Saqif Mustafa

Biographic Data

ID7581266
NAMESaqif Mustafa
GIVEN NAMESSaqif
FAMILY NAMEMustafa
SIGNATUREMUSTAFA S
AFFILIATIONSWorld Health Organization
ORCID0000-0002-2034-9387
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • National Covid-19 preparedness and response plans

    Open AccessAlexandra Czerniewska, Alyssa Sharkey et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: Infectious disease outbreaks have historically led to widespread disruptions in routine essential health services. Disruptions due to COVID-19 responses led to excess deaths, including among women and children. This review builds on earlier reviews of essential health services in national COVID-19 response and preparedness plans, focusing specifically on maternal, newborn, child, adolescent and ageing health (MNCAAH) in the context …

  • Building back better children's surgical services toward universal health coverage

    Open AccessDennis Mazingi, Tanvir Kabir Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction: This article is part of the Research Topic 'Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict'. Children's surgical services are crucial, yet underappreciated, for children's health and must be sufficiently addressed to make and sustain progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). Despite their considerable burden and socioeconomic cost, surgical diseases have been relatively neglected in favor of commun…

  • A synthesis of concepts of resilience to inform operationalization of health systems resilience in recovery from disruptive public health events including Covid-19

    Open AccessGeraldine McDarby, Redda Seifeldin et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict ’ Health systems resilience has become a ubiquitous concept as countries respond to and recover from crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, war and conflict, natural disasters, and economic stressors inter alia . However, the operational scope and definition of health systems resilience to inform health systems recovery and the b…

  • A novel approach to utilizing the essential public health functions in Ireland's health system recovery and reform

    Open AccessTriona McNicholas, Louise Hendrick et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict .’ The COVID-19 pandemic presented a challenge to health systems and exposed weaknesses in public health capacities globally. As Ireland looks to recovery, strengthening public health capacities to support health systems resilience has been identified as a priority. The Essential Public Health Functions (EPHFs) provide an integr…

  • Multisectoral action towards sustainable development goal 3.d and building health systems resilience during and beyond Covid-19

    Open AccessSiri Bjerkreim Hellevik, Siri Hellevik et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict ’. As the world faces global health crises such as pandemics, epidemics, climate change and evolving disease burdens and population demographics, building strong and resilient public health systems is of critical importance. The need for an integrated approach to building health system resilience; the widening of inequalities; a…

  • Developing technical support and strategic dialogue at the country level to achieve Primary Health Care-based health systems beyond the Covid-19 era

    Open AccessJeremy Cheong Chi Mo, Archana Shah et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict ’. Pursuing the objectives of the Declaration of Alma-Ata for Primary Health Care (PHC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and global health partners are supporting national authorities to improve governance to build resilient and integrated health systems, including recovery from public health stressors, through the long-term…

  • Towards applying the essential public health functions for building health systems resilience

    Open AccessYu Zhang, Geraldine McDarby et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change-related events, protracted conflicts, economic stressors and other health challenges, call for strong public health orientation and leadership in health system strengthening and policies. Applying the essential public health functions (EPHFs) represents a holistic operational approach to public health, which is considered to be an integrated, sustainable, and cost-effective means for supporting universal heal…

  • Public health and emergency workforce

    Open AccessAtiya Mosam, Dale Fisher et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Covid-19 Preparedness and Response Plans from 106 countries

    Open AccessSaqif Mustafa, Yu Zhang et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

    Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has exposed long-standing fragmentation in health systems strengthening efforts for health security and universal health coverage while these objectives are largely interdependent and complementary. In this prevailing background, we reviewed countries’ COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plans (CPRPs) to assess the extent of integration of non-COVID-19 essential health service continuity considerations alongside emer…

  • Building the evidence base for global health policy

    Open AccessZsuzsanna Jakab, Duncan Selbie et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    National public health institutes and WHO collaborating centres, and their global networks, are a key resource to support public health system strengthening with essential public health functions and generate evidence for health policy central to national health and socioeconomic development. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare global inequities in public health capacities, made urgent the need to examine sources of global knowledge and understan…