SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Holt-Lunstad, J. & Liu, S. (in press). Social connection and loneliness in the era of extreme weather and climate change. Nature Health.
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Ell, T., Buck, L., Chua, K. C., Luchetti, M., Mayston, R., Haucke, M., Ong, A., Liu, S., Prina, M. & Wong, G. H. Y. (2025). Development of the Social Relationship Expectations Scale: Protocol for a multi-country, multi-method observational study. BMJ Open, 15, e101319. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-101319
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Wongfu, C., Aein, N.M.P., Lu, B., Prina, M., Suwannaporn, S., Mayston, R., & Wai, K.M. (2025). Photovoice as intervention to reduce loneliness among older adults: A feasibility and preliminary effectiveness study with Myanmar migrants in northern Thailand. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1544, 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15270
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Ghai, S., & Mayston, R. (2024). Considerations for conducting psychological research in lower- and middle-income countries. Communications Psychology, 2, 120. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00168-4
Prina, M., Khan, N. P., Akhter-Khan, S. C., Caicedo, J. C., Peycheva, A., Seo, V., Xue, S., & Sadana, R. (2024). Healthy ageing and climate change: An assessment of the impact of climate hazards on older people. Journal of Global Health, 14, 04101. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.14.04101
Akhter-Khan, S. C., van Es, W., Prina, M., Lawrence, V., Piri, I., Rokach, A., Mayston, R., & Heu, L. C. (2024). Experiences of loneliness in lower- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of qualitative studies. Social Science & Medicine, 340, 116438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116438
Xue, S., Massazza, A., Akhter-Khan, S. C., Wray, B., Husain, I., & Lawrance, E. (2024). Mental health and psychosocial interventions in the context of climate change: A scoping review. npj mental health research, 3(10). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44184-024-00054-1
Bowness, B., Henderson, C., Akhter-Khan, S. C., Akiba, M., & Lawrence, V. (2024). Involving carers in research: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of participatory reserach with carers in health and social care. Health Expectations, 27(1), e13940. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13940
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Aein, N. M. P., Wongfu, C., Prina, M., Wai, K. M., Mayston, R., Suwannaporn, S. (2023) Social relationship expectations, care, and loneliness in later life: Perspectives from Thai and Myanmar adults in northern Thailand. Social Science & Medicine – Mental Health, 4, 100279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100279
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Chua, K.-C., Al-Kindhi, B., Mayston, R., & Prina, M. (2023). Unpaid productive activities and loneliness in later life: Results from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (2000-2014). Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 105, 104851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2022.104851
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Prina, M., Wong, G.H.Y., Mayston, R. & Li, L. (2023). Understanding and addressing older adults’ loneliness: The Social Relationship Expectation (SRE) framework. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(4), 762-777. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221127218
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Hofmann, V., Warncke, M., Tamimi, N., Mayston, R., & Prina, M. (2023). Caregiving, volunteering, and loneliness in middle-aged and older adults: A systematic review. Aging & Mental Health, 27(7), 1233-1245. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2144130
Tao, Q.*, Akhter-Khan, S. C.*, Ang, T. F. A., De Carli, C., Alosco, M., Mez, J., Killiany, R., Sheral, D., Rokach, A., Itchapurapu, I. S., Zhang, X., Lunetta, K., Steffens, D., Farrer, L., Greve, D., Au, R., & Qiu, W. Q. (2022). Different loneliness types, cognitive function, and brain structure in midlife: Findings from the Framingham Heart Study. EClinicalMedicine, 53, 101643. * Equal contribution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101643
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Wai, K. M. & Drewelies, J. (2022). Loneliness in Myanmar’s older population: A mixed-methods investigation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 37, 315-337. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-022-09459-x
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Drewelies, J., & Wai, K. M. (2022). Coping with loneliness in southern Myanmar. Asian Anthropology, 21(4), 245-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2022.2115623
Akhter-Khan, S. C. (2021). Providing care is self-care: Towards valuing older people’s care provision in global economies. The Gerontologist, 61(5), 631-639. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa079
Akhter-Khan, S. C.*, Tao, Q.*, Ang, T. F. A., Itchapurapu, I., Alosco, M., Mez, J., Piers, R., Steffens, D., Au, R., & Qiu, W.Q. (2021). Associations of loneliness with risk of Alzheimer’s disease dementia in the Framingham Heart Study. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 17(10), 1619-1627. *Equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12327
Akhter-Khan, S. C. & Au, R. (2020). Why loneliness interventions are unsuccessful: A call for precision health. Advances in Geriatric Medicine and Research, 2(3):e200017. https://doi.org/10.20900/agmr20200017
Akhter-Khan, S. C. & Wai, K. M. (2020). Can COVID-19 move Myanmar in the right direction? Perspectives on older people, mental health, and local organizations. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(9), 921-923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.06.004
BOOK CHAPTERS
Zaninotto, P., Prina, M., Akhter-Khan, S. C., & Wu, Y. Z. (in press). Data, methods and approaches for studying climate change and healthy ageing. In K. Pillemer & L. Ayalon (Eds), Aging and Climate Change.