Tanya Doherty

Datos Biográficos

ID341867
NOMBRETanya Doherty
NOMBRESTanya
APELLIDODoherty
FIRMADOHERTY T
AFILIACIONESSouth African Medical Research Council
ORCID0000-0003-1592-0080
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAS10
TOTAL COMO AUTOR58
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2009
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Strengthening Teamwork and Respect (STAR)

    Open AccessChristiane Horwood, Lyn Haskins et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Disrespectful maternal care has been reported from women's perspectives, but less is known about how health workers understand these behaviours. To develop interventions, it is important to explore the drivers of disrespectful care from providers' perspectives. OBJECTIVE: To explore nurses' perspectives on disrespectful maternal care. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 nurses in maternity units in nine rural di…

  • Voices from the neonatal unit

    Open AccessSphindile Mapumulo, Mary Kinney et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2026

    Neonatal care increasingly emphasizes improving the experience of care by engaging mothers as active partners alongside health workers providing clinical care for newborns. Guided by the World Health Organization's Standards for improving the quality of care for small and sick newborns, this study focuses on Standard 4, which promotes care that is respectful, responsive, and supportive of families' needs and preferences. We conducted a concurrent…

  • Towards developing new private sector maternity care models in South Africa

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Sue Fawcus et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2025

    Public-private partnerships are a key strategy in many middle-income countries to promote universal access to quality health care and reduce inequities. In maternity care, addressing inappropriate patterns of care within the private sector is essential for these partnerships to succeed. Caesarean rates are rising globally, four of the five countries with the highest caesarean rates are middle-income countries and private hospital care is a strong…

  • Strengthening teamwork and respect (STAR) in maternity units

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Ruwayda Petrus et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    Disrespect and abuse in maternity services in South Africa has been described over several decades and are rooted in the country's complex socio-political landscape and unequal health system which places strain on public sector health professionals. Strategies to improve the quality of health care typically involve once-off didactic teaching or outside technical consultants focused on improving specific health programmes. These approaches fail to…

  • Community-based follow-up of very low birth weight neonates discharged from a regional hospital in Cape Town

    Open AccessThandi Maya Gondwana de Wit, Tanya Doherty et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    BACKGROUND: Neonatal mortality remains a global health concern. In South Africa, 32% of under-five mortality consists of neonates, with 48% of neonatal deaths attributed to prematurity. The Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) aim to reduce deaths of very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates through community health worker (CHW) home visits. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe a cohort of VLBW neonates discharged from a regional hospital inc…

  • Valuing Academic Freedom and Advocacy

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Max Kroon et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2025

    This is a correspondence letter in response to an article published in the journal: Flaherman VJ, Nankabirwa V, Ginsburg AS. Promoting Transparent and Equitable Discussion of Controversial Research. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 2023; 18(4): 248–9

  • Wet Nursing and Human Milk Sharing

    Open AccessAnna Coutsoudis, Penny Reimers et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    The 2025 call of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is to prioritise breastfeeding through creating sustainable support systems. This is based on the strong foundations of breastfeeding and the unique properties of human milk to nourish, protect and provide optimal physical, emotional and cognitive growth for the infant. Empowering women to establish and maintain lactation is critical for the short- and long-term health of mothers…

  • Dynamics of combatting market-driven epidemics

    Open AccessEszter Rimányi, Jonathan D Quick et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Misuse and overconsumption of certain consumer products have become major global risk factors for premature deaths, with their total costs in trillions of dollars. Progress in reducing such deaths has been slow and difficult. To address this challenge, this review introduces the definition of market-driven epidemics (MDEs), which arise when companies aggressively market products with proven harms, deny these harms, and resist mitigation efforts. …

  • Women’s exposure to commercial milk formula marketing

    Open AccessChristiane Horwood, Sphindile Mapumulo et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Marketing of commercial milk formula (CMF) is well resourced and has influenced societal beliefs and practices that have undermined breastfeeding. This has occurred despite legislation in many countries largely reflecting the provisions of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in seven countries: Bangladesh, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, United Kingdom…

  • Knowledge, understanding and perceptions of key stakeholders on the maternity protection available and accessible to female domestic workers in South Africa

    Open AccessCatherine Pereira‐Kotze, E Spera et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Maternity protection enables women to combine reproductive and productive roles. Domestic workers are a vulnerable group due to heterogeneous non-standard employment relationships and are unlikely to have access to comprehensive maternity protection. This study aimed to explore the knowledge, understanding and perceptions of key stakeholders in government, trade unions, non-governmental organisations and other relevant organisations of the matern…

  • Experiences of public-private contracting for caesarean delivery in rural district public hospitals

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Sue Fawcus et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Governments in sub-Saharan Africa are exploring public-private-engagements for the delivery of health services. While there is existing empirical literature on public-private-engagements in high-income countries, we know much less about their operation in low and middle-income countries. Obstetric services are a priority area where the private sector can make an important contribution in terms of skilled providers. The objective of this study was…

  • Models using private general practitioners to provide caesarean deliveries at five South African district public hospitals

    Open AccessGeetesh Solanki, Emmanuelle Daviaud et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    BACKGROUND: Harnessing of private sector resources could play an important role in efforts to promote universal access to safe obstetric care including caesarean delivery in low- and middle-income countries especially in rural contexts but any such attempt would need to ensure that the care provided is appropriate and patterns of inappropriate care, such as high caesarean delivery rates, are not reproduced for the entire population. OBJECTIVE: To…

  • Access to Maternity Protection and Potential Implications for Breastfeeding Practices of Domestic Workers in the Western Cape of South Africa

    Open AccessCatherine Pereira‐Kotze, Mieke Faber et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Access to comprehensive maternity protection could contribute to improved breastfeeding practices for working women. Domestic workers are a vulnerable group. This study aimed to explore perceptions of and accessibility to maternity protection among domestic workers in the Western Cape, South Africa, and potential implications of maternity protection access for breastfeeding practices. This was a mixed-method cross-sectional study including a quan…

  • We should not have to choose between hunger and death’

    Open AccessWanga Zembe‐mkabile, Vundli Ramokolo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Poverty and Social…2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    Background: The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa and across the globe posed special challenges and implications for low-income families with children. In this study we explored the experiences of primary caregivers of children receiving a South African social assistance programme, the Child Support Grant (CSG), during lockdown in Cape Town, South Africa, and sought to understand whether and to what extent the underlying logic of ca…

  • Family supportive supervision in context

    Open AccessBongekile P Mabaso, Ameeta Jaga et al.ARTICLECommunity Work & Family2023Citada por: 4Referencias: 47

    Family supportive supervisor behaviours (FSSB) has received growing attention as an effective set of behaviours to facilitate the integration of work and family responsibilities. However, the FSSB construct remains limited in its sensitivity to context and our understanding of FSSB remains embedded in experiences from high-income global North countries and in white collar and private organisational settings. This paper presents a context-sensitiv…

  • Conflicts of interest are harming maternal and child health

    Open AccessCatherine Pereira‐Kotze, Bill Jeffery et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The promotion and support of breastfeeding \nglobally is thwarted by the USD $57 billion \n(and growing) formula industry that engages \nin overt and covert advertising and promotion \nas well as extensive political activity to foster \npolicy environments conducive to market \ngrowth.1 \n This includes health professional \nfinancing and engagement through courses, \ne-learning platforms, sponsorship of conferences and health professional associ…

  • Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response

  • Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Over the past three decades, the increase \nin funding for priority public health issues \nlargely affecting low/middle-income countries (LMICs) has led to the growth in international research involving researchers \nor research sponsors from a high-income \ncountry (HIC) conducting research in \nLMICs. The ethical considerations in such \ninternational research were raised in the \n1990s and several ethical guidelines specifically addressing int…

  • Optimising scale and deployment of community health workers in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessNicholas P Oliphant, Nicolas Ray et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Little is known about strategies for optimising the scale and deployment of community health workers (CHWs) to maximise geographic accessibility of primary healthcare services. METHODS: We used data from a national georeferenced census of CHWs and other spatial datasets in Sierra Leone to undertake a geospatial analysis exploring optimisation of the scale and deployment of CHWs, with the aim of informing implementation of current CHW …

  • Improving the efficiency of scale-up and deployment of community health workers in Mali

    Open AccessNicholas P Oliphant, Zeynabou Sy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Optimising the scale and deployment of community health workers (CHWs) is important for maximizing geographical accessibility of integrated primary health care (PHC) services. Yet little is known about approaches for doing so. We used geospatial analysis to model optimised scale-up and deployment of CHWs in Mali, to inform strategic and operational planning by the Ministry of Health and Social Development. Accessibility catchments were modelled b…

  • Health system response to preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV policy changes in Zambia

    Open AccessJonathan Mwanza, Mary Kawonga et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Zambia is focusing on attaining HIV epidemic control by 2021, including eliminating Mother to Child Transmission (eMTCT) of HIV. However, there is little evidence to understand frontline healthcare workers' experience with the policy changes and the readiness of different health system elements to contribute to this goal. OBJECTIVE: To understand frontline healthcare workers' experience of preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTC…

  • Exploring women’s exposure to marketing of commercial formula products

    Open AccessCatherine Pereira‐Kotze, Christiane Horwood et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Regulating the marketing of commercial formula products is a long-term commitment required to protect breastfeeding. Marketing strategies of formula manufacturers, retailers and distributors evolve at a rapid rate. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this research was to describe exposure of pregnant women and mothers of young children in South Africa to marketing of commercial formula products, compared to international recommendations and nationa…

  • ‘I know what I should be feeding my child’

    Open AccessWanga Zembe‐mkabile, Wanga Zembe-Mkabile et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Despite South Africa being an upper middle-income country producing enough food to sustain its population, and having an advanced social welfare system, it has high levels of food insecurity at the household-level. Food insecurity is linked to malnutrition and undernutrition in children. This manuscript addresses gaps in knowledge about food choices and practices of primary caregivers of children in receipt of South Africa's largest c…

  • An exploration of pregnant women and mothers’ attitudes, perceptions and experiences of formula feeding and formula marketing, and the factors that influence decision-making about infant feeding in So…

    Open AccessChristiane Horwood, Silondile Luthuli et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Global formula companies use multifaceted marketing methods to promote a strong narrative portraying formula feeding as a positive lifestyle choice. Positive, coordinated efforts are required to counter pro-formula messaging and change the narrative to support breastfeeding as an aspirational choice. In particular, health professionals must stop supporting the formula industry

  • Optimising geographical accessibility to primary health care

    Open AccessNicholas P Oliphant, Nicolas Ray et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Background Little is known about the contribution of community health posts and community health workers (CHWs) to geographical accessibility of primary healthcare (PHC) services at community level and strategies for optimising geographical accessibility to these services. Methods Using a complete georeferenced census of community health posts and CHWs in Niger and other high-resolution spatial datasets, we modelled travel times to community heal…