Topic-based researches

Global Health Policy Fellow participation in project reports, book chapters, conference abstracts (posters/oral presentations), and journal articles (2016- )

Health / access to healthcare in low- and middle-income countries

  1. Women’s Health / Access to Healthcare in Underdeveloped Countries

          • – Factors influencing maternal health care seeking behavior among women in Chad: A multilevel analysis using data from the 2014-2015 Chad Demographic and Health Survey (DHS).
          • – A community impact study of maternal health care seeking behavior in Ghana and Kenya: A multilevel analysis utilizing the 2014 DHS
          • – Analysis of 2015 Malawi DHS data on the association between meeting desired number of children and non-use of modern contraceptives among women in Malawi
    • – Factors contributing to low utilization of antenatal care services among women in East Timor: An analysis of 2016 Timor-Leste DHS data
    • – Factors influencing HIV/AIDS risk among women in Malawi: Analysis of 2015-2016 Malawi DHS data
    • – Impact of antenatal HIV testing of women: A multilevel analysis of 28 Saharanam countries
    • – Analyzing socioeconomic disparities and the effectiveness of mHealth family planning programs among women in Kenya
    • – Analyzing the Impact of Patriarchal Social Climate on Women’s Use of Antenatal Care Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
    • – Identifying key components of maternal health voucher programs in low- and middle-income countries
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  2. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of Women and Adolescents in Less Developed Countries

    • – Factors influencing modern contraceptive use among adolescent girls in the Dominican Republic: an analysis of data from the UNICEF 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)
    • – Factors influencing pregnancy among female adolescents in the Dominican Republic: Analysis of 2013 DHS data
    • – Recommendations for developing business models for menstrual hygiene management among adolescent girls in low-income countries
    • – Understanding the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of menstrual hygiene management among adolescent girls in Bangladesh: analysis of field survey data
    • – Influencing factors associated with menstrual hygiene management among girls in Bangladesh: an analysis of local survey data
    • – Exploring factors influencing school absenteeism among girls in rural Bangladesh during menstruation: an overlapping Poisson regression analysis
    • – A qualitative study to explore factors influencing menstrual hygiene management among schoolgirls in rural Bangladesh: Analysis of focused group interview (FGI) data
    • – Exploring factors for developing health education programs aimed at preventing adolescent pregnancy-A case-based qualitative study in secondary schools in Honduras
    • – Influencing factors of adolescent pregnancy in Nepal: a multilevel analysis
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  3. Child Health

        • – Risk factors associated with stunting and underweight among children under 5 years of age in India: Data from the 2015-2016 Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4)
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        • – Factors Affecting Childhood Immunization Rates in the Philippines: A Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis
        • – Barriers to scaling up and implementation of school health programs in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
        • – Factor analysis of quality of life of children with disabilities and their parents in Vietnam
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      2. Adult Health
        • – The relationship between socioeconomic level and adult obesity/overweight in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
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      Health inequity

      1. Health inequity
        • – Burden of disease and inequalities in the distribution of major neglected tropical diseases during the Millennium Development Goals era
        • – Regional inequalities in insecticide-treated bed net ownership and gaps by income level in Tanzania: a spatial analysis
        • – A study of the relationship between government efforts to reduce inequality and tuberculosis incidence

Social Determinants of Health

  1. Gender / Female Empowerment

        • – The impact of gender inequality on adult male and female life expectancy and mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a country-level panel analysis
        • – The impact of gender inequality on adult morbidity for men and women in low- and middle-income countries: a country-level panel analysis focusing on HIV/AIDS and diabetes
        • – The impact of women’s empowerment and gender equality on deaths from indoor air pollution among women in developing countries
        • – The impact of cash transfers on the empowerment of young women in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
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      2. Poverty
        • – Systematic review of the relationship between key poverty measures and health problems in low- and middle-income countries
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      3. Political systems
        • – The impact of democracy on health in Asia

Healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries

    • Healthcare Coverage in Developing Countries
      • – Factors affecting health coverage rates in Ghana: Analysis of 2014 Ghana DHS data
      • – Multilevel analysis to understand how individual-level and neighborhood-level factors affect health coverage in Ghana
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    • Strengthening health systems in fragile states
      • – The state of research on health systems in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS): a scoping review
      • – Exploring ways to strengthen health systems in fragile states: a case study of Yemen
      • – The impact of fragile state health systems on population health: a country-level panel analysis of fragile states
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    • Health Workforce
      • – Analyzing the current status of training programs for community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and identifying facilitators and barriers: a systematic review
      • – Effectiveness of mHealth interventions for community health workers in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
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    • Access to medicine in low-income countries
      • – Raising the institutional and policy agenda to ensure access to essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries
      • – Exploring strategies for international development cooperation on medicines for Africa
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    • Health Information System
      • – Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of maternal and child health data management among community health workers in Ghana: a Deaver analysis of a baseline survey
      • – Barriers and future challenges to implementing electronic health records in developing countries: a systematic review
      • – Identifying barriers and facilitators to health information technology adoption in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
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    • Health System Strengthening (HSS) Approaches
      • – The state of research on health system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries: a thematic review [in progress]
      • – The state of systems thinking approaches to health system strengthening: a systematic review [in progress]
      • – State of Health Systems Assessment Systems: A Systematic Review [In Progress]
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Global Health Security

      • – Analyzing Response Direction and Agenda for Northeast Asia’s Post-COVID-19 Health and Security Cooperation
      • – Examining the current status of health security in response to infectious diseases in the Asia-Pacific region and exploring legislative measures for proper governance
      • – Proposals for regional cooperation to build a health and security system to respond to infectious diseases in the Asia-Pacific region
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Aid

  1. Official Development Assistance (ODA) /Development Assistance for Health, DAH)

    • – Trends in Health Development Assistance to Fragile States: A Review from the HDP Nexus Perspective
    • – The impact of health development assistance on health system strengthening in fragile states: a country-level panel analysis using OECD CRS and UNOCHA FTS databases
    • – The Impact of Foreign Aid on Achieving SRHR in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Country-Level Panel Analysis
    • – Impact of ODA on WASH coverage and diarrheal disease burden in low- and middle-income countries: a country-level panel analysis using OECD CRS data
    • – Establishment of a database of health ODA projects in North Korea and description of their current status
    • – Establishment of an evaluation framework for health ODA projects in North Korea
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Global Health Programs / Interventions

        • – A systematic review of mHealth research and applied theory for health behavior change in low- and middle-income countries
        • – Comparing the policy support base for mHealth between high-income and low- and middle-income countries
        • – Results of randomized clinical trials conducted in low- and middle-income countries on support for mHealth-based disease treatment and management: A systematic review
        • – A systematic review of qualitative studies of mHealth programs for HIV care in low- and middle-income countries from the patient perspective
        • – Effectiveness of mHealth-based health education implemented in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of RCT studies
        • – Patients’ perceptions and attitudes towards mHealth in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of qualitative studies
        • – Acceptability of mHealth among pregnant women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: An analysis of local survey data
        • – Factors influencing mHealth perceptions among pregnant women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: an analysis of local survey data
        • – A systematic review of outcomes of SMS-based mHealth interventions for tuberculosis control in low- and middle-income countries
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      2. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
        • – Utilization of mobile devices for WASH initiatives in low-income countries
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      3. Education/Practitioner – Capacity Building
        • – Survey of international health training needs among international health and development cooperation practitioners
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      Performance/impact evaluation of global health projects

        • – Measuring Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) for a Day Care Center for Children with Disabilities in Vietnam
        • – Cost-effectiveness Analysis (CEA) of a day care center for children with disabilities in Vietnam
        • – Evaluating the effectiveness of using tablet PCs for maternal and child health data management by health center workers in Ghana: a pre-post analysis
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      Health Disasters

      1. Climate Change
        • – Managing climate change disaster risk through health system strengthening and exploring relevant legislative options
        • – The impact of climate change on infectious disease dynamics in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
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      2. Natural Disasters
        • – The impact of natural disasters on mental health in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
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      3. Multiple disasters
        • – The impact of multiple disasters on refugee health and the state of interventions: a thematic review

Infectious Disease Response Policy for Less Developed Countries

    • COVID-19/Pandemic Related
      • – Barriers to adherence to COVID-19 hygiene practices among populations living in vulnerable housing: a systematic review
      • – Barriers to malaria control in low- and middle-income countries observed during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review
      • – Health Workforce Policies for the COVID-19 and Pandemic Response in Africa: Focusing on Scaling Up the Training of Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) [In Progress]
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    • Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
      • – Systematic Review of Economic Evaluation Studies of Interventions to Reduce Major Neglected Tropical Diseases
      • – Estimating the economic burden of major neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
      • – Analyzing the association between indicators of universal health coverage and the burden of major neglected tropical diseases in low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa
      • – Correlating poverty status and burden of neglected tropical diseases in low- and middle-income countries
      • – Analyzing R&D funding for strengthening research capacity for neglected tropical diseases in low- and middle-income countries
      • – Impact of essential health care coverage on the uptake of preventive chemotherapy for neglected tropical diseases in low- and middle-income countries
      • – Utilization of mobile devices for neglected tropical disease management
      • – Analyzing the efficiency of R&D targeting neglected tropical diseases using data envelopment analysis (DEA)
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    • Other infectious diseases
      • – Factors Affecting Cervical Cancer Vaccine Knowledge and Intention to Get Vaccinated: Male High School Students
      • – Local stakeholders’ evaluation of the Ebola response in West Africa: a systematic review of qualitative studies
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Research builds evidence for infectious disease policy in low-income countries

  1. Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases
    • – Mathematical dynamic transmission model axes and simulation to determine the impact of maternal immunization with pertussis vaccine on infant mortality in low- and middle-income countries
    • – Maternal immunization with pertussis vaccine in three Brazilian states with different socioeconomic conditions: a cost-effectiveness analysis using a mathematical dynamic transmission model
    • – Comparison of mathematical dynamic transmission models and static models in evaluating infant pertussis immunization strategies
    • – Mathematical dynamic transmission models for understanding the impact of pertussis vaccination alternatives: a systematic review
    • – A systematic review of mathematical modeling methods for transmission mechanisms of major neglected tropical diseases
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  2. Infectious Disease Surveillance Systems and Management
    • – Quantitative Assessment of the Rapidity and Sensitivity of Web-based Disease Surveillance Systems: Focus on Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
    • – Updating the Zoonotic Infectious Disease List
    • – Qualitative assessment of key websites providing information on outbreaks of Zoonotic diseases
    • – Importance of Internet-based surveillance systems for detection of unknown disease X: Development of a predictive model for risk areas with low surveillance capacity
    • – Development of a global-level model for predicting the introduction of infectious diseases between countries
    • – Consideration of changes in antimicrobial use in response to changes in the disease burden of infectious diseases and evaluation of international action plans
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  3. Vaccine economic evaluation/cost analysis
    • – Cost-effectiveness analysis of maternal immunization against pertussis to reduce infant mortality in low- and middle-income countries
    • – Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Maternal Immunization Against GBS to Reduce Neonatal Mortality in Saharan Africa
    • – Measuring Willingness to Pay (WTP) for Pertussis Maternal Immunization Among Pregnant Women and Women in Tanzania
    • – Comparing delivery cost analysis methods for cervical cancer vaccines in low- and middle-income countries
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Researches with data science

  1. Big Data
    • – Building a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) Model and Predicting the Number of Domestic Dengue Cases Using Big Data Analytics
    • – Providing information on overseas infectious diseases using big data text mining techniques and exploring ways to respond to them
    • – Identifying the use of big data in international health: a systematic review of low- and middle-income countries
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  2. Databases
    • – Review and classification of international health-related databases
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  3. Spatial Analysis / Geographic Information System (GIS)
    • – Using spatial analytics to examine regional disparities in mHealth programs in sub-Saharan Africa
    • – Using Spatial Analysis to Analyze the Relationship between Household Economic Level and Insecticide-Treated Bednet Ownership in Tanzania
    • – Spatial Analysis of Obesity Rates in Cambodia Using Urban-Rural Comparison