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).

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Articles sélectionnés

1. 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]
2. 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
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. 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]
6. 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]
7. 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]
8. 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]
9. 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
10. 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]
11. 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]
12. 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]
13. 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]
14. 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]
15. 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]
16. 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]