Health. 2015 Mar 31. pii: jech-2014-205436. doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-205436. [IF 3.606]
- Mira Johri, Valéry Ridde, Rolf Heinmüller & Slim Haddad. Estimation of maternal and child mortality one year after user-fee elimination: an impact evaluation and modelling study in Burkina Faso. WHO Bulletin Volume 92, Number 10, October 2014, 706-715 doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.130609 [IF 5.089]
- Mira Johri, Dinesh Chandra, S.V. Subramanian, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, Smriti Pahwa. "MDG 7c for safe drinking water in India: illusive achievement" The Lancet, Volume 383, Issue 9926, Page 1379, 19 April 2014 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60673-5 (Correspondence; supported by original data (published data table)). [IF 47.831]
- Johri M, Chung R, Dawson AJ, Schrecker TS.(2012) Global health and national borders: the ethics of foreign aid in a time of financial crisis. Global Health 8: 19. DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-8-19 [IF 2.536]
Disciplines
- Preventive Medicine
- Public Health
Areas of expertise
- Global health
- Population’s health
- Vaccination
- Social inequality
- Child
- Youths
- Multilevel analysis
- Quantitative methods
- Population health intervention assessment
- Health services evaluation
- Economic evaluation methods
- Poverty
- Developing countries
- Health Promotion
- Evaluative research
- Medical ethics
- Newly industrialized country
- India
- Health care accessibility
- Central America