Charbel El Bcheraoui

Biographic Data

ID312914
NAMECharbel El Bcheraoui
GIVEN NAMESCharbel
FAMILY NAMEEl Bcheraoui
SIGNATUREEL BCHERAOUI C
AFFILIATIONSRobert Koch Institute
ORCID0000-0003-3117-9966
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Strengthening health system resilience during Covid-19

    Open AccessHanna-Tina Fischer, Abdul Karim Mbawah et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: 4 years after the Ebola outbreak, the arrival of COVID-19 presented West Africa with a new shock. Despite widespread disruptions, malaria service continuity remained a priority in both countries. In Sierra Leone, the proportion of pregnant women receiving at least three doses of intermittent preventive treatment increased from 36% in 2018 to 50% in 2021. Similarly, insecticide-treated net ownership in Guinea rose from 44% to 63%, re…

  • The malaria care cascade and factors associated with receiving a malaria test in children under 5 years of age and pregnant women with fever

    Open AccessGerrit Burger, Klara Röbl et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Malaria remains a significant global health issue, particularly among children under 5 years of age and pregnant women. In Guinea and Sierra Leone, malaria care in these vulnerable groups remains suboptimal and may have deteriorated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, evidence on the state of the malaria care cascade is urgently needed to guide public health interventions after the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: We conducted a cross-se…

  • Capacity-building during public health emergencies

    Open AccessHeide Weishaar, Francisco Pozo-Martin et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: Upon the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Laboratory Support Unit (ZIG4) at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German National Public Health Institute, developed and delivered an online training on SARS-CoV-2 qPCR diagnostics to 17 partner countries in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). This article analyses the usefulness and cost savings of this training. Methods: The authors performed a concurrent mixed-m…

  • Barriers and facilitators to viral hepatitis testing in Uzbekistan

    Open AccessAlyona Mazhnaya, Brogan Geurts et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    A multi-pronged approach is recommended to achieve VH testing goals among the general population, focusing on raising awareness and health literacy and creating an enabling environment that ensures easy accessibility and minimizing VH testing-associated costs

  • Listening to the Voices of Health Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessBarbara Buchberger, Heide Weishaar et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2024Cited by: 1References: 19

    In their daily practice, health care workers (HCWs) experience the effects of tensions between professional ethos and work realities, which can lead to ethical dilemmas. We aim to explore the ethical dilemmas that affected HCWs in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand these in the context of the German health system. Between April and December 2022, we interviewed HCWs from various levels of care and key informants responsible fo…

  • Prioritisation processes for programme implementation and evaluation in public health

    Open AccessShaileen Atwal, Jessica Schmider et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Programme evaluation is an essential and systematic activity for improving public health programmes through useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate methods. Finite budgets require prioritisation of which programmes can be funded, first, for implementation, and second, evaluation. While criteria for programme funding have been discussed in the literature, a similar discussion around criteria for which programmes are to be evaluated is …

  • Communicating risk during early phases of Covid-19

    Open AccessBrogan Geurts, Heide Weishaar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Emergency risk communication (ERC) is key to achieving compliance with public health measures during pandemics. Yet, the factors that facilitated ERC during COVID-19 have not been analyzed. We compare ERC in the early stages of the pandemic across four socio-economic settings to identify how risk communication can be improved in public health emergencies (PHE). Methods: To map and assess the content, process, actors, and context of ER…

  • Comparative effectiveness of financing models in development assistance for health and the role of results-based funding approaches

    Open AccessRand Mushasha, Charbel El BcheraouiARTICLEGlobalization and Health2023

    Over the past three decades, there has been an unprecedented growth in development assistance for health through different financing models, ranging from donations to results-based approaches, to improve health in low- and middle-income countries. Since then, the global burden of disease has started to shift. However, it is still not entirely clear what the comparative effect of the different financing models is. To assess the effect of these fin…

  • Providing strategic information during a public health emergency

    Open AccessThurid Bahr, Nina Klein et al.ARTICLEEvidence & Policy2023

    Background: Timely strategic information is essential for decision makers to mount an effective public health response to infectious disease outbreaks, and public health actors must find an effective way to supply it. The Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute (Germany’s national public health institute) developed a three-pronged approach to processing and supplying strategic information on the international state…

  • Classification Schemes of Covid-19 High Risk Areas and Resulting Policies

    Open AccessOlalekan Abdulrahman Uthman, Olatunji O Adetokunboh et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a significant global health threat since January 2020. Policies to reduce human mobility have been recognized to effectively control the spread of COVID-19; although the relationship between mobility, policy implementation, and virus spread remains contentious, with no clear pattern for how countries classify each other, and determine the destinations to- and from which to restrict travel. In this rapid review, we …

  • A comparative analysis of experienced uncertainties in relation to risk communication during Covid19

    Open AccessFlorin Cristea, Heide Weishaar et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2022

    BACKGROUND: During outbreaks, uncertainties experienced by affected communities can influence their compliance to government guidance on public health. Communicators and authorities are, hence, encouraged to acknowledge and address such uncertainties. However, in the midst of public health crises, it can become difficult to define and identify uncertainties that are most relevant to address. We analyzed data on COVID-19-related uncertainties from…

  • De-escalation strategies for non-pharmaceutical interventions following infectious disease outbreaks

    Open AccessCharbel El Bcheraoui, Sophie Alice Müller et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2021

  • Assessing Covid-19 through the lens of health systems’ preparedness

    Open AccessCharbel El Bcheraoui, Heide Weishaar et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

    The last months have left no-one in doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic is exerting enormous pressure on health systems around the world, bringing to light the sub-optimal resilience of even those classified as high-performing. This makes us re-think the extent to which we are using the appropriate metrics in evaluating health systems which, in the case of this pandemic, might have masked how unprepared some countries were. It also makes us reflect …

  • Child and adolescent injury burden in the eastern mediterranean region

    Open AccessSamar Al‐hajj, Samar Al-Hajj et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Almost 19% of global child injury related deaths occur in the EMR. Concerted efforts should be integrated to inform policies and adopt injury preventive strategies to reduce injury burden and promote child and adolescent health and well-being in EMR countries

  • Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017

    Open AccessLaura Dwyer-Lindgren, Laura Dwyer‐Lindgren et al.ARTICLENature2019

    HIV/AIDS is a leading cause of disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence has demonstrated that there is substantial local variation in the prevalence of HIV; however, subnational variation has not been investigated at a high spatial resolution across the continent. Here we explore within-country variation at a 5 × 5-km resolution in sub-Saharan Africa by estimating the prevalence of HIV among adults (aged 15–49 years) and the corres…

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017

    Open AccessDaniel Dicker, Grant Nguyen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part of previous iterations of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD). Previous iterations of the GBD used population estimates from UNPOP, which were not derived in a way that was internally consistent wit…

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017

    Open AccessGregory A Roth, D Abate et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 estimated global, regional, national, and, for selected locations, subnational cause-specific mortality beginning in the year 1980. Here we report an update to that study, making use of newly available data and improved methods. GBD …

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017

    Open AccessJeffrey D Stanaway, Ashkan Afshin et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BackgroundThe Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising evidence on risks and risk–outcome associations. With each annual GBD study, we update the GBD CRA to incorporate improved methods, new risks and risk–outcome pairs, and new data on risk exposure levels and risk–outcome associatio…

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017

    Open AccessHmwe Hmwe Kyu, D Abate et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, and provision of services. We comparatively assessed the patterns and trends of healthy life expectancy (HALE), which quantifies the number of years of life expected to be lived in good health, and the complementary measure o…

  • Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories

    Open AccessR Lozano, Nancy Fullman et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: Efforts to establish the 2015 baseline and monitor early implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight both great potential for and threats to improving health by 2030. To fully deliver on the SDG aim of "leaving no one behind", it is increasingly important to examine the health-related SDGs beyond national-level estimates. As part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 (GBD 2…

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017

    Open AccessL James, Spencer L James et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

    BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 (GBD 2017) includes a comprehensive assessment of incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) for 354 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2017. Previous GBD studies have shown how the decline of mortality rates from 1990 to 2016 has led to an increase in life expectancy, an ageing global population, and an expansion of the non-fatal…

  • Results-based aid with lasting effects

    Open AccessCharbel El Bcheraoui, Aruna M Kamath et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    BACKGROUND: The Salud Mesoamérica Initiative is a public-private partnership aimed at reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality for the poorest populations in Central America and the southernmost state of Mexico. Currently at the midpoint of implementation and with external funding expected to phase out by 2020, SMI's sustainability warrants evaluation. In this study, we examine if the major SMI components fit into the Dynamic Sustainab…

  • Health in Yemen

    Open AccessCharbel El Bcheraoui, Aisha O Jumaan et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    BACKGROUND: The effect of the ongoing war in Yemen on maternal and child health (MCH) has not been comprehensively assessed. Providing a situational analysis at the governorate level is critical to assist in planning a response and allocating resources. METHODS: We used multiple national- and governorate-level data sources to provide estimates of 12 relevant MCH indicators in 2016 around child vaccination, and child and maternal nutritional statu…

  • Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016

    Open AccessHaidong Wang, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific populations. Understanding how all-cause mortality has changed with respect to development status can identify exemplars for best practice. To accomplish this, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) estimated age-specific and …

  • Challenges to implementing Gavi’s health system strengthening support in Chad and Cameroon

    Open AccessUND group, Emily Dansereau et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Since 2005, Gavi has provided health system strengthening (HSS) grants to address bottlenecks affecting immunization services. This study is the first to evaluate the Gavi HSS implementation process in either Cameroon or Chad, two countries with significant health system challenges and poor achievement on the child and maternal health Millennium Development Goals. METHODS: We triangulated quantitative and qualitative data including fi…