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Apr 3;21(2):iii-v.Batura, N., Poupakis, S., Das, S., Bapat, U., Alcock, G., Skordis, J., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Pantvaidya, S., & Osrin, D. (2022). Factors associated with women’s healthcare decision-making during and after pregnancy in urban slums in Mumbai, India: a cross-sectional analysis. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 1-7.Crossley, T. F., Levell, P., & Poupakis, S. (2022). Regression with an imputed dependent variable. Journal of Applied EconometricsPace, N., Daidone, S., Dela O Campos A.P., Sebastian A., Prifti, E., Davis, B. (2022). Cash transfers’ role in improving livelihood diversification strategies and well-being: short- and medium-term evidence from Zimbabwe. World Development. Jun 1;154:105874Pace, N., Daidone, Sebastian A., Prifti, E., Davis B. (2022). Mediation analysis of the impact of the Zimbabwe Harmonized Social Cash Transfer Programme on food security and nutrition. Food Policy, Vol. 106, 102190.Busetti, S., Pace, N. (2022). Food waste policy: from theory to practice. Book Routledge, Taylor&Francis. ISBN: 9781032129419.Allel K, Abou Jaoude GJ, Birungi C, Palmer T, Skordis J, Haghparast-Bidgoli H. (2022) Technical efficiency of national HIV/AIDS spending in 78 countries between 2010 and 2018: A data envelopment analysis. PLOS Global Public Health. Aug 1;2(8):e0000463.Abou Jaoude GJ, Baena IG, Nguhiu P, Siroka A, Palmer T, Goscé L, Allel K, Sinanovic E, Skordis J, Haghparast-Bidgoli H. (2022) National tuberculosis spending efficiency and its associated factors in 121 low-income and middle-income countries, 2010–19: a data envelopment and stochastic frontier analysis. The Lancet Global Health. May 1;10(5):e649-60.Rose-Clarke K, Prakash BK, Magar J, Pradhan I, Shrestha P, Hassan E, Abou Jaoude GJ, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Devakumar D, Carrino L, Floridi G. (2022) School-based group interpersonal therapy for adolescents with depression in rural Nepal: a mixed methods study exploring feasibility, acceptability, and cost. Global Mental Health. Aug 22:1-3.Kelly SL, Abou Jaoude GJ, Palmer T, Skordis J, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Goscé L, Jarvis SJ, Kedziora DJ, Abeysuriya R, Benedikt C, Fraser-Hurt N. (2022) Public health benefits of shifting from inpatient to outpatient TB care in Eastern Europe: optimising TB investments in Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, and Romania. medRxiv. Jan 1.Prost, A., Harris-Fry, H., Mohanty, S., Parida, M., Krishnan, S., Fivian, E., Rath, S., Nair, N., Mishra, N.K., Padhan, S., Pradhan, R., Sahu, S., Skordis, J., Danton, H., Koniz-Booher, P., Beaumont, E., James, P., Allen, E., Elbourne, D., Kadiyala, S. (forthcoming). Understanding the effects of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions with participatory videos and women's group meetings on maternal and child nutrition in rural Odisha, India: A mixed-methods process evaluation. Maternal & Child NutritionFitzsimons, E. and M. Vera-Hernandez. (forthcoming) Breastfeeding and Child Development. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(3), 329-66Vanhuyse, F., Stirrup, O., Odhiambo, A., Palmer, T., Dickin, S., Skordis, J., Batura, N., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Mwaki, A. and Copas, A. (2022). Effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (Afya credits incentive) to retain women in the continuum of care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial. BMJ open, 12(1), e055921.Khanna S, Kumar P, Sharma S, Chandra J, Sinha R. (2022) Nutritional and hematological profile of children with severe acute malnutrition rehabilitated with or without vitamin B12. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. Feb;9(2):882.Conzo, P., B. Arpino, F. Salustri (2022). I'm a survivor, keep on surviving: early-life exposure to conflict and subjective survival probabilities in adult life. Journal of Population Economics, 35, 471–517.Becchetti, L., G. Conzo, P. Conzo, and F. Salustri (2022). Understanding the heterogeneity of COVID-19 deaths and contagions: the role of air pollution and lockdown decisions. Journal of Environmental Management, 305(114316).Palmer, T., H. Jennings, F. Salustri, G. Shannon, G. Grewal, W. Chelagat, M. Sarker, N. Pelletier, H. Haghparast-Bidgoli, and J. Skordis (2022). Improving access to diabetes care for children: an evaluation of the Changing diabetes in children project in Kenya and Bangladesh. Pediatric Diabetes, 23(1), 19-32.Palmer, T., C. Waliaula, G. Shannon, F. Salustri, G. Grewal, W. Chelagat, H. Jennings, J. Skordis (2022). Understanding the lived experience of children with Type 1 diabetes in Kenya: daily routines and adaptation over time. Qualitative Health Research, 10497323211049775.Birungi, C. (2022). Next generation economics of universal HIV treatment. The Lancet Global Health. Vol.10, Issue 1, e12-e13.Ferdiana, A., Liverani, M., Khan, M., Wulandari, L. P. L., Mashuri, Y. A., Batura, N., ... & Probandari, A. (2021). Community pharmacies, drug stores, and antibiotic dispensing in Indonesia: a qualitative study. BMC public health, 21(1), 1-10.Fraser-Hurt, N., Hou, X., Wilkinson, T., Duran, D., Abou Jaoude, G. J., Skordis, J., ... & Wilson, D. P. (2021). Using allocative efficiency analysis to inform health benefits package design for progressing towards Universal Health Coverage: Proof-of-concept studies in countries seeking decision support. PloS one, 16(11), e0260247.Batura, N., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Hughes, J., & Skordis, J. (2021). Assessing competency in health economics using portfolios. In Platt, M., & Goodman, A. C. (Eds.). Handbook on Teaching Health Economics: Best Practices. Edward Elgar Publishing.Mohanan, Manoj, Katherine Donato, Grant Miller, Yulya Truskinovsky, and Marcos Vera-Hernández. (2021) ‘Different Strokes for Different Folks? Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Varying Skills’. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 13 (4): 34–69.Wulandari, L.P.L., Khan, M., Liverani, M., Ferdiana, A., Mashuri, Y.A., Probandari, A., Wibawa, T., Batura, N., Schierhout, G., Kaldor, J. and Guy, R. (2021) Prevalence and determinants of inappropriate antibiotic dispensing at private drug retail outlets in urban and rural areas of Indonesia: a mixed methods study. BMJ global health, 6(8), p.e004993.Becchetti, L., P. Candio, and F. Salustri (2021). Vaccine uptake and constrained decision making: the case of Covid-19. 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PLoS computational biology, 17(9), e1009255.Doshmangir, L., Hasanpoor, E., Abou Jaoude, G. J., Eshtiagh, B., and Haghparast-Bidgoli, H. (2021). Incidence of Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Its Determinants in Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 19(6), 839-855.Manikam, L., Allaham, S., Zakieh, O., Bou Karim, Y., Demel, I.C., Ali, S., Wilson, E., Oulton, K., Morris, C., Tann, C. and Kuper, H. (2021) Online community engagement in response to COVID‐19 pandemic. Health Expectations, 24(2), pp.728-730.Manikam, L., Allaham, S., Ong, Z.L., Heys, M., Llewellyn, C., Batura, N., Hayward, A., Lakshman, R., Gilmour, J., Martin, K.W. and Irish, C. (2021). Improving infant feeding, care, and dental hygiene practices in South Asian infants aged younger than 2 years in east London through women's group participatory learning and action cycles (NEON): a behaviour intervention trial. The Lancet, 398, p.S64.Becchetti, L., F. Pisani, F. 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Point-of-care testing and treatment of sexually transmitted and genital infections during pregnancy in Papua New Guinea (WANTAIM trial): protocol for an economic evaluation alongside a cluster-randomised trial. BMJ open, 11(8), e046308.Habonimana, D., & Batura, N. (2021). Empirical analysis of socio-economic determinants of maternal health services utilisation in Burundi. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21(1), 1-11.Gram, L., Granados, R., Krockow, E. M., Daruwalla, N., & Osrin, D. (2021). Modelling collective action to change social norms around domestic violence: social dilemmas and the role of altruism. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8 (1)Allel, K., Abou Jaoude, G., Poupakis, S., Batura, N., Skordis, J., & Haghparast-Bidgoli, H. (2021). Exploring the Associations between Early Childhood Development Outcomes and Ecological Country-Level Factors across Low-and Middle-Income Countries. 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Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture and Nutrition (UPAVAN) trial comparing three variants of a nutrition-sensitive agricultural extension intervention to improve maternal and child nutritional outcomes in rural Odisha, India: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 19(1).Greco, G., Skordis-Worrall, J. and Mills, A. (2018). Development, Validity, and Reliability of the Women’s Capabilities Index. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, pp.1-18.Lafort, Y., Greener, R., Roy, A., Greener, L., Ombidi, W., Lessitala, F., Skordis-Worrall, J., Beksinska, M., Gichangi, P., Reza-Paul, S., Smit, J., Chersich, M. and Delva, W. (2017). Sexual and reproductive health services utilization by female sex workers is context-specific: results from a cross-sectional survey in India, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa. Reproductive Health, 14(1).Wiseman, V., Lagarde, M., Batura, N., Lin, S., Irava, W. and Roberts, G. (2017). Measuring inequalities in the distribution of the Fiji Health Workforce. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16(1)Jelle, M., Grijalva-Eternod, C., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., King, S., Cox, C., Skordis-Worrall, J., Morrison, J., Colbourn, T., Fottrell, E. and Seal, A. (2017). The REFANI-S study protocol: a non-randomised cluster controlled trial to assess the role of an unconditional cash transfer, a non-food item kit, and free piped water in reducing the risk of acute malnutrition among children aged 6–59 months living in camps for internally displaced persons in the Afgooye corridor, Somalia. BMC Public Health, 17(1)Shannon, G., Motta, A., Cáceres, C., Skordis-Worrall, J., Bowie, D. and Prost, A. (2017). ¿Somos iguales? Using a structural violence framework to understand gender and health inequities from an intersectional perspective in the Peruvian Amazon. Global Health Action, 10(sup2), p.1330458Nair, N., Tripathy, P., Sachdev, H., Pradhan, H., Bhattacharyya, S., Gope, R., Gagrai, S., Rath, S., Rath, S., Sinha, R., Roy, S., Shewale, S., Singh, V., Srivastava, A., Costello, A., Copas, A., Skordis-Worrall, J., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Saville, N. and Prost, A. (2017). Effect of participatory women's groups and counselling through home visits on children's linear growth in rural eastern India (CARING trial): a cluster-randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Global Health, 5(10), pp.e1004-e1016.Stuart, R., Kerr, C., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Estill, J., Grobicki, L., Baranczuk, Z., Prieto, L., Montañez, V., Reporter, I., Gray, R., Skordis-Worrall, J., Keiser, O., Cheikh, N., Boonto, K., Osornprasop, S., Lavadenz, F., Benedikt, C., Martin-Hughes, R., Hussain, S., Kelly, S., Kedziora, D. and Wilson, D. (2017). Getting it right when budgets are tight: Using optimal expansion pathways to prioritize responses to concentrated and mixed HIV epidemics. PLOS ONE, 12(10), p.e0185077.Sinha, R., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Tripathy, P., Nair, N., Gope, R., Rath, S. and Prost, A. (2017). Economic evaluation of participatory learning and action with women’s groups facilitated by Accredited Social Health Activists to improve birth outcomes in rural eastern India. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 15(1)Skordis-Worrall, J., Round, J., Arnold, M., Abdraimova, A., Akkazieva, B. and Beran, D. (2017). Addressing the double-burden of diabetes and tuberculosis: lessons from Kyrgyzstan. Globalization and Health, 13(1).Donato, K., Miller, G., Mohanan, M., Truskinovsky, Y., and Vera-Hernández, M. (2017). Personality traits and performance contracts: Evidence from a field experiment among maternity care providers in India. American Economic Review, 107(5), 506-10.Kim, S. and Skordis-Worrall, J. (2017). Can voluntary pooled procurement reduce the price of antiretroviral drugs? a case study of Efavirenz. Health Policy and Planning, p.165.Kim, S. and Skordis-Worrall, J. (2017). Can voluntary pooled procurement reduce the price of antiretroviral drugs? a case study of Efavirenz. Health Policy and Planning, doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw165Saville, N., Shrestha, B., Style, S., Harris-Fry, H., Beard, B., Sengupta, A., Jha, S., Rai, A., Paudel, V., Pulkki-Brannstrom, A., Copas, A., Skordis-Worrall, J., Bhandari, B., Neupane, R., Morrison, J., Gram, L., Sah, R., Basnet, M., Harthan, J., Manandhar, D., Osrin, D. and Costello, A. (2016). Protocol of the Low Birth Weight South Asia Trial (LBWSAT), a cluster-randomised controlled trial testing impact on birth weight and infant nutrition of Participatory Learning and Action through women’s groups, with and without unconditional transfers of fortified food or cash during pregnancy in Nepal. 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Protocol for the economic evaluation of a community-based intervention to improve growth among children under two in rural India (CARING trial). BMJ Open, 6(11), p.e012046Counts, C. J., & Skordis-Worrall, J. (2016). Recognizing the importance of chronic disease in driving healthcare expenditure in Tanzania: analysis of panel data from 1991 to 2010. Health policy and planning, 31(4), 434-443Batura, N., Skordis-Worrall, J., Thapa, R., Basnyat, R., & Morrison, J. (2016). Is the Job Satisfaction Survey a good tool to measure job satisfaction amongst health workers in Nepal? Results of a validation analysis. BMC health services research, 16(1), 308Kim, Sung Wook, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, and Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström. "Socio-economic inequity in HIV testing in Malawi." Global Health Action 9 (2016)Benedikt, C., Kelly, S. L., Wilson, D., Wilson, D. P., & Optima Consortium. (2016). Allocative and implementation efficiency in HIV prevention and treatment for people who inject drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 38, 73-80Fottrell, E., Jennings, H., Kuddus, A., Ahmed, N., Morrison, J., Akter, K., Shaha, S., Nahar, B., Nahar, T., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Khan, A., Costello, A. and Azad, K. (2016). The effect of community groups and mobile phone messages on the prevention and control of diabetes in rural Bangladesh: study protocol for a three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 17(1)Lafort, Y., Greener, R., Roy, A., Greener, L., Ombidi, W., Lessitala, F., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Beksinska, M., Gichangi, P., Reza-Paul, S., Smit, J., Chersich, M. and Delva, W. (2016). Where Do Female Sex Workers Seek HIV and Reproductive Health Care and What Motivates These Choices? A Survey in 4 Cities in India, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa. 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Global Health Action, 7(0)Kiadaliri, A., Saadat, S., Shahnavazi, H. and Haghparast-Bidgoli, H. (2014). Overall, gender and social inequalities in suicide mortality in Iran, 2006-2010: a time trend province-level study. BMJ Open, 4(8), pp.e005227-e005227Kim, S., Pulkki-Brannstrom, A. and Skordis-Worrall, J. (2014). Comparing the cost effectiveness of harm reduction strategies: a case study of the Ukraine. Cost Eff Resour Alloc, 12(1), p.25Lewycka, S., Mwansambo, C., Rosato, M., Kazembe, P., Phiri, T., Mganga, A., Chapota, H., Malamba, F., Kainja, E., Newell, M., Greco, G., Pulkki-Brännström, A., Skordis-Worrall, J., Vergnano, S., Osrin, D. and Costello, A. (2013). Effect of women's groups and volunteer peer counselling on rates of mortality, morbidity, and health behaviours in mothers and children in rural Malawi (MaiMwana): a factorial, cluster-randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 381(9879), pp.1721-1735Fottrell, E., Azad, K., Kuddus, A., Younes, L., Shaha, S., Nahar, T., Aumon, B., Hossen, M., Beard, J., Hossain, T., Pulkki-Brannstrom, A., Skordis-Worrall, J., Prost, A., Costello, A. and Houweling, T. (2013). The Effect of Increased Coverage of Participatory Women’s Groups on Neonatal Mortality in Bangladesh. JAMA Pediatrics, 167(9), p.816Pillay, T. and Skordis-Worrall, J. (2013). South African health financing reform 2000–2010: Understanding the agenda-setting process. Health Policy, 109(3), pp.321-331Prost, A., Colbourn, T., Seward, N., Azad, K., Coomarasamy, A., Copas, A., Houweling, T., Fottrell, E., Kuddus, A., Lewycka, S., MacArthur, C., Manandhar, D., Morrison, J., Mwansambo, C., Nair, N., Nambiar, B., Osrin, D., Pagel, C., Phiri, T., Pulkki-Brännström, A., Rosato, M., Skordis-Worrall, J., Saville, N., More, N., Shrestha, B., Tripathy, P., Wilson, A. and Costello, A. (2013). Women's groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet, 381(9879), pp.1736-1746Pulkki-Brännström, A., Wolff, C., Brännström, N. and Skordis-Worrall, J. (2012). Cost and cost effectiveness of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets - a model-based analysis. Cost Eff Resour Alloc, 10(1), p.5Skordis-Worrall, J., Pulkki-Brännström, A., Utley, M., Kembhavi, G., Bricki, N., Dutoit, X., Rosato, M. and Pagel, C. (2012). Development and Formative Evaluation of a Visual E-Tool to Help Decision Makers Navigate the Evidence Around Health Financing. JMIR Research Protocols, 1(2), p.e25Clark, M., Spry, E., Daoh, K., Baion, D. and Skordis-Worrall, J. (2012). Reductions in Inpatient Mortality following Interventions to Improve Emergency Hospital Care in Freetown, Sierra Leone. PLoS ONE, 7(9), p.e41458Skordis-Worrall, J., Hanson, K. and Mills, A. (2011). Estimating the demand for health services in four poor districts of Cape Town, South Africa. International Health, 3(1), pp.44-49Ahmad Kiadaliri, A., Najafi, B. and Haghparast-Bidgoli, H. (2011). Geographic distribution of need and access to health care in rural population: an ecological study in Iran. International Journal for Equity in Health, 10(1), p.39Ahmad Kiadaliri, A., Haghparast-Bigdoli, H. and Zarei, A. (2011). Measuring efficiency of general hospitals in the south of Iran. World Applied Sciences Journal, 13(6), pp.1310-1316Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Hasselberg, M., Khankeh, H., Khorasani-Zavareh, D. and Johansson, E. (2010). Barriers and facilitators to provide effective pre-hospital trauma care for road traffic injury victims in Iran: a grounded theory approach. BMC Emergency Medicine, 10(1)Skordis-Worrall, J., Hanson, K. and Mills, A. (2010). Confusion, Caring and Tuberculosis Diagnostic Delay in Cape Town, South Africa. 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Preventive strategies for group B streptococcal and other bacterial infections in early infancy: cost effectiveness and value of information analyses. BMJ, 335(7621), pp.655-655Pace, N., Knowles, M., Viberti, F., Bordi, D., Sitko, N. (2022). Social Assistance and Food Security in Nigeria at the time of Covid-19. Working Paper FAOPace, N., Knowles, M., Pellegrini, F., Bordi, D., Sitko, N. (2022). The role of social protection in promoting productive activities in Ethiopia at the time of Covid-19. Working Paper FAOShannon, G., Minckas, N., Tan, D., Haghparast-Bidgoli, H., Batura, N., Mannell, J. (2018). Beyond equality: the feminization of the global health workforce and its impact on wage conditions of health professions. EGHD Working Paper No 4Skordis-Worrall J. & Chalabi Z. (2014). Can Decision Field Theory Improve Our Understanding of Health Seeking Behaviour? A Demonstration Using Data from Cape Town, South Africa. EGHD Working Paper No 3Lane, S. & Skordis-Worrall, J. (2014). From Cash Transfers to Health Outcomes: Assessing the Significance of Female-focused Impact Pathways on Programme Success in the Latin American Context. EGHD Working Paper No 2Pulkki-Brännström, A . & Stoneman, P. (2012). On the Patterns and Determinants of the Global Diffusion of New Technologies. EGHD Working Paper No 1Improving access to diabetes care for the working poor in Kenya:
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