Sebastian Kevany
Biographic Data
| ID | 987858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Kevany |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Kevany |
| SIGNATURE | KEVANY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5440-6637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Costs of a Brief Alcohol Consumption Reduction Intervention for Persons Living with HIV in Southwestern Uganda
Low-cost interventions are needed to reduce alcohol use among persons with HIV (PWH) in low-income settings. Brief alcohol interventions hold promise, and technology may efficiently deliver brief intervention components with high frequency. We conducted a costing study of the components of a randomized trial that compared a counselling-based intervention with two in-person one-on-one sessions supplemented by booster sessions to reinforce the inte…
A case-based approach to teaching epidemic and pandemic-related global health diplomacy and security in African countries
A challenging concept to teach, few combined courses on epidemic-related global health diplomacy and security exist, and no known courses are currently available that have been exclusively designed for African nationals. In response, the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics (CGHDDE) developed and delivered a workshop for LMIC learners to better understand how politics, policy, financ…
Covid-19 Pandemic as an Excellent Opportunity for Global Health Diplomacy
Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic is not the first and most frightening global pandemic, and it may not be the last. At the very least, this phenomenon has though seriously challenged the health systems of the world; it has created a new perspective on the value of national, regional, and international cooperation during crises. The post-coronavirus world could be a world of intensified nationalist rivalries on the economic revival and political…
The rules of contagion
Never have the subjects of infection, contagion and outbreak been as relevant to modern humanity as today. Adam Kucharski's book is therefore nothing if not timely. And even though we currently find ourselves surrounded by a plethora of opinions on epidemics, it succeeds in bringing a unique and compelling perspective to the issue through its analysis of the digital and other realms. Kucharski's purpose is to connect the idea of contagion not onl…
Capacity building, local ownership and implementation of a multi-level HIV/Aids positive health, dignity, and prevention initiative in Mozambique
Mozambique has for many years suffered from a high burden of HIV with an estimated prevalence of 11.1% among adults age 15-49 years. In response, Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention (or Positive Prevention as it is known in Mozambique), was developed as a method of integrating HIV care and prevention via capacity building. Through comprehensive holistic care, HIV transmission is prevented while simultaneously promoting the health of people l…
A vision for global heath diplomacy in the foreign policy process
In the twenty-first Century, the developed world attempts to provide global health assistance, to poorer countries - at least in part in the pursuit and maintenance of world order and stability. Rarely, however - and in most cases, then on an ad hoc basis - are related foreign policy tools deployed in combination with each other. Nonetheless, there is currently greater openness than ever before to such interdigitation. Not least this reflects the…
Diplomatic advantages and threats in global health program selection, design, delivery and implementation
BACKGROUND: Global health programs, as supported by organizations such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), stand to make significant contributions to international medical outcomes. Traditional systems of monitoring and evaluation, however, fail to capture downstream, indirect, or collateral advantages (and threats) of intervention selection, design, and implement…
Disease diplomacy
Two recent publications—Disease diplomacy and The rise of global health—both illustrate the increasingly inexorable advance of global health onto the ‘high politics’ of the world stage in the twenty-first century. Rather than, as in the past, viewing global health as a backdrop or counterpoint to the pressing political, social and economic issues of the day, these books remind us that health, environmentalism, infectious disease and global inequa…
Global Health Diplomacy Investments in Afghanistan
BACKGROUND: Global health programmes require extensive adaptation for implementation in conflict and post-conflict settings. Without such adaptations, both implementation success and diplomatic, international relations and other indirect outcomes may be threatened. Conversely, diplomatic successes may be made through flexible and responsive programmes. We examine adaptations and associated outcomes for malaria treatment and prevention programmes …
Global health diplomacy in Iraq
BACKGROUND: International development programmes, including global health interventions, have the capacity to make important implicit and explicit benefits to diplomatic and international relations outcomes. Conversely, in the absence of awareness of these implications, such programmes may generate associated threats. Due to heightened international tensions in conflict and post-conflict settings, greater attention to diplomatic outcomes may ther…
Global Health Diplomacy, ‘Smart Power’, and the New World Order
Both the theory and practice of foreign policy and diplomacy, including systems of hard and soft power, are undergoing paradigm shifts, with an increasing number of innovative actors and strategies contributing to international relations outcomes in the 'New World Order'. Concurrently, global health programmes continue to ascend the political spectrum in scale, scope and influence. This concatenation of circumstances has demanded a re-examination…
Improving resource allocation decisions for health and HIV programmes in South Africa
The escalating expenditure on patients with HIV/AIDS within an inadequately funded public health system is tending towards crowding out care for patients with non-HIV illnesses. Priority-setting decisions are thus required and should increasingly be based on an explicit, transparent and accountable process to facilitate sustainability. South Africa's public health system is eroding, even though the government has received extensive donor financin…
Diplomatic and operational adaptations to global health programmes in post-conflict settings
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are an essential element of functioning and accountable global health programmes. In post-conflict settings, the role of M&E systems is also critical to ensure that health services are being delivered to those populations and regions most in need. Given the inherent challenges of health service delivery in such environments, a range of both diplomatic and operational adaptations to M&E procedures are necess…
Health diplomacy and the adaptation of global health interventions to local needs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand
Adaptation selection, development and approval during multi-site global health research studies should be a planned process that maintains fidelity to the study protocol. The successful implementation of appropriate site-specific adaptations may have important implications for intervention implementation, from both a service uptake and a global health diplomacy perspective
The rules of contagion
Never have the subjects of infection, contagion and outbreak been as relevant to modern humanity as today. Adam Kucharski's book is therefore nothing if not timely. And even though we currently find ourselves surrounded by a plethora of opinions on epidemics, it succeeds in bringing a unique and compelling perspective to the issue through its analysis of the digital and other realms. Kucharski's purpose is to connect the idea of contagion not onl…
Diplomatic and operational adaptations to global health programmes in post-conflict settings
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are an essential element of functioning and accountable global health programmes. In post-conflict settings, the role of M&E systems is also critical to ensure that health services are being delivered to those populations and regions most in need. Given the inherent challenges of health service delivery in such environments, a range of both diplomatic and operational adaptations to M&E procedures are necess…
Health diplomacy and the adaptation of global health interventions to local needs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand
Adaptation selection, development and approval during multi-site global health research studies should be a planned process that maintains fidelity to the study protocol. The successful implementation of appropriate site-specific adaptations may have important implications for intervention implementation, from both a service uptake and a global health diplomacy perspective
Improving resource allocation decisions for health and HIV programmes in South Africa
The escalating expenditure on patients with HIV/AIDS within an inadequately funded public health system is tending towards crowding out care for patients with non-HIV illnesses. Priority-setting decisions are thus required and should increasingly be based on an explicit, transparent and accountable process to facilitate sustainability. South Africa's public health system is eroding, even though the government has received extensive donor financin…
Global Health Diplomacy Investments in Afghanistan
BACKGROUND: Global health programmes require extensive adaptation for implementation in conflict and post-conflict settings. Without such adaptations, both implementation success and diplomatic, international relations and other indirect outcomes may be threatened. Conversely, diplomatic successes may be made through flexible and responsive programmes. We examine adaptations and associated outcomes for malaria treatment and prevention programmes …
Global health diplomacy in Iraq
BACKGROUND: International development programmes, including global health interventions, have the capacity to make important implicit and explicit benefits to diplomatic and international relations outcomes. Conversely, in the absence of awareness of these implications, such programmes may generate associated threats. Due to heightened international tensions in conflict and post-conflict settings, greater attention to diplomatic outcomes may ther…
Global Health Diplomacy, ‘Smart Power’, and the New World Order
Both the theory and practice of foreign policy and diplomacy, including systems of hard and soft power, are undergoing paradigm shifts, with an increasing number of innovative actors and strategies contributing to international relations outcomes in the 'New World Order'. Concurrently, global health programmes continue to ascend the political spectrum in scale, scope and influence. This concatenation of circumstances has demanded a re-examination…
Diplomatic advantages and threats in global health program selection, design, delivery and implementation
BACKGROUND: Global health programs, as supported by organizations such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), stand to make significant contributions to international medical outcomes. Traditional systems of monitoring and evaluation, however, fail to capture downstream, indirect, or collateral advantages (and threats) of intervention selection, design, and implement…
Disease diplomacy
Two recent publications—Disease diplomacy and The rise of global health—both illustrate the increasingly inexorable advance of global health onto the ‘high politics’ of the world stage in the twenty-first century. Rather than, as in the past, viewing global health as a backdrop or counterpoint to the pressing political, social and economic issues of the day, these books remind us that health, environmentalism, infectious disease and global inequa…
A vision for global heath diplomacy in the foreign policy process
In the twenty-first Century, the developed world attempts to provide global health assistance, to poorer countries - at least in part in the pursuit and maintenance of world order and stability. Rarely, however - and in most cases, then on an ad hoc basis - are related foreign policy tools deployed in combination with each other. Nonetheless, there is currently greater openness than ever before to such interdigitation. Not least this reflects the…
Capacity building, local ownership and implementation of a multi-level HIV/Aids positive health, dignity, and prevention initiative in Mozambique
Mozambique has for many years suffered from a high burden of HIV with an estimated prevalence of 11.1% among adults age 15-49 years. In response, Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention (or Positive Prevention as it is known in Mozambique), was developed as a method of integrating HIV care and prevention via capacity building. Through comprehensive holistic care, HIV transmission is prevented while simultaneously promoting the health of people l…
Covid-19 Pandemic as an Excellent Opportunity for Global Health Diplomacy
Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic is not the first and most frightening global pandemic, and it may not be the last. At the very least, this phenomenon has though seriously challenged the health systems of the world; it has created a new perspective on the value of national, regional, and international cooperation during crises. The post-coronavirus world could be a world of intensified nationalist rivalries on the economic revival and political…
The rules of contagion
Never have the subjects of infection, contagion and outbreak been as relevant to modern humanity as today. Adam Kucharski's book is therefore nothing if not timely. And even though we currently find ourselves surrounded by a plethora of opinions on epidemics, it succeeds in bringing a unique and compelling perspective to the issue through its analysis of the digital and other realms. Kucharski's purpose is to connect the idea of contagion not onl…
A case-based approach to teaching epidemic and pandemic-related global health diplomacy and security in African countries
A challenging concept to teach, few combined courses on epidemic-related global health diplomacy and security exist, and no known courses are currently available that have been exclusively designed for African nationals. In response, the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics (CGHDDE) developed and delivered a workshop for LMIC learners to better understand how politics, policy, financ…
Costs of a Brief Alcohol Consumption Reduction Intervention for Persons Living with HIV in Southwestern Uganda
Low-cost interventions are needed to reduce alcohol use among persons with HIV (PWH) in low-income settings. Brief alcohol interventions hold promise, and technology may efficiently deliver brief intervention components with high frequency. We conducted a costing study of the components of a randomized trial that compared a counselling-based intervention with two in-person one-on-one sessions supplemented by booster sessions to reinforce the inte…
Political science (12 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Diplomacy (9 works) · Global health (8 works) · Global Health and Surgery (8 works) · Health care (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Nursing (7 works)