Amy Hobbs

Biographic Data

ID5411786
NAMEAmy Hobbs
GIVEN NAMESAmy
FAMILY NAMEHobbs
SIGNATUREHOBBS A
AFFILIATIONSJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0000-0003-2242-7868
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Strengthening effectiveness evaluations through gender integration to improve programs for women, newborn, child, and adolescent health

    Open AccessRosemary Morgan, Henri M Garrison‐Desany et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    Over the past decade, there has been substantial progress towards integrating our understanding of social determinants of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) into health planning and programs. For these programs, gender inequity remains one of the most harmful factors for women's access to healthcare. Designing RMNCAH programs to be gender-responsive through active engagement with and overcoming of gender-relate…

  • The Radar coverage tool

    Open AccessMelinda Munos, Abdoulaye Maiga et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    Population-based intervention coverage data are used to inform the design of projects, programs, and policies and to evaluate their impact. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), household surveys are the primary source of coverage data. Many coverage surveys are implemented by organizations with limited experience or resources in population-based data collection. We developed a streamlined survey and set of supporting materials to facilita…

  • Evaluation of a comprehensive maternal newborn health intervention in rural Tanzania

    Open AccessDismas Matovelo, Maendeleo Boniphace et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: In Tanzania, maternal and newborn deaths can be prevented via quality facility-based antenatal care (ANC), delivery, and postnatal care (PNC). Scalable, integrated, and comprehensive interventions addressing demand and service-side care-seeking barriers are needed. OBJECTIVE: Assess coverage survey indicators before and after a comprehensive maternal newborn health (MNH) intervention in Misungwi District, Tanzania. METHODS: A prospect…

  • Five-year retention of volunteer community health workers in rural Uganda

    Open AccessAmy Hobbs, Amy J Hobbs et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

    Community health workers (CHWs) effectively improve maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) outcomes in low-to-middle-income countries. However, CHW retention remains a challenge. This retrospective registry analysis evaluated medium-term retention of volunteer CHWs in two rural Ugandan districts, trained during a district-wide MNCH initiative. From 2012 to 2014, the Healthy Child Uganda partnership facilitated district-led CHW programme scale-…

  • Transmission dynamics of Sars-CoV-2 in British Columbia’s largest school district during the second half of the 2020–2021 school year

    Open AccessLaurence Campeau, Frances Thistlethwaite et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2022References: 22

    In-school acquisition of COVID-19 was uncommon during the study period. Risk factors were identified in order to support the implementation of mitigation strategies that can reduce transmission further

  • The role of gender power relations on women’s health outcomes

    Open AccessHenri M Garrison‐Desany, Henri M Garrison-Desany et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The association between decision-making and other gender domains with women's health outcomes highlights the need for heightened attention to gender dimensions of intervention coverage in maternal health. Future studies should integrate and analyze gender-sensitive questions within coverage surveys