Francis Ruiz

Datos Biográficos

ID6330970
NOMBREFrancis Ruiz
NOMBRESFrancis
APELLIDORuiz
FIRMARUIZ F
AFILIACIONESLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0001-5183-3959
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2018
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Achieving universal coverage of childhood cancers in Ghana via the National Health Insurance Scheme

    Open AccessRichmond Owusu, Lieke Fleur Heupink et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Childhood cancers present a significant health problem and contribute to global child mortality. Low- and middle-income countries experience higher rates of childhood cancers with survival rates between 10% and 50%. In Ghana, about 2,500 children are diagnosed with cancer annually. Despite availability of effective management strategies, childhood cancers are not fully integrated into the NHIS, leaving patients and caregivers to make out-of-pocke…

  • Gaps and opportunities for data systems and economics to support priority setting for climate-sensitive infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessEllie A Delight, Ariel A Brunn et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Climate change alters risks associated with climate-sensitive infectious diseases (CSIDs) with pandemic potential. This poses additional threats to already vulnerable populations, further amplified by social factors such as gender inequalities. Currently, critical evidence gaps, along with inadequate institutional and governance mechanisms, hinder African states’ ability to prevent, detect and respond to CSIDs. Effective responses require transpa…

  • Crises and complexity

    Open AccessZaruhi Mkrtchyan, Yolanda Moyo et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025Referencias: 21

    The end of the COVID-19 global health emergency presents an opportunity to reflect on actions needed to enhance the effectiveness of responses to any future shocks. We highlight critical areas requiring attention from researchers and research commissioners to enhance the identification and adoption of ‘good value’ interventions, and we discuss the complexities of evidence-informed decision-making across multiple sectors, the evolving role of mode…

  • The epidemiological and economic burden of diabetes in Ghana

    Open AccessJoseph Kazibwe, Mohamed Gad et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Diabetes remains one of the four major causes of morbidity and mortality globally among non-communicable diseases (NCDs. It is predicted to increase in sub–Saharan Africa by over 50% by 2045. The aim of this study is to identify, map and estimate the burden of diabetes in Ghana, which is essential for optimising NCD country policy and understanding existing knowledge gaps to guide future research in this area. We followed the Arksey and O’Malley …

  • What, how and who

    Open AccessFrancis Ruiz, Sergio Torres‐rueda et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    While safe and efficacious COVID-19 vaccines have achieved high coverage in high-income settings, roll-out remains slow in sub-Saharan Africa. By April 2022, Nigeria, a country of over 200 million people, had only distributed 34 million doses. To ensure the optimal use of health resources, cost-effectiveness analyses can inform key policy questions in the health technology assessment process. We carried out several cost-effectiveness analyses exp…

  • Adaptive health technology assessment to facilitate priority setting in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessCassandra Nemzoff, Francis Ruiz et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION Traditional health technology assessment (HTA) is a policy-based research process, which aims to improve the efficiency and equity of the healthcare system with the limited financial resources available in healthcare.1 In various countries, traditional HTA has been 'institutionalised'-through the development of dedicated agencies with accepted norms and rules that guide explicit priority setting-over years or decades. These agencies …

  • Fairer financing of vaccines in a world living with Covid-19

    Open AccessItamar Megiddo, Justice Nonvignon et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine and campaign-based vaccination, potentially increasing the future vaccine-preventable disease burden and threatening to overwhelm health systems.\n\n- Vaccine-preventable diseases are transboundary problems that require global cooperation to achieve the best outcomes.\n\n- Investments, predominantly by rich countries—in effect transfers to poor countries—are required as part of the financing solution. T…

  • Health technology assessment and priority setting for universal health coverage

    Open AccessBenjamin Uzochukwu, Chinyere Cecilia Okeke et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Health technology assessment (HTA) is an effective tool to support priority setting and generate evidence for decision making especially en route to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). We assessed the capacity needs, policy areas of demand, and perspectives of key stakeholders for evidence-informed decision making in Nigeria where HTA is still new. METHODS: We surveyed 31 participants including decision makers, policy makers,…

  • Strengthening health technology assessment systems in the global south

    Open AccessKim MacQuilkan, Peter Baker et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2018

    BACKGROUND: Resource allocation in health is universally challenging, but especially so in resource-constrained contexts in the Global South. Pursuing a strategy of evidence-based decision-making and using tools such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA), can help address issues relating to both affordability and equity when allocating resources. Three BRICS and Global South countries, China, India and South Africa have committed to strengthening…