Alison Krentel
Biographic Data
| ID | 6768023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Krentel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Krentel |
| SIGNATURE | KRENTEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7213-1577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring perspectives of knowledge users about reporting on health equity in observational studies: A qualitative study informing the development of the STROBE-Equity reporting guideline
BACKGROUND: Health inequities arising from systemic factors and contextual conditions result in avoidable and unjust differences in health outcomes, with profound social and economic implications. Health inequities can frequently go unreported in observational studies. Observational studies can uniquely inform how we understand and address persisting health inequities through collecting, reporting and analyzing health equity factors using 'inclus…
WHO launches global network of institutes to strengthen capacity for health inequality monitoring
This article introduces the global WHO-managed Health Inequality Monitoring Network, which is dedicated to strengthening and expanding health inequality monitoring practices at global, regional and country levels. Launched in 2025, the Health Inequality Monitoring Network consists of 12 inaugural institutional members, represented by over 140 affiliated individuals spanning all world regions. The Network aims to: strengthen capacities for health …
Opportunities and barriers arising from the Covid-19 pandemic for health campaign integration across immunizations, neglected tropical diseases, insecticide-treated bed nets, and vitamin A supplementa…
In low- and middle-income countries, health campaigns play a crucial role in addressing high-priority health concerns such as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), malaria, vaccine-preventable diseases and nutrition (vitamin A supplementation). Many health campaigns are conducted throughout the calendar year, resulting in multiple campaigns annually in some communities. Campaign integration offers an opportunity to increase efficiencies across prog…
Identifying barriers and facilitators to accessing harm reduction services in prisons: A systematic narrative synthesis
Several multi-level barriers and facilitators to accessing prison-based HRS exist. To improve HRS uptake, implementing holistic education for PIP and carceral employees, enhancing awareness of HRS through peer-led initiatives, and ensuring buy-in and support from prison leadership will be important. Furthermore, allocation of specific resources and enhanced policies that promote HRS will be beneficial
Understanding the barriers and facilitators related to never treatment during mass drug administration among mobile and migrant populations in Mali: A qualitative exploratory study
INTRODUCTION: Five of the neglected tropical diseases use a strategy of preventative chemotherapy distributed via mass drug administration (MDA) for all eligible people living in endemic areas. To be successful, high coverage must be sustained over multiple rounds. Therefore, it will be difficult to reach elimination as a public health problem using MDA if there remain clusters of people who have never been treated. The study aims to explore the …
Factors associated with never treatment and acceptability of mass drug administration for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Guyana, 2021
Guyana remains one of four countries in the Americas endemic for lymphatic filariasis (LF). Elimination of LF requires repeated annual mass drug administration (MDA) with sufficient levels of coverage for success. This study assesses the acceptability and never treatment of LF MDA using data from a routine assessment survey in 2021. A subset of individuals, over 20 years of age (n = 2498), were selected to receive an expanded questionnaire to exa…
Reporting of equity in observational epidemiology: A methodological review
Background: Observational studies can inform how we understand and address persisting health inequities through the collection, reporting and analysis of health equity factors. However, the extent to which the analysis and reporting of equity-relevant aspects in observational research are generally unknown. Thus, we aimed to systematically evaluate how equity-relevant observational studies reported equity considerations in the study design and an…
Assessing risk factors for malaria and schistosomiasis among children in Misungwi, Tanzania, an area of co-endemicity: A mixed methods study
Malaria and schistosomiasis are two major parasitic vector-borne diseases that are a particular threat to young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the present study, we investigated factors that are associated with malaria, schistosomiasis, and co-infection among school-aged children, using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach. A cross-sectional study was conducted in January 2022 in Misungwi, Tanzania, that sampled 1,122 children age…
Community-level impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on malaria prevention and health-seeking behaviours in rural Benin: A mixed methods study
Globally, negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria prevention and control efforts have been caused by delayed distributions of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN), decreased outpatient attendance, and disruptions to malaria testing and treatment. Using a mixed methods approach, we aimed to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on community-level malaria prevention and health-seeking practices in Benin more than one year after the start of…
Improving social justice in observational studies: Protocol for the development of a global and Indigenous STROBE-equity reporting guideline
Achieving global imperatives such as the Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., SDG 10 Reduced inequalities, SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing) requires advancing health equity in research. The implementation of the STROBE-Equity guidelines will enable a better awareness and understanding of health inequities through better reporting. We will broadly disseminate the reporting guideline with tools to enable adoption and use by journal editors, authors…
Prioritising Cochrane reviews to be updated with health equity focus
This project developed and implemented a methodology to set priorities for updating systematic reviews spanning multiple health topics with a health equity focus. It prioritised reviews that reduce overall mortality, are relevant to disadvantaged populations, and focus on conditions with a high global burden of disease. This approach to the prioritisation of systematic reviews of interventions that reduce mortality provides a template that can be…
A mixed-methods exploration into the resilience of community drug distributors conducting mass drug administration for preventive chemotherapy of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis in Côte d’Ivoi…
Volunteer community drug distributors (CDDs) have been vital to progress made in the elimination of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis; two neglected tropical diseases amenable to preventive chemotherapy (PC-NTDs). However, formative work in Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda revealed that CDDs can encounter considerable challenges during mass drug administration (MDA). CDDs must be resilient to overcome these challenges, yet little is known about the…
Reframing Integration for Mixed Methods Research
We suggest and illustrate from our experiences of integration in a public health context in Indonesia, a reframing of integration for mixed methods research that focuses on context, outcomes, objects, and integrative mechanisms. Through describing the tools and conceptualizations that helped us integrate, we argue for expanding the scope of integration to include social process methods (which we describe) and for rethinking the desired outcomes o…
Causal chain mapping: A novel method to analyse treatment compliance decisions relating to lymphatic filariasis elimination in Alor, Indonesia
Many public health programmes require individuals to comply with particular behaviours that are novel to them, for example, acquiring new eating habits, accepting immunizations or taking a new medication. In particular, mass drug administration programmes only work to reduce the prevalence of a disease if significant proportions of the target population take the drug in question. In such cases, knowledge of the factors most likely to lead to high…
Reframing Integration for Mixed Methods Research
We suggest and illustrate from our experiences of integration in a public health context in Indonesia, a reframing of integration for mixed methods research that focuses on context, outcomes, objects, and integrative mechanisms. Through describing the tools and conceptualizations that helped us integrate, we argue for expanding the scope of integration to include social process methods (which we describe) and for rethinking the desired outcomes o…
Causal chain mapping: A novel method to analyse treatment compliance decisions relating to lymphatic filariasis elimination in Alor, Indonesia
Many public health programmes require individuals to comply with particular behaviours that are novel to them, for example, acquiring new eating habits, accepting immunizations or taking a new medication. In particular, mass drug administration programmes only work to reduce the prevalence of a disease if significant proportions of the target population take the drug in question. In such cases, knowledge of the factors most likely to lead to high…
Reframing Integration for Mixed Methods Research
We suggest and illustrate from our experiences of integration in a public health context in Indonesia, a reframing of integration for mixed methods research that focuses on context, outcomes, objects, and integrative mechanisms. Through describing the tools and conceptualizations that helped us integrate, we argue for expanding the scope of integration to include social process methods (which we describe) and for rethinking the desired outcomes o…
A mixed-methods exploration into the resilience of community drug distributors conducting mass drug administration for preventive chemotherapy of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis in Côte d’Ivoi…
Volunteer community drug distributors (CDDs) have been vital to progress made in the elimination of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis; two neglected tropical diseases amenable to preventive chemotherapy (PC-NTDs). However, formative work in Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda revealed that CDDs can encounter considerable challenges during mass drug administration (MDA). CDDs must be resilient to overcome these challenges, yet little is known about the…
Assessing risk factors for malaria and schistosomiasis among children in Misungwi, Tanzania, an area of co-endemicity: A mixed methods study
Malaria and schistosomiasis are two major parasitic vector-borne diseases that are a particular threat to young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the present study, we investigated factors that are associated with malaria, schistosomiasis, and co-infection among school-aged children, using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach. A cross-sectional study was conducted in January 2022 in Misungwi, Tanzania, that sampled 1,122 children age…
Community-level impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on malaria prevention and health-seeking behaviours in rural Benin: A mixed methods study
Globally, negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria prevention and control efforts have been caused by delayed distributions of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN), decreased outpatient attendance, and disruptions to malaria testing and treatment. Using a mixed methods approach, we aimed to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on community-level malaria prevention and health-seeking practices in Benin more than one year after the start of…
Improving social justice in observational studies: Protocol for the development of a global and Indigenous STROBE-equity reporting guideline
Achieving global imperatives such as the Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., SDG 10 Reduced inequalities, SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing) requires advancing health equity in research. The implementation of the STROBE-Equity guidelines will enable a better awareness and understanding of health inequities through better reporting. We will broadly disseminate the reporting guideline with tools to enable adoption and use by journal editors, authors…
Prioritising Cochrane reviews to be updated with health equity focus
This project developed and implemented a methodology to set priorities for updating systematic reviews spanning multiple health topics with a health equity focus. It prioritised reviews that reduce overall mortality, are relevant to disadvantaged populations, and focus on conditions with a high global burden of disease. This approach to the prioritisation of systematic reviews of interventions that reduce mortality provides a template that can be…
Understanding the barriers and facilitators related to never treatment during mass drug administration among mobile and migrant populations in Mali: A qualitative exploratory study
INTRODUCTION: Five of the neglected tropical diseases use a strategy of preventative chemotherapy distributed via mass drug administration (MDA) for all eligible people living in endemic areas. To be successful, high coverage must be sustained over multiple rounds. Therefore, it will be difficult to reach elimination as a public health problem using MDA if there remain clusters of people who have never been treated. The study aims to explore the …
Factors associated with never treatment and acceptability of mass drug administration for the elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Guyana, 2021
Guyana remains one of four countries in the Americas endemic for lymphatic filariasis (LF). Elimination of LF requires repeated annual mass drug administration (MDA) with sufficient levels of coverage for success. This study assesses the acceptability and never treatment of LF MDA using data from a routine assessment survey in 2021. A subset of individuals, over 20 years of age (n = 2498), were selected to receive an expanded questionnaire to exa…
Reporting of equity in observational epidemiology: A methodological review
Background: Observational studies can inform how we understand and address persisting health inequities through the collection, reporting and analysis of health equity factors. However, the extent to which the analysis and reporting of equity-relevant aspects in observational research are generally unknown. Thus, we aimed to systematically evaluate how equity-relevant observational studies reported equity considerations in the study design and an…
Opportunities and barriers arising from the Covid-19 pandemic for health campaign integration across immunizations, neglected tropical diseases, insecticide-treated bed nets, and vitamin A supplementa…
In low- and middle-income countries, health campaigns play a crucial role in addressing high-priority health concerns such as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), malaria, vaccine-preventable diseases and nutrition (vitamin A supplementation). Many health campaigns are conducted throughout the calendar year, resulting in multiple campaigns annually in some communities. Campaign integration offers an opportunity to increase efficiencies across prog…
Identifying barriers and facilitators to accessing harm reduction services in prisons: A systematic narrative synthesis
Several multi-level barriers and facilitators to accessing prison-based HRS exist. To improve HRS uptake, implementing holistic education for PIP and carceral employees, enhancing awareness of HRS through peer-led initiatives, and ensuring buy-in and support from prison leadership will be important. Furthermore, allocation of specific resources and enhanced policies that promote HRS will be beneficial
Exploring perspectives of knowledge users about reporting on health equity in observational studies: A qualitative study informing the development of the STROBE-Equity reporting guideline
BACKGROUND: Health inequities arising from systemic factors and contextual conditions result in avoidable and unjust differences in health outcomes, with profound social and economic implications. Health inequities can frequently go unreported in observational studies. Observational studies can uniquely inform how we understand and address persisting health inequities through collecting, reporting and analyzing health equity factors using 'inclus…
WHO launches global network of institutes to strengthen capacity for health inequality monitoring
This article introduces the global WHO-managed Health Inequality Monitoring Network, which is dedicated to strengthening and expanding health inequality monitoring practices at global, regional and country levels. Launched in 2025, the Health Inequality Monitoring Network consists of 12 inaugural institutional members, represented by over 140 affiliated individuals spanning all world regions. The Network aims to: strengthen capacities for health …
Medicine (10 works) · Public health (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Health equity (4 works) · Immunology (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)