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Mugambe, R.K. orcid.org/0000-0003-2311-5436, Wanyenze, R.K., Ssekamatte, T. orcid.org/0000-0002-8127-6759 et al. (8 more authors) (2025) Infection prevention and control and water, sanitation, and hygiene status of healthcare facilities in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan region during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. PLOS Water, 4 (1). e0000189.

Jabeen, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-0231-2070, Salam, S.S., Gillespie, S. orcid.org/0000-0001-8324-4171 et al. (9 more authors) (2024) Delayed cord clamping: perceptions, practices and influencers among the healthcare providers of selected healthcare facilities in Bangladesh. PLOS ONE, 19 (12). e0313938. ISSN 1932-6203

Afferri, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-0306-6705, Dierickx, S., Allen, H. et al. (4 more authors) (2024) ‘It’s about time’: policymakers’ and health practitioners’ perspectives on implementing fertility care in the Gambian health system. BMC Health Services Research, 24 (1). 282. ISSN 1472-6963

Salam, S.S., Rahman, A.E., Mhajabin, S. et al. (12 more authors) (2024) Perception and experiences of adolescent mothers and communities in caring for their preterm babies: findings from an in-depth study in rural Bangladesh. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 24 (1). 145. ISSN 1471-2393

Jayasooriya, S., Inoue, M., Allen, H. et al. (6 more authors) (2024) Beliefs surrounding the use of inhaled asthma medication in The Gambia: a qualitative study of asthma patients and healthcare workers. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 34 (1). 29. ISSN 2055-1010

Ssekamatte, T., Mugambe, R.K., Isunju, J.B. et al. (11 more authors) (2024) Application of the behaviour-centred design to understand facilitators and deterrents of hand hygiene among healthcare providers: findings from a formative phase of a cluster randomised trial in the Kampala Metropolitan area. BMC Health Services Research, 24 (1). 1031. ISSN 1472-6963

Chanakira, E.Z. orcid.org/0000-0002-0724-0758, Thomas, C.V., Balen, J. et al. (1 more author) (2024) A systematic review of public health interventions to address breast cancer inequalities in low- and middle-income countries. Systematic Reviews, 13 (1). 195. ISSN 2046-4053

Koirala, B. orcid.org/0000-0002-2074-3958, Rushton, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-1055-9871, Adhikary, P. et al. (10 more authors) (2024) COVID-19 as a challenge to Nepal’s newly federalized health system: capacities, responsibilities, and mindsets. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 36 (5). pp. 513-515. ISSN 1010-5395

Afferri, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-0306-6705, Dierickx, S., Bittaye, M. et al. (3 more authors) (2024) Policy action points and approaches to promote fertility care in The Gambia: findings from a mixed-methods study. PLOS ONE, 19 (5). e0301700. ISSN 1932-6203

Sapkota, S. orcid.org/0000-0001-9887-6868, Rushton, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-1055-9871, van Teijlingen, E. orcid.org/0000-0001-5523-8583 et al. (13 more authors) (2024) Participatory policy analysis in health policy and systems research: reflections from a study in Nepal. Health Research Policy and Systems, 22 (1). 7. ISSN 1478-4505

Sapkota, S., Dhakal, A., Rushton, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-1055-9871 et al. (4 more authors) (2023) The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews. BMJ Global Health, 8 (12). e013317. ISSN 2059-7908

Wasti, S.P., van Teijlingen, E., Rushton, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-1055-9871 et al. (3 more authors) (2023) Overcoming the challenges facing Nepal's health system during federalisation: an analysis of health system building blocks. Health Research Policy and Systems, 21. 117. ISSN 1478-4505

Jayasooriya, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-5744, Dimambro-Denson, F., Beecroft, C. orcid.org/0000-0003-1453-0013 et al. (7 more authors) (2023) Patients with presumed tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa that are not diagnosed with tuberculosis : a systematic review and meta-analysis. Thorax, 78 (1). pp. 50-60. ISSN 0040-6376

Gordon, A., O-Brien, C., Balen, J. et al. (3 more authors) (2023) A cross sectional survey of sociodemographic characteristics, primary care health needs and living conditions of asylum-seekers living in a Greek reception centre. Journal of Public Health, 31 (6). pp. 837-847. ISSN 2198-1833

Bittaye, H. orcid.org/0000-0002-3288-4133, Mooney, J.P., Afferri, A. et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Introducing assisted reproductive technologies in The Gambia, a survey on the perspectives of Gambian healthcare professionals and medical students. BMC Health Services Research, 23. 203. ISSN 1472-6963

Wasti, S.P., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P. et al. (11 more authors) (2023) Selection of study sites and participants for research into Nepal’s Federal Health System. WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, 12 (2). pp. 116-119. ISSN 2224-3151

Salam, S.S., Ameen, S., Balen, J. et al. (20 more authors) (2023) Research prioritisation on prevention and management of preterm birth in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) with a special focus on Bangladesh using the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) method. Journal of Global Health, 13. 07004. ISSN 2047-2978

Lassa, S., Saddiq, M., Owen, J. et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Power dynamics among health professionals in Nigeria: a case study of the global fund policy process. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11 (12). pp. 2876-2885. ISSN 2322-5939

Stolbrink, M., Chinouya, M.J., Jayasooriya, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-1147-5744 et al. (34 more authors) (2022) Improving access to affordable quality-assured inhaled medicines in low- and middle-income countries. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 26 (11). pp. 1023-1032. ISSN 1027-3719

Sapkota, S., Panday, S., Wasti, S.P. et al. (10 more authors) (2022) Health system strengthening: the role of public health in Federal Nepal. Journal of the Nepal Public Health Association, 7 (1). pp. 36-42. ISSN 2392-408X

Afferri, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-0306-6705, Allen, H., Dierickx, S. et al. (4 more authors) (2022) Availability of services for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility in The Gambia`s public and private health facilities : a cross-sectional survey. BMC Health Services Research, 22 (1). 1127.

Rushton, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-1055-9871, Balen, J., Crane, O. et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Re-examining critiques of resilience policy : evidence from Barpak after the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. Disasters, 46 (3). pp. 768-790. ISSN 0361-3666

Aberese-Ako, M., Doegah, P., Acquah, E. et al. (13 more authors) (2022) Motivators and demotivators to accessing malaria in pregnancy interventions in sub-Saharan Africa : a meta-ethnographic review. Malaria Journal, 21 (1). 170.

Campbell, F., Salam, S., Sutton, A. et al. (10 more authors) (2022) Interventions for the prevention of spontaneous preterm birth : a scoping review of systematic reviews. BMJ Open, 12 (5). e052576. ISSN 2044-6055

Gillespie, B., Balen, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465, Allen, H. et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Shifting social norms and adolescent girls' access to sexual and reproductive health services and information in a South African township. Qualitative Health Research, 32 (6). pp. 1014-1026. ISSN 1049-7323

Afferri, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-0306-6705, Allen, H., Booth, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-4808-3880 et al. (3 more authors) (2022) Barriers and facilitators for the inclusion of fertility care in reproductive health policies in Africa : a qualitative evidence synthesis. Human Reproduction Update, 28 (2). pp. 190-199. ISSN 1355-4786

Rushton, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-1055-9871, Pandey, S., Van Teijlingen, E. et al. (4 more authors) (2021) An investigation into the impact of decentralization on the health system of Nepal. Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, 7 (1). pp. 3-14. ISSN 2091-1041

Dierickx, S., Oruko, K.O., Clarke, E. et al. (3 more authors) (2021) Men and infertility in The Gambia : limited biomedical knowledge and awareness discourage male involvement and exacerbate gender-based impacts of infertility. PLoS ONE, 16 (11). e0260084. ISSN 1932-6203

Mugambe, R.K., Ssekamatte, T., Kisaka, S. et al. (12 more authors) (2021) Extent of compliance with COVID-19 prevention and control guidelines among supermarkets in Kampala Capital City and Mukono Municipality, Uganda. PLoS ONE, 16 (10). e0258840. ISSN 1932-6203

Gillespie, B. orcid.org/0000-0003-1833-209X, Allen, H., Pritchard, M. et al. (3 more authors) (2021) Agency under constraint: adolescent accounts of pregnancy and motherhood in informal settlements in South Africa. Global Public Health, 17 (9). pp. 2125-2138. ISSN 1744-1692

Masunaga, Y., Jaiteh, F., Manneh, E. et al. (8 more authors) (2021) The Community Lab of Ideas for Health : community-based transdisciplinary solutions in a malaria elimination trial in The Gambia. Frontiers in Public Health, 9. 637714.

Okebe, J., Dabira, E., Jaiteh, F. et al. (11 more authors) (2021) Reactive, self-administered malaria treatment against asymptomatic malaria infection : results of a cluster randomized controlled trial in The Gambia. Malaria Journal, 20 (1). 253.

Dierickx, S., De Proost, M., Huang, A.Y. et al. (3 more authors) (2021) The Nairobi Summit and reproductive justice : unmet needs for people with infertility. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 104 (3). pp. 812-813. ISSN 0002-9637

Panday, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-1476, Rushton, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-1055-9871, Karki, J. et al. (2 more authors) (2021) The role of social capital in disaster resilience in remote communities after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 55. 102112. ISSN 2212-4209

Jaiteh, F., Ribera, J.M., Masunaga, Y. et al. (6 more authors) (2021) Complexities in defining the unit of intervention for reactive community-based malaria treatment in the Gambia. Frontiers in Public Health, 9 (1). 601152.

Adhikary, P., Balen, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465, Gautam, S. et al. (11 more authors) (2021) COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal: Emerging evidence on the effectiveness of action by, and cooperation between, different levels of government in a federal system. Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, 3 (3). pp. 1-11. ISSN 2616-0064

Jayasooriya, S., Mitchell, C., Balen, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465 et al. (1 more author) (2020) Seasonal influenza programme expansion. BMJ, 371. m4713. ISSN 1759-2151

Lecky, F.E., Reynolds, T., Otesile, O. et al. (30 more authors) (2020) Harnessing inter-disciplinary collaboration to improve emergency care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): results of research prioritisation setting exercise. BMC Emergency Medicine, 20 (1). 68. ISSN 1471-227X

Gibbs, N., Kwon, J., Balen, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465 et al. (1 more author) (2020) Operational research to support equitable non-communicable disease policy in low-income and middle-income countries in the sustainable development era : a scoping review. BMJ Global Health, 5 (6). e002259.

Preston, A., Okebe, J., Balen, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465 et al. (5 more authors) (2019) Involving community health workers in disease-specific interventions: perspectives from The Gambia on the impact of this approach. Journal of Global Health Reports, 3. e2019084. ISSN 2399-1623

Dierickx, S., Coene, G., Evans, M. et al. (2 more authors) (2019) The fertile grounds of reproductive activism in The Gambia : a qualitative study of local key stakeholders’ understandings and heterogeneous actions related to infertility. PLOS ONE, 14 (12). e0226079.

Jaiteh, F. orcid.org/0000-0001-9712-295X, Masunaga, Y., Okebe, J. et al. (6 more authors) (2019) Community perspectives on treating asymptomatic infections for malaria elimination in The Gambia. Malaria Journal, 18. 39. ISSN 1475-2875

Dierickx, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-3140-0771, Balen, J., Longman, C. et al. (4 more authors) (2019) 'We are always desperate and will try anything to conceive': The convoluted and dynamic process of health seeking among women with infertility in the West Coast Region of The Gambia. PLoS One, 14 (1). e0211634. ISSN 1932-6203

Krauth, S.J., Balen, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465, Gobert, G.N. et al. (1 more author) (2019) A Call for Systems Epidemiology to Tackle the Complexity of Schistosomiasis, Its Control, and Its Elimination. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 4 (1). 21. ISSN 2414-6366

Okebe, J., Ribera, J.M., Balen, J. et al. (7 more authors) (2018) Reactive community-based self-administered treatment against residual malaria transmission: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 19. 126. ISSN 1745-6215

Hodgkinson, S., Saddiq, M. and Balen, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465 (2018) Health policy in Nepal: an assessment of clinical guidelines in relation to the burden of disease. Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, 3 (1). pp. 24-35. ISSN 2091-1041

Chigudu, S., Jasseh, M., d'Alessandro, U. et al. (3 more authors) (2018) The role of leadership in people-centred health systems: a sub-national study in The Gambia. Health Policy and Planning, 33 (1). E14-E25. ISSN 0268-1080

Crane, O., Balen, J., Devkota, B. et al. (2 more authors) (2017) Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the formal and informal health system responses to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes. Health Policy and Planning, 32 (Suppl 3). iii48-iii58. ISSN 0268-1080

Schmidtke, I., Balen, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465 and Dormon, F. (2017) Healthworkers’ motivation in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of the literature. Medical Research Archives, 5 (8). ISSN 2375-1916

Jaiteh, F., Dierickx, S., Gryseels, C. et al. (5 more authors) (2016) ‘Some anti-malarials are too strong for your body, they will harm you.’ Socio-cultural factors influencing pregnant women’s adherence to anti-malarial treatment in rural Gambia. Malaria Journal, 15. 195. ISSN 1475-2875

Coates, A., Hill, P., Rushton, S. et al. (1 more author) (2014) The Holy See on sexual and reproductive health rights: conservative in position, dynamic in response. Reproductive Health Matters, 22 (44). pp. 114-124. ISSN 0968-8080

Balen, J., Liu, Z.C., McManus, D.P. et al. (6 more authors) (2013) Health access livelihood framework reveals potential barriers in the control of schistosomiasis in the Dongting Lake area of Hunan Province, China. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 7 (8). e2350 .

Balen, J., McManus, D.P., Li, Y.S. et al. (9 more authors) (2010) Comparison of two approaches for measuring household wealth via an asset-based index in rural and peri-urban settings of Hunan province, China. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 7. 7.

Raso, G., Li, Y., Zhao, Z. et al. (3 more authors) (2009) Spatial distribution of human Schistosoma japonicum infections in the Dongting Lake Region, China. PLoS One, 4 (9). e6947.

Jones, M.K. and Balen, J. (2007) Magnetic beads for schistosomiasis diagnosis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 1 (3). e159 .

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Gordon, A.C.T., Balen, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465, Duncombe, S.L. et al. (3 more authors) (2020) Conditions in Samos refugee camp in Greece severely below internationally-recognised minimum humanitarian standards and those outlined by the European Union: a cross sectional health needs assessment. [Preprint] (Submitted)