Gavin Yamey

Datos Biográficos

ID6330734
NOMBREGavin Yamey
NOMBRESGavin
APELLIDOYamey
FIRMAYAMEY G
AFILIACIONESDuke University
ORCID0000-0002-8390-7382
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAS2
TOTAL COMO AUTOR28
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • From knowledge accumulation to transformative action

    Open AccessJulia Berenson, Rainer Martens et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2026

    Despite three decades of expanding scholarship on social determinants of health (SDH), progress in reducing health inequities has remained limited. While the SDH framework has reshaped global health discourse and informed policy rhetoric, the translation of knowledge into transformative action has been insufficient. The gap between evidence and impact is not explained by political constraints alone but is also contributed to by the orientation, m…

  • Evaluating global health programmes targeting under-5 mortality

    Open AccessAvi Kenny, Mark J Siedner et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    Reducing the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) is a key public health priority and remains a persistent challenge in low- and middle-income countries. Many interventions have been developed in attempts to lower U5MR through partnerships between governments, funding partners, researchers, product developers and non-governmental organisations. The well-intentioned desire to use data to set priorities has led to many large-scale evaluations that specify…

  • From research to practice

    Paul Ngangula, Louise Joel et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2026

    Despite the life-saving potential of mental health interventions, their scalability and integration within healthcare systems present significant challenges, particularly in low-resource global settings. This study investigated scaling IDEAS for Hope, a telehealth counseling intervention designed to reduce suicide risk and improve HIV care engagement among people living with HIV in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, and identified actionable implementation s…

  • Global Disparities in Premature Mortality

    Open AccessØ Karlsson, D T Jamison et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    In this cross-sectional study, disparities in PPD were likely to reflect major inequality in access to health-enhancing technologies and living standards, as well as context-specific obstacles. Technological and medical advancements leading to universal health benefits need to be rapidly and fairly disseminated

  • 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. …

  • Investing in a global pooled-funding mechanism for late-stage clinical trials of poverty-related and neglected diseases

    Open AccessArmand Zimmerman, Mohamed Mustafa Diab et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: Poverty-related and neglected diseases (PRNDs) cause over three million deaths annually. Despite this burden, there is a large gap between actual funding for PRND research and development (R&D) and the funding needed to launch PRND products from the R&D pipeline. This study provides an economic evaluation of a theoretical global pooled-funding mechanism to finance late-stage clinical trials of PRND products. METHODS: We modelled thr…

  • Essential packages of health services in low-income and lower-middle-income countries

    Open AccessAla Alwan, Gavin Yamey et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

  • Strategic donor behaviour and country vulnerability in health aid transitions

    Open AccessWenhui Mao, Kaci Kennedy Mcdade et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: When countries reach the middle-income threshold, many multilateral donors, including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), begin to withdraw their official development assistance (ODA), known as graduation. We hypothesised that bilateral donors might follow Gavi's lead, except in countries where they have strategic interests. We aim to understand how bilateral donors behave after a recipient country graduates from Gavi support and how b…

  • Country readiness and prerequisites for successful design and transition to implementation of essential packages of health services

    Open AccessAla Alwan, Reza Majdzadeh et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    This paper reviews the experience of six low-income and lower middle-income countries in setting their own essential packages of health services (EPHS), with the purpose of identifying the key requirements for the successful design and transition to implementation of the packages in the context of accelerating progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). The analysis is based on input from three meetings of a knowledge network established by…

  • Tracking financing for global common goods for health

    Open AccessSiddharth Dixit, Wenhui Mao et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Objective: Tracking global health funding is a crucial but time consuming and labor-intensive process. This study aimed to develop a framework to automate the tracking of global health spending using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) algorithms. We used the global common goods for health (CGH) categories developed by Schäferhoff et al. to design and evaluate ML models. Methods: We used data curated by Schäferhoff et al.,…

  • Approaches to improving the efficiency of HIV programme investments

    Open AccessMinahil Shahid, Ipchita Bharali et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Estimating Chinese bilateral aid for health

    Open AccessKaci Kennedy Mcdade, Paige Kleidermacher et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Although it is difficult to quantify, previous estimates suggested that China's global health aid has increased sharply since the early 2000s. Unlike many donors, China has no official aid reporting obligations, nor does it voluntarily disclose detailed aid information. Our study aimed to create a standardised estimate using commonly accepted definitions of aid and frameworks for categorising health projects. METHODS: We categorised A…

  • Identifying the impact of Covid-19 on health systems and lessons for future emergency preparedness

    Open AccessDosila Ogira, Ipchita Bharali et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has triggered a public health and economic crisis in high and low resource settings since the beginning of 2020. With the first case being discovered on 12 th March 2020, Kenya has responded by using health and non-health strategies to mitigate the direct and indirect impact of the disease on its population. However, this has had positive and negative implications for the country’s overall health system. This p…

  • The impacts of donor transitions on health systems in middle-income countries

    Open AccessHanna E Huffstetler, Shashika Bandara et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

    As countries graduate from low-income to middle-income status, many face losses in development assistance for health and must ‘transition’ to greater domestic funding of their health response. If improperly managed, donor transitions in middle-income countries (MICs) could present significant challenges to global health progress. No prior knowledge synthesis has comprehensively surveyed how donor transitions can affect health systems in MICs. We …

  • Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during Covid-19

    Open AccessGideon Meyerowitz‐Katz, Samir Bhatt et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

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  • Transitioning from donor aid for health

    Open AccessWenhui Mao, Kaci Kennedy Mcdade et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Ghana's shift from low-income to middle-income status will make it ineligible to receive concessional aid in the future. While transition may be a reflection of positive changes in a country, such as economic development or health progress, a loss of support from donor agencies could have negative impacts on health system performance and population health. We aimed to identify key challenges and opportunities that Ghana will face in d…

  • Using the Covid-19 pandemic to reimagine global health teaching in high-income countries

    Open AccessSalla Atkins, Ananya Banerjee et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

  • Progress in the face of cuts

    Open AccessUche Obi, Osondu Ogbuoji et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    In the coming years, about a dozen middle-income countries are excepted to transition out of development assistance for health (DAH) based on their economic growth. This anticipated loss of external funds at a time when there is a need for accelerated progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) is a source of concern. Evaluating country readiness for transition towards country ownership of health programmes is a crucial step in making progre…

  • Why did Ghana’s national health insurance capitation payment model fall off the policy agenda? A regional level policy analysis

    Open AccessGilbert Abotisem Abiiro, Kennedy A Alatinga et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Provider payment reforms, such as capitation, are very contentious. Such reforms can drop off the policy agenda due to political and contextual resistance. Using the Shiffman and Smith (Generation of political priority for global health initiatives: a framework and case study of maternal mortality. Lancet 2007; 370 1370–9) framework, this study explains why Ghana’s National Health Insurance capitation payment policy that rose onto the policy agen…

  • Incentivising wealthy nations to participate in the Covid-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (Covax)

    Open AccessDavid Mcadams, Kaci Kennedy Mcdade et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    box Progress in developing COVID-19 vaccines has been rapid: the first clinical trial of a vaccine candidate began in Seattle, USA on 16 March 2020—just 63 days after China shared the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. As of 12 November 2020, there were 48 candidate vaccines in clinical trials.1 Given standard attrition rates, we can expect at least a handful of COVID-19 vaccines to eventually be launched. However, de…

  • The impact of Covid-19 on HIV financing in Nigeria

    Open AccessTolulope Oladele, Babayemi O Olakunde et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    COVID-19, the most devastating pandemic since the 1918 influenza pandemic, has had severe health and economic impacts, including in Nigeria. Nigeria has the third largest HIV epidemic worldwide. Despite the onset of COVID-19, efforts to control HIV cannot be abandoned. HIV funding must be protected from the ongoing shocks to the Nigerian economy, so that Nigeria does not lose the health gains achieved over the past decades. Bold proactive steps a…

  • How to convene an international health or development commission

    Open AccessGavin Yamey, Lawrence H Summers et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018Referencias: 19

    The Commission on Investing in Health (CIH), an international group of 25 economists and global health experts, published its Global Health 2035 report in The Lancet in December 2013. The report laid out an ambitious investment framework for achieving a “grand convergence” in health—a universal reduction in deaths from infectious diseases and maternal and child health conditions—within a generation. This article captures ten key elements that the…

  • Global Surgery 2030

    Open AccessJohn G Meara, Andrew J M Leather et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2015

  • The men’s health gap

    Open AccessPeter Baker, Shari L Dworkin et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the World Health…2014

    Including both women and men in efforts to reduce gender inequalities in health as part of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda would improve everyone's health and well-being. That men tend to be in worse health than women has now been made clear by robust evidence from various sources. The Global Burden of Disease study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in 2010 (GBD 2010 study) showed that throughout the period from …

  • Global health 2035

    Open AccessD T Jamison, Lawrence H Summers et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2013

    countries can be reduced by 2035 through inexpensive population-based and clinical interventions. Fiscal policies are an especially promising lever for reducing this burden.