Abigail H Neel

Datos Biográficos

ID7581103
NOMBREAbigail H Neel
NOMBRESAbigail H
APELLIDONeel
FIRMANEEL A H
AFILIACIONESJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0000-0002-4254-9582
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS12
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR12
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2020
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Managing Public-Private Partnerships for Health Diagnostics

    Open AccessSara Bennett, Jennifer Applegate et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2026

    This paper draws upon a process evaluation of a public-private partnership (PPP) for diagnostics in three Sub-Saharan African countries, Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya. The study sought to identify challenges in managing health PPP projects and potential solutions. We used an extensive document review and 72 recent key informant interviews (KIIs), building on 63 KIIs previously conducted to analyze the African Health Diagnostics Platform (AHDP) projec…

  • What slows the progress of health systems strengthening at subnational level? A political economy analysis of three districts in Uganda

    Open AccessJustine Namakula, Xavier Nsabagasani et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    There is increasing recognition that without stronger health systems, efforts to improve global health and Universal Health Coverage cannot be achieved. Over the last three decades, initiatives to strengthen health systems in low-income countries have attracted huge investments in the context of achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as Universal Health Coverage. Yet, health system inadequacies pers…

  • From legacy to integration in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

    Open AccessSvea Closser, Abigail H Neel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is a global single-disease programme with an extensive infrastructure in some of the world's most underserved areas. It provides a key example of the opportunities and challenges of transition efforts-the process of shifting from donor-funded, single-disease programmes to programmes with more integrated and sustainable programmatic and funding streams. Our goal is to closely analyse the…

  • HIV programme sustainability in Southern and Eastern Africa and the changing role of external assistance for health

    Open AccessAbigail H Neel, Daniela C Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    High human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–prevalence countries in Southern and Eastern Africa continue to receive substantial external assistance (EA) for HIV programming, yet countries are at risk of transitioning out of HIV aid without achieving epidemic control. We sought to address two questions: (1) to what extent has HIV EA in the region been programmed and delivered in a way that supports long-term sustainability and (2) how should developme…

  • Facilitators and barriers to community engagement in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative–A mixed methods study

    Open AccessPriyanka Agrawal, Abigail Neel et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Community engagement (CE) is an important component of public health research and program implementation, especially in low- and middle-income countries. More recently, CE activities have been utilized to develop partnerships in research and program implementation processes, and advocate for policy recommendations with the aim to improve acceptance and reduce disparities of public health research activities and benefits in the involved communitie…

  • Political economy analysis of subnational health management in Kenya, Malawi and Uganda

    Open AccessDaniela C Rodríguez, L N Balaji et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    The need to bolster primary health care (PHC) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for health is well recognized. In Eastern and Southern Africa, where governments have progressively decentralized health decision-making, health management is critical to PHC performance. While investments in health management capacity are important, so is improving the environment in which managers operate. Governance arrangements, management …

  • Everyday capabilities were a path to resilience during Covid-19

    Open AccessRichard Neill, Abigail H Neel et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    COVID-19 demanded urgent responses by all countries, with wide variations in the scope and sustainability of those responses. Scholarship on resilience has increasingly emphasized relational considerations such as norms and power and how they influence health systems’ responses to evolving challenges. In this study, we explored what influenced countries’ national pandemic responses over time considering a country’s capacity to test for COVID-19. …

  • Years of polio campaigns in Ethiopia, India and Nigeria

    Open AccessAbigail H Neel, Svea Closser et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    Introduction The debate over the impact of vertical programmes, including mass vaccination, on health systems is long-standing and often polarised. Studies have assessed the effects of a given vertical health programme on a health system separately from the goals of the vertical programme itself. Further, these health system effects are often categorised as either positive or negative. Yet health systems are in fact complex, dynamic and tightly l…

  • The effects of polio eradication efforts on health systems

    Open AccessDaniela C Rodríguez, Abigail H Neel et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Vertical disease control programmes have enormous potential to benefit or weaken health systems, and it is critical to understand how programmes’ design and implementation impact the health systems and communities in which they operate. We use the Develop–Distort Dilemma (DDD) framework to understand how the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) distorted or developed local health systems. We include document review and 176 interviews with r…

  • A multi-pronged scoping review approach to understanding the evolving implementation of the Smallpox and Polio eradication programs

    Open AccessMeike Schleiff, Adetoun Olateju et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Linear learning did not always occur between SEP and GPEI; several lessons were lost and had to be re-learned. Implementation and adaptation of strategies in global health programs should be well codified, including information on the contextual, time and stakeholders' issues that elicit adaptations. Such description can improve the systematic translation of knowledge, and gains in efficiency and effectiveness of future global health programs

  • Synthesis and translation of research and innovations from polio eradication (STRIPE)

    Open AccessOlakunle Alonge, Abigail H Neel et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Understanding the implementing context is critical for identifying threats and opportunities to global health programs. Common implementation strategies emerged across countries; however, these strategies were only effective where organizational and individual capacity were sufficient, and where strategies were appropriately tailored to the sociopolitical context. To maximize gains, readiness assessments at different levels should predate future …

  • Lessons learned from the polio eradication initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia

    Open AccessWakgari Deressa, Patrick Kayembe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The polio program investments in the DRC and Ethiopia facilitated program implementation despite environmental, system, and community-level barriers. There were, however, missed opportunities for integration. Remaining pockets of low immunization coverage and gaps in surveillance must be addressed in order to prevent importation of wild poliovirus and minimize circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus. Studying these implementation processes is crit…