Holly Baker

Datos Biográficos

ID90142
NOMBREHolly Baker
NOMBRESHolly
APELLIDOBaker
FIRMABAKER H
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California San Diego
ORCID0000-0002-5320-9575
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS41
TOTAL DE CITAS55
TOTAL COMO AUTOR41
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1984
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H5

  • Migration intention and Indigenous social networks in the place of origin

    Open AccessHaley M Ciborowski, Eric Leas et al.ARTICLELatin American and Caribbean…2025

  • Association of fertility-related attitudes and norms among adolescent wives, husbands, and mothers-in-law with wives’ fertility desires in rural Niger

    Open AccessShweta Tomar, Jay G Silverman et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    Niger has the world's highest fertility rate, with about seven children per woman, significantly impacting maternal and child health. This study examines how fertility-related attitudes and social norms affect adolescent wives' (AWs) fertility desires in rural Niger. Using data from 768 AWs (ages 15-19), their husbands, and mothers-in-law, the study employed multilevel linear regression models to analyse associations between birth spacing attitud…

  • Social network diffusion effects of an intimate partner violence prevention program in rural Nepal

    Open AccessHolly Baker, Shweta Tomar et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive global health issue. Social norms supporting male dominance are key determinants of IPV. While targeting social norms is crucial for prevention, most intervention evaluations focus only on direct beneficiaries, overlooking diffusion effects to non-participants. This study used social network analysis to assess the diffusion effects of an IPV prevention intervention in Nepal. The participants included…

  • Social Network Impacts and Moderators of Depression Among Indigenous Maya People Remaining in Place of Origin in the Migrant-Sending Guatemalan Western Highlands

    Open AccessHaley M Ciborowski, Kimberly C Brouwer et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Remaining in the place of origin while family, friends, and neighbors emigrate can have adverse effects on psychological well-being. Specific important relationships absent from one's social network can be especially impactful, while other relationships and network characteristics still available in the home network can be protective against psychological distress. The highlands of western Guatemala experience emigration at high rates and changin…

  • Effect of a Gender-Synchronized Family Planning Intervention on Inequitable Gender Norms in a Cluster Randomized Control Trial Among Husbands of Married Adolescent Girls in Dosso, Niger

    Open AccessSabrina C Boyce, Alexandra M Minnis et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2025

    Gender inequitable norms have severe consequences for safety and health globally. Using data from a four-arm cluster randomized control trial of the Reaching Married Adolescents in Niger (RMA) intervention (2016-2019), this study assesses effects on gender norms among husbands of married adolescent girls ( n = 1,055). Using an adjusted hierarchical difference-in-differences model, we found assignment to the RMA small groups intervention to be ass…

  • Impact of the Change Starts at Home Intervention on Intimate Partner Violence and Related Outcomes

    Open AccessAbbie Shervinskie, Jagmohan S Negi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2025Referencias: 3

  • Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases

    Open AccessGrazia Caleo, Kamalini Lokuge et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: There is a lack of empirical data on design effects (DEFF) for mortality rate for highly clustered data such as with Ebola virus disease (EVD), along with a lack of documentation of methodological limitations and operational utility of mortality estimated from cluster-sampled studies when the DEFF is high. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this paper are to report EVD mortality rate and DEFF estimates, and discuss the methodological limit…

  • Social networks and gender inequitable attitudes among men and women in rural Nepal

    Open AccessShweta Tomar, Cory J Clark et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    Gender-inequitable attitudes are known factors associated with women's experience of intimate partner violence (IPV). The current study aims to identify social network factors associated with gender-inequitable attitudes among men and women in Nepal. Data came from the baseline assessment for evaluating Change Starts at Home- an IPV prevention intervention in rural Nepal ( N = 1994). Linear regression models adjusted for participant demographics …

  • Application of an egocentric social network approach to examine changes in social connections following treatment for anxiety and depression

    Open AccessMadeleine Rassaby, Holly Baker et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024Referencias: 43

  • Social norms, diffusion, and women's risk of intimate partner violence in Nepal

    Open AccessCory J Clark, Gemma Ferguson et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2023

    This study sheds light on the effectiveness of the Change intervention, the role of addressing social norms in IPV prevention efforts, and the benefits of organized diffusion

  • The Role of Gender Norms on Intimate Partner Violence Among Newly Married Adolescent Girls and Young Women in India

    Open AccessLakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Stefano Bertozzi et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

    Gender norms have been posited to impact intimate partner violence (IPV), but there is scant evidence of the longitudinal association between community-level gender norms and IPV. Using longitudinal data on 3,965 married girls surveyed in India, we fitted mixed-effects ordinal and binary logistic regression models for physical IPV intensity and occurrence of sexual IPV. We found a 26% increase in the odds that women experience frequent physical I…

  • Association of Physician Referrals with Timely Cancer Care Using Tumor Registry and Claims Data

    Open AccessMelody K Schiaffino, James D Murphy et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2022

    More Americans are being screened for and more are surviving colorectal cancer due to advanced treatments and better quality of care; however, these benefits are not equitably distributed among diverse or older populations. Differential care delivery outcomes are driven by multiple factors, including access to timely treatment that comes from high-quality care coordination. Providers help ensure such coordinated care, which includes timely referr…

  • Characterizing Nigerien men's social networks and their influence on family planning-related attitudes and behaviors

    Open AccessSneha Challa, Nicole E Johns et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    This work uses data from a family planning (FP) program evaluation and social network study among men married to adolescent girls (ages 13-19) in Dosso, Niger to explore who influences their FP and through which social mechanisms. We asked men (N = 237) to nominate and describe their perceptions of key social contacts (alters). We sought to interview the most influential alter (N = 157 interviewed alters), asking them about their own FP-related a…

  • Through our own eyes and voices

    Open AccessHaley M Ciborowski, Samantha Hurst et al.ARTICLEJournal of Migration and Health2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 22

    Migration from Central America to the United States has become a strategy to escape economic poverty, exclusionary state policies and violence for people of Mayan descent. Under the principles Community Based Participatory Research, we explored the health concerns of Indigenous Mayans in rural migrant-sending communities of Guatemala using their own visual images and narratives through a Social Constructivist lens. Half of households in the study…

  • The Limits of Child Agency

    Open AccessMichelle Lokot, Holly Baker et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 12

    This article explores how communities and development practitioners conceptualise children’s agency. It highlights contradictions within non-government organisations ( ngo ) and United Nations (UN) narratives on child marriage: children are said to exercise agency when they defy forced marriage, yet they lack knowledge and choice if they themselves decide to marry. This article is based on interviews and focus group discussions with communities i…

  • Innovative methods to analyse the impact of gender norms on adolescent health using global health survey data

    Open AccessBen Cislaghi, Anna Margaret Weber et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 39

  • Social normative and social network factors associated with adolescent pregnancy

    Open AccessHolly Baker, Holly B Shakya et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Adolescent pregnancy and childbirth are common throughout Central America. While gendered beliefs promoting motherhood are a known risk factor, their association with adolescent childbirth within the social networks of Central American communities is unknown. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study looking at adolescent childbirth amongst women ages 15-20 years (N = 2990) in rural Honduras, using reproductive health data on all indi…

  • Mapping the patchwork

    Open AccessLotus Mcdougal, Holly Baker et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2020

    Despite dramatic reductions in child marriage over the past decade, more than one in four girls in India still marry before reaching age 18. This practice is driven by a complex interplay of social and normative beliefs and values that are inadequately represented in national- or even state-level analyses of the drivers of child marriage. A geographic lens was employed to assess variations in child marriage prevalence across Indian districts, ide…

  • Associations between village-level norms on marital age and marital choice outcomes among adolescent wives in rural Niger

    Open AccessHolly Baker, Jay G Silverman et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2020

    Social norms, the often unspoken rules that dictate behavior, are increasingly understood to play a role in child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) practices, but are less frequently examined in quantitative research on CEFM. No research on this topic has focused on Niger, despite the country having the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world. This study examines the associations of community and individual-level norms on marital age an…

  • Social network and social normative characteristics of married female adolescents in Dosso, Niger

    Open AccessHolly Baker, Sneha Challa et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020

    In this study we analysed the social networks of a sample of married adolescent girls (ages 13-19 years) residing in Dosso, Niger ( N = 322); data were collected for evaluation of a family planning (FP) intervention. Participants were asked to name individuals important in their lives (alters) using three name generating questions as part of a larger survey on reproductive health, social norms, and FP. One alter per girl was then recruited to be …

  • Women’s business? A social network study of the influence of men on decision-making regarding female genital mutilation/cutting in Senegal

    Open AccessBettina Shell‐duncan, Amadou Moreau et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020

    There exist two dominant but conflicting views on the role of men in the perpetuation female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). One paints men as culprits, with FGM/C viewed as a manifestation of patriarchal oppression of women. An alternative portrays men as relatively uninvolved in a practice described as 'women's business'. These two perspectives lead to divergent predictions: if FGM/C underpins patriarchal structures, men should be expected …

  • Spatial analysis of individual- and village-level sociodemographic characteristics associated with age at marriage among married adolescents in rural Niger

    Open AccessHolly Baker, Holly B Shakya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Our findings suggest that large-scale approaches to eliminating child marriage in these communities may be less successful if they do not take into consideration geographically and socially determined contextual factors at the village level

  • Gender norms and health

    Open AccessAnna Margaret Weber, Ann M Weber et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

  • Do village-level normative and network factors help explain spatial variability in adolescent childbearing in rural Honduras

    Open AccessHolly Baker, John R Weeks et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2019

    Adolescent childbearing rates are higher in Central America than almost anywhere else. However, in this research we discovered that adolescent childbearing exhibits variability from one village to another, and we might discover factors associated with this spatial variability that can help us understand key characteristics underlying the pattern of early childbearing. To do this, we assessed the village-level normative and network factors associa…

  • Why context matters for social norms interventions

    Open AccessBen Cislaghi, Paul Nchoji Nkwi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2019

    Child marriage is a global health and human rights issue. In Cameroon, 30% of women are married before age 18 but little research exists on the drivers of child marriage in the country. This qualitative study contributes to understanding the role of social norms in sustaining child marriage in Far-North and East Cameroon. Participants in the study ( N = 80) included women and men from four, ethnically different, rural communities (two in the Far-…