Global Health
Our global health research and teaching places international public health within a health systems perspective.
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Projects
- Strengthening systems necessary for improving patients’ safety and quality of health care in tertiary hospitals in northern Nigeria
- Reactive Household-based Self-administered treatment against residual malaria; Funded by MRC Global Health Trials
- The impact of socio-cultural and health system factors on asymptomatic malaria carriers’ adherence to primaquine treatment in the Gambia; Funded by MRC Global Health Trials
- Health systems and pandemic preparedness in the wake of Ebola
- A health research collaboration between The University of Sheffield and SolidarMed, a Swiss NGO implementing evidence-based health systems strengthening projects in 5 south-eastern African countries
- Health systems resillience in the context of the 2015 earthquake
- Health service improvements in a rural Jamaican community
- Community-based peer support, health literacy and health inequalities (COPES)
- Patient and community involvement in diabetes research: an international review
- Patient safety in diabetes care
- Evaluation of People Keeping Well in the Community
- Evaluation of the Pakistan Community Midwives Programme (Lead by Dr Zubia Mumtaz, University of Alberta)
- Addressing disparities in maternal health care in Pakistan (Lead by Dr Zubia Mumtaz, University of Alberta)
- Exploring teenage pregnancy in Sri Lanka (with Dr Neelamani Hewageegana, Health Education Bureau, Sri Lanka)
- Understanding social and economic determinants of maternal health service use in Punjab Pakistan (With Dr Zubia Mumtaz, University of Alberta)
- Cross-national comparative analysis of migration, maternity and health
- CATH-B Chinese community access to healthcare for Hepatitis B
- Evidence Informed Decision making in Health and Nutrition (EVIDENT) - an extensive network of North-South partners that aims to use existing evidence to also enhance evidence-informed decision-making and policy driven research in health and nutrition
- HOME - Health Outcomes of Migration Events
- Habeat - Determining factors and critical periods in food habit formation and breaking in early childhood
- Stepping out to save lives: health navigators in Indian slums
We work across a wide range of health systems to produce research which
- uses realist evaluation and realist synthesis to explain effectiveness in the context of social, environmental, economic, and political determinants of health
- uses transdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving, with the aim of collectively analyzing issues and developing solutions across a range of institutions, sectors and systems
- aims to develop and strengthen partnerships across low-, middle- and high-income countries
- uses participatory, action-oriented research to facilitate the co-development of evidence relevant to policymakers across different countries
- evaluates the implementation of policies and interventions, producing results that can be used to improve health systems.