Mohamed Samai

Dados Biográficos

ID5015250
NOMEMohamed Samai
PRENOMESMohamed
SOBRENOMESamai
ASSINATURASAMAI M
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Sierra Leone
ORCID0000-0002-1427-9482
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Disentangling Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy

    Open AccessYara Alonso, Abu Bakarr Jalloh et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2025

    The WHO identified vaccine hesitancy as a threat to global health in 2019, but it was the COVID-19 pandemic that brought it to the fore of public discussions. Despite efforts to account for context in public health frameworks, these fail to translate into analyses that meaningfully capture the local dynamics forging vaccine hesitancy, while dominant public narratives continue to offer decontextualised and monolithic portrayals of this multifacete…

  • The cultural adaptation of the Friendship Bench Intervention to address perinatal psychological distress in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAbdulai Jawo Bah, Haja Ramatulai Wurie et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    Through this systematic approach, we successfully culturally adapted the FBI for treating perinatal psychological distress in Sierra Leone. The next step is to evaluate it feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness in perinatal care settings

  • Policy and practice implications of contextual understanding of - and tools to address - mental health and psychosocial support needs in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessAlastair Ager, Rebecca Horn et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    The last two decades have seen increased awareness of the impact of mental health issues on the population of Sierra Leone. Local capacity to respond to these needs is severely limited. In 2017, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) worked with staff of the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS - part of the University of Sierra Leone) and Queen Margaret University (QMU) in Edinburgh - and other stakeholders, including mem…

  • Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a culturally adapted nonspecialist delivery Problem-Solving Therapy

    Open AccessAbdulai Jawo Bah, Haja Ramatulai Wurie et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2025Referências: 57

    In low- and middle-income countries like Sierra Leone, there is a significant gap in the treatment of perinatal mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression and somatization. This study explored the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a culturally adapted Problem-Solving Therapy – Friendship Bench Intervention (PST-FBI) delivered by nonspecialists, mother-to-mother support groups (MMSGs), to perinatal women experien…

  • Immunisation coverage and factors associated with incomplete immunisation in children under two during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessMyrte Wassenaar, Augustin E Fombah et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Though full immunisation coverage at district level improved compared with pre-pandemic district estimates from 2019, around one in three surveyed children had missed at least one basic routine vaccination and over half of eligible children had not received the recommended two doses of a measles-containing vaccine. These findings highlight the need to strengthen health systems to improve vaccination uptake in Sierra Leone, and to further explore …

  • Designing a leadership and management training curriculum for undergraduate health professions students

    Open AccessOliver Johnson, Mohamed Bawoh et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2023

    Leadership by health professionals is key in any health system, but health leadership training programmes are varied in their conceptualisation, learning objectives, and design. This paper describes an undergraduate leadership and management module for health students at the University of Sierra Leone and provides lessons from the design process. Our methods included an initial scoping review and qualitative study, followed by a co-design process…

  • Sars-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Sierra Leone, March 2021

    Open AccessM Bailor Barrie, Sulaiman Lakoh et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: As of 26 March 2021, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention had reported 4 159 055 cases of COVID-19 and 111 357 deaths among the 55 African Union member states; however, no country has published a nationally representative serosurvey as of October 2021. Such data are vital for understanding the pandemic's progression on the continent, evaluating containment measures, and policy planning. METHODS: We conducted a cross…

  • The bumpy trajectory of performance-based financing for healthcare in Sierra Leone

    Open AccessMaria Paola Bertone, Haja Wurie et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    BACKGROUND: As performance-based financing (PBF) has been increasingly implemented in low-income countries, a growing literature has developed, assessing its effectiveness and, more recently, focussing on the political dynamics of PBF introduction and implementation. This study contributes to the latter body of literature by exploring decision-making processes on PBF in Sierra Leone during the 2010-2017 period. Sierra Leone presents an interestin…

  • A window of opportunity for reform in post-conflict settings? The case of Human Resources for Health policies in Sierra Leone, 2002–2012

    Open AccessMaria Paola Bertone, Mohamed Samai et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2014

    OUR STUDY IDENTIFIES THE KEY DRIVERS OF HRH POLICY TRAJECTORY IN SIERRA LEONE: (i) the political situation, at first uncertain and later on more defined; (ii) the availability of funding and the stances of agencies providing such funds; (iii) the sense of need for radical change - which is perhaps the only element related to the post-conflict setting. It also emerges that a 'windows of opportunity' for reform did not open in the immediate post-co…