Suicide
Dandona R, Sagar R. Rebalancing global suicide prevention. JAMA Psychiatry. 2026. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42714923.
Dandona R, Kumar GA, Sagar R. Beyond the numbers: interpreting the rise in student suicide deaths in India. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2026; 51:100822. PMID: 42499646.
Knipe D, John A, Padmanathan P, Eyles E, Dekel D, Higgins JPT, Bantjes J, Dandona R, Macleod-Hall C, McGuinness LA, Schmidt L, Webb RT, Gunnell D. Correction: Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2026 May 21;6(5): e0006514. Erratum for: PLOS Glob Public Health. 2022; 2(6): e0000282. PMID: 42166399.
Dandona R, Dhole N, Akbar M, Majumder M, Dora SP, Kumar GA, Dandona L. Extent of and reasons for the underreporting of suicide deaths to the police in India. Crisis. 2026. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41736625.
Onie S, Menon V, Dandona R, Thomyangkoon P, Cherian AV, Vijayakumar L, Pathare S. Research priorities for suicide prevention in Southeast Asia. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2026; 44:100718. PMID: 41696575.
Dandona R, Manan S, Mukerjee D, Sridhar P. Maternal health and beyond: lost opportunities in suicide prevention for women. Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health. 2026; 2e175.
Dhole N, Akbar M, Majumder M, Dora SP, Kumar GA, Dandona R. Coverage of suicide deaths in newspapers and perceptions of suicide loss survivors on reporting: Insights from a community survey in India. PLOS Mental Health. 2025; 2(10): e0000473.
Arya V, Armstrong G, Tapp C et al (includes Dandona R, Kumar GA). Trends in suicide among adolescents aged 14-17 years in India: 2014-2019. Glob Ment Health. 2025; 12: e90. PMID: 40895820.
Krishnamoorthy S, Armstrong G, Ross V et al (includes Dandona R, Kumar GA). Towards development of guidelines for harnessing implementation science for suicide prevention: an international Delphi expert consensus study. BMJ Public Health. 2025; 3(1): e001206. PMID: 40297184.
GBD 2021 Suicide Collaborators (includes Dandona R, Kumar GA, Dandona L). Global, regional, and national burden of suicide, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet Public Health. 2025; 10(3): e189-e202. PMID: 39986290.
Pandey A, Kumar GA, Dandona R. Methodological concerns in the ‘Economic burden of suicide deaths in India (2019)’. Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2024; 32:100516. PMID: 40207050.
Dandona R, Khan M. Engagement with death registration and cause-of-death reporting to strengthen suicide statistics. Crisis. 2024; 45(4):249-253. PMID: 39138983.
Pirkis J, Dandona R, Silverman M, Khan M, Hawton K. Preventing suicide: a public health approach to a global problem. Lancet Public Health. 2024; 9(10): e787-e795. PMID: 39265611.
Prikis J, Bantjes J, Dandona R, Knipe D, Pitman A, Robinson J, Silverman M, Hawton K. Addressing key risk factors for suicide at a societal level: Alcohol use, gambling, domestic violence and abuse, and suicide bereavement. Lancet Public Health; 2024; S2468-2667(24)00158-0. PMID: 39265612 [invited].
Sinyor M, Hawton K, Appleby L, Armstrong G, Gunnell D, Kapur N, Chang SS, Arensman E, O’Connor RC, John A, Knipe D, Phillips MR, Pirkis J, Dandona R, Chan LF, Bantjes B, Borges G, McKeon R, Niederkrotenthaler T. The coming global economic downturn and suicide: A call to action. Nature Mental Health; 2023; 1: 233–235.
Dandona R, George S, Kumar GA. Socio-demographic characteristics of women who died by suicide in India from 2014 to 2020: findings from administrative data. Lancet Public Health. 2023; 8(5): e347-e355. PMID: 37120259.
Dandona R, Kumar GA. India’s national suicide prevention strategy: considerations to enhance desired outcomes. Lancet Psychiatry. 2023; 10(3): 162-163. PMID: 36804064.
Arya V, Page A, Spittal MJ, Dandona R, Vijayakumar L, Munasinghe S, John A, Gunnell D, Pirkis J, Armstrong G. Suicide in India during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. J Affect Disord. 2022; 307:215-20. PMID: 35395323.
Knipe D, John A, Padmanathan P, Eyles E, Dekel D, Higgins JPT, Bantjes J, Dandona R, Macleod-Hall C, McGuinness LA, Schmidt L, Webb RT, Gunnell D. Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review. PLoS Glob Public Health. 2022; 2(6): e0000282. PMID: 36962383.
Pirkis J, Gunnell D, Shin S, Del Pozo-Banos M, Arya V, al et Dandona R. Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries. E Clinical Medicine. 2022; 51:101573. PMID: 35935344.
Vijayakumar L, Chandra PS, Kumar MS, Pathare S, Banerjee D, Goswami T, Dandona R. The national suicide prevention strategy in India: context and considerations for urgent action. Lancet Psychiatry. 2022; 9(2):160-8. PMID: 34895477.
Dandona R, Gunnell D. Pesticide surveillance and deaths by suicide. Lancet Glob Health. 2021; 9(6): e738-e739. PMID: 33901425 [invited].
Arya V, Page A, Amrstrong G, Kumar GA, Dandona R. Estimating patterns in the under-reporting of suicide deaths in India: comparison of administrative data and Global Burden of Disease Study estimates, 2005-2015. J Epidemiol Comm Health. 2020; (online ahead of print) PMID: 33257456.
Dandona R. Enabling suicide prevention in India: a call to action. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020; 7(1):3-4. PMID: 31826822 [invited].
Gunnell D, Appleby L, Arensman E, Hawton K, John A, Kapur N, Khan M, O’Connor RC, Pirkis J, COVID-19 Suicide Prevention Research Collaboration (includes Dandona R). Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020; 7(6):468-471. PMID: 32330430.
Arya V, Page A, Gunnell D, Dandona R, Mannan H, Eddleston M, Armstrong G. Suicide by hanging is a priority for suicide prevention: method specific suicide in India (2001-2014). J Affect Disord. 2019; 257, 1-9. PMID: 31299398.
Arya V, Page A, Dandona R, Vijayakumar L, Mayer P, Armstrong G. The geographic heterogeneity of suicide rates in India by religion, caste, tribe, and other backward classes. Crisis. 2019; 40 (5), 370-374. PMID: 30813825.
Global Burden of Disease Self-Harm Collaborators (includes Dandona R, Kumar GA, Dandona L). Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. BMJ. 2019; 364: l94. PMID: 31339847.
India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Suicide Collaborators (includes Dandona R, Kumar GA, Dandona L). Gender differentials and state variations in suicide deaths in India: The Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2016. Lancet Public Health. 2018; 3(10): e478-e489. PMID: 30219340.
Dandona R, Bertozzi-Villa A, Kumar GA, Dandona L. Lessons from a decade of suicide surveillance in India: who, why and how? Int J Epidemiol. 2017; 14: 983–993. PMID: 27255440.