Professor of Public Policy and Management · Jawaharlal Nehru University · New Delhi
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Scholarly work

Books & selected publications

More than 150 high-impact publications, including books, edited volumes, journal articles and book chapters with national and international publishers.

Books

Authored and edited books

  • The Changing Trends of Vector-Borne Diseases to Climate Change (2025, eds.) — Bentham Science Publishers
  • Child Centric Disaster-Risk Reduction: Priorities, Preparedness and Resilience (2023, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Public Health and Development Challenges of Tropical Diseases: Lessons for Emerging Markets (2022, eds.) — Academic Publication
  • Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in India: Emerging Challenges and Way Forward (2022, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • COVID-19 and Climate Change: Development Perspective (2022, eds.) — Authorspress
  • Interfaith Dialogue and Communal Harmony in Sustainable Development (2022, eds.) — Authorspress
  • Maternal and Child Health Care in India (2021, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Public Health Challenges of Tropical Diseases: Moving Towards Universal Access (2020, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Health, Safety and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India: Lessons for Emerging Economies (2019, eds.) — Springer Nature
  • Public Health Relevance of Road Traffic Injury in India (2019, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Children of Incarcerated Parents: Experiences and Impacts — A Source Book (2019, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Health and Well-Being in a Multi-Sectoral Perspective (2019, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Concerns in Public Health Practice in India (2017, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Vector and Vector-Borne Diseases: Pathobiological Insights, Public Health Challenges and Management Strategies (2017, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Public Health Infrastructure in Transition (2016, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Health and Development: Issues and Challenges (2016, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Source Book of Management of Public Health Infrastructure (2016, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Innovative Technologies in Access to Essential Medicine and Diagnostics in India (2013) — Bloomsbury
  • Strategic Public Health Management in India: Emerging Issues and Challenges (2013, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Welfare Management in Transition: Lessons for Emerging Economies (2013, eds.) — Bloomsbury
  • Reinventing Public Management & Development in Emerging Economies (2011, eds.) — Macmillan
  • Anatomy of Public Policy Reforms and Development (2011, eds.) — Macmillan
  • Public Policy Reforms on Development: Challenges before Emerging Economies (2011, eds.) — Macmillan
Journal articles with DOI

Journal articles, 2024–2026

Selected indexed journal articles, with links to each article through its DOI. The full list of publications is available on ORCID, Google Scholar and SSRN.

  • Panneer, S., Bhatia, S. M., Raj D, M. A., Rice, L., Pushparaj, R. R. B., & Kantamaneni, K. (2026). Corporate Social Responsibility in the Post-Pandemic Era--Lessons for Emerging Economies. International Journal of Business Anthropology, 16(1): 41-58. DOI: 10.33423/y5zjmx43
  • Panneer, S., & Udhayakumar, P. (2026). Social work and common sense: A critical examination: edited by Paul Micheal Garrett. London et al., Routledge, 2024, 296 pp., ISBN: 978-1-032-45647-8 (hb), 978-1-032-45646-1 (pb), 978-1-003-37803-7 (eBook). European Journal of Social Work, 29(6), 1250-1252. DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2026.2672896
  • Fonceca, C. M., Panneer, S., Raja, A., & P, P. (2026). Pride and Prejudice: Examining Gender Disparities and Institutional Dynamics in Shaping LGBTQIA+ Perceptions. Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling, 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/26924951.2026.2729974
  • Kandpal, P. C., Panneer, S., Sharma, S., & Singh, A. K. (2026). Understanding Flood Risk Management in Delhi, India: Policy and Governance Perspectives. Indian Journal of Public Administration, 00195561261433670, 72(1) 100-113 (SAGE). DOI: 10.1177/00195561261433670
  • Panneer, S., Sundarraju, S., & Acharya, S. S. (2025). Gender-based Violence and Humanitarian Crisis: Advocacy, Social Justice and Policy Perspectives. Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, 11(1), 7-21 (SAGE). DOI: 10.1177/23944811251345101
  • J, R. M., Akkayasamy, V. S., Panneer, S., R, S., & Saha, S. (2025). Mapping Road Traffic Injury in India: Causes, Prevention, Economic Impact, and Role of Public Health Governance. International Journal of Accounting and Economics Studies, 12(5), 901-907. DOI: 10.14419/9mnsdr18
  • Kantamaneni, K., Whitton, J., Panneer, S., Ahmad, I., Gautam, A., & Sen, D. (2025). An Assessment of Bio-Physical and Social Drivers of River Vulnerability and Risks. Earth, 6(3), 77. DOI: 10.3390/earth6030077
  • Panneer, S., & P., U. (2025). Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges: by Sunita Reddy and Javaid Rashid, Anthropos Books, Anthropos India Foundation, New Delhi, 2023, 398 pp., ISBN 9788196356514.European Journal of Social Work, 1-3. DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2025.2477988
  • Ramachandran, A. K., Panneer, S., Rice, L., Rathnayake, U., & Kantamaneni, K. (2025). Addressing tropical cyclone risks: stratified for wellbeing and global policy coordination. Natural Hazards, 1-26. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-024-07097-9
  • Sampath, T., Babu, N. S., Panneer, S., & Sreeragam, A. M. (2025). Disability and Quality of Life in Persons with Locomotor Disability: Determining Factors. Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, 36(1), 61-71. DOI: 10.20372/dcidj.631
  • Kunjumon, A., Nagarajan, S., Thodukayil, F. S. O., & Panneer, S. (2024). Factors associated with under-five mortality in Scheduled Tribes in India: An analysis of national family health survey-5 (2019-2021). The Indian Journal of Medical Research, 160(1), 31. DOI: 10.25259/ijmr_1869_23
  • Akkayasamy, V. S., Panneer, S., Cherian, R. M., & Daniel, E. (2024). Post-road traffic injury experiences and challenges faced by college students: A qualitative study in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India. Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 18(3), e12321. DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12321
  • Bhat, L. D., Panneer, S., Bhagyalakshmi, R., Kantamaneni, K., Nayar, K. R., & Rice, L. (2024). Medical Crowdfunding in India: The Need for a Strong Legal Enforcement System. Indian Journal of Public Health, 68(3), 441-443. DOI: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_1081_23
  • Panneer, S., & Thomas, S. (2024). Newcomers navigating the welfare state: experiences of immigrants and street-level bureaucrats with Belgium's social assistance system: edited by Hanne Vandermeerschen, Elsa Mescoli, Jean-Michel Lafleur and Peter De Cuyper, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2023, 316 pp., ISBN 9789462703827 (Paperback), ISBN 9789461665249 (ePDF), (Open Access). European Journal of Social Work, 27(6), 1345-1348. DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2024.2362700
  • Dyriam, H. C., Panneer, S., & Christy, J. (2024). Air Pollution Emergency and Human Health Crisis-Doable Risk Reduction Strategies. Indian Journal of Community Health, 36(6), 764-768. DOI: 10.47203/IJCH.2024.v36i06.003

Journal articles, 2020–2023

  • Panneer, S., Dutta, S., Palaniswamy, U., Pushparaj, R. R. B., Rose, J. S., & Padmanaban, S. (2023). Impact of Three Waves of the COVID-19 on Students of Higher Education Institutions-Challenges and Way Forward. Social Development Issues, 45(2). DOI: 10.3998/sdi.4342
  • Panneer Sigamani and Udhayakumar Palaniswamy, Teaching Social Work: by Neil Thompson (book review), European Journal of Social Work (Taylor & Francis). DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2023.2281864
  • Kantamaneni, K., Li, Q., Wu, H., Zhu, M., Apostolopoulou, A., Xu, W., ... Sigamani Panneer & Pushparaj, R. R. B. (2023). Towards a Combined Physical and Social Evaluation of Climate Vulnerability in Coastal Urban Megacities Water, 2023, 15(4), 712. DOI: 10.3390/w15040712
  • Pushparaj, R. R. B., Panneer, S., Dellagiulia, A., Kantamaneni, K., Rose, J. S., & Shanmugam, D. (2022). Human Happiness at Hard Times-COVID-19 Pandemic. ECS Transactions, 107(1), 6101. DOI: 10.1149/10701.6101ecst
  • Jain, R., Panneer, S., Khan, N. U., Akkayasamy, V. S., & Tomar, S. (2022). Road Accidents and Women Victims: A Public Health Concern, The Social Ion, August 2022, 11(1): 43-53. DOI: 10.5958/2456-7523.2022.00014.3
  • Panneer, S., (2022), Assessing and Prioritizing Need for the Occupational Health Infrastructure in India, Indian Journal of Public Administration (SAGE), May 22, 2022, 68 (4): 723-729. DOI: 10.1177/00195561221097955
  • Kantamaneni, K., Panneer, S., Krishnan, A. et al. (2022), Appraisal of climate change and cyclone trends in Indian coastal states: a systematic approach towards climate action. Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer), April, 2022, 15, 814. DOI: 10.1007/s12517-022-10076-8
  • Panneer, S., Kantamaneni, K., Palaniswamy, U., Bhat, L., Pushparaj, R., Nayar, K. R., Soundari Manuel, H., Flower, F., & Rice, L. (2022). Health, Economic and Social Development Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strategies for Multiple and Interconnected Issues. Healthcare, April 2022, 10(5), 770: 1-17. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10050770
  • Kantamaneni, Komali, Sigamani Panneer, N.N.V. Sudha Rani, Udhayakumar Palaniswamy, Lekha D. Bhat, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, and Louis Rice. (2022). "Impact of Coastal Disasters on Women in Urban Slums: A New Index" Sustainability, March 2022, 14, no. 6: 3472: 1-17. DOI: 10.3390/su14063472
  • Sigamani Panneer & P. Udhayakumar (2022) Book review: Gendered domestic violence and abuse in popular culture, European Journal of Social Work, February 2022, 25:3, 554-556. DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2022.2035894
  • George, Sekar L., Komali Kantamaneni, Rasme A. V, Kumar A. Prasad, Sulochana Shekhar, Sigamani Panneer, Louis Rice, and Karuppusamy Balasubramani. (2022). "A Multi-Data Geospatial Approach for Understanding Flood Risk in the Coastal Plains of Tamil Nadu, India" Earth, February 2022, 3, no. 1: 383-400. DOI: 10.3390/earth3010023
  • Panneer, S., Kantamaneni, K., Akkayasamy, V. S., Susairaj, A. X., Panda, P. K., Acharya, S. S., Rice, L., Liyanage, C., & Pushparaj, R. (2022). The Great Lockdown in the Wake of COVID-19 and Its Implications: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, January 2022, 19(1), 610:1-15. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19010610
  • Panneer, S., Bhat, L., & Kantamaneni, K. (2021). RE: COVID-19 Second Wave-Rural India. Science, May, 2021, 372 (6542), 552-553 (e-letter). DOI: 10.1126/science.372.6542.552
  • Panneer, S., Kantamaneni, K., Pushparaj, R., Shekhar, S., Bhat, L., & Rice, L. (2021). Multistakeholder Participation in Disaster Management-The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Healthcare (Basel), February 2021, 9(2), 1-19. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9020203
  • Akkayasamy, V. S., & Panneer, S. (2021). A Qualitative Study on Health and Lives of Spinal Cord Injury Patients Due to Road Traffic Accidents in Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India. Indian Journal of Community Medicine, April- June, 2021, 46(2), 342-343. DOI: 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_459_20
  • Panneer, S. (2021). Book Review: The 'Population Problem' in Pacific Asia, European Journal of Social Work, March 2021, 24:5, 925-927. DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2021.1904560
  • Akkayasamy, V. S., & Panneer, Sigamani. (2020). Situational Analysis of Road Traffic Accidents-A Case of Madurai District Rural Areas, Tamil Nadu. Indian Journal of Community Health, September, 2020, 32(3), 554-558. DOI: 10.47203/IJCH.2020.v32i03.015
  • Meenakshi, J. R., & Panneer, S. (2020). Occupational Health of Agricultural Women Workers in India. Indian Journal of Community Medicine, October- December, 2020, 45(4), 546-549. DOI: 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_397_19

Journal articles, 2012–2019

  • Priya M, Harry A Lando and Sigamani P, (2018), Assessment of Tobacco Consumption and Control in India, Indian Journal of Clinical Medicine, SAGE, March, 2018, 9:1-8. DOI: 10.1177/1179916118759289
  • H A Lando, P Mohan & Sigamani P, (2018), Policy Action for Health Professionals Involvement in Tobacco Control, BMC Tobacco Induced Diseases, 16(1) Suppl 1. DOI: 10.18332/tid/84488
  • H A Lando, Z Kabir, P Mohan & Sigamani P, (2018), Analysis of the Effect of Bidi Regulations and its Influence on Tobacco Control in India, BMC Tobacco Induced Diseases, Suppl 1, 16(1). DOI: 10.18332/tid/84535
  • N U Khan, Sigamani P, Sarika Tomar Shweta Malhotra, (2018), Relevance of Anthropology in Management Education In India, International Journal of Business Anthropology, North American Business Press, August, 2017, 7 (1): 85-97. DOI: 10.33423/ijba.v7i1.1109
  • Mehta, A. R., Panneer, S., Ghosh-Jerath, S., & Racine, E. F. (2017). Factors Associated With Extended Breastfeeding in India, Journal of Human Lactation, SAGE, December, 2017, 33(1), 140-148. DOI: 10.1177/0890334416680179
  • Barathan, M., Mohamed, R., Vadivelu, J., Chang, L. Y., Vignesh, R., Krishnan, J., Sigamani, P., Saeidi, A., Ram, M. R., Velu, V., Larsson, M., & Shankar, E. M. (2017). CD8+ T cells of chronic HCV-infected patients express multiple negative immune checkpoints following stimulation with HCV peptides. Cellular Immunology, Elsevier, United States, March, 2017, 313, 1-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2016.12.002
  • Panneer, Sigamani, & Mathur, S. (2016). Problems and prospects of occupational health infrastructure in India. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics (Springer Nature), November, 2016, 59(1), 165-170. DOI: 10.1007/s41027-016-0050-3
  • P Sigamani N U Khan, and Shweta Malhotra, 2016, Anthropology and Business Management - Tool to Attain Competitive Advantage, International Journal of Business Anthropology, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), November, 2016, 6 (2): 1-11. DOI: 10.33423/ijba.v6i2.1120
  • P. Sigamani, (2012), Contextualizing New Public Management: Who Makes and Who Benefits from New Model of State Management, Indian Journal of Public Administration (Sage), 2012, October-December Issue,, Volume No. LVIII, No 4, PP 687-697. DOI: 10.1177/0019556120120405

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