Center for Population Health Publications

  1. Amberbir A, Sayinzoga F, Mathewos K, Ntawukuriryayo JT, VanderZanden A, Hirschhorn LR, Binagwaho A. Maintaining Delivery of Evidence-Based Interventions to Reduce Under-5 Mortality During COVID-19 in Rwanda: Lessons Learned through Implementation Research. Annals of Global Health. 2024; 90(1): 47, 1–18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.4348  
  2. VanderZanden A§, Amberbir A§, Sayinzoga F, Huda FA, Ntawukuriryayo JT, Mathewos K, Binagwaho A, Hirschhorn LR. Evidence of health system resilience in primary healthcare in Bangladesh and Rwanda: lessons from implementation study during the MDG period and the period of COVID-19. J Glob Health. 2024 Jul 5;14:05023. doi: 10.7189/jogh.14.05023. 
  3. Amoah AS, McLean E, Price AJ, Amberbir A, Crampin AC. Factors associated with self-reported diagnosed asthma in urban and rural Malawi: Observations from a population-based study of non-communicable diseases. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024 Jul 11;4(7):e0002952. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002952. PMID: 38990860; PMCID: PMC11239063. 
  4. Drown L§, Amberbir A§, Teklu AM, Zelalem M, Tariku A, Tadesse Y, Gebeyehu S, Semu Y, Ntawukuriryayo JT, VanderZanden A, Binagwaho A, Hirschhorn LR. Reducing the equity gap in under-5 mortality through an innovative community health program in Ethiopia: an implementation research study. BMC Pediatr. 2024 Feb 28;23(Suppl 1):647. doi: 10.1186/s12887-023-04388-1.PMID: 38413946  
  5. Amberbir A, Huda FA, VanderZanden A, Mathewos K, Ntawukuriryayo JT, Binagwaho A, Hirschhorn LR. Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on primary healthcare interventions for the reduction of under-5 mortality in Bangladesh: Lessons learned through implementation research. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024 Mar 6;4(3):e0002997. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002997. eCollection 2024.PMID: 38446832  
  6. Ntawukuriryayo JT, VanderZanden A, Amberbir A, Teklu A, Huda FA, Maskey M, Sall M, Garcia PJ, Subedi RK, Sayinzoga F, Hirschhorn LR, Binagwaho A. Inequity in the face of success: understanding geographic and wealth-based equity in success of facility-based delivery for under-5 mortality reduction in six countries. BMC Pediatr. 2024 Feb 28;23(Suppl 1):651. doi: 10.1186/s12887-023-04387-2.PMID: 38413911  
  7. Ziblim AM, Inusah AHS & Boah M. Perceptions of patients and healthcare providers regarding barriers and enablers of HIV anti-retroviral therapy among women at a regional hospital in Ghana: implications for national HIV/AIDS control. BMC Women’s Health 24, 459 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-024-03312-8 
  8. Akanpaabadai EA, Adiak AA, Nukpezah RN, Adokiya MN, Adjei SE, Boah M. Population-based cross-sectional study of factors influencing full vaccination status of children aged 12- 23 months in a rural district of the Upper East Region, Ghana. BMC Pediatr 24, 168 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-024-04662-w   
  9. Tambo E, Ugwu CE, Amberbir A, Krishna A, Binagwaho A. Evidence-based universal health coverage interventions delivery in infectious disease of poverty elimination and eradication. Infect Dis Poverty. 2024 Jan 2;13(1):1. doi: 10.1186/s40249-023-01169-x.PMID: 38167334    
  10. Kalinda C, Phiri M, Simona SJ, Banda A, Wong R, Qambayot MA, Ishimwe SMC, Amberbir A, Abebe B, Gebremariam A, Nyerere JO. Understanding factors associated with rural-urban disparities of stunting among under-five children in Rwanda: A decomposition analysis approach. Matern Child Nutr. 2023 Jul;19(3):e13511. doi: 10.1111/mcn.13511. Epub 2023 Mar 30.PMID: 36994914  
  11. Ofori SK, Dankwa EA, Ngwakongnwi E, Amberbir A, Bekele A, Murray MB, Grad YH, Buckee CO, Hedt-Gauthier BL. Evidence-based Decision Making: Infectious Disease Modeling Training for Policymakers in East Africa. Ann Glob Health. 2024 Mar 22;90(1):22. doi: 10.5334/aogh.4383. eCollection 2024.PMID: 38523847   
  12. Equi-Injury Group, Amberbir A et al: Equitable access to quality injury care; Equi-Injury project protocol for prioritizing interventions in four low- or middle-income countries: a mixed method study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Apr 4;24(1):429. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10668-y.   
  13. Gondwe A, Amberbir A, Singogo E, Berman J, Singano V, Theu J, Gaven S, Mwapasa V, Hosseinipour MC, Paul M, Chiwaula L, van Oosterhout JJ. Prisoners’ access to HIV services in southern Malawi: a cross-sectional mixed methods study. BMC Public Health. 2021 Apr 28;21(1):813. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10870-1. PMID: 33910547 
  14. Nukpezah RN, Abanga EA, Adokiya MN, Aninanya GA, Odiakpa LO, Shehu N, Chukwu NM, Mahama AB, Boah M. Preterm birth, low birth weight, and their co-occurrence among women with preexisting chronic diseases prior to conception: a cross-sectional analysis of postpartum women in a low-resource setting in Ghana. matern health, neonatol and perinatol 10, 18 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40748-024-00188-2