Joy Noel Baumgartner

Dados Biográficos

ID1958911
NOMEJoy Noel Baumgartner
PRENOMESJoy Noel
SOBRENOMEBaumgartner
ASSINATURABAUMGARTNER J N
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ORCID0000-0002-1783-8972
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS31
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR31
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2009
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
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  • “Since I got the education, I feel like a kind of warrior”

    Open AccessAnat Fuksman, Fortunata Nasuwa et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2026

    Adolescents and young adults with HIV (AYAWH) face challenges with medication adherence and are at risk of mental health (MH) difficulties. Sauti ya Vijana (SYV, The Voice of Youth) is a co-created, peer-led, group-based MH intervention designed to address these needs. This study aimed to: (1) evaluate how participation in SYV impacted AYAWH’s lives in Tanzania and (2) explore AYAWH perspectives and preferences of the intervention. The SYV trial …

  • Caregiver attitudes towards HIV testing and contraceptive services for adolescents in Tanzania

    Katalia Alexander, David Gitagno et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2026

    Adolescents are disproportionately vulnerable to unintended pregnancies and delayed HIV treatment in low-resource settings. Tanzanian policies support adolescent access to contraception and HIV testing and counseling (HTC) without parental consent if needed; however, parent/guardian disapproval could lead to unmet service needs. This qualitative study explores factors that influence caregivers’ attitudes towards adolescents accessing these servic…

  • Dyadic Health Research in Social Work

    Open AccessTess Thompson, Ting Guan et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Society for Social…2026

  • Visual acuity problems, access to care, and related academic performance among primary school students in Tanzania

    Michael Maizel, Arisa Shichijo et al.ARTICLEVulnerable Children and Youth…2026Referências: 1

    Adolescents in lower-resource countries face a high burden of eye health problems. This study in Tanzania aimed to 1) estimate the prevalence of distance vision impairment among young adolescents, 2) describe academic performance by distance visual acuity status, and 3) examine facilitators and barriers to school-facilitated vision screenings and receiving eye care. Participants (primary school students in Standard 7) in the intervention arm of t…

  • Developing a regional mental health plan for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Open AccessFrancis Benedict, Francis Lukuwi Benedict et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2025

    Mental health services in sub-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania, are little studied and hence challenges and opportunities are not well known, leading to difficulties in improving access to, and quality of, services to those in need. 1. To conduct a situational analysis of mental health services in Dar es Salaam region, 2. To consult with key stakeholders on mental health services delivery and planning, and 3. To develop a regional mental health…

  • Adolescents’ and young women’s perspectives on participation in biomedical clinical trials for HIV prevention in Tanzania and India

    Allison Pack, Hee Do Jeon et al.ARTICLEVulnerable Children and Youth…2025Referências: 1

    Adolescent girls and young women are disproportionately affected by HIV in many lower-resource settings. These individuals are often excluded from early clinical trials for new HIV prevention products, thus delaying potential access. We explored adolescent girls' and young women's (AGYW) perceptions of HIV risk, perspectives on trial participation, and understanding of research concepts. Individual or repeated in-depth interviews were conducted w…

  • Social support and managing schizophrenia in Tanzania

    Open AccessPraxeda Swai, Monica Desjardins et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2024

    Background: In lower-resource settings like Tanzania, people living with schizophrenia (PWS) rely on their families for much of their social support, thus leading family members to become their main caregivers. How PWS and their families understand and implement social support can profoundly impact recovery pathways. This study examines how PWS and caregivers of PWS in Tanzania describe receiving and giving social support. We describe, from the p…

  • Timeliness of Delivery Care and Maternal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in Private Facilities in Masaka Area, Uganda

    Open AccessJill M Hagey, Julius Kirya et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2023

  • The Health Innovation Impact Checklist

    Open AccessMinahil Shahid, Amy Finnegan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    Donor financing is increasingly relying on performance-based measures that demonstrate impact. As new technologies and interventions enter the innovation space to address global health challenges, innovators often need to model their potential impact prior to obtaining solid effectiveness data. Diverse stakeholders rely on impact modeling data to make key funding and scaling decisions. With a lack of standardized methodology to model impact and v…

  • Integrating Data to Evaluate a Global Health Grand Challenge

    Blen M Biru, Blen Biru et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Program…2022

    This article describes the integrated, mixed methods (MM) design used to evaluate the Saving Lives at Birth (SL@B) program. SL@B is a multi-stakeholder, donor-supported global health initiative to tackle maternal and neonatal mortality via innovation. Since SL@B’s launch in 2011, the program has supported 116 innovations through 147 awards around the globe. The evaluation for this large and complex program included a largely retrospective MM desi…

  • Effect of a lay counselor-delivered integrated maternal mental health and early childhood development group-based intervention in Northern Ghana

    Open AccessJoy Noel Baumgartner, Mohammed Ali et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2021

    This real-world evaluation had null findings; however, post-intervention depression levels were very low in both arms (3%). Future research should examine the potential impact of women's groups on postpartum mental health more broadly with varying content

  • The impact of a maternal mental health intervention on intimate partner violence in Northern Ghana and the mediating roles of social support and couple communication

    Open AccessJiepin Cao, John Gallis et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    ClinicalTrials.gov # NCT03665246 , Registered on August 20th, 2018

  • The Effects of Antenatal Depression and Women’s Perception of Having Poor Health on Maternal Health Service Utilization in Northern Ghana

    Open AccessE Tammy Kim, Eunsoo Timothy Kim et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2021

  • Impact evaluation of a maternal and neonatal health training intervention in private Ugandan facilities

    Open AccessJoy Noel Baumgartner, John Headley et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Global and country-specific targets for reductions in maternal and neonatal mortality in low-resource settings will not be achieved without improvements in the quality of care for optimal facility-based obstetric and newborn care. This global call includes the private sector, which is increasingly serving low-resource pregnant women. The primary aim of this study was to estimate the impact of a clinical and management-training programme delivered…

  • Correlates of early stimulation activities among mothers of children under age two in Siaya County, Kenya

    Open AccessE Tammy Kim, Eunsoo Timothy Kim et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Citada por: 1Referências: 28

    This study indicates that both mothers and families could benefit from availability of ECD-friendly resources such as homemade toys and children's books (particularly for low-income families), and tailored messaging to support early stimulation activities for both girl and boy children and for those prematurely-born. Local governments and community-based programs can aim to both raise awareness about the importance of early childhood development …

  • I have a lot of faith in her’

    Open AccessMaya J Stephens, Leah A Schrumpf et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020

    In rural settings with shortages in trained health care workers, community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in the delivery of health care services. The Ghana Health Service initiated a national CHW programme in 2016 to expand health services to rural populations. This study explored the perceived role and value of CHWs in addressing family planning issues in the Amansie West district of Ghana. The study included in-depth interviews (…

  • Parental concerns and uptake of childhood vaccines in rural Tanzania – a mixed methods study

    Open AccessLavanya Vasudevan, Joy Noel Baumgartner et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Findings from our cross-sectional survey indicate the presence of vaccination delays and maternal concerns related to childhood vaccines in Tanzania. In FGDs, mothers raised issues related to convenience more often than issues related to vaccine confidence or complacency. Further research is necessary to understand how these issues may contribute to the emergence and persistence of vaccine hesitancy and to identify effective mitigation strategies

  • Beneath the Surface

    Open AccessJoseph R Egger, John Headley et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

  • Depression and Sexual Trauma Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in HIV-Prevention Research in Tanzania

    Open AccessEmily M Cherenack, Elizabeth E Tolley et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

  • Stakeholder acceptability of adolescent participation in clinical trials for biomedical HIV prevention products

    Allison Pack, Allison P Pack et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2019

    Researchers and advocates have increasingly called for adolescent participation in clinical trials for new HIV prevention products, particularly adolescent girls in areas most affected by the epidemic. However, recent trials have highlighted the challenges for young women and adolescents to be able to effectively use new products that require daily dosing. This analysis provides a highly relevant context for this challenging environment by examin…

  • Nutritional status among young adolescents attending primary school in Tanzania

    Open AccessMargaret Lillie, Isaac Lema et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Further studies are needed with more nutritionally and demographically diverse populations to better understand the nutritional status of adolescents and the practical contribution of MUAC cut-offs to measure adolescent nutrition

  • Implementing the protocol of a pilot randomized controlled trial for the recovery-oriented intervention to people with psychoses in two Latin American cities

    Open AccessFranco Mascayano, R Alvarado et al.ARTICLECadernos de Saude Publica2019Citada por: 1Referências: 28

    Several Latin American countries have made remarkable strides towards offering community mental health care for people with psychoses. Nonetheless, mental health clinics generally have a very limited outreach in the community, tending to have weaker links to primary health care; rarely engaging patients in providing care; and usually not providing recovery-oriented services. This paper describes a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Critic…

  • Motivation and satisfaction among community health workers administering rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in Western Kenya

    Open AccessLaura Winn, Laura K Winn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2018

    Background The continued success of community case management (CCM) programs in low-resource settings depends on the ability of these programs to retain the community health workers (CHWs), many of whom are volunteers, and maintain their high-quality performance. This study aims to identify factors related to the motivation and satisfaction of CHWs working in a malaria CCM program in two sub-counties in Western Kenya

  • Perceptions of Adolescent Pregnancy Among Teenage Girls in Rakai, Uganda

    Open AccessChristina Maly, Katherine A McClendon et al.ARTICLEGlobal Qualitative Nursing Research2017

    The leading causes of death and disability among Ugandan female adolescents aged 15 to 19 years are pregnancy complications, unsafe abortions, and childbirth. Despite these statistics, our understanding of how girls perceive adolescent pregnancy is limited. This qualitative study explored the social and contextual factors shaping the perceptions of adolescent pregnancy and childbirth among a sample of 12 currently pregnant and 14 never pregnant g…

  • Domestic Violence Among Adolescents in HIV Prevention Research in Tanzania

    Open AccessJoy Noel Baumgartner, Sylvia Kaaya et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2014