Our Publications
A selection of key publications highlighting the UHF team’s involvement in academic research.
Gender, Intersectionality & Health Equity
Zeinali Z, Muraya K, Molyneux S, Morgan R. The Use of Intersectional Analysis in Assessing Women’s Leadership Progress in the Health Workforce in LMICs: A Review. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2021 Feb 9;1–12.https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4009.html
Mannell J, Amaama A, Boodoosingh R, Brown L, Calderon M, Cowley-Malcolm, Lowe H, Motta A, Shannon G, Tanielu H, Cortez Vergara C. Decolonising violence against women research: a study design for co-developing violence prevention interventions with communities in low and middle income countries (LMICs). BMC Public Health. 2021;21 (1): 1-1.https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11172-2
Wu D, Shannon G, Reynales-Shigematsu LM, Saenz de Miera B, Llorente B, Jha P. Implications of household tobacco and alcohol use on child health and women’s welfare in six low and middle-income countries: An analysis from a gender perspective. Social Science and Medicine. 2021; 281:114102.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34118685/
Minckas N, Shannon G, Mannell J. The role of participation and community mobilisation in preventing violence against women and girls: a programme review and critique. Global Health Action. 2020; 13 (1):1775061
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32588783/
Patrick M, Grewal G, Chelagat W, Shannon G. Planetary health justice: feminist approaches to building in rural Kenya. Buildings and Cities. 2020;1(1):308–24. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/bc.18 ,https://journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10.5334/bc.18/
D Devakumar D, Selvarajah S, Shannon G, Muraya K, Lasoye S, Corona S, et al. Racism, the public health crisis we can no longer ignore. Lancet. 2020; 395(10242): e112–e113. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(20)31371-4.pdf
Devakumar D, Bhopal SS, Shannon G. COVID-19: the great unequaliser. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2020; 113 (6): 234-235 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0141076820925434
Devakumar D, Shannon G, Bhopal SS, Abubakar I. Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses. The Lancet. 2020; 395 (10231): 1194 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30792-3/fulltext
Zeinali Z, Muraya K, Govender V, Molyneux S, Morgan R. Intersectionality and global health leadership: Parity is not enough. Hum Resour Health. 2019 Apr 27;17(1).https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-019-0367-3
Shannon G, Minckas N, Tan D, Batura N, Hagparast-Bidgoli H, Mannell J. Feminization of the health workforce and wage conditions of health professions: an exploratory analysis. Human Resources for Health. 2019;17(72): doi:10.1186/s12960-019-0406-0 https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-019-0406-0
Shannon G, Jansen M, Williams K, Caceres C, Motta A, Odhiambo A, Eleveld A, Mannell J. Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter? Lancet. 2019;393:560-569 https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(18)33135-0.pdf
Quilty S, Wood L, Scrimejour S, Shannon G, Sherman E, Lake B, Budd R, Lawton P, Moloney M. Addressing Profound Disadvantages to Improve Indigenous Health and Reduce Hospitalisation: A Collaborative Community Program in Remote Northern Territory. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019;16(22):4306. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31698685/
Collins J, Bowie D, Shannon G. A Descriptive Analysis of Health Practices, Barriers to Healthcare and the Unmet Need for Cervical Cancer Screening in the Lower Napo River Region of the Peruvian Amazon. Women’s Health (Lond). 2019;15:1745506519890969 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31840562/
Shannon G, Motta A, Caceres C, Skordis-Worrall J, Bowie D, Prost A. Somos Iguales? Using a structural violence framework to understand gender and health inequities from an intersectional perspective in the Peruvian Amazon. Global Health Action. 2017;10(sup2):1330458 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28640664/
Shannon G, Katzlenick L, Im D, Franco O. Millennium Development Goal Three: Evaluating gender equity in South Asia. Women Health. 2013;53(3):217-43 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23705756/
Health Economics
Bansal S, Deshpande V, Zhao X, Lauer J, Meheus F, Ilbawi A, Gopalappa C. Analysis of mammography screening schedules under varying resource constraints for planning breast cancer control programs in low-and middle-income countries: a mathematical study. Medical Decision Making. 2020;40(3):364-378. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32160823/
Shannon G, Minckas N, Tan D, Batura N, Hagparast-Bidgoli H, Mannell J. Feminization of the health workforce and wage conditions of health professions: an exploratory analysis. Human Resources for Health. 2019;17(72): doi:10.1186/s12960-019-0406-0 https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-019-0406-0
Ochieng C, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Batura N, Odhiambo A, Shannon G, et al. Conditional cash transfers to retain rural Kenyan women in the continuum of care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2019;20:152 https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-019-3224-8
Sarma N, Patouillard E, Cibulskis RE, Arcand JL. The Economic Burden of Malaria: Revisiting the Evidence. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019;101(6):1405-1415. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.19-0386 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31628735/
Tordrup D, Hutin Y, Stenberg K, Lauer J, Hutton DW, Toy M, Scott N, Bulterys M, Ball A, Hirnschall G. Additional resource needs for viral hepatitis elimination through universal health coverage: projections in 67 low-income and middle-income countries, 2016–30. The Lancet Global Health. 2019;7(9): e1180-e1188 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30272-4/fulltext
Bertram MY, Sweeny K, Lauer J, Chisholm D, Sheehan P, Rassmussen B, Upreti SR, Dixit LP, George K, Deane S. Investing in non-communicable diseases: an estimation of the return on investment for prevention and treatment services. Lancet. 2018; 391(10134): p2071–2078 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29627159/
Serje J, Bertram MY, Brindley C, Lauer J. Global health worker salary estimates: an econometric analysis of global earnings data. Cost Ef Resour Alloc. 2018; 16:10. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29541000/
Gopalappa C, Guo J, Meckoni P, Munkhbat B, Pretorius C, Lauer J, Ilbawi A, Bertram M. A two-step Markov processes approach for parameterization of cancer state-transition models for low- and middle-income countries. Medical decision making. 2018; 38(4): 520–530 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29577814/
Lauer J, Soucat A, Araujo E, Weakliam D. Pathways: the health system, health employment, and economic growth. In: Buchan J, Dhillon I, Campbell J, editors. Health employment and economic growth: an evidence base. 2017. World Health Organization, Geneva https://www.who.int/hrh/resources/health_employment-and-economic-growth/en/
Lauer J, Soucat A, Araujo E, Bertram M, Edejer T, Brindley C, Dale E, Tan A. Paying for needed health workers for the SDGs: an analysis of financial and fiscal space. In: Buchan J, Dhillon I, Campbell J, editors. Health employment and economic growth: an evidence base. 2017. World Health Organization, Geneva https://www.who.int/hrh/resources/health_employment-and-economic-growth/en/
Galactionova K, Bertram M, Lauer J, Tediosi F. Costing RTS,S introduction in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda: A generalizable approach drawing on publicly available data. Vaccine. 2015; 33(48): 6710–6718. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357730/
Verguet S, Alkire BC, Bickler SW, Lauer J, Uribe-Leitz T, Molina G, Weiser TG, Yamey G, Shrime MG. Timing and cost of scaling up surgical services in low-income and middle-income countries from 2012 to 2030: a modelling study, Lancet Global Health, 2015; 3 (S2): S28–37. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(15)70086-0.pdf
Cecchini M, Lauer J, Sassi F. The OECD/WHO chronic disease prevention (CDP) model: a tool to identify effective and efficient strategies to prevent NCDs; in Applying Modeling to Improve Health and Economic Policy Decisions in the Americas: The case of Noncommunicable Diseases (eds. Legetic B, Cecchini C). 2015. PAHO/WHO/OECD, Washington DC https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264243606-en.pdf?expires=1592771793&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=CEBE9C6B8F0FC2131D4A182F0FF8C3EA
Arcand JL and Wouabe ED. Teacher Training and HIV/AIDS Prevention in West Africa: Regression Discontinuity Design Evidence from the Cameroon. Health Economics. 2010; 19: 36-54 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20731000/
Health Systems
Oseni Z, Shannon G. The relationship between Indigenous and allopathic health practitioners in Africa and its implications for collaboration: a qualitative synthesis. Global health action 2021; 13 (1): 1838241 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16549716.2020.1838241
Oseni Z, Shannon G. Preventing infectious diseases at the community level: an asset ecosystems approach. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2021: S1 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00085-1/fulltext
Peters LER, Kelman I, Shannon G, Tan D. Synthesising the shifting terminology of community health: A critiquing review of agent-based approaches. Global Public Health. 2021:1-15 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34097587/
Lauer J, Soucat A, Araujo E, Weakliam D. Pathways: the health system, health employment, and economic growth. In: Buchan J, Dhillon I, Campbell J, editors. Health employment and economic growth: an evidence base. 2017. World Health Organization, Geneva https://www.who.int/hrh/resources/health_employment-and-economic-growth/en/
Quilty S, Shannon G, Sargent W, Banner J, Yao A. F. Factors Associated with Frequent Emergency Department Attendance at Katherine Hospital”, Medical Journal of Australia. 2016; 204(3):111e1-7 https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2016/204/3/factors-contributing-frequent-attendance-emergency-department-remote-northern
Planetary Health and Climate Change
Meriläinen E, Kelman I, Peters LER, Shannon G. Puppeteering as a metaphor for unpacking power in participatory action research on climate change and health. Climate and Development. 2021; 1-12 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17565529.2021.1930509
Zeinali Z, Bulc B, Lal A, Daalen KR van, Campbell-Lendrum D, Ezzine T, et al. A roadmap for intergenerational leadership in planetary health. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2020 Aug 1;4(8):e306–8. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30171-6/fulltext
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
Wu D, Shannon G, Reynales-Shigematsu LM, Saenz de Miera B, Llorente B, Jha P. Implications of household tobacco and alcohol use on child health and women’s welfare in six low and middle-income countries: An analysis from a gender perspective. Social Science and Medicine. 2021; 281:114102 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34118685/
Bansal S, Deshpande V, Zhao X, Lauer J, Meheus F, Ilbawi A, Gopalappa C. Analysis of mammography screening schedules under varying resource constraints for planning breast cancer control programs in low-and middle-income countries: a mathematical study. Medical Decision Making. 2020;40(3):364-378. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32160823/
Collins J, Bowie D, Shannon G. A Descriptive Analysis of Health Practices, Barriers to Healthcare and the Unmet Need for Cervical Cancer Screening in the Lower Napo River Region of the Peruvian Amazon. Women’s Health (Lond). 2019;15:1745506519890969 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31840562/
Shannon G, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Chelagat W, Kibachio J, Skordis-Worrall J. Innovating to increase access to diabetes care in Kenya: evaluation of Novo Nordisk’s base of the pyramid project. Global Health Action. 2019; 12(1):1605704.https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/6534215
Bertram MY, Sweeny K, Lauer J, Chisholm D, Sheehan P, Rassmussen B, Upreti SR, Dixit LP, George K, Deane S. Investing in non-communicable diseases: an estimation of the return on investment for prevention and treatment services. Lancet. 2018; 391(10134): p2071–2078 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29627159/
Gopalappa C, Guo J, Meckoni P, Munkhbat B, Pretorius C, Lauer J, Ilbawi A, Bertram M. A two-step Markov processes approach for parameterization of cancer state-transition models for low- and middle-income countries. Medical decision making. 2018; 38(4): 520–530 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29577814/
Cecchini M, Lauer J, Sassi F. The OECD/WHO chronic disease prevention (CDP) model: a tool to identify effective and efficient strategies to prevent NCDs; in Applying Modeling to Improve Health and Economic Policy Decisions in the Americas: The case of Noncommunicable Diseases (eds. Legetic B, Cecchini C). 2015. PAHO/WHO/OECD, Washington DC https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264243606-en.pdf?expires=1592771793&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=CEBE9C6B8F0FC2131D4A182F0FF8C3EA
Covid-19
Devakumar D, Bhopal SS, Shannon G. COVID-19: the great unequaliser. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2020; 113 (6): 234-235 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0141076820925434
Devakumar D, Shannon G, Bhopal SS, Abubakar I. Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses. The Lancet. 2020; 395 (10231): 1194 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30792-3/fulltext