Susan E Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 983166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan E Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3829-9584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Tailoring malaria control interventions to suit local context
With global malaria cases on the rise, the WHO has placed increased emphasis on National Malaria Programmes to tailor interventions to country and programmatic needs. This paper presents the Plus Project’s experience of applying a codesign approach to design country-specific models of perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC), a chemoprevention intervention aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality due to malaria and anaemia in children. Codesign w…
Micronutrient Powders Combined With Malaria Chemoprevention to Improve Anaemia and Cognitive Function in Early Childhood in Mali
A cluster-randomised controlled trial was conducted in 60 communities in southern Mali to evaluate the impact of micronutrient powders (MNP) combined with seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) on anaemia (primary endpoint), Plasmodium infection, stunting and cognitive function in children < 5 years. The 60 communities were randomly allocated to the intervention or control arm, and cross-sectional biomedical and cognitive surveys were conducted a…
Increase in intimate partner violence during the Covid19 lockdown in uganda
While IPV was more likely to be experienced by women than men, in almost all cases, those of both genders who had experienced IPV reported that it had gotten worse during the lockdowns. Pandemic preparedness and government responses during future pandemics must consider how lockdowns can create unintended negative consequences, including exacerbating IPV
Effectiveness of malaria chemoprevention in the first two years of life in Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire compared to standard of care
Cameroon - NCT05889052; Côte d'Ivoire - NCT05856357
Becoming Editors
Is it possible for drug shops to abide by the formal rules? The structural determinants of community medicine sales in Uganda
The medicines retail sector is an essential element of many health systems in Africa and Asia, but it is also well known for poor practice. In the literature, it is recognised that improvements in the sector can only be made if more effective forms of governance and regulation can be identified. Recent debate suggests that interventions responsive to structural constraints that shape and underpin poor practice is a useful way forward. This paper …
An absence of evidence breeds contempt
Poor-quality medicines pose a significant challenge for health systems in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs),with recent deaths in multiple countries following ingestion of substandard cough syrups emphasising the need for quality-assurance of medicines in our increasingly interconnected global markets. Research also suggests that the source (country of manufacture) and type of medicine (generic/brand) are perceived to be associated with med…
Life in the buffer zone
Adherence and acceptability of community‐based distribution of micronutrient powders in Southern Mali
Home fortification with micronutrient powders (MNP) has been shown to reduce anaemia, with high overall acceptability and adherence, but there is limited evidence from West Africa. Around 80% of children younger than 5 years are anaemic in Mali, and new interventions are needed. This paper reports on the adherence and acceptability of a community-led MNP intervention targeting children aged 6-59 months in Southern Mali. The MNP were delivered by …
Cost analysis of a school-based comprehensive malaria program in primary schools in Sikasso region, Mali
A comprehensive school-based control strategy may be a feasible and affordable way to address the burden of malaria among schoolchildren in the Sahel
Cost-effectiveness analysis of malaria rapid diagnostic tests for appropriate treatment of malaria at the community level in Uganda
In Sub-Saharan Africa, malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under 5, due to lack of access to prompt and appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Many countries have scaled-up community health workers (CHWs) as a strategy towards improving access. The present study was a cost-effectiveness analysis of the introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) performed by CHWs in two areas of moderate-to-high and lo…
Local Place-Based Collaborative Governance
Editor’s Note: A two-part podcast featuring a discussion by the authors of the Mini-symposium on Urban Governance can be found at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/uar/podcastsThe renaissance in place-based, cross-sector local collaboratives in American cities is distinguished by diverse strategies and actors. This exploratory research compares early stages of two collaborative initiatives—one relying on traditional state-centric collaboration mod…
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
It puts life in us and we feel big’
This paper is an analysis of the social interaction between drug sellers, their clients and local health care workers within a medical trial that introduced rapid diagnostic tests for malaria into private sector drug shops in Mukono District, Uganda. It locates the introduction of a new technology to test blood and a system of referral within the context of local concerns about the choice and evaluation of treatment; and the socially legitimated …
Through Another Lens
odney Hero's intellectual work tracks some of the most significant political, social, and economic changes in recent American life. While the work is broad in scope and analytically intensive, it consistently refl ects his concern with the "American Dilemma"-the persistent if changing dynamics of race and inequality in a liberal polity. In addressing this question, his work thoughtfully re-examines basic assumptions about pluralism and inter grou…
Willingness-to-pay for a rapid malaria diagnostic test and artemisinin-based combination therapy from private drug shops in Mukono district, Uganda
In Uganda, as in many parts of Africa, the majority of the population seek treatment for malaria in drug shops as their first point of care; however, parasitological diagnosis is not usually offered in these outlets. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria have attracted interest in recent years as a tool to improve malaria diagnosis, since they have proved accurate and easy to perform with minimal training. Although RDTs could feasibly be perf…
The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics
Setting City Agendas
This article, which analyzes models of policy agenda setting that mostly built and applied to national policymaking, both in the United States and abroad, suggests that the divergence in scholarship is detrimental to theorizing on city politics and policy, and to the understanding of agenda dynamics and policy change. It argues that the complex dance between institutional change and policy change which is so prevalent in national-level research o…
Introducing malaria rapid diagnostic tests at registered drug shops in Uganda
All Terrorism Is Local
This article examines the conditions under which local jurisdictions make effective use of U.S. homeland security resources. It analyzes how resources, institutional context, and governance influence local performance on one homeland security policy dimension—communications interoperability. Governance maturity, nested institutions, and the existence of formal rules are key variables affecting the relationship between resources and performance at…
Community and problematic citizenship
Progress and problems in developing outcomes-focused social care services for older people in England
Social care services for adults are increasingly required to focus on achieving the outcomes that users aspire to, rather than on service inputs or provider concerns. This paper reports a study aimed at assessing progress in developing outcomes-focused services for older people and the factors that help and hinder this. It describes the current policy context and discusses the social care service outcomes desired by older people. It then reports …
Culturally compelling strategies for behaviour change
Behaviour change is notoriously difficult to initiate and sustain, and the reasons why efforts to promote healthy behaviours fail are coming under increasing scrutiny. To be successful, health interventions should build on existing practices, skills and priorities, recognise the constraints on human behaviour, and either feature community mobilisation or target those most receptive to change. Furthermore, interventions should strive to be cultura…
The work of cities
Culturally compelling strategies for behaviour change
Behaviour change is notoriously difficult to initiate and sustain, and the reasons why efforts to promote healthy behaviours fail are coming under increasing scrutiny. To be successful, health interventions should build on existing practices, skills and priorities, recognise the constraints on human behaviour, and either feature community mobilisation or target those most receptive to change. Furthermore, interventions should strive to be cultura…
Moving Toward Entrepreneurial Economic Development Policies
Local Place-Based Collaborative Governance
Editor’s Note: A two-part podcast featuring a discussion by the authors of the Mini-symposium on Urban Governance can be found at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/uar/podcastsThe renaissance in place-based, cross-sector local collaboratives in American cities is distinguished by diverse strategies and actors. This exploratory research compares early stages of two collaborative initiatives—one relying on traditional state-centric collaboration mod…
All Terrorism Is Local
This article examines the conditions under which local jurisdictions make effective use of U.S. homeland security resources. It analyzes how resources, institutional context, and governance influence local performance on one homeland security policy dimension—communications interoperability. Governance maturity, nested institutions, and the existence of formal rules are key variables affecting the relationship between resources and performance at…
Local Politics in a Global Era
Given the contested meanings of the local global context, it is important to see local political processes as more than a matter of new interests or claims prompted by globalization or even new institutions such as public-private partnerships. We argue that local politics in a global era are best understood in terms of the ideas, institutions, and interests shaping local policy processes. They are shaped by the causal stories that different group…
The Politics of Vulnerability
Paradoxically, the greater the national security threats, the more important the role of local policy in the United States. In this article we examine homeland security initiatives-particularly the tension between risk and vulnerability-and the governance dilemmas they pose for local communities. In contrast to the usual emphasis on coordination and capacity, we argue for conceptualizing local imperatives attendant to homeland security as collect…
The New Politics of Citizenship
Political and economic restructuring processes have created a new politics of citizenship that can best be understood in terms of the interactions between household resources, work conditions, and identity. A telephone survey of 1,042 employed respondents in four cities examines the effects of these conditions on political choices. Cluster analysis is used for a case-wise analysis of the responses. Four clusters emerge, each distinguished by a co…
Introducing malaria rapid diagnostic tests at registered drug shops in Uganda
Precious’ Place
(1990). ‘PRECIOUS’ PLACE: THE LOCAL GROWTH MACHINE IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING. Urban Geography: Vol. 11, Review Symposium on Logan and Molotch's Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place, pp. 185-193
Institutional Logics and Local Economic Development
Progress and problems in developing outcomes-focused social care services for older people in England
Social care services for adults are increasingly required to focus on achieving the outcomes that users aspire to, rather than on service inputs or provider concerns. This paper reports a study aimed at assessing progress in developing outcomes-focused services for older people and the factors that help and hinder this. It describes the current policy context and discusses the social care service outcomes desired by older people. It then reports …
The Profound and the Mundane
Responding to grassroots discontent
Determinants of State Growth Management Policies
Community and problematic citizenship
The Prospects for Loca Democratic Governance
Economic Growth, Environmental Quality, and Social Services
This study examines how local leaders in Boulder, Colorado, perceive the linkages among environmental quality, economic development, and social policy issues. The objective is to identify the extent to which declining resources create perceptions of a zero-sum situation forcing policy trade offs and the bases for potentially reframing these issues as a positive-sum agenda. The study utilized Q methodology and cluster analysis to identify differen…
Setting City Agendas
This article, which analyzes models of policy agenda setting that mostly built and applied to national policymaking, both in the United States and abroad, suggests that the divergence in scholarship is detrimental to theorizing on city politics and policy, and to the understanding of agenda dynamics and policy change. It argues that the complex dance between institutional change and policy change which is so prevalent in national-level research o…
Determinants of State Growth Management Policies
Enterprise Zones
Using criteria of efficiency, equity, and efficacy to assess enterprise zones reveals several shortcomings. The success of enterprise zones in revitalizing economically distressed areas depends on whether the causes of market failures are correctly identified, whether zone incentives are sufficient to trigger zone investment, and whether the investment and jobs produced in the zones are sufficient to offset additional service costs and lost tax r…
Symposium
The crisis of growth politics
Responding to grassroots discontent
Research Policy and Review 18. Losing Ground —Or Losing Credibility? An Examination of a Recent Policy Debate in the United States
This policy review is an examination of Charles Murray's Losing Ground, which is an investigation of the progress made by US blacks since 1950. The author purports to show that blacks have made little headway in terms of educational progress and income expectations, and are ‘losing ground’ within US society. A critical evaluation of Murray's research shows that he has focused on microeconomic issues at the expense of a consideration of wider stru…
Urban fortunes
Moving Toward Entrepreneurial Economic Development Policies
In Search of the Corpse
In this article we use a recent publication by Mark Gottdiener, The Decline of Urban Politics: Political Theory and the Crisis of the Local State, as the basis for a discussion of the many economic and social changes taking place within advanced capitalist societies. We argue that Gottdiener was too hasty when he identified the demise of the local political realm, and we show that alternative interpretations are possible and necessary. We draw on…
Economic Growth, Environmental Quality, and Social Services
This study examines how local leaders in Boulder, Colorado, perceive the linkages among environmental quality, economic development, and social policy issues. The objective is to identify the extent to which declining resources create perceptions of a zero-sum situation forcing policy trade offs and the bases for potentially reframing these issues as a positive-sum agenda. The study utilized Q methodology and cluster analysis to identify differen…
Precious’ Place
(1990). ‘PRECIOUS’ PLACE: THE LOCAL GROWTH MACHINE IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING. Urban Geography: Vol. 11, Review Symposium on Logan and Molotch's Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place, pp. 185-193
Urban Innovation and Autonomy
The Competitive City
The Changing Terrain of Local Politics
Urban Innovation and Autonomy
The Profound and the Mundane
Institutional Logics and Local Economic Development
Local Politics in a Global Era
Given the contested meanings of the local global context, it is important to see local political processes as more than a matter of new interests or claims prompted by globalization or even new institutions such as public-private partnerships. We argue that local politics in a global era are best understood in terms of the ideas, institutions, and interests shaping local policy processes. They are shaped by the causal stories that different group…
Power and City Governance
The Prospects for Loca Democratic Governance
The Work of Cities
The CO–CA Cluster
In Golde and Dore's succinct analysis, “doctoral programs and doctoral students are operating at cross purposes.” (2001, 44) While many factors contribute to this assessment, two are especially germane to the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) initiative: the question of mismatch and the limited notion of scholarship emphasized in many doctoral programs
The New Politics of Citizenship
Political and economic restructuring processes have created a new politics of citizenship that can best be understood in terms of the interactions between household resources, work conditions, and identity. A telephone survey of 1,042 employed respondents in four cities examines the effects of these conditions on political choices. Cluster analysis is used for a case-wise analysis of the responses. Four clusters emerge, each distinguished by a co…
Culturally compelling strategies for behaviour change
Behaviour change is notoriously difficult to initiate and sustain, and the reasons why efforts to promote healthy behaviours fail are coming under increasing scrutiny. To be successful, health interventions should build on existing practices, skills and priorities, recognise the constraints on human behaviour, and either feature community mobilisation or target those most receptive to change. Furthermore, interventions should strive to be cultura…
The Politics of Vulnerability
Paradoxically, the greater the national security threats, the more important the role of local policy in the United States. In this article we examine homeland security initiatives-particularly the tension between risk and vulnerability-and the governance dilemmas they pose for local communities. In contrast to the usual emphasis on coordination and capacity, we argue for conceptualizing local imperatives attendant to homeland security as collect…
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