A5074222139- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Global Health and Surgery
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Human Rights and Development
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Global Security and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
2019-2025
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
2021-2024
Office of Adolescent Health
2020
American University
2014-2018
University of Pennsylvania
2016-2017
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2017
American Public University System
2014
Despite the high burden of surgical conditions, provision services has been a low global health priority. We examined factors that have shaped priority for care.We undertook semi-structured interviews by telephone with members networks and ministries to explore challenges opportunities surgeons, anaesthesiologists, other proponents face in increasing surgery. did literature review collected information from reports organisations involved used policy framework consisting four categories-actor...
The Network for Improving Quality of Care Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (QCN) aims to work through learning, action, leadership accountability. We aimed evaluate the effectiveness QCN in these four areas at global level countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi Uganda. This mixed method evaluation comprised 2–4 iterative rounds data collection between 2019–2022, involving stakeholder interviews, hospital observations, members survey, document review. Qualitative was analysed using a...
Abstract Background There is a large and growing unmet need for rehabilitation – diverse category of services that aim to improve functioning across the life course particularly in low- middle-income countries. Yet despite urgent calls increase political commitment, many country governments have dedicated little attention expanding services. Existing policy scholarship explains how why health issues reach agenda offers applicable evidence advance access physical, medical, psychosocial, other...
The Quality-of-Care Network (QCN) was conceptualized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other global partners to facilitate learning on improve quality of care for maternal newborn health within across low middle-income countries. However, there significant variance in speed extent which QCN formed involved This paper investigates factors that shaped QCN’s differential emergence Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda. Drawing network scholarship, we conducted a replicated case study...
In 2017, WHO and global partners launched ‘The Network for Improving Quality of Care Maternal, Newborn Child Health’ (QCN) seeking to reduce in-facility maternal newborn deaths stillbirth by 50% in health facilities 2022. We explored how the QCN theory change guided what actually happened over 2018–2022 order understand worked well, did not, ultimately describe consequences activities. applied analysis criteria investigate well-defined, plausible, coherent measurable results were, coherent,...
The Quality-of-Care Network (QCN), launched by WHO and partners, links global national actors across several countries to improve maternal newborn health. We conducted a prospective qualitative study examine how QCN in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi Uganda facilitated learning, sharing, innovation within between network countries. 227 key informant interviews with at global, national, facility levels iteratively two four rounds from June 2019 March 2022. also reviewed all accessible documents....
The highly decentralized nature of global health governance presents significant challenges to conceptualizing and systematically measuring the agenda status diseases, injuries, risks other conditions contributing collective disease burden. An arenas model for setting was recently proposed help address these challenges. Further developing model, this study aims advance more robust inquiry into how why priority levels may vary among array stakeholder in which occurs. We analyse order...
Globally, 1 in 6 people aged 60 years and older experience elder abuse the community annually, with potentially severe physical mental health, financial, social consequences. Yet, remains a low global priority. We aimed to identify factors accounting for political priority of abuse.We systematically searched relevant peer-reviewed literature organisational reports multiple databases interviewed 26 key informants field abuse. used policy frameworks developed by previous research into...
Recent calls for global health decolonization suggest that addressing the problems of may require more than ‘elevating country voice’. We employed a frame analysis diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framings both discourses analyzed implications convergence or divergence these frames practice scholarship. used two major sources data–a review literature in-depth interviews with actors in shapers discourse around elevating voice decolonizing health. Using NVivo 12, deductive approach was...
Learning about how to evaluate implementation-focused networks is important as they become more commonly used. This research evaluated the emergence, legitimacy and effectiveness of a multi-country Quality Care Network (QCN) aiming improve maternal, newborn child health (MNCH) outcomes. We examined QCN global level, national local level interfaces in four case study countries. paper presents evaluation team's reflections on this 3.5 year multi-country, multi-disciplinary project....
The Network for Improving Quality of Care Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (QCN) is intended to facilitate learning, action, leadership accountability improving quality care in member countries. This requires legitimacy-a network's right exert power within national contexts. reflected, example, a government's buy-in perceived ownership the work network. During 2019-2022 we conducted iterative rounds stakeholder interviews, observations meetings, document review, hospital Bangladesh,...
Over the past decade there has been much discussion of challenges posed by rapid urbanization in developing world; yet health urban poor, and especially those residing low- middle-income countries, continues to receive little political priority most countries at global level. This research applies social science scholarship a public policy analytical framework assess factors that have challenged efforts make poor settings priority. We conducted 19 semi-structured phone interviews with key...
Abstract In 2003, Nigeria adopted the Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) sexuality education curriculum. Our analysis interrogates variation in sub‐national implementation. We conducted 52 interviews with persons knowledgeable about curriculum three states—Kano, Lagos, Niger—and reviewed publications on FLHE. Kano, socio‐cultural context impeded implementation, but persistence of innovative local champions resulted some success. cosmopolitan context, effective champions, funding by...
Proponents have promoted sexuality education as a means of empowering adolescents, yet it has been thwarted in many low and middle-income countries. Nigeria represents an exception. Despite social opposition, the government 1999 unexpectedly approved policy. Since then, implementation advanced, although efficacy differed across states. We draw on theory concerning international norm diffusion to understand Nigerian policy development. find that confluence national norms interests shaped...