Takeru Igusa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4426362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Takeru Igusa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Takeru |
| FAMILY NAME | Igusa |
| SIGNATURE | IGUSA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3632-2867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Implementation pathways of a health services delivery redesign model to improve maternal and newborn outcomes in Kenya
Persistent high maternal and neonatal mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) call for system-level improvements in healthcare services. However, implementing such health system strengthening interventions presents challenges due to the complex, context-specific interactions inherent in these settings. This paper presents implementation pathways of a service delivery redesign (SDR) model in Kakamega County, Kenya, offering ins…
Integrating systems and implementation science in modeling and evaluating complex health interventions
Intervention evaluation is critical for determining the value of health interventions; however, real-world implementation frequently falls short of achieving anticipated large-scale impacts. This evidence-to-practice gap often arises from challenges in capturing the complexity inherent in intervention implementation. This complexity may stem from the intervention itself, the dynamic and interrelated processes of dissemination, implementation, and…
Design of the Focus on Restaurant Engagement to Strengthen Health (FRESH) study
Background: High dietary quality can protect against diet-related chronic diseases. In the United States, racial and ethnic minorities and those with lower incomes consistently exhibit lower dietary quality. Independently-owned restaurants are a common prepared food source in minority low-income communities, but there are significant knowledge gaps on how to work with these restaurants to offer healthy food, due to underlying and dynamic complexi…
Investigating the impacts of alcohol outlet zoning policy on alcohol consumption and access to non-alcoholic services
Protocol for the Support Application for Food PAntrieS trial
Introduction Food-insecure households commonly rely on food pantries to supplement their nutritional needs, a challenge that was underscored during the COVID-19 pandemic. Food pantries, and the food banks that supply them, face common challenges in meeting variable client volume and dietary needs under normal and emergency (e.g., pandemic, natural disaster) conditions. A scalable digital strategy that has the capacity to streamline the emergency …
Copewell all-hazards resilience model predicts Covid-19 outcomes
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to public health and other community level systems throughout the United States since 2020. Investigating county-level factors (covariates in a statistical sense) closely related to COVID mortality is an important research objective, as it can provide insight for improving pandemic preparedness and response. Community resilience , which signifies the capability and capacity of communi…
Advancing Transportation Equity and Safety Through Autonomous Vehicles
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States, and disproportionately impact communities of color. Replacing human control with automated vehicles (AVs) holds the potential to reduce crashes and save lives. The benefits of AVs, including automated shuttles, buses, or cars could extend beyond safety to include improvements in congestion, reductions in emissions, and increased access to mobility, particularly for vulnerabl…
Gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation for health systems
Gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for health and health systems interventions and programs is vital to improve health, health systems, and gender equality outcomes. It can be used to identify and address gender disparities in program participation, outcomes and benefits, as well as ensure that programs are designed and implemented in a way that is inclusive and accessible for all. While gender-responsive M&E is most effective when…
Prospective policy analysis—a critical interpretive synthesis review
Most policy analysis methods and approaches are applied retrospectively. As a result, there have been calls for more documentation of the political-economy factors central to health care reforms in real-time. We sought to highlight the methods and previous applications of prospective policy analysis (PPA) in the literature to document purposeful use of PPA and reflect on opportunities and drawbacks. We used a critical interpretive synthesis (CIS)…
The Baltimore Urban Food Distribution (BUD) App
Low-income urban communities in the United States commonly lack ready access to healthy foods. This is due in part to a food distribution system that favors the provision of high-fat, high-sugar, high-sodium processed foods to small retail food stores, and impedes their healthier alternatives, such as fresh produce. The Baltimore Urban food Distribution (BUD) study is a multilevel, multicomponent systems intervention that aims to improve healthy …
Planning for suicide prevention in Thai refugee camps
Suicide and associated behaviors represent a significant health disparity among refugees and displaced persons. Despite this burden, evidence for prevention programing in these populations is limited. This study aimed to inform the selection and implementation of suicide prevention strategies in refugee camps in Northwestern, Thailand - camps that had experienced recent spikes in suicides and suicide attempts at the time of the study. We leverage…
Examining social norm impacts on obesity and eating behaviors among US school children based on agent-based model
Social norm influences US children's BMI growth. High obesity prevalence will lead to a continuous increase in children's BMI due to increased socially acceptable mean BMI. Interventions promoting healthy body image and desirable socially acceptable BMI should be implemented to control childhood obesity epidemic
Examining social norm impacts on obesity and eating behaviors among US school children based on agent-based model
Social norm influences US children's BMI growth. High obesity prevalence will lead to a continuous increase in children's BMI due to increased socially acceptable mean BMI. Interventions promoting healthy body image and desirable socially acceptable BMI should be implemented to control childhood obesity epidemic
Planning for suicide prevention in Thai refugee camps
Suicide and associated behaviors represent a significant health disparity among refugees and displaced persons. Despite this burden, evidence for prevention programing in these populations is limited. This study aimed to inform the selection and implementation of suicide prevention strategies in refugee camps in Northwestern, Thailand - camps that had experienced recent spikes in suicides and suicide attempts at the time of the study. We leverage…
The Baltimore Urban Food Distribution (BUD) App
Low-income urban communities in the United States commonly lack ready access to healthy foods. This is due in part to a food distribution system that favors the provision of high-fat, high-sugar, high-sodium processed foods to small retail food stores, and impedes their healthier alternatives, such as fresh produce. The Baltimore Urban food Distribution (BUD) study is a multilevel, multicomponent systems intervention that aims to improve healthy …
Protocol for the Support Application for Food PAntrieS trial
Introduction Food-insecure households commonly rely on food pantries to supplement their nutritional needs, a challenge that was underscored during the COVID-19 pandemic. Food pantries, and the food banks that supply them, face common challenges in meeting variable client volume and dietary needs under normal and emergency (e.g., pandemic, natural disaster) conditions. A scalable digital strategy that has the capacity to streamline the emergency …
Copewell all-hazards resilience model predicts Covid-19 outcomes
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to public health and other community level systems throughout the United States since 2020. Investigating county-level factors (covariates in a statistical sense) closely related to COVID mortality is an important research objective, as it can provide insight for improving pandemic preparedness and response. Community resilience , which signifies the capability and capacity of communi…
Advancing Transportation Equity and Safety Through Autonomous Vehicles
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States, and disproportionately impact communities of color. Replacing human control with automated vehicles (AVs) holds the potential to reduce crashes and save lives. The benefits of AVs, including automated shuttles, buses, or cars could extend beyond safety to include improvements in congestion, reductions in emissions, and increased access to mobility, particularly for vulnerabl…
Gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation for health systems
Gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for health and health systems interventions and programs is vital to improve health, health systems, and gender equality outcomes. It can be used to identify and address gender disparities in program participation, outcomes and benefits, as well as ensure that programs are designed and implemented in a way that is inclusive and accessible for all. While gender-responsive M&E is most effective when…
Prospective policy analysis—a critical interpretive synthesis review
Most policy analysis methods and approaches are applied retrospectively. As a result, there have been calls for more documentation of the political-economy factors central to health care reforms in real-time. We sought to highlight the methods and previous applications of prospective policy analysis (PPA) in the literature to document purposeful use of PPA and reflect on opportunities and drawbacks. We used a critical interpretive synthesis (CIS)…
Design of the Focus on Restaurant Engagement to Strengthen Health (FRESH) study
Background: High dietary quality can protect against diet-related chronic diseases. In the United States, racial and ethnic minorities and those with lower incomes consistently exhibit lower dietary quality. Independently-owned restaurants are a common prepared food source in minority low-income communities, but there are significant knowledge gaps on how to work with these restaurants to offer healthy food, due to underlying and dynamic complexi…
Investigating the impacts of alcohol outlet zoning policy on alcohol consumption and access to non-alcoholic services
Implementation pathways of a health services delivery redesign model to improve maternal and newborn outcomes in Kenya
Persistent high maternal and neonatal mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) call for system-level improvements in healthcare services. However, implementing such health system strengthening interventions presents challenges due to the complex, context-specific interactions inherent in these settings. This paper presents implementation pathways of a service delivery redesign (SDR) model in Kakamega County, Kenya, offering ins…
Integrating systems and implementation science in modeling and evaluating complex health interventions
Intervention evaluation is critical for determining the value of health interventions; however, real-world implementation frequently falls short of achieving anticipated large-scale impacts. This evidence-to-practice gap often arises from challenges in capturing the complexity inherent in intervention implementation. This complexity may stem from the intervention itself, the dynamic and interrelated processes of dissemination, implementation, and…
Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works) · Nursing (3 works)