Naoko Kozuki

Biographic Data

ID5491747
NAMENaoko Kozuki
GIVEN NAMESNaoko
FAMILY NAMEKozuki
SIGNATUREKOZUKI N
AFFILIATIONSInternational Rescue Committee
ORCID0000-0003-2850-3956
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Experiences of women with disabilities accessing maternal and newborn health services in Mogadishu, Somalia

    Open AccessMuna Jama, Naoko Kozuki et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health2026

  • “Crises are a perpetual restart”—A comparative analysis of maternal and newborn health political prioritization across four fragile and conflict affected settings

    Open AccessMamothena Carol Mothupi, Teresia Macharia et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Fragile settings account for the highest burden of maternal and neonatal mortality in the world. Although policies and strategies for intervention exist, there are gaps on political prioritization of maternal and newborn health (MNH) by key actors to maximize resources and impact of programs. This study offers a comparative analysis of MNH political prioritization across four fragile national and sub-national settings, and recommendations for imp…

  • Constrained optimization

    Open AccessRobert J Montgomery, Elaine Scudder et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025

    Investment in community health worker (CHW) programs has allowed health systems to reach previously underserved rural and remote populations. As a result, CHWs are often burdened with responsibilities to deliver large packages of services, at times without sufficient human, financial, or health resources. To design a community-level program that saves maternal and newborn lives while operating within resource limitations, we used constrained opti…

  • Maternal and newborn health prioritization in Yobe State, Nigeria

    Open AccessEmilia Iwu, Charity Pring’ar Maina et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2024

    Enhancing MNH services in Yobe state requires increased commitment for funding through the Northeast Development Commission rehabilitation fund; strengthening the health workforce, safety and retention plan; promoting gender inclusivity within the health sector; and addressing sociocultural barriers to women's health-seeking behaviors. Concrete, time-bound plans for policy dissemination are necessary to ensure effective service implementation

  • Severe acute malnutrition treatment delivered by low-literate community health workers in South Sudan

    Open AccessNaoko Kozuki, Elburg Van Boetzelaer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Community health worker (CHW)-delivered acute malnutrition treatment programs have been tested previously, but not with low-literate/-numerate cadres who operate in areas with the highest malnutrition burden and under-five mortality rates. The International Rescue Committee developed low-literacy-adapted tools and treatment protocol to enable low-literate/-numerate community-based distributors (CBD, the CHW cadre in South Sudan) to tr…

  • Assessing community health worker service delivery in humanitarian settings

    Open AccessNathan P Miller, Adam K Richards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

  • Adapting acute malnutrition treatment protocols in emergency contexts

    Open AccessNaoko Kozuki, Mamoudou Seni et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2020

    Based on these findings, global-level stakeholders should urgently improve coordination and communication around existing protocols. Standardized guidance based on the available evidence is required to clarify best practices for combined management of SAM and MAM, particularly in emergency contexts (which should be defined) and in situations of limited resources. Given the complexity of governance arrangements in conflict situations, both guidanc…

  • Testing a simplified tool and training package to improve integrated Community Case Management in Tanganyika Province, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessAnne Langston, Alison Wittcoff et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    Testing a simplified tool and training package to improve integrated Community Case Management in Tanganyika Province, Democratic Republic of Congo: a quasi-experimental study Background Integrated community case management (iCCM) is a strategy to train community health workers (relais communautaires or RECOs in French) in low-resource settings to provide treatment for uncomplicated malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea for children 2-59 months of age…

  • Combined protocol for severe and moderate acute malnutrition in emergencies

    Open AccessSarah L Dalglish, Mamoudou Seni Badou et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Each year, acute malnutrition affects an estimated 52 million children under 5 years of age. Current global treatment protocols divide treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) despite malnutrition being a spectrum disease. A proposed Combined Protocol provides for (a) treatment of MAM and SAM at the same location; (b) diagnosis using middle-upper-arm circumference (MUAC) and oedema only; (c) treatment usi…

  • Performance of low‐literate community health workers treating severe acute malnutrition in South Sudan

    Open AccessElburg Van Boetzelaer, Annie Zhou et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Previous studies have described barriers to access of childhood severe acute malnutrition (SAM) treatment, including long travel distances and high opportunity costs. To increase access in remote communities, the International Rescue Committee developed a simplified SAM treatment protocol and low-literacy-adapted tools for community-based distributors (CBD, the community health worker cadre in South Sudan) to deliver treatment in the community. A…

  • The resilience of integrated community case management in acute emergency

    Open AccessNaoko Kozuki, Katja Ericson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2018

    BACKGROUND: An active conflict in South Sudan in late 2013/early 2014 displaced approximately 2 million people over the course of several months. In May 2015, the International Rescue Committee and UNICEF conducted a mixed-methods case study of the impact of that acute emergency on integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illness programming in Payinjiar County, Unity State. The objective was to document the operations of an iCCM …

  • Where is the gap

    Open AccessAgbessi Amouzou, Naoko Kozuki et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Under-five mortality disparities within developing countries account for roughly half of the global gap between developed and developing countries. Thus, within-country inequities deserve as much consideration as do inequalities between the world's developing and developed regions

  • Mortality risk in preterm and small-for-gestational-age infants in low-income and middle-income countries

    Open AccessJoanne Katz, Anne CC Lee et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2013