Unni Gopinathan
Senior scientist
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MD and PhD in Biomedical Chemistry and Infectious Disease Immunology from the University of OsloPost-doctoral fellowship,Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at Harvard Medical School (Health Policy and Insurance Research, Department of Population Medicine), 2018/19 Global Health Fellow in Geneva in theGlobalPolicy Program organized bySanford School of Public Policy, Duke University in2011
Projects and publications
- Unni Gopinathan, Ingeborg Hess Elgersma, Therese Kristine Dalsbø, Mona Bjørbæk, Atle Fretheim, (2025). Strengthening research preparedness for crises: lessons from Norwegian government agencies in using randomized trials and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate public policy interventions. Health Research Policy and Systems doi: 10.1186/s12961-024-01271-y
- Astrid Louise Wester, Svein Øivind Solberg, Unni Gopinathan, Rafi Ahmad, David W. Graham, (2024). Antimicrobial Resistance in a One Health and One World Perspective – Mechanisms and Perspectives. s. 50-73. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-323-99967-0.00148-4
- Claire Glenton, Elizabeth Paulsen, Smisha Agarwal, Unni Gopinathan, Marit Johansen, David Kyaddondo, Susan Munabi-Babigumira, Josephine Nabukenya, Immaculate Nakityo, Rehema Namaganda, Josephine Namitala, Tom Neumark, Allen Nsangi, Neil M Pakenham-Walsh, Arash Rashidian, Geoff Royston, Nelson Sewankambo, Tigest Tamrat, Simon Arnold Lewin, (2024). Healthcare workers’ informal uses of mobile phones and other mobile devices to support their work: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015705.pub2
- Unni Gopinathan, Elizabeth Peacocke, Daniel Nana Yaw Abankwah, Genevieve C Aryeetey, Claire Glenton, Peninah N Khisa, Augustina Koduah, Ravi Ram, Justice Nonvignon, Jacinta Nzinga, Doris Ottie-Boakye, Neil M Pakenham-Walsh, Benjamin Tsofa, Dennis Waithaka, Simon Arnold Lewin, (2024). Using evidence from civil society in national and subnational health policy processes: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015810
- Sel-Ki Baek, Win Thuzar Aye, Aung Soe Htet, Hein Stigum, Unni Gopinathan, Espen Bjertness, (2024). Educational inequalities and self-reported health among men and women aged 18-49 years in Yangon Region, Myanmar: analysis of a population-based, cross-sectional study. BMJ Open s. 1-11. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074468
- Silje Rebekka Heltveit-Olsen, Unni Gopinathan, Hege Salvesen Blix, Petter Elstrøm, Sigurd Høye, (2024). Effect of methenamine hippurate shortage on antibiotic prescribing for urinary tract infections in Norway - an interrupted time series analysis. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy s. 1109-1117. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkae078
- Sonja Lynn Myhre, Michelle Scobie, Eija Meriläinen, Ilan Kelman, Unni Gopinathan, (2023). Climate Change, Community Action, and Health in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Scoping Review. Public Health Reviews (PHR) s. 1-13. doi: 10.3389/phrs.2023.1605843
- Peter John Binyaruka, Gemini Mtei, John Maiba, Unni Gopinathan, Elina Dale, (2023). Developing the improved Community Health Fund in Tanzania: was it a fair process?. Health Policy and Planning s. i83-i95. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czad067
- Yuriy Dzhygyr, Elina Dale, Alex Voorhoeve, Unni Gopinathan, Kateryna Maynzyuk, (2023). Procedural fairness and the resilience of health financing reforms in Ukraine. Health Policy and Planning s. i59-i72. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czad062
- Christoph Kurowski, David B. Evans, Trygve Ottersen, Unni Gopinathan, Elina Dale, Ole Frithjof Norheim, (2023). New strides towards fair processes for financing universal health coverage. Health Policy and Planning s. i5-i8. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czad065
- Elina Dale, Elizabeth F. Peacocke, Espen Movik, Alex Voorhoeve, Trygve Ottersen, Christoph Kurowski, David B. Evans, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Unni Gopinathan, (2023). Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions: a scoping review. Health Policy and Planning s. i13-i35. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czad066
- Hassan Njie, Elina Dale, Unni Gopinathan, (2023). Procedural fairness in decision-making for financing a National Health Insurance Scheme: a case study from The Gambia. Health Policy and Planning s. i73-i82. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czad063
- Claire Glenton, Elizabeth Paulsen, Smisha Agarwal, Unni Gopinathan, Marit Johansen, David Kyaddondo, Susan Munabi-Babigumira, Josephine Nabukenya, Immaculate Nakityo, Josephine Namitala, Tom Neumark, Allen Nsangi, Neil Martin Pakenham-Walsh, Arash Rashidian, Geoff Royston, Nelson Sewankambo, Tigest Tamrat, Simon Arnold Lewin, (2023). Healthcare workers’ informal uses of mobile devices to support their work: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015705
- Hassan Njie, Patrick Christian Gueswende Ilboudo, Unni Gopinathan, Lumbwe Chola, Knut Reidar Wangen, (2023). Preferences of healthcare workers for provider payment systems in The Gambia’s National Health Insurance Scheme. BMC Health Services Research doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09885-8
- Michelle Scobie, Unni Gopinathan, Ilan Kelman, Sonja Lynn Myhre, (2023). The agency of community groups in health and climate change adaptation governance and policy in SIDS: The case of in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago. Environmental Science and Policy s. 116-125. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.05.006
- Cecilia Birgit Maria Kållberg, Liv Mathiesen, Unni Gopinathan, Hege Salvesen Blix, (2023). The role of drug regulatory authorities and health technology assessment agencies in shaping incentives for antibiotic R&D: a qualitative study. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice doi: 10.1186/s40545-023-00556-x
- Luke J. Matthews, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Michelle Scobie, Laura E.R. Peters, Unni Gopinathan, Anuszka Mosurska, Katy Davis, Sonja Myhre, Saskia Hirsch, Eija Meriläinen, Ilan Kelman, (2023). Collective action by community groups: solutions for climate change or different players in the same game?. Climate and Development s. 679-691. doi: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2149254
- Hassan Njie, Knut Reidar Wangen, Lumbwe Chola, Unni Gopinathan, Ibrahimu Mdala, Johanne Sommerschild Sundby, Patrick Christian Gueswende Ilboudo, (2022). Willingness to pay for a national health insurance scheme in The Gambia: A contingent valuation study. Health Policy and Planning s. 61-73. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czac089
- Unni Gopinathan, Kent Buse, (2022). How can WHO transform its approach to social determinants of health?. The BMJ doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-066172
- Elizabeth Peacocke, Sonja Lynn Myhre, Hakan Foss, Unni Gopinathan, (2022). National adaptation and implementation of WHO Model List of Essential Medicines: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Nature Methods doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003944
- Yot Teerawattananon, Chris Painter, Saudamini Dabak, Trygve Ottersen, Unni Gopinathan, Lumbwe Chola, Kalipso Chalkidou, Anthony J. Culyer, (2021). Avoiding health technology assessment: a global survey of reasons for not using health technology assessment in decision making. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation doi: 10.1186/s12962-021-00308-1
- Pascale Renée Cyr, Vageesh Jain, Kalipso Chalkidou, Trygve Ottersen, Unni Gopinathan, (2021). Evaluations of public health interventions produced by health technology assessment agencies: A mapping review and analysis by type and evidence content. Health Policy s. 1054-1064. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.05.009
- Berit Sletbakk Brusletto, Else Marit Løberg, Bernt C Hellerud, Ingeborg Løstegaard Goverud, Jens Petter Berg, Ole Kristoffer Olstad, Unni Gopinathan, Petter Brandtzæg, Reidun Øvstebø, (2020). Extensive changes in transcriptomic “fingerprints” and immunological cells in the large organs of patients dying of acute septic shock and multiple organ failure caused by Neisseria meningitidis. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology s. 1-30. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00042
- Sabrina Kriegner, Trygve Ottersen, John-Arne Røttingen, Unni Gopinathan, (2020). Promoting Intersectoral Collaboration Through the Evaluations of Public Health Interventions: Insights From Key Informants in 6 European Countries. International Journal of Health Policy and Management s. 67-76. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.19
- Marit Synnøve Berg, Melanie Lindsay Straiton, Eirik Vikum, Sonja Lynn Myhre, Anders Skyrud Danielsen, Unni Gopinathan, (2020). Asylsøkeres helse og bruk av helsetjenester i Norge. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet) s. 363-367. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.19.0470
- Unni Gopinathan, (2019). Book review: Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World. Globalization and Health s. 1-3. doi: 10.1186/s12992-019-0491-9
- Fatima Tauqeer, Kirsten Myhr, Unni Gopinathan, (2019). Institutional barriers and enablers to implementing and complying with internationally accepted quality standards in the local pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan: a qualitative study. Health Policy and Planning s. 440-449. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czz054
- Anders Skyrud Danielsen, Petter Elstrøm, Trude Margrete Arnesen, Unni Gopinathan, Oliver Kacelnik, (2019). Targeting TB or MRSA in Norwegian municipalities during ‘the refugee crisis’ of 2015: a framework for priority setting in screening. Eurosurveillance doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2019.24.38.1800676
- Unni Gopinathan, Nick Watts, Alexandre Lefebvre, Arthur Cheung, Steven J Hoffman, John-Arne Røttingen, (2019). Global governance and the broader determinants of health: A comparative case study of UNDP's and WTO's engagement with global health. Global Public Health s. 175-189. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2018.1476567
- Unni Gopinathan, Steven J Hoffman, Trygve Ottersen, (2018). Scientific Advisory Committees at the World Health Organization: A Qualitative Study of How Their Design Affects Quality, Relevance, and Legitimacy. Global Challenges doi: 10.1002/gch2.201700074
- Unni Gopinathan, Steven J Hoffman, (2018). Institutionalising an evidence-informed approach to guideline development: progress and challenges at the World Health Organization. BMJ Global Health doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000716
- Unni Gopinathan, Kathrine Redalen, Anne-Marie Siebke, Peter Kierulf, Petter Brandtzæg, Anne Hansen Ree, Jens Petter Berg, Reidun Øvstebø, (2018). Large-scale reduction of tyrosine kinase activities in human monocytes stimulated in vitro with N. meningitidis. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181912
- Kristine Husøy Onarheim, Unni Gopinathan, (2017). Global health financing: Priority to poor people or poor countries?. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet) doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.17.0715
- Unni Gopinathan, Reidun Øvstebø, Berit Sletbakk Brusletto, Ole Kristoffer Olstad, Peter Kierulf, Petter Brandtzæg, Jens Petter Berg, (2017). Transcriptomic data from two primary cell models stimulating human monocytes suggest inhibition of oxidative phosphorylation and mitochondrial function by N. meningitidis which is partially up-regulated by IL-10. BMC Immunology s. 1-17. doi: 10.1186/s12865-017-0229-5
- Kevin Outterson, Unni Gopinathan, Charles Clift, Anthony D. So, Chantal M. Morel, John-Arne Røttingen, (2016). Delinking investment in antibiotic research and development from sales revenues: the challenges of transforming a promising idea into reality. Nature Methods doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002043
- Marc Mendelson, John-Arne Røttingen, Unni Gopinathan, Davidson H Hamer, Heiman Wertheim, Buddha Basnyat, Christopher Butler, Göran Tomson, Manica Balsegaram, (2016). Maximising access to achieve appropriate human antimicrobial use in low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet s. 188-198. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00547-4
- Unni Gopinathan, Nicholas Watts, Daniel Hougendobler, Alexandre Lefebvre, Arthur Cheung, Steven J. Hoffman, John-Arne Røttingen, (2015). Conceptual and institutional gaps: understanding how the WHO can become a more effective cross-sectoral collaborator. Globalization and Health doi: 10.1186/s12992-015-0128-6
- Unni Gopinathan, Berit Sletbakk Brusletto, Ole Kristoffer Olstad, Peter Kierulf, Jens Petter Berg, Petter Brandtzæg, Reidun Øvstebø, (2015). IL-10 immunodepletion from meningococcal sepsis plasma induces extensive changes in gene expression and cytokine release in stimulated human monocytes. Innate Immunity s. 429-449. doi: 10.1177/1753425914547743
- Unni Gopinathan, Simon Lewin, Claire Glenton, (2014). Implementing large-scale programmes to optimise the health workforce in low- and middle-income settings: a multicountry case study synthesis. Tropical medicine & international health s. 1437-1456. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12381
- Unni Gopinathan, Reidun Øvstebø, Ole Kristoffer Olstad, Berit Sletbakk Brusletto, Hans Christian Aass, Peter Kierulf, Petter Brandtzæg, Jens Petter Berg, (2012). Global Effect of Interleukin-10 on the Transcriptional Profile Induced by Neisseria meningitidis in Human Monocytes. Infection and Immunity s. 4046-4054. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00386-12
- Reidun Øvstebø, Hans Christian Aass, Kari Bente Foss, Anne-Marie Siebke, Unni Gopinathan, Peter Kierulf, Jens Petter Berg, Petter Brandtzæg, Carola Henriksson, (2012). LPS from Neisseria meningitidis is crucial for inducing monocyte- and microparticle-associated tissue factor activity but not for tissue factor expression. Innate Immunity s. 580-591. doi: 10.1177/1753425911428230
- Mona Bjørbæk, Ingeborg Hess Elgersma, Cathinka Halle Julin, Petter Elstrøm, Signe Agnes Flottorp, Atle Fretheim, Christine Holst, Unni Gopinathan, Heather Eileen Menzies Munthe-Kaas, Andrew David Oxman, Matthew Prescott Oxman, Christopher James Rose, Sarah Ellen Rosenbaum, Runar Barstad Solberg, Tone Bruun, Arnfinn Helleve, Simon Arnold Lewin, Annlaug Selstø, (2024). Centre for Epidemic Interventions Research (CEIR) Annual Report 2023.
- Unni Gopinathan, Atle Fretheim, (2023). Randomiserte og kvasieksperimentelle studier i den statlige forvaltningen: en kartlegging.
- Unni Gopinathan, Elizabeth Fleur Peacocke, Dimitrios Gouglas, Trygve Ottersen, John Arne Røttingen, (2020). R&D for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Epidemic Potential: Sharing Risks and Benefits Through a New Coalition.
- Atle Fretheim, Petter Elstrøm, Cathinka Lønning Halle, Unni Gopinathan, Ingeborg Hess Elgersma, Runar Barstad Solberg, Arnfinn Helleve, (2024). Why were so few randomized trials of public health and social measures conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Norwegian experience. Trials doi: 10.1186/s13063-024-08547-2
- Elizabeth Peacocke, Elina Dale, Amani Thomas Mori, Augustina Koduah, Unni Gopinathan, (2024). Measuring the value of the WHO Model list of essential medicines. Bulletin of the World Health Organization doi: 10.2471/BLT.24.292521
- Unni Gopinathan, (2023). Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes for UHC: Progress, Potential and Prudence; Comment on “Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes for Health Benefit Package Design – Part II: A Practical Guide”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management s. 1-3. doi: 10.34172/IJHPM.2023.7541
- Unni Gopinathan, Elina Dale, David B. Evans, (2023). Procedural fairness in health financing for universal health coverage: why, what and how. Health Policy and Planning s. i1-i4. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czad069
- Elina Dale, Mahima Venkateswaran, Ingvild Fjeldheim, Eleni Zoumpoulia Papadopoulou, Sonja Lynn Myhre, Unni Gopinathan, Ane-Marthe Solheim Skar, (2023). Globalt helsearbeid og bærekraft – ingen er trygge før alle er trygge. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet) doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.23.0499
- Unni Gopinathan, (2022). Vaksinen som kan forebygge malaria. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet) doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.22.0157
- Unni Gopinathan, Trygve Ottersen, Pascale Renée Cyr, Kalipso Chalkidou, (2021). Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes for HTA Around the Globe: Exploring the Next Frontiers of HTA and Best Practices; Comment on “Use of Evidence-informed Deliberative Processes by Health Technology Assessment Agencies Around the Globe”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management s. 232-236. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.145
- Anders Skyrud Danielsen, Torbjørn Wisløff, Unni Gopinathan, (2020). Usikkert om barn og smitte. Dagbladet
- Anders Skyrud Danielsen, Petter Elstrøm, Trude Margrete Arnesen, Unni Gopinathan, Oliver Kacelnik, (2018). Evaluering av rådet om screeningregimer for nyankomne asylsøkere: en registerbasert kohortstudie.
- Unni Gopinathan, Trygve Ottersen, (2017). Evidence-informed deliberative processes for universal health coverage: broadening the scope. International Journal of Health Policy and Management s. 473-475. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.148
- Unni Gopinathan, Lotte Danielsen, Ann Louise Lie, (2012). Why a Youth Commission on Global Governance for Health?. The Lancet s. 338-339.
- Lars Thore Fadnes, Gunnar Kvåle, Unni Gopinathan, Britt Grethe Randem, Guro Steine Letting, (2011). Nytt nettverk for klima og helse. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet) s. 442-442.