Jolene Skordis-Worrall

Biographic Data

ID88892
NAMEJolene Skordis-Worrall
GIVEN NAMESJolene
FAMILY NAMESkordis-Worrall
SIGNATURESKORDIS-WORRALL J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-8633-0208
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS76
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Economic evaluation

    Open AccessYeqing Zhang, Priyanka Patil et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: The Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition (NEON) programme was designed to promote equitable early childhood development by educating mothers of South Asian origin in two boroughs (Newham and Tower Hamlets) in East London on optimal feeding, care, and dental hygiene practices. The study found that the adapted Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) approach was highly acceptable and well-received by participants, with improvements in ma…

  • Cost-effectiveness of modified fully oral 9-month treatment regimens for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Moldova

    Open AccessKasim Allel, Tom Palmer et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Introduction Prior to 2020, treatment options for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) were limited and typically involved long treatment durations and high financial burdens. In the eastern European and central Asian (EECA) region, traditional inpatient tuberculosis (TB) care models, alongside high MDR-TB rates, escalate nosocomial transmission risks and treatment costs. Modified, fully oral, shorter treatment regimens (mSTR) implemented in…

  • Estimated cost-savings from integrated care for HIV, diabetes and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessGerard Joseph Abou Jaoude, Sokoine Kivuyo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    Background In a cluster-randomised trial in Uganda and Tanzania, we showed that integrated management, compared with standard vertical care, could achieve a high standard of care for diabetes and hypertension without adversely affecting outcomes for HIV. However, evidence on the value for money of integrated care is needed to inform policy.Objective Our economic evaluation aimed to establish the value for money of integrated care compared with ve…

  • How the four-day working week could affect health

    Open AccessSotiris Vandoro, Pedro P Barros et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025References: 9

  • Designing an evidence-informed package of essential health services for Universal Health Coverage

    Open AccessAla Alwan, Wilhemina Jallah et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Liberia developed an evidence-informed package of health services for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) based on the Disease Control Priorities 3 evidence. This paper describes the policy decisions, methods and processes adopted for prioritisation, key features of the package and lessons learnt, with special emphasis on feasibility of implementation. Package design was led by the Ministry of Health. Prioritisation of essential services was based on…

  • Transferable data exclusivity vouchers are not the solution to the antimicrobial drug development crisis

    Open AccessAstrid Berner-Rodoreda, Frank Cobelens et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Access to pharmaceutical products worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic when key developers of active pharmaceutical ingredients and medicinal products prioritised their national markets. These challenges led to a stronger commitment by the European Union (EU) to become more autonomous in developing and providing access to pharmaceutical products for its population.1 In April 2023, the European Commission (EC) proposed a reform of the EU pharma r…

  • Using costing to facilitate policy making towards Universal Health Coverage

    Open AccessSolène Gaudin, Wajeeha Raza et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    As countries progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), they frequently develop explicit packages of health services compatible with UHC goals. As part of the Disease Control Initiative 3 Country Translation project, a systematic survey instrument was developed and used to review the experience of five low-income and lower-middle-income countries—Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan—in estimating the cost of their proposed pa…

  • Public health benefits of shifting from hospital-focused to ambulatory TB care in Eastern Europe

    Open AccessSherrie L Kelly, Gerard Joseph Abou Jaoude et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    High rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) continue to threaten public health, especially in Eastern Europe. Costs for treating DR-TB are substantially higher than treating drug-susceptible TB, and higher yet if DR-TB services are delivered in hospital. The WHO recommends that multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB be treated using mainly ambulatory care, shown to have non-inferior health outcomes, however, there has been a delay to transition away …

  • Economic evaluation of participatory women’s groups scaled up by the public health system to improve birth outcomes in Jharkhand, eastern India

    Open AccessHassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Amit Ojha et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    An estimated 2.4 million newborn infants died in 2020, 80% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. To achieve the Sustainable Development Target for neonatal mortality reduction, countries with high mortality need to implement evidence-based, cost-effective interventions at scale. Our study aimed to estimate the cost, cost-effectiveness, and benefit-cost ratio of a participatory women’s groups intervention scaled up by the public health sys…

  • Technical efficiency of national HIV/Aids spending in 78 countries between 2010 and 2018

    Open AccessKasim Allel, Gerard Joseph Abou Jaoude et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    HIV/AIDS remains a leading global cause of disease burden, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In 2020, more than 80% of all people living with HIV (PLHIV) lived in LMICs. While progress has been made in extending coverage of HIV/AIDS services, only 66% of all PLHIV were virally suppressed at the end of 2020. In addition to more resources, the efficiency of spending is key to accelerating progress towards global 2030 targets f…

  • Economic evaluation of a conditional cash transfer to retain women in the continuum of care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period in Kenya

    Open AccessTom Palmer, Neha Batura et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    There is limited evidence on the cost and cost-effectiveness of cash transfer programmes to improve maternal and child health in Kenya and other sub-Saharan African countries. This article presents the economic evaluation results of the Afya trial, assessing the costs, cost-effectiveness and equity impact of a demand-side financing intervention that promotes utilisation of maternal health services in rural Kenya. The cost of implementing the Afya…

  • 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

    Open AccessAudrey Prost, Helen Harris–Fry et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    A trial of three nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions with participatory videos and women's group meetings in rural Odisha, India, found improvements in maternal and child dietary diversity, limited effects on agricultural production, and no effects on women and children's nutritional status. Our process evaluation explored fidelity, reach, and mechanisms behind interventions' effects. We also examined how context affected implementation…

  • Factors associated with women’s healthcare decision-making during and after pregnancy in urban slums in Mumbai, India

    Open AccessNeha Batura, Stavros Poupakis et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Exclusion of women from maternal healthcare decision-making threatens the effectiveness of health interventions. Factors such as age, employment, education, and household size need to be considered when designing health interventions targeting new mothers living in challenging conditions, such as urban slums in low- and middle-income countries

  • Understanding the Lived Experience of Children With Type 1 Diabetes in Kenya

    Open AccessTom Palmer, Cynthia Waliaula et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2022References: 40

    Focusing only on biomedical targets neglects the important role that psychosocial factors play in effective diabetes self-management. This study aims to understand the lived experiences of children with Type 1 Diabetes (T1DM) in Kenya. Children ( n = 15) participated in focus group discussions and photo diary data collection. Focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews were also conducted with caregivers ( n = 14). We describe an adapt…

  • Exploring the Associations between Early Childhood Development Outcomes and Ecological Country-Level Factors across Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Open AccessKasim Allel, Gerard Joseph Abou Jaoude et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    A poor start in life shapes children's development over the life-course. Children from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are exposed to low levels of early stimulation, greater socioeconomic deprivation and persistent environmental and health challenges. Nevertheless, little is known about country-specific factors affecting early childhood development (ECD) in LMICs. Using data from 68 LMICs collected as part of the Multiple Indicator Clus…

  • Relative power

    Open AccessHelen Harris–Fry, N Saville et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2021Cited by: 6References: 12

    We estimate the effects of antenatal food and cash transfers with women's groups on household allocative behaviour and explore whether these effects are explained by intergenerational bargaining among women. Interventions were tested in randomised-controlled trial in rural Nepal, in a food-insecure context where pregnant women are allocated the least adequate diets. We show households enrolled in a cash transfer intervention allocated pregnant wo…

  • Participatory learning and action cycles with women's groups to prevent neonatal death in low-resource settings

    Open AccessAnni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    WHO recommends participatory learning and action cycles with women's groups as a cost-effective strategy to reduce neonatal deaths. Coverage is a determinant of intervention effectiveness, but little is known about why cost-effectiveness estimates vary significantly. This article reanalyses primary cost data from six trials in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Malawi to describe resource use, explore reasons for differences in costs and cost-effective…

  • Participatory learning and action cycles with women’s groups to prevent neonatal death in low-resource settings

    Open AccessAnni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021References: 29

    WHO recommends participatory learning and action cycles with women’s groups as a cost-effective strategy to reduce neonatal deaths. Coverage is a determinant of intervention effectiveness, but little is known about why cost-effectiveness estimates vary significantly. This article reanalyses primary cost data from six trials in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Malawi to describe resource use, explore reasons for differences in costs and cost-effective…

  • A method for measuring spatial effects on socioeconomic inequalities using the concentration index

    Open AccessSungwook Kim, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2020

    Our findings suggest that men from lower socioeconomic groups are more likely to receive an HIV test after adjustment for spatial effects. This study develops a novel methodological approach that incorporates estimation of spatial effects into a common approach to equity analysis. We find that a significant component of inequalities in HIV uptake in Malawi driven by non-need factors can be explained by spatial effects. When the spatial model was …

  • Do Participatory Learning and Action Women’s Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women’s Agency in Rural Nepal

    Open AccessLu Gram, Joanna Morrison et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2019

    Participatory learning and action women's groups (PLA) have proven effective in reducing neonatal mortality in rural, high-mortality settings, but their impacts on women's agency in the household remain unknown. Cash transfer programmes have also long targeted female beneficiaries in the belief that this empowers women. Drawing on data from 1309 pregnant women in a four-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial in Nepal, we found little evidence fo…

  • Innovating to increase access to diabetes care in Kenya

    Open AccessGary Shannon, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    In the context of the rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases in LMICs, cross-sector approaches to improving access to care are increasingly needed. Public-private partnerships such as the BoP are necessary but not sufficient to ensure access to health care for people with diabetes at the base of the economic pyramid in Kenya

  • Organising Concepts of 'Women's Empowerment' for Measurement

    Open AccessLu Gram, Joanna Morrison et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2019Cited by: 15References: 126

  • Findings from a cluster randomised trial of unconditional cash transfers in Niger

    Open AccessVictoria Sibson, Carlos S Grijalva-Eternod et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2018

    Unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) are used as a humanitarian intervention to prevent acute malnutrition, despite a lack of evidence about their effectiveness. In Niger, UCT and supplementary feeding are given during the June-September "lean season," although admissions of malnourished children to feeding programmes may rise from March/April. We hypothesised that earlier initiation of the UCT would reduce the prevalence of global acute malnutrit…

  • Optima Nutrition

    Open AccessRuth Pearson, Madhura Killedar et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    A resource optimization tool can provide important guidance for targeting nutrition investments to achieve greater impact

  • Revisiting the patriarchal bargain

    Open AccessLu Gram, Jolene Skordis-Worrall et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 15References: 20

    Although power struggles between daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in the South Asian household remain an enduring theme of feminist scholarship, current policy discourse on 'women's economic empowerment' in the Global South tends to focus on married women's power over their husband; this neglects intergenerational power dynamics. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the processes involved in young, married women's negotiations of …