Joseph Ali

Datos Biográficos

ID6178834
NOMBREJoseph Ali
NOMBRESJoseph
APELLIDOAli
FIRMAALI J
AFILIACIONESJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0000-0002-4767-2512
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS26
TOTAL DE CITAS7
TOTAL COMO AUTOR26
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Meeting People Where They Are

    Open AccessTravis I Lovejoy, Natassja Pal et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2026

    The authors declare no conflicts of interest. This is a commentary, and no data are presented in this article.

  • Acceptability of ambulance-based telemedicine (ABT) for paediatric emergencies in Karachi, Pakistan

    Open AccessSheza Hassan, Kerry Woolfall et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Globally, half of all 6.2 million deaths in children are caused by acute illnesses which can be prevented if diagnosed and treated in time. We hypothesise that long elapsed travel time and delay in care can be tackled using telemedicine. The objective of this study is to determine the acceptability of linking ambulances that transport acutely ill children to a remote paediatric emergency physician using a simple audiovisual device. …

  • Rethinking ethical reflexivity and oversight in health research through an ecosystem approach

    Open AccessKatharine Wright, Joseph Ali et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2026

    As the scope of morally relevant considerations widens and new challenges emerge at the frontiers of health innovation, there are questions about the appropriate role and remit for research ethics review, within the broader context of the whole health research ecosystem. Drawing on discussion at a satellite meeting at the 2022 Global Forum on Bioethics in Research in Cape Town, we argue that the ethical conduct of research is the responsibility o…

  • Nature and value of health research

    Open AccessSetlhomo Koloi‐Keaikitse, Gail Geller et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2026

    Relatively few studies to-date have examined research communities’ perspectives on fundamental characteristics of health research. This study contributes to the literature by investigating what selected local communities in Botswana understand to be the nature and value of health research for their communities, and the distinction they make between health research and medical intervention. Semi-structured focus groups and in-depth interviews were…

  • Trainee Perspectives on the Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

    Open AccessPaulina Tindana, Emily Haddad et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2026

    There is a growing demand for postdoctoral bioethics training in Africa, driven by the significant rise in graduate programs offered by universities. This study sought to evaluate the Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium Post-Doctoral Fellowship program and to explore the experiences and perspectives of its trainees as well as the program's impact on their careers in their home countries. This study adopted an exploratory qualitative design invol…

  • The effect of mobile phone messaging to support Covid-19 vaccination in Colombia

    Open AccessAndres I Vecino-Ortiz, Deivis Nicolas Guzman-Tordecilla et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, the speed required and the complexity of the information provided about vaccines highlighted the relevance of communicating evidence effectively during a sanitary emergency. We tested three interactive voice response (IVR) interventions, plus one control to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake in an adult population in Colombia. We conducted a parallel-group randomized controlled trial with four arms in Colombia between …

  • Digital benefit sharing” for non-communicable disease risk factor surveillance in low – and middle-income countries

    Open AccessJoseph Ali, Katelyn Esmonde et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies2026Citada por: 1Referencias: 43

  • Life from death

    Open AccessHalina Suwalowska, Michael Parker et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX Uterus transplantation (UTx) from deceased donors is a novel reproductive technology that has led to successful births globally

  • Health Research Ethics in Southern Africa

    Open AccessZaynab Essack, Paul Ndebele et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2025Referencias: 4

    The health research landscape in southern Africa is becoming increasingly complex as research efforts intensify to address the region's significant disease burden. The increasing volume and complexity of health research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) highlights the ongoing need for enhanced research ethics capacity. To supplement a review published in 2014, this paper provides an overview of research ethics capacity-building initiati…

  • Advancing Doctoral and Postdoctoral International Bioethics Training Programs Supported by the D43 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty Mechanism

    Open AccessConnie M Ulrich, Joseph Ali et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 5

    Advancing doctoral and postdoctoral international bioethics training in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) is essential to address the emerging and reemerging healthcare needs of local populations. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for sustenance of global collaboration and rapid adaptability in the future to further prioritize research frameworks to benefit LMICs. Thus, the purpose of the manuscript is to share the successes, chall…

  • Digital tools for youth health promotion

    Open AccessAgata Ferretti, Kwame Adjei et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2024

    Although digital health promotion (DHP) technologies for young people are increasingly available in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), there has been insufficient research investigating whether existing ethical and policy frameworks are adequate to address the challenges and promote the technological opportunities in these settings. In an effort to fill this gap and as part of a larger research project, in November 2022, we conducted a wor…

  • Recruiting hard-to-reach populations via respondent driven sampling for mobile phone surveys in Colombia

    Open AccessCamila Solorzano-Barrera, Mariana Rodríguez-Patarroyo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: Uptake of mobile phone surveys (MPS) is increasing in many low- and middle-income countries, particularly within the context of data collection on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) behavioural risk factors. One barrier to collecting representative data through MPS is capturing data from older participants.Respondent driven sampling (RDS) consists of chain-referral strategies where existing study subjects recruit follow-up participants …

  • Defining Malaysia's health research ethics system through a stakeholder driven approach

    Open AccessSean Tackett, Chirk Jenn Ng et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2024

    The need to understand the systems that support ethical health research has long been recognized, but there are limited descriptions of actual health research ethics (HRE) systems. Using participatory network mapping methods, we empirically defined Malaysia's HRE system. 13 Malaysian stakeholders identified 4 overarching and 25 specific HRE system functions and 35 actors internal and 3 external to the Malaysian HRE system responsible for those fu…

  • Ethical priorities for international collaborative adaptive platform trials for public health emergencies

    Open AccessKatharine Wright, Joseph Ali et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Rapidly produced evidence on effective medical counter measures is critical for responding to health emergencies caused by (re-)emerging infectious diseases. Adaptive platform trials played a significant role in the global research response to COVID-19 and are likely to be increasingly used in the future, both in emergency and non-emergency contexts. We call attention to a number of ethical considerations that should influence the development and…

  • Developing digital tools for health surveys in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessGulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Saifuddin Ahmed et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factor data from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are inadequate, mostly due to the cost and burden of collecting in-person population-level estimates. High-income countries regularly use phone-based surveys, and with increasing mobile phone subscription in developing countries, mobile phone surveys (MPS) could complement in-person surveys in LMICs. We compared the representativeness and prevalence esti…

  • Developing a competency framework for health research ethics education and training

    Sean Tackett, Jane Sugarman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2022

    Health research ethics (HRE) training programmes are being developed and implemented globally, often with a goal of increasing local capacity to assure ethical conduct in health-related research. Yet what it means for there to be sufficient HRE capacity is not well-defined, and there is currently no consensus on outcomes that HRE training programmes should collectively intend to achieve. Without defining the expected outcomes, meaningful evaluati…

  • Cultural Values and Beliefs of Selected Local Communities in Botswana

    Open AccessSetlhomo Koloi‐Keaikitse, Gail Geller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2021Citada por: 3Referencias: 3

    Calls have been made for researchers prospectively and continuously to engage study communities. If done, this typically occurs through a specific research study or collaboration. Rarely are community mores examined in-depth to understand implications for research ethics policy processes. We describe a qualitative study designed to understand local community values, beliefs, and practices that relate to research ethics in Botswana and explore how…

  • Adaptation of a mobile phone health survey for risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in Colombia

    Open AccessAngelica Tórres Quintero, Ángela Vega et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    BACKGROUND: Data collection on noncommunicable disease (NCD) behavioral risk factors has traditionally been carried out through face-to-face surveys. However, its high costs and logistical difficulties can lead to lack of timely statistics for planning, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Mobile phone surveys (MPS) have the potential to fill these gaps. OBJECTIVE: This study explores perceptions, feasibility and strategies to increas…

  • Informed Consent for Mobile Phone Health Surveys in Colombia

    Open AccessMariana Rodríguez-Patarroyo, Angelica Tórres Quintero et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

    Public health surveys deployed through automated mobile phone calls raise a set of ethical challenges, including succinctly communicating information necessary to obtain respondent informed consent. This study aimed to capture the perspectives of key stakeholders, both experts and community members, on consent processes and preferences for participation in automated mobile phone surveys (MPS) of non-communicable disease risk factors in Colombia. …

  • Integrating capacity development during digital health research

    Open AccessAdnan A Hyder, Hannah Selig et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Background: The Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative Research and Development Arm at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, has thus far collected NCD risk factor data from more than 13,000 citizens of three LMICs (Bangladesh, Tanzania and Uganda), and has actively worked to improve capacity with partners worldwide.Objective: This paper focuses on how a research project, can also act as a capacity building activity through it…

  • Ethics of mobile phone surveys to monitor non-communicable disease risk factors in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessJoseph Ali, Michael J DiStefano et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2019

    Active public health surveillance has traditionally been carried out through face-to-face household surveys or contact with providers, which can be time and resource intensive. The increasing ubiquity of mobile phones and availability of phone survey platforms provide an opportunity to explore the use of mobile phone surveys (MPS) for active disease and risk factor surveillance, including for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Scholars are increas…

  • Ethics of health policy and systems research

    Open AccessBoriana Pratt, Bridget Pratt et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2017

    Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is increasingly funded and undertaken as part of health system strengthening efforts worldwide. HPSR ethics is also a relatively new and emerging field, with numerous normative and descriptive questions that have largely not been considered. Normative questions include what ethical principles and values should guide HPSR. Descriptive questions include what ethical concerns arise when conducting HPSR. A sm…

  • The ethics of health systems research in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessAdnan A Hyder, Boriana Pratt et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2014

    The increasing conduct of health systems research (HSR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has not been matched by concurrent work to clarify the field's ethical dimensions. To begin to address this gap, a two-day workshop on the ethics of HSR in LMICs was convened at Johns Hopkins University in June 2013. Participants included health systems researchers, philosophers, lawyers, bioethicists and institutional review board members from Bot…

  • Evaluating International Research Ethics Capacity Development

    Open AccessJoseph Ali, Norman Ka et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2014Referencias: 2

    The US national institutes of health, Fogarty International Center (NIH-FIC) has, for the past 13 years, been a leading funder of international research ethics education for resource-limited settings. Nearly half of the NIH-FIC funding in this area has gone to training programs that train individuals from sub-Saharan Africa. Identifying the impact of training investments, as well as the potential predictors of post-training success, can support c…

  • Research Ethics Capacity Development in Africa

    Open AccessJoseph Ali, Adnan A Hyder et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2012

    The Johns Hopkins‐Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program (FABTP) has offered a fully‐funded, one‐year, non‐degree training opportunity in research ethics to health professionals, ethics committee members, scholars, journalists and scientists from countries across sub‐Saharan Africa. In the first 9 years of operation, 28 trainees from 13 African countries have trained with FABTP. Any capacity building investment requires periodic critical eval…