Ashti Doobay-Persaud
Biographic Data
| ID | 6728524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashti Doobay-Persaud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashti |
| FAMILY NAME | Doobay-Persaud |
| SIGNATURE | DOOBAY-PERSAUD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7063-4429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Functions, challenges and opportunities of health professions education units in Africa
BACKGROUND: Teaching in Health Professions Education (HPE) is complex, with educators balancing teaching, clinical, and scholarly responsibilities. Medical, nursing, and other health professional schools have created units to move HPE forward. However, little is known about how these units have evolved over the past 15 years. This study explored the landscape of HPE units in Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa, their evolution, functions, chall…
Providers perspectives on a team-based maternal health care delivery in Ghana
Interprofessional team-based care is crucial in ensuring respectful and dignified maternal services. However, there is limited research that explores this issue from the perspectives of health care providers in Ghana. The study sought to explore the perspectives and experiences of health care providers working in a collaborative team-based setting at a health in Ghana, with the aim to improve respectful and dignified maternal care. We used a desc…
Organizational models and patient-reported outcomes for palliative care across five tertiary hospitals in Nigeria
Palliative care (PC) is an essential, effective, and affordable component of health care. Global need is rising, with the greatest burden in low-and-middle-income countries. This is especially true in Nigeria where the need is growing rapidly, as are PC services; however, current organizational models have not yet been examined. This was a cross-sectional, descriptive study of five PC sites at tertiary hospitals in four of Nigeria’s six geopoliti…
Assembling a global health image
Background Recently, global health has been confronting its visual culture, historically modulated by colonialism, racism and abusive representation. There have been international calls to promote ethicality of visual practices. However, despite this focus on the history and the institutional use of global health images, little is known about how in practice contemporary images are created in communities, and how consent to be in photographs is o…
The effects of social determinants on children’s health outcomes in Bangladesh slums through an intersectionality lens
Empirical evidence suggests that the health outcomes of children living in slums are poorer than those living in non-slums and other urban areas. Improving health especially among children under five years old (U5y) living in slums, requires a better understanding of the social determinants of health (SDoH) that drive their health outcomes. Therefore, we aim to investigate how SDoH collectively affects health outcomes of U5y living in Bangladesh …
Linkages between men’s wealth status and the ideal number of children
Most African societies practice a patriarchal family system that endows a man with authority and dominance in the family and society with a defined role of being the breadwinner of the home. A man is expected to have a great influence in determining the ideal number of children in the family and take a domineering role in decision-making, especially those related to household resource allocation. Therefore, this study examines the relationship be…
Where in the world
We created a universal SSDH CAT and applied it to assess and improve our medical school's SSDH curriculum. The SSDH CAT provides a starting point for other medical schools to assess their SSDH content as a strategy to improve teaching and learning about health equity, and to inspire students to act on the SSDH
You just emotionally break’
News reports that feature the experiences of healthcare workers have shaped public conversations about the pandemic from its earliest days. For many, stories of the pandemic have been an introduction to the way public health emergencies intersect with cultural, social, structural, political and spiritual determinants. Such stories often feature clinicians and other providers as characters in pandemic tales of heroism, tragedy and, increasingly, f…
Reassessing Global Health Education in the Age of Covid-19
To the Editor: The COVID-19 pandemic has killed over a million people, stressed health care systems, and disrupted economies and societies globally. It has also created havoc in higher medical education. 1,2 This has been particularly notable in global health, where travel restrictions have brought traditional clinical global health rotations to a halt. These drastic changes in the learning environment offer an opportunity to rethink and improve …
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global health research training and education
ince January 2020 billions of people across the world have been "locked down" and hundreds of thousands have died because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The pandemic is creating enormous adverse economic and social consequences throughout the world, with direct and indirect impacts on global health activities -particularly through the participation of health care workers, clinicians, investigators, technologists, and students in research traini…
Extent, nature and consequences of performing outside scope of training in global health
BACKGROUND: Globalization has made it possible for global health professionals and trainees to participate in short-term training and professional experiences in a variety of clinical- and non-clinical activities across borders. Consequently, greater numbers of healthcare professionals and trainees from high-income countries (HICs) are working or volunteering abroad and participating in short-term experiences in low- and middle-income countries (…
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Extent, nature and consequences of performing outside scope of training in global health
BACKGROUND: Globalization has made it possible for global health professionals and trainees to participate in short-term training and professional experiences in a variety of clinical- and non-clinical activities across borders. Consequently, greater numbers of healthcare professionals and trainees from high-income countries (HICs) are working or volunteering abroad and participating in short-term experiences in low- and middle-income countries (…
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global health research training and education
ince January 2020 billions of people across the world have been "locked down" and hundreds of thousands have died because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The pandemic is creating enormous adverse economic and social consequences throughout the world, with direct and indirect impacts on global health activities -particularly through the participation of health care workers, clinicians, investigators, technologists, and students in research traini…
Reassessing Global Health Education in the Age of Covid-19
To the Editor: The COVID-19 pandemic has killed over a million people, stressed health care systems, and disrupted economies and societies globally. It has also created havoc in higher medical education. 1,2 This has been particularly notable in global health, where travel restrictions have brought traditional clinical global health rotations to a halt. These drastic changes in the learning environment offer an opportunity to rethink and improve …
The effects of social determinants on children’s health outcomes in Bangladesh slums through an intersectionality lens
Empirical evidence suggests that the health outcomes of children living in slums are poorer than those living in non-slums and other urban areas. Improving health especially among children under five years old (U5y) living in slums, requires a better understanding of the social determinants of health (SDoH) that drive their health outcomes. Therefore, we aim to investigate how SDoH collectively affects health outcomes of U5y living in Bangladesh …
Linkages between men’s wealth status and the ideal number of children
Most African societies practice a patriarchal family system that endows a man with authority and dominance in the family and society with a defined role of being the breadwinner of the home. A man is expected to have a great influence in determining the ideal number of children in the family and take a domineering role in decision-making, especially those related to household resource allocation. Therefore, this study examines the relationship be…
Where in the world
We created a universal SSDH CAT and applied it to assess and improve our medical school's SSDH curriculum. The SSDH CAT provides a starting point for other medical schools to assess their SSDH content as a strategy to improve teaching and learning about health equity, and to inspire students to act on the SSDH
You just emotionally break’
News reports that feature the experiences of healthcare workers have shaped public conversations about the pandemic from its earliest days. For many, stories of the pandemic have been an introduction to the way public health emergencies intersect with cultural, social, structural, political and spiritual determinants. Such stories often feature clinicians and other providers as characters in pandemic tales of heroism, tragedy and, increasingly, f…
Assembling a global health image
Background Recently, global health has been confronting its visual culture, historically modulated by colonialism, racism and abusive representation. There have been international calls to promote ethicality of visual practices. However, despite this focus on the history and the institutional use of global health images, little is known about how in practice contemporary images are created in communities, and how consent to be in photographs is o…
Providers perspectives on a team-based maternal health care delivery in Ghana
Interprofessional team-based care is crucial in ensuring respectful and dignified maternal services. However, there is limited research that explores this issue from the perspectives of health care providers in Ghana. The study sought to explore the perspectives and experiences of health care providers working in a collaborative team-based setting at a health in Ghana, with the aim to improve respectful and dignified maternal care. We used a desc…
Organizational models and patient-reported outcomes for palliative care across five tertiary hospitals in Nigeria
Palliative care (PC) is an essential, effective, and affordable component of health care. Global need is rising, with the greatest burden in low-and-middle-income countries. This is especially true in Nigeria where the need is growing rapidly, as are PC services; however, current organizational models have not yet been examined. This was a cross-sectional, descriptive study of five PC sites at tertiary hospitals in four of Nigeria’s six geopoliti…
Functions, challenges and opportunities of health professions education units in Africa
BACKGROUND: Teaching in Health Professions Education (HPE) is complex, with educators balancing teaching, clinical, and scholarly responsibilities. Medical, nursing, and other health professional schools have created units to move HPE forward. However, little is known about how these units have evolved over the past 15 years. This study explored the landscape of HPE units in Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa, their evolution, functions, chall…
Medicine (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Health care (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Global Health Workforce Issues (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)