Saira Nawaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6070635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saira Nawaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saira |
| FAMILY NAME | Nawaz |
| SIGNATURE | NAWAZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Program for Appropriate Technology in Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1826-551X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Turning challenges into opportunities
Emerging in late 2019, the COVID-19 outbreak rapidly evolved into an unprecedented global public health crisis. While exposing critical health system weaknesses, the pandemic also spurred innovation and investment, including rapid vaccine development. This paper examines Ethiopia’s multi-tiered health system response, exploring the strategies, enabling conditions, barriers, and lessons learned. We conducted a mixed-methods, cross-sectional study …
Regional and temporal variations in Covid-19 cases and deaths in Ethiopia
Background The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most devastating public health emergencies of international concern to have occurred in the past century. To ensure a safe, scalable, and sustainable response, it is imperative to understand the burden of disease, epidemiological trends, and responses to activities that have already been implemented. We aimed to analyze how COVID-19 tests, cases, and deaths varied by time and region in the general po…
Ambitions and realities
Strengthening resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH) is central to the Global Fund’s strategy, however questions persist about the Global Fund’s role in the health systems strengthening space, and the extent to which investments are designed to achieve strengthening objectives, or just fill in gaps in the system. This paper reports on findings from the Prospective Country Evaluations (PCE), a multi-country multi-year evaluation of Gl…
Microentrepreneurs in Public Health Promotion
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated long-standing inequities, galvanizing new investments and community feedback to improve recovery programs. This implementation evaluation offers descriptive evidence of the feasibility of engaging street vendors to (1) facilitate linkage to services for undocumented Latinx communities, (2) strengthen health promotion by gathering community feedback, and (3) enhance economic opportunity by recognizing and addressi…
Evaluation of the Community Health Worker Model for Covid-19 Response and Recovery
Commentary
ACROSS the United States, the Latinx community is among the most impacted by COVID-19. From February to June 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Hispanic/Latinx persons as the largest group by population size living in hot spot counties.1 Additional CDC data from May to August 2020 show that the percentage of Latinx decedents from COVID-19 increased by 10%, the largest increase among other racial/ethnic groups.2 Wi…
Defining and Assessing Quality Improvement Outcomes
We describe an evidence-based framework to define and assess the impact of quality improvement (QI) in public health. Developed to address programmatic and research-identified needs for articulating the value of public health QI in aggregate, this framework proposes a standardized set of measures to monitor and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public health programs and operations. We reviewed the scientific literature and analyzed QI …
Microentrepreneurs in Public Health Promotion
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated long-standing inequities, galvanizing new investments and community feedback to improve recovery programs. This implementation evaluation offers descriptive evidence of the feasibility of engaging street vendors to (1) facilitate linkage to services for undocumented Latinx communities, (2) strengthen health promotion by gathering community feedback, and (3) enhance economic opportunity by recognizing and addressi…
Defining and Assessing Quality Improvement Outcomes
We describe an evidence-based framework to define and assess the impact of quality improvement (QI) in public health. Developed to address programmatic and research-identified needs for articulating the value of public health QI in aggregate, this framework proposes a standardized set of measures to monitor and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public health programs and operations. We reviewed the scientific literature and analyzed QI …
Defining and Assessing Quality Improvement Outcomes
We describe an evidence-based framework to define and assess the impact of quality improvement (QI) in public health. Developed to address programmatic and research-identified needs for articulating the value of public health QI in aggregate, this framework proposes a standardized set of measures to monitor and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public health programs and operations. We reviewed the scientific literature and analyzed QI …
Commentary
ACROSS the United States, the Latinx community is among the most impacted by COVID-19. From February to June 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Hispanic/Latinx persons as the largest group by population size living in hot spot counties.1 Additional CDC data from May to August 2020 show that the percentage of Latinx decedents from COVID-19 increased by 10%, the largest increase among other racial/ethnic groups.2 Wi…
Evaluation of the Community Health Worker Model for Covid-19 Response and Recovery
Regional and temporal variations in Covid-19 cases and deaths in Ethiopia
Background The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most devastating public health emergencies of international concern to have occurred in the past century. To ensure a safe, scalable, and sustainable response, it is imperative to understand the burden of disease, epidemiological trends, and responses to activities that have already been implemented. We aimed to analyze how COVID-19 tests, cases, and deaths varied by time and region in the general po…
Ambitions and realities
Strengthening resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH) is central to the Global Fund’s strategy, however questions persist about the Global Fund’s role in the health systems strengthening space, and the extent to which investments are designed to achieve strengthening objectives, or just fill in gaps in the system. This paper reports on findings from the Prospective Country Evaluations (PCE), a multi-country multi-year evaluation of Gl…
Microentrepreneurs in Public Health Promotion
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated long-standing inequities, galvanizing new investments and community feedback to improve recovery programs. This implementation evaluation offers descriptive evidence of the feasibility of engaging street vendors to (1) facilitate linkage to services for undocumented Latinx communities, (2) strengthen health promotion by gathering community feedback, and (3) enhance economic opportunity by recognizing and addressi…
Turning challenges into opportunities
Emerging in late 2019, the COVID-19 outbreak rapidly evolved into an unprecedented global public health crisis. While exposing critical health system weaknesses, the pandemic also spurred innovation and investment, including rapid vaccine development. This paper examines Ethiopia’s multi-tiered health system response, exploring the strategies, enabling conditions, barriers, and lessons learned. We conducted a mixed-methods, cross-sectional study …
Business (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (3 works) · Pandemic (3 works)