Calvin Chiu

Biographic Data

ID3582866
NAMECalvin Chiu
GIVEN NAMESCalvin
FAMILY NAMEChiu
SIGNATURECHIU C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0001-5092-6870
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Pharmacy-based non-communicable diseases screening has high potential for reach

    Open AccessCalvin Chiu, Melsa Omaya et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Low and middle-income countries are entering an epidemiological transition where non-communicable diseases (NCDs) increasingly contribute to disease burden. While Rwanda has one of the most robust public health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, rapid urbanization is leading to an emerging middle-class population who are at high risk for NCDs, but who also underutilize preventive care. The Goodlife Access pilot program in Rwanda screened over 9,000 i…

  • Evaluation of the SKILLZ intervention to promote HIV testing and contraception uptake in adolescent girls in Lusaka, Zambia

    Open AccessCalvin Chiu, Chama Mulubwa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Adolescent girls are at disproportionately high-risk for HIV and unintended pregnancy. Effective interventions to increase uptake of HIV testing and contraceptives are urgently needed. Our cluster-randomized controlled trial in 46 schools in Lusaka, Zambia evaluated the SKILLZ intervention: (a) 12 after-school sessions of sexuality and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education culminating in a community “graduation” soccer event where a pop-…

  • Community case management to accelerate access to healthcare in Mali

    Open AccessCaroline Whidden, Amadou Cissé et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    The Proactive Community Case Management (ProCCM) trial in Mali reinforced the health system across both arms with user fee removal, professional community health workers (CHWs) and upgraded primary health centres (PHCs)—and randomized village-clusters to receive proactive home visits by CHWs (intervention) or fixed site-based services by passive CHWs (control). Across both arms, sick children’s 24-hour treatment and pregnant women’s four or more …

  • Effect of community health worker home visits on antenatal care and institutional delivery

    Open AccessKassoum Kayentao, Rakesh Ghosh et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: Though community health workers (CHWs) have improved access to antenatal care (ANC) and institutional delivery in different settings, it is unclear what package and delivery strategy maximises impact. METHODS: This study reports a secondary aim of the Proactive Community Case Management cluster randomised trial, conducted between December 2016 and April 2020 in Mali. It evaluated whether proactive home visits can improve ANC access …

  • Designing for two

    Open AccessJenny X Liu, Jacques Vallin et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023References: 36

  • Household saving during pregnancy and facility delivery in Zambia

    Open AccessCalvin Chiu, Nancy A Scott et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2019References: 33

    Financial barriers cause many women in low- and middle-income countries to deliver outside of a health facility, contributing to maternal and neonatal mortality. Savings accrued during pregnancy can increase access to safe delivery services. We investigated the relationship between household saving during pregnancy and facility delivery. A cross-section of 2381 women who delivered a child in the previous 12 months was sampled from 40 health facil…

  • Designing an optimal HIV programme for South Africa

    Open AccessCalvin Chiu, Leigh F Johnson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Conventional league tables may exaggerate the cost-effectiveness of interventions when programmes are implemented at scale. Accounting for interaction and non-linear scale-up effects provides more realistic estimates in highly saturated real-world settings

  • Prospects for HIV control in South Africa

    Open AccessLeigh F Johnson, Calvin Chiu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: The goal of virtual elimination of horizontal and mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa (SA) has been proposed, but there have been few systematic investigations of which interventions are likely to be most critical to reducing HIV incidence. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to evaluate SA's potential to achieve virtual elimination targets and to identify which interventions will be most critical to achieving HIV incidence reduct…