Sandra Alba

Datos Biográficos

ID7580876
NOMBRESandra Alba
NOMBRESSandra
APELLIDOAlba
FIRMAALBA S
AFILIACIONESRoyal Tropical Institute
ORCID0000-0003-2435-624X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2007
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Assessing the impact of the Taliban takeover on accessibility, availability, acceptability and quality of public healthcare facilities in Afghanistan

    Open AccessMargo van Gurp, Partamin Manalai et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: After the Taliban took over the Afghan government in August 2021, funds for the public healthcare system were suspended, the economy collapsed and female education and mobility were restricted. We examined the impact of the takeover on the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of public healthcare in Afghanistan. METHODS: We conducted a mixed-methods study to assess the impact of the Taliban takeover on Afghanistan'…

  • Assessing the health workforce in Afghanistan

    Open AccessNarges Neyazi, Nima Yaghmaei et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2025

    Afghanistan faces critical health workforce challenges, including shortages, gender imbalances and unequal geographic distribution. These findings provide essential insights for policymakers to guide human resources policies aimed at achieving UHC

  • The availability of essential medicines in public healthcare facilities in Afghanistan

    Open AccessMargo van Gurp, Sandra Alba et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025

    During the past two decades, the Afghan government, along with the international community, has developed a system aimed at improving access to essential healthcare services under Afghanistan’s challenging sociopolitical and geographical circumstances. In 31 provinces, nonstate actors competed for fixed-term contracts to implement a predefined package of healthcare services. In three provinces, the government organized the provision of healthcare…

  • Aligning the principles and practice of research integrity and research fairness in global health

    Open AccessJoseph B Sempa, Rutuja Patil et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: In the past decade, global health research has seen a growing emphasis on research integrity and fairness. The concept of research integrity emerged in response to the reproducibility crisis in science during the late 2000s. Research fairness initiatives aim to enhance ownership and inclusivity in research involving partners with varying powers, decision-making roles and resource capacities, ultimately prioritising local health rese…

  • Third party monitoring for health in Afghanistan

    Open AccessSandra Alba, Eelco Jacobs et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Third party monitoring (TPM) is used in development programming to assess deliverables in a contract relationship between purchasers (donors or government) and providers (non-governmental organisations or non-state entities). In this paper, we draw from our experience as public health professionals involved in implementing and monitoring the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) and the Essential Package of Hospital Services (EPHS) as part of t…

  • Finagle’s laws of information

    Open AccessSandra Alba, Callum Taylor et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Evaluations cannot support evidence-informed decision making if they do not provide the information needed by decision-makers. In this article, we reflect on our own difficulties evaluating the Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3) approach, an intervention that provides high-resolution demographic and geographical information to support health service delivery. GRID3 was implemented in Nigeria’s northern stat…

  • Impact of intensified tuberculosis case finding at health facilities on case notifications in Cameroon

    Open AccessZourriyah Adamou Mana, Chrysal Ngouateu Beaudou et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    There is a large gap between the number of people who develop tuberculosis (TB) and those who are diagnosed, treated and notified, with only an estimated 71% of people with TB notified globally in 2019. Implementing better TB case finding strategies is necessary to close this gap. In Cameroon, 1,597 healthcare workers at 725 health facilities were trained and engaged to intensively screen and test people for TB, then follow-up to link people to a…

  • Bridging research integrity and global health epidemiology (BRIDGE) statement

    Open AccessSandra Alba, Kristien Verdonck et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Research integrity and research fairness have gained considerable momentum in the past decade and have direct implications for global health epidemiology. Research integrity and research fairness principles should be equally nurtured to produce high-quality impactful research-but bridging the two can lead to practical and ethical dilemmas. In order to provide practical guidance to researchers and epidemiologist, we set out to develop …

  • Bridging research integrity and global health epidemiology (BRIDGE) guidelines

    Open AccessSandra Alba, Annick Lenglet et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Over the past decade, two movements have profoundly changed the environment in which global health epidemiologists work: research integrity and research fairness. Both ought to be equally nurtured by global health epidemiologists who aim to produce high quality impactful research. Yet bridging between these two aspirations can lead to practical and ethical dilemmas. In the light of these reflections we have proposed the BRIDGE guidelines for the …

  • Estimating maternal mortality

    Open AccessSandra Alba, Egbert Sondorp et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Maternal mortality is notoriously difficult to measure because even in high-mortality areas maternal deaths are relatively rare. These difficulties are further compounded in low-income and conflictaffected settings such as Afghanistan. Between 2002 and 2018, maternal mortality estimates for Afghanistan have been provided by six surveys, using a variety of costly methodologies yet yielding contradictory and sometimes implausible results. The 'fail…

  • Access to Health Care in Contexts of Livelihood Insecurity

    Open AccessBrigit Obrist, Nelly Iteba et al.ARTICLEPLoS Medicine2007

    The Policy Forum allows health policy makers around the world to discuss challenges