Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, coauthored an article titled, “Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, its risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” in the journal,The Lancet Neurology (impact factor: 45.5). The findings from the article point out that while the mortality and incidence of meningitis have decreased since 1990, these are still lagging the WHO 2030 targets. There is a need to strengthen global surveillance, vaccination, maternal screening, and health infrastructure, especially in low- and middle-income countries, to achieve these targets.
