Elisa M Maffioli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1633164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa M Maffioli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Maffioli |
| SIGNATURE | MAFFIOLI E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3303-7945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Substandard and falsified antibiotics are associated with antimicrobial resistance
OBJECTIVE: Substandard and falsified (SF) medicines pose a significant public health concern due to their elusive nature and potentially dire consequences, including the exacerbation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This study aims to quantitatively assess the relationship between the prevalence of SF antibiotics and AMR. METHODS: We combine the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory database (1962-2019), with Global Bacterial Antimicrobial Resis…
Research capacity-building of midwives expanding access to safe abortion in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Enabling civil society organizations (CSOs) in sub-Saharan Africa to develop research ensures equitable scholarly representation and addresses local problems in sexual and reproductive health. To this end, a transnational research collaboration was formed to evaluate abortion services and develop the research capacity of two CSOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The team included Karolinska Institutet, Partners for Reproductive Justice …
Direct and opportunity costs of comprehensive abortion care for women living in humanitarian settings in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia
not applicable
Experiences of Person-Centred Comprehensive Abortion Care
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) unsafe abortion claims thousands of lives every year. Under the 2018 Maputo protocol ratification, officials are implementing abortion services, yet abortion stigma contributes to delays in access to care. A recognized approach, person-centred care, can improve the quality and access to care in DRC. The aim of this study was to understand the experiences of women who received an abortion with midwives, nu…
Can SMS interventions increase vaccination? Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya
Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar
We experimentally evaluate the effect on child malnutrition of a maternal cash transfer program in Myanmar that was supplemented with social behavior change communication (SBCC) in a subset of villages. The combination of interventions significantly reduced stunting, while cash alone had no effect on stunting. SBCC appears to have worked in conjunction with cash to reduce stunting by encouraging mothers to increase children’s dietary diversity, i…
Safe water treatment practices
Approximately 2.2 billion people worldwide, about 25% of the world’s population, still do not have access to safely managed drinking water [1]. For those who live where large-scale investment in water infrastructure is lacking, point-of-use chlorination at the household level could be an alternative to realise the health benefits of safe drinking water [2]. Chlorination [...]
Excessive active pharmaceutical ingredients in substandard and falsified drugs should also raise concerns in low-income countries
Substandard and falsified (SF) medicines still do not receive enough attention in public health. Substandard medicines are authorised medical products that fail to meet their quality standards or specifications, or both, due to within-factory errors or degradation in supply chains. Falsified medicines, instead, are defined as deliberately and fraudulently misrepresenting medicines’ identity, composition, or source [...]
Community perceptions of health accountability meetings with local politicians to improve healthcare quality
A comparison between different models of delivering maternal cash transfers in Myanmar
As part of a randomized controlled trial conducted in Myanmar between 2016 and 2019, we explore the performance of a maternal cash transfer program across villages assigned to different models of delivery (by government health workers vs loan agents of a non-governmental organization) and identify key factors of success. Measures include enrolment inclusion and exclusion errors, failures in payment delivery to enrolled beneficiaries (whether bene…
Whose voice counts? Achieving better outcomes in global sexual and reproductive health and rights research
Many indicators related to sexual and reproductive health and rights have worsened, with COVID-19, war and powerful conservative political movements around the world reversing decades of improvements. Improving sexual and reproductive health and rights generates a cascade effect that contributes to gender equality and power and improves overall health and well-being. Any solutions to address the problems in global sexual and reproductive health a…
Is the phone mightier than the virus? Cellphone access and epidemic containment efforts
Are socio-demographic and economic characteristics good predictors of misinformation during an epidemic
We combine data on beliefs about the origin of the 2014 Ebola outbreak with two supervised machine learning methods to predict who is more likely to be misinformed. Contrary to popular beliefs, we uncover that, socio-demographic and economic indicators play a minor role in predicting those who are misinformed: misinformed individuals are not any poorer, older, less educated, more economically distressed, more rural, or ethnically different than i…
The role of Savings and Internal Lending Communities (Silcs) in improving community-level household wealth, financial preparedness for birth, and utilization of reproductive health services in rural Z…
NCT02620436
Role of Savings and Internal Lending Communities (Silcs) in improving household wealth and financial preparedness for birth in rural Zambia
Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILCs) are a type of informal microfinance mechanism adapted in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to improve financial resources for poor and rural communities. Although SILCs are often paired with other health and non-health-related interventions, few studies have examined SILCs in the context of maternal health. This study examined the association between SILC participation, household wealth…
The political economy of health epidemics
Collecting Data During an Epidemic
This study developed a data collection method, combining (i) random‐digit dialling and interactive voice response to sample and screen respondents and (ii) computer‐assisted telephone interviewing, to survey 2265 respondents during the 2014 Ebola epidemic. The response, cooperation, refusal and contact rates computed according to the American Association for Public Opinion Research were 51.97, 52.62, 41.85 and 98.77 per cent, for interactive voic…
Does improving appropriate use of malaria medicines change population beliefs in testing and treatment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
A major puzzle in malaria treatment remains the dual problem of underuse and overuse of malaria medications, which deplete scarce public resources used for subsidies and lead to drug resistance. One explanation is that health behaviour, especially in the context of incomplete information, could be driven by beliefs, pivotal to the success of health interventions. The objective of this study is to investigate how population beliefs change in respo…
Collecting Data During an Epidemic
This study developed a data collection method, combining (i) random‐digit dialling and interactive voice response to sample and screen respondents and (ii) computer‐assisted telephone interviewing, to survey 2265 respondents during the 2014 Ebola epidemic. The response, cooperation, refusal and contact rates computed according to the American Association for Public Opinion Research were 51.97, 52.62, 41.85 and 98.77 per cent, for interactive voic…
Does improving appropriate use of malaria medicines change population beliefs in testing and treatment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
A major puzzle in malaria treatment remains the dual problem of underuse and overuse of malaria medications, which deplete scarce public resources used for subsidies and lead to drug resistance. One explanation is that health behaviour, especially in the context of incomplete information, could be driven by beliefs, pivotal to the success of health interventions. The objective of this study is to investigate how population beliefs change in respo…
Role of Savings and Internal Lending Communities (Silcs) in improving household wealth and financial preparedness for birth in rural Zambia
Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILCs) are a type of informal microfinance mechanism adapted in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to improve financial resources for poor and rural communities. Although SILCs are often paired with other health and non-health-related interventions, few studies have examined SILCs in the context of maternal health. This study examined the association between SILC participation, household wealth…
The political economy of health epidemics
Are socio-demographic and economic characteristics good predictors of misinformation during an epidemic
We combine data on beliefs about the origin of the 2014 Ebola outbreak with two supervised machine learning methods to predict who is more likely to be misinformed. Contrary to popular beliefs, we uncover that, socio-demographic and economic indicators play a minor role in predicting those who are misinformed: misinformed individuals are not any poorer, older, less educated, more economically distressed, more rural, or ethnically different than i…
The role of Savings and Internal Lending Communities (Silcs) in improving community-level household wealth, financial preparedness for birth, and utilization of reproductive health services in rural Z…
NCT02620436
Whose voice counts? Achieving better outcomes in global sexual and reproductive health and rights research
Many indicators related to sexual and reproductive health and rights have worsened, with COVID-19, war and powerful conservative political movements around the world reversing decades of improvements. Improving sexual and reproductive health and rights generates a cascade effect that contributes to gender equality and power and improves overall health and well-being. Any solutions to address the problems in global sexual and reproductive health a…
Is the phone mightier than the virus? Cellphone access and epidemic containment efforts
Safe water treatment practices
Approximately 2.2 billion people worldwide, about 25% of the world’s population, still do not have access to safely managed drinking water [1]. For those who live where large-scale investment in water infrastructure is lacking, point-of-use chlorination at the household level could be an alternative to realise the health benefits of safe drinking water [2]. Chlorination [...]
Excessive active pharmaceutical ingredients in substandard and falsified drugs should also raise concerns in low-income countries
Substandard and falsified (SF) medicines still do not receive enough attention in public health. Substandard medicines are authorised medical products that fail to meet their quality standards or specifications, or both, due to within-factory errors or degradation in supply chains. Falsified medicines, instead, are defined as deliberately and fraudulently misrepresenting medicines’ identity, composition, or source [...]
Community perceptions of health accountability meetings with local politicians to improve healthcare quality
A comparison between different models of delivering maternal cash transfers in Myanmar
As part of a randomized controlled trial conducted in Myanmar between 2016 and 2019, we explore the performance of a maternal cash transfer program across villages assigned to different models of delivery (by government health workers vs loan agents of a non-governmental organization) and identify key factors of success. Measures include enrolment inclusion and exclusion errors, failures in payment delivery to enrolled beneficiaries (whether bene…
Substandard and falsified antibiotics are associated with antimicrobial resistance
OBJECTIVE: Substandard and falsified (SF) medicines pose a significant public health concern due to their elusive nature and potentially dire consequences, including the exacerbation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This study aims to quantitatively assess the relationship between the prevalence of SF antibiotics and AMR. METHODS: We combine the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory database (1962-2019), with Global Bacterial Antimicrobial Resis…
Research capacity-building of midwives expanding access to safe abortion in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Enabling civil society organizations (CSOs) in sub-Saharan Africa to develop research ensures equitable scholarly representation and addresses local problems in sexual and reproductive health. To this end, a transnational research collaboration was formed to evaluate abortion services and develop the research capacity of two CSOs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The team included Karolinska Institutet, Partners for Reproductive Justice …
Direct and opportunity costs of comprehensive abortion care for women living in humanitarian settings in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia
not applicable
Experiences of Person-Centred Comprehensive Abortion Care
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) unsafe abortion claims thousands of lives every year. Under the 2018 Maputo protocol ratification, officials are implementing abortion services, yet abortion stigma contributes to delays in access to care. A recognized approach, person-centred care, can improve the quality and access to care in DRC. The aim of this study was to understand the experiences of women who received an abortion with midwives, nu…
Can SMS interventions increase vaccination? Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya
Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar
We experimentally evaluate the effect on child malnutrition of a maternal cash transfer program in Myanmar that was supplemented with social behavior change communication (SBCC) in a subset of villages. The combination of interventions significantly reduced stunting, while cash alone had no effect on stunting. SBCC appears to have worked in conjunction with cash to reduce stunting by encouraging mothers to increase children’s dietary diversity, i…
Medicine (14 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (10 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Media Influence and Politics (4 works)