Dr Pankaj Bahuguna

  • Research Associate (Health Economics & Health Technology Assessment)

email: Pankaj.Bahuguna@glasgow.ac.uk

Clarice Pears Building School of Health & Wellbeing, Clarice Pears Building School of Health & Wellbeing, University Of Glasgow, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9952-6077

Biography

Research experience & expertise

  • Pankaj is a Research Associate with Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA), School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK. He has an overall experience of 15+ years.
  • He was previously affiliated with Department of Community Medicine & School of Public Health Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India as Economic Evaluation Specialist. His past work focussed on health technology assessments, impact evaluations, healthcare financing, healthcare costing of benefits packages and public health programs/facilities in India.
  • He has 70+ publications in leading international and national journals. He is an academic editor for PLOS ONE. He is an advisory board member of journal Heliyon as health economics expert. He is a reviewer for reputed journals such as Lancet Global Health, PLOS ONE, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, BMJ Open, BMJ Health Services Research; Pharmacoeconomics Open; International Journal of Health Policy and Management; Current Medical Research & Opinion; Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology; Medical Journal Armed Forces India etc.

Qualification:

  • PhD health economics
  • M.Sc Statistics

Research interests

Past Research Experience

  • His past experience include health technology assessment, economic evaluations; impact evaluations; healthcare costing, public health programmes; health benefit package; financial risk protection and universal health coverage. His experience also includes developing mathematical models, predictive models, and methodologies for composite performance indicators in public health research in Indian context.
  • He also contributed for costing of health benefit package of Lao-PDR and lead a fiscal space analysis for comprehensive immunisation services in Laos.

Current Research Projects

  • Evaluation of Health Technology Assessment in India-Return on Investment: In this activity, we aimed to demonstrate the impact of HTA in India after the institutionalisation of Indian HTA body in 2017. We estimated impact in terms of returns of investment (RoI) from economic perspective selecting 4 sample HTAs commissioned and completed by HTAIN.
  • Impact assessment of living laboratory project in Glasgow:  In this project, we intend to assess the impact of the living laboratory project in Glasgow. Living laboratory project is a multi-component project and therefore, impact assessment will be multi-dimensional in nature. We aim to assess/demonstrate the impact at systems level (health, social, economic impact etc.) as a result of living laboratory project using mixed-methods approach and selecting case studies from project components.

  • Pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder

  • Book Chapter on ‘Fiscal Space for Health’: Invited to co-author a chapter on ‘Fiscal Space for Health’. Book: Health Financing in Low and Middle Income Countries: the Path to Universal Health Coverage.

Publications

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Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019
Number of items: 21.

2025

Bahuguna, P. et al. (2025) Is health technology assessment value for money? Estimating the return on investment of health technology assessment in India (HTAIn). BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, (doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112487) (PMID:40113231) (Early Online Publication)

Rigby, B. P. et al. (2025) Pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder: a process evaluation. BMC Psychiatry, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Sharma, D., Aggarwal, A. K., Bahuguna, P. and Prinja, S. (2024) The impact of alternate methodological and structural assumptions on results of cost-effectiveness analysis: empirical evidence using three Indian economic evaluations. Indian Journal of Public Health, 68(1), pp. 9-14. (doi: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_315_23) (PMID:38847626)

2023

Needham, N. et al. (2023) Pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder. BJPsych Open, 9, e176. (doi: 10.1192/bjo.2023.568) (PMID:37814952) (PMCID:PMC10594182)

Prinja, S., Bahuguna, P. , Singh, M. P., Guinness, L., Goyal, A. and Aggarwal, V. (2023) Refining the provider payment system of India’s government-funded health insurance programme: an econometric analysis. BMJ Open, 13(10), e076155. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076155) (PMID:37857541)

Dwivedi, P., Lohiya, A., Bahuguna, P. , Singh, A., Sulaiman, D., Singh, M. K., Rajsekar, K. and Rizwan, S. A. (2023) Cost-effectiveness of population-based screening for oral cancer in India: an economic modelling study. Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, 16, 100224. (doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2023.100224) (PMID:37694179) (PMCID:PMC10485781)

Sharma, D., Prinja, S., Aggarwal, A. K., Rajsekar, K. and Bahuguna, P. (2023) Development of the Indian Reference Case for undertaking economic evaluation for health technology assessment. Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, 16, 100241. (doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2023.100241) (PMID:37694178) (PMCID:PMC10485782)

Petermann-Rocha, F., Deo, S. , Celis-Morales, C. , Ho, F. K. , Bahuguna, P. , McAllister, D. , Sattar, N. and Pell, J. P. (2023) An opportunity for prevention: associations between the Life's Essential 8 score and cardiovascular incidence using prospective data from UK Biobank. Current Problems in Cardiology, 48(4), 101540. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2022.101540) (PMID:36528209)

Prinja, S., Sharma, A., Nadipally, S., Rana, S. K., Bahuguna, P. , Rao, N., Chakraborty, G., Shankar, M. and Rai, V. (2023) Impact and cost-effectiveness evaluation of nutritional supplementation and complementary interventions for tuberculosis treatment outcomes under mukti pay-for-performance model in Madhya Pradesh, India: A study protocol. International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 12(1), pp. 82-91. (doi: 10.4103/2212-5531.307071) (PMID:36926768)

Grieve, E. , Bahuguna, P. , Gulliver, S., Mehndiratta, A., Baker, P. and Guzman, J. (2023) Estimating the Return on Investment of Health Technology Assessment India (HTAIn). [Research Reports or Papers]

Dixit, J., Prinja, S., Jyani, G., Bahuguna, P. , Gupta, A., Vijayvergiya, R. and Kumar, R. (2023) Evaluating efficiency and equity of prevention and control strategies for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in India: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis. Lancet Global Health, 11(3), e445-e455. (doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00552-6) (PMID:36796988)

Sinha, A. et al. (2023) Study protocol for economic evaluation of probiotic intervention for prevention of neonatal sepsis in 0-2-month old low-birth weight infants in India: the ProSPoNS trial. BMJ Open, 13(3), e068215. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068215) (PMID:36990484) (PMCID:PMC10069556)

Gupta, D. et al. (2023) Cost-Effectiveness of the First Line Treatment Options For Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma in India. JCO Global Oncology(9), e2200246. (doi: 10.1200/go.22.00246) (PMID:36795991) (PMCID:PMC10166401)

Prinja, S., Singh, M. P., Aggarwal, V., Rajsekar, K., Gedam, P., Goyal, A. and Bahuguna, P. (2023) Impact of India's publicly financed health insurance scheme on public sector district hospitals: a health financing perspective. Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, 9, 100123. (doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2022.100123) (PMID:37383034) (PMCID:PMC10305929)

Bahuguna, P. , Masaki, E., Jeet, G. and Prinja, S. (2023) Financing comprehensive immunization services in Lao PDR: a fiscal space analysis from a public policy perspective. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 21(1), pp. 131-140. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-022-00763-8) (PMID:36136264) (PMCID:PMC9492462)

Chugh, Y., Bahuguna, P. , Sohail, A., Rajsekar, K., Muraleedharan, V. R. and Prinja, S. (2023) Development of a Health Technology Assessment Quality Appraisal Checklist (HTA-QAC) for India. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 21(1), pp. 11-22. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-022-00766-5) (PMID:36260276) (PMCID:PMC9579659)

2022

Chauhan, A. S., Guinness, L., Bahuguna, P. , Singh, M. P., Aggarwal, V., Rajsekhar, K., Tripathi, S. and Prinja, S. (2022) Cost of hospital services in India: a multi-site study to inform provider payment rates and Health Technology Assessment. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), 1343. (doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08707-7) (PMID:36376868) (PMCID:PMC9664599)

2021

Singh, D., Prinja, S., Bahuguna, P. , Chauhan, A. S., Guinness, L., Sharma, S. and Lakshmi, P. V. M. (2021) Cost of scaling-up comprehensive primary health care in India: Implications for universal health coverage. Health Policy and Planning, 36(4), pp. 407-417. (doi: 10.1093/heapol/czaa157) (PMID:33693828)

2020

Bahuguna, P. , Guinness, L., Sharma, S., Chauhan, A. S., Downey, L. and Prinja, S. (2020) Estimating the unit costs of healthcare service delivery in India: addressing information gaps for price setting and health technology assessment. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 18, pp. 699-711. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-020-00566-9) (PMID:32170666) (PMCID:PMC7519005)

Bahuguna, P. , Prinja, S., Lahariya, C., Dhiman, R. K., Kumar, M. P., Sharma, V., Aggarwal, A. K., Bhaskar, R., De Graeve, H. and Bekedam, H. (2020) Cost-effectiveness of therapeutic use of safety-engineered syringes in healthcare facilities in India. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 18(3), pp. 393-411. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-019-00536-w) (PMID:31741306) (PMCID:PMC7250963)

2019

Buttigieg, S. C., Prinja, S., Bahuguna, P. , Gupta, I., Chowdhury, S. and Trivedi, M. (2019) Role of insurance in determining utilization of healthcare and financial risk protection in India. PLoS ONE, 14(2), e0211793. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211793) (PMID:30721253) (PMCID:PMC6363222)

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Articles

Bahuguna, P. et al. (2025) Is health technology assessment value for money? Estimating the return on investment of health technology assessment in India (HTAIn). BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, (doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112487) (PMID:40113231) (Early Online Publication)

Rigby, B. P. et al. (2025) Pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder: a process evaluation. BMC Psychiatry, (Accepted for Publication)

Sharma, D., Aggarwal, A. K., Bahuguna, P. and Prinja, S. (2024) The impact of alternate methodological and structural assumptions on results of cost-effectiveness analysis: empirical evidence using three Indian economic evaluations. Indian Journal of Public Health, 68(1), pp. 9-14. (doi: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_315_23) (PMID:38847626)

Needham, N. et al. (2023) Pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder. BJPsych Open, 9, e176. (doi: 10.1192/bjo.2023.568) (PMID:37814952) (PMCID:PMC10594182)

Prinja, S., Bahuguna, P. , Singh, M. P., Guinness, L., Goyal, A. and Aggarwal, V. (2023) Refining the provider payment system of India’s government-funded health insurance programme: an econometric analysis. BMJ Open, 13(10), e076155. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076155) (PMID:37857541)

Dwivedi, P., Lohiya, A., Bahuguna, P. , Singh, A., Sulaiman, D., Singh, M. K., Rajsekar, K. and Rizwan, S. A. (2023) Cost-effectiveness of population-based screening for oral cancer in India: an economic modelling study. Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, 16, 100224. (doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2023.100224) (PMID:37694179) (PMCID:PMC10485781)

Sharma, D., Prinja, S., Aggarwal, A. K., Rajsekar, K. and Bahuguna, P. (2023) Development of the Indian Reference Case for undertaking economic evaluation for health technology assessment. Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, 16, 100241. (doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2023.100241) (PMID:37694178) (PMCID:PMC10485782)

Petermann-Rocha, F., Deo, S. , Celis-Morales, C. , Ho, F. K. , Bahuguna, P. , McAllister, D. , Sattar, N. and Pell, J. P. (2023) An opportunity for prevention: associations between the Life's Essential 8 score and cardiovascular incidence using prospective data from UK Biobank. Current Problems in Cardiology, 48(4), 101540. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2022.101540) (PMID:36528209)

Prinja, S., Sharma, A., Nadipally, S., Rana, S. K., Bahuguna, P. , Rao, N., Chakraborty, G., Shankar, M. and Rai, V. (2023) Impact and cost-effectiveness evaluation of nutritional supplementation and complementary interventions for tuberculosis treatment outcomes under mukti pay-for-performance model in Madhya Pradesh, India: A study protocol. International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 12(1), pp. 82-91. (doi: 10.4103/2212-5531.307071) (PMID:36926768)

Dixit, J., Prinja, S., Jyani, G., Bahuguna, P. , Gupta, A., Vijayvergiya, R. and Kumar, R. (2023) Evaluating efficiency and equity of prevention and control strategies for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in India: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis. Lancet Global Health, 11(3), e445-e455. (doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00552-6) (PMID:36796988)

Sinha, A. et al. (2023) Study protocol for economic evaluation of probiotic intervention for prevention of neonatal sepsis in 0-2-month old low-birth weight infants in India: the ProSPoNS trial. BMJ Open, 13(3), e068215. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068215) (PMID:36990484) (PMCID:PMC10069556)

Gupta, D. et al. (2023) Cost-Effectiveness of the First Line Treatment Options For Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma in India. JCO Global Oncology(9), e2200246. (doi: 10.1200/go.22.00246) (PMID:36795991) (PMCID:PMC10166401)

Prinja, S., Singh, M. P., Aggarwal, V., Rajsekar, K., Gedam, P., Goyal, A. and Bahuguna, P. (2023) Impact of India's publicly financed health insurance scheme on public sector district hospitals: a health financing perspective. Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, 9, 100123. (doi: 10.1016/j.lansea.2022.100123) (PMID:37383034) (PMCID:PMC10305929)

Bahuguna, P. , Masaki, E., Jeet, G. and Prinja, S. (2023) Financing comprehensive immunization services in Lao PDR: a fiscal space analysis from a public policy perspective. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 21(1), pp. 131-140. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-022-00763-8) (PMID:36136264) (PMCID:PMC9492462)

Chugh, Y., Bahuguna, P. , Sohail, A., Rajsekar, K., Muraleedharan, V. R. and Prinja, S. (2023) Development of a Health Technology Assessment Quality Appraisal Checklist (HTA-QAC) for India. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 21(1), pp. 11-22. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-022-00766-5) (PMID:36260276) (PMCID:PMC9579659)

Chauhan, A. S., Guinness, L., Bahuguna, P. , Singh, M. P., Aggarwal, V., Rajsekhar, K., Tripathi, S. and Prinja, S. (2022) Cost of hospital services in India: a multi-site study to inform provider payment rates and Health Technology Assessment. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), 1343. (doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08707-7) (PMID:36376868) (PMCID:PMC9664599)

Singh, D., Prinja, S., Bahuguna, P. , Chauhan, A. S., Guinness, L., Sharma, S. and Lakshmi, P. V. M. (2021) Cost of scaling-up comprehensive primary health care in India: Implications for universal health coverage. Health Policy and Planning, 36(4), pp. 407-417. (doi: 10.1093/heapol/czaa157) (PMID:33693828)

Bahuguna, P. , Guinness, L., Sharma, S., Chauhan, A. S., Downey, L. and Prinja, S. (2020) Estimating the unit costs of healthcare service delivery in India: addressing information gaps for price setting and health technology assessment. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 18, pp. 699-711. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-020-00566-9) (PMID:32170666) (PMCID:PMC7519005)

Bahuguna, P. , Prinja, S., Lahariya, C., Dhiman, R. K., Kumar, M. P., Sharma, V., Aggarwal, A. K., Bhaskar, R., De Graeve, H. and Bekedam, H. (2020) Cost-effectiveness of therapeutic use of safety-engineered syringes in healthcare facilities in India. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 18(3), pp. 393-411. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-019-00536-w) (PMID:31741306) (PMCID:PMC7250963)

Buttigieg, S. C., Prinja, S., Bahuguna, P. , Gupta, I., Chowdhury, S. and Trivedi, M. (2019) Role of insurance in determining utilization of healthcare and financial risk protection in India. PLoS ONE, 14(2), e0211793. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211793) (PMID:30721253) (PMCID:PMC6363222)

Research Reports or Papers

Grieve, E. , Bahuguna, P. , Gulliver, S., Mehndiratta, A., Baker, P. and Guzman, J. (2023) Estimating the Return on Investment of Health Technology Assessment India (HTAIn). [Research Reports or Papers]

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Supervision

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Teaching

  • Invited as speaker to deliver an online session on “Addressing Uncertainty in the costing analysis” by WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in LMIC's, India under the series “Thursday Truth Seekers: Health Economics Outcome Research”
  • He is actively involved in marking of MSc/MPH projects.
  • Supported briefly in ‘Global HTA module’.
  • He also participated as resource faculty in several workshops and symposiums in India.

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