Caitlin R Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5991075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitlin R Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitlin R |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | All authors are with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Un]met Need and [Un]wanted Family Planning
Unwanted family planning often refers to fertility desires as a proxy for contraceptive desire and lacks alignment with the tenets of person‐centered care. We construct a person‐centered measure of unwanted family planning by asking women whether they wanted to use a method, examine its alignment with the fertility‐derived measure, and describe the characteristics of women with unwanted family planning and reasons women state for not wanting to u…
Beyond Virtue-Signaling
As public health mourns the inequitable loss of lives to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and confronts other major social crises, practitioners must explicitly address systems of oppression in their everyday praxis. We describe how the principles of public health critical race praxis (PHCRP) and design justice (DJ) can advance equity in public health. We begin with an overview of PHCRP and DJ, and develop an integrated approach to facilitate …
Frequency and impact of long wait times for family planning in public-sector healthcare facilities in Western Kenya
BACKGROUND: Long wait times for family planning services are a barrier to high quality care and client satisfaction. Existing literature examining family planning wait times has methodological limitations, as most studies use data collected during exit interviews, which are subject to recall, courtesy, and selection bias. OBJECTIVE: We sought to employ a mixed methods approach to capture the prevalence, length, causes, and impacts of wait times f…
Absenteeism among family planning providers
Public-sector healthcare providers are on the frontline of family planning service delivery in low- and middle-income countries like Kenya, yet research suggests public-sector providers are frequently absent. The current prevalence of absenteeism in Western Kenya, as well as the impact on family planning clients, is unknown. The objective of this paper is to quantify the prevalence of public-sector healthcare provider absenteeism in this region o…
Human Rights Advocacy and Us, the Next Generation of Public Health Leaders
Populist Nationalism Threatens Health and Human Rights in the Covid-19 Response
COVID-19 demands international cooperation, yet populist nationalism is resurgent, threatening public health, human rights, and global governance. In responding to the pandemic, populist nationalism and global solidarity represent distinct paths, with enduring consequences for health and human rights
Consensus-Driven Approach for Decision-Making in Diverse Groups
Ajph Student Think Tank Comments
Populist Nationalism Threatens Health and Human Rights in the Covid-19 Response
COVID-19 demands international cooperation, yet populist nationalism is resurgent, threatening public health, human rights, and global governance. In responding to the pandemic, populist nationalism and global solidarity represent distinct paths, with enduring consequences for health and human rights
Ajph Student Think Tank Comments
Populist Nationalism Threatens Health and Human Rights in the Covid-19 Response
COVID-19 demands international cooperation, yet populist nationalism is resurgent, threatening public health, human rights, and global governance. In responding to the pandemic, populist nationalism and global solidarity represent distinct paths, with enduring consequences for health and human rights
Consensus-Driven Approach for Decision-Making in Diverse Groups
Human Rights Advocacy and Us, the Next Generation of Public Health Leaders
Beyond Virtue-Signaling
As public health mourns the inequitable loss of lives to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and confronts other major social crises, practitioners must explicitly address systems of oppression in their everyday praxis. We describe how the principles of public health critical race praxis (PHCRP) and design justice (DJ) can advance equity in public health. We begin with an overview of PHCRP and DJ, and develop an integrated approach to facilitate …
Frequency and impact of long wait times for family planning in public-sector healthcare facilities in Western Kenya
BACKGROUND: Long wait times for family planning services are a barrier to high quality care and client satisfaction. Existing literature examining family planning wait times has methodological limitations, as most studies use data collected during exit interviews, which are subject to recall, courtesy, and selection bias. OBJECTIVE: We sought to employ a mixed methods approach to capture the prevalence, length, causes, and impacts of wait times f…
Absenteeism among family planning providers
Public-sector healthcare providers are on the frontline of family planning service delivery in low- and middle-income countries like Kenya, yet research suggests public-sector providers are frequently absent. The current prevalence of absenteeism in Western Kenya, as well as the impact on family planning clients, is unknown. The objective of this paper is to quantify the prevalence of public-sector healthcare provider absenteeism in this region o…
Un]met Need and [Un]wanted Family Planning
Unwanted family planning often refers to fertility desires as a proxy for contraceptive desire and lacks alignment with the tenets of person‐centered care. We construct a person‐centered measure of unwanted family planning by asking women whether they wanted to use a method, examine its alignment with the fertility‐derived measure, and describe the characteristics of women with unwanted family planning and reasons women state for not wanting to u…
Medicine (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Family planning (3 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)