Balkissa S Ouattara

Biographic Data

ID6186637
NAMEBalkissa S Ouattara
GIVEN NAMESBalkissa S
FAMILY NAMEOuattara
SIGNATUREOUATTARA B S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center
ORCID0000-0002-9670-0882
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Empowering community-based maternal health research: Insights from the National Institutes of Health IMPROVE initiative

    Open AccessBalkissa S Ouattara, Maurice Davis et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    In September 2022, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Connecting the Community for Maternal Health (CCMH) Challenge as part of the Implementing a Maternal Health and Pregnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) initiative (12). The IMPROVE initiative prioritizes research to reduce preventable maternal mortality, mitigate severe maternal morbidity, and address health disparities. The CCMH challenge sought to reduce maternal h…

  • Gender Differences in Determinants of Self-Rated Health Among African American in Omaha Nebraska: A Church-Based Study

    Drissa M Toure, Balkissa S Ouattara et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Service Research2020References: 40

    This study assessed the gender differences in determinants of fair/poor self-rated health among African American churchgoers in Omaha, Nebraska. Using data collected from 353 African American (245 women and 108 men) by the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2017, univariate and multivariate logistic regressions were performed to examine the gender differences in the relationships between fair/po…