Biography
While at IHME, Ranju worked on the Disease Expenditure and Effective Coverage research teams. Following the Post-Graduate Fellowship, Ranju worked as an Economist on the Malaria Elimination Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco.
Moses MW, Pedroza P, Baral R, Bloom S, Brown J, Chapin A, Compton K, Eldrenkamp E, Fullman N, Mumford JE, Nandakumar V, Rosettie K, Sadat N, Shonka T, Flaxman A, Vos T, Murray CJL, Weaver MR. Funding and services needed to achieve universal health coverage: applications of global, regional, and national estimates of utilisation of outpatient visits and inpatient admissions from 1990 to 2016, and unit costs from 1995 to 2016. The Lancet Public Health. 11 Dec 2018. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30263-9.
Dieleman JL, Baral R, Birger M, Bui AL, Bulchis A, Chapin A, Hamavid H, Horst C, Johnson EK, Joseph J, Lavado R, Lomsadze L, Reynolds A, Squires E, Campbell M, DeCenso B, Dicker D, Flaxman AD, Gabert R, Highfill T, Naghavi M, Nightingale N, Templin T, Tobias MI, Vos T, Murray CJL. US spending on personal health care and public health, 1996–2013. JAMA. 2016 Dec 17.
Hamavid H, Birger M, Bulchis AG, Lomsadze L, Joseph J, Baral R, Bui AL, Horst C, Johnson E, Dieleman JL. Assessing the complex and evolving relationship between charges and payments in US hospitals: 1996 – 2012. PLoS ONE. 2016 Jul 8; 11(7):e0157912. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157912.
Dieleman JL, Graves CM, Templin T, Johnson E, Baral R, Leach-Kemon K, Haakenstad AM, Murray CJL. Global health development assistance remained steady in 2013 but did not align with recipients’ disease burden. Health Affairs. 2014 Apr. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1432.
Hernandez-Garbanzo Y, Brosh J, Serrano EL, Bhattarai R. Psychosocial Measures Used to Assess the Effectiveness of School-based Nutrition Education Programs: Review and Analysis of Self-report Instruments for Children 8 to 12 Years Old. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2013; 45(5):392-403.
Baral R, Davis GC, You W. National, Regional, and State Level Estimates of Returns to Scale in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 2013; 45(2):203-216.
Baral R, Davis GC, You W. National, regional, and state-level estimates of returns to scale in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 2013 May.
Baral R, Davis GC, Blake S, You W, Serrano E. Utilizing National Data to Estimate Average Cost Effectiveness of EFNEP Outcomes by State/Territory. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2013; 45(2):183-187.
Baral R, Davis GC, You W. Consumption Time in Household Production: Implications for the Goods-Time Elasticity of Substitution. Economics Letters. 2011; 112(2):138-140.
Baral N, Stern MJ, Bhattarai R. Contingent Valuation of Ecotourism in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal: Implications for Sustainable Park Finance and Local Development. Ecological Economics. 2008; 66(2-3):218-227.