A5011001180- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Economic Sanctions and International Relations
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Healthcare Quality and Satisfaction
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Disaster Response and Management
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- COVID-19 Prevention and Impact
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2019-2024
University of London
2024
American University of Beirut
2018-2021
Faculty of Public Health
2019
Objectives To explore health-worker perspectives on security, improving safety, managing constrained resources and handling mass casualties during besiegement in Syria. Design A qualitative study using semi-structured key informant interviews, conducted remotely over WhatsApp Skype, analysed thematically inductive coding. Setting Secondary tertiary health facilities affected by Aleppo (from July to December 2016) Rural Damascus August 2013 February 2018). Participants Twenty-one male Syrian...
Introduction In Indonesia, a country with around 280 million people and the second-highest tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate in world, impact of COVID-19 pandemic on TB care needs careful assessment so that future response strategies can be strengthened. We conducted study comparing testing treatment rates before during first 2 years reasons for any disruptions to care. Methods retrospective secondary data analysis qualitative interviews Yogyakarta Bandung, Indonesia. Routine were sourced...
Background Indonesia has the second-highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) globally and is experiencing one fastest-growing HIV epidemics worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted access to essential health services, including those for TB HIV, due system overload, social distancing measures, negative economic repercussions on sector population. An in-depth understanding these challenges responses mitigate impact services crucial building resilience preparing future emergencies. Methods This...
Background Pay-for-performance (P4P) programmes to incentivise health providers improve quality of care have been widely implemented globally. Despite intuitive appeal, evidence on the effectiveness P4P is mixed, potentially due differences in how schemes are designed. We exploited municipality variation design features Brazil’s National Programme for Improving Primary Care Access and Quality (PMAQ) examine whether performance bonuses given family team workers were associated with changes...
Abstract Pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes have been shown to mixed effects on health care outcomes. A challenge in interpreting this evidence is that P4P often considered a homogenous intervention, when practice vary widely their design. Our study contributes literature by providing detailed depiction of incentive design across municipalities within national scheme Brazil [Primary Care Access and Quality (PMAQ)] exploring the association alternative typologies with performance primary...
The design of complex health systems interventions, such as pay for performance (P4P), can be critical to determining programmes' success. In P4P programmes, the financial incentives is crucial in shaping how these programmes work. However, schemes usually homogenous across providers within a given scheme. Consequently, there limited understanding strengths and weaknesses elements from implementers' perspective. This study takes advantage unique context Brazil, where municipalities adapted...
Violence against health care has been a defining feature of the Syrian conflict. Over course conflict, Physicians for Human Rights documented and corroborated nearly 600 attacks on facilities killing over 920 medical personnel. The scale not any prior war. As part research stream Lancet-AUB Commission Syria, we have described strategy ‘weaponisation care’ . This strategy, largely adopted by Syria regime its allies, other components beyond attacking targeting workers such as criminalizing...