Geremew Gonfa

Biographic Data

ID7862595
NAMEGeremew Gonfa
GIVEN NAMESGeremew
FAMILY NAMEGonfa
SIGNATUREGONFA G
AFFILIATIONSEthiopian Public Health Institute
ORCID0000-0001-5937-120X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens

    Open AccessDessalegn Y Melesse, Ashenif Tadele et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: This study aimed to enhance insights into the key characteristics of maternal and neonatal mortality declines in Ethiopia, conducted as part of a seven-country study on Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) Exemplars. METHODS: We synthesised key indicators for 2000, 2010 and 2020 and contextualised those with typical country values in a global five-phase model for a maternal, stillbirth and neonatal mortality transition. We reviewed healt…

  • Effectiveness of a multi-country implementation-focused network on quality of care

    Open AccessNehla Djellouli, Yusra Ribhi Shawar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (QCN) aims to work through learning, action, leadership and accountability. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of QCN in these four areas at the global level and in four QCN countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda. This mixed method evaluation comprised 2–4 iterative rounds of data collection between 2019–2022, involving stakeholder interviews, hospita…

  • Building a culture of quality in maternal and newborn health

    Open AccessAnene Tesfa, Asebe Amenu Tufa et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: Building a culture of quality is vital for sustaining high-quality healthcare, emphasising shared values and continuous improvement. The Quality Equity and Dignity (QED) network was a global initiative working toward this objective, focusing on maternal and newborn health. This paper aims to describe how QED influenced five identified attributes of quality culture in Ethiopia: leadership, people-centered interventions, collaboration, …

  • Influences on policy-formulation, decision-making, organisation and management for maternal, newborn and child health in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda

    Open AccessKohenour Akter, Yusra Ribhi Shawar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (QCN) is intended to facilitate learning, action, leadership and accountability for improving quality of care in member countries. This requires legitimacy—a network’s right to exert power within national contexts. This is reflected, for example, in a government’s buy-in and perceived ownership of the work of the network. During 2019–2022 we conducted iterative round…

  • Individual interactions in a multi-country implementation-focused quality of care network for maternal, newborn and child health

    Open AccessFidele Kanyimbu Mukinda, Nehla Djellouli et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (QCN) was established to build a cross-country platform for joint-learning around quality improvement implementation approaches to reduce mortality. This paper describes and explores the structure of the QCN in four countries and at global level. Using Social Network Analysis (SNA), this cross-sectional study maps the QCN networks at global level and in four countrie…

  • “We don’t trust all data coming from all facilities”

    Open AccessAsebe Amenu Tufa, Geremew Gonfa et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    BACKGROUND: Good quality data are a key to quality health care. In 2017, WHO has launched the Quality of Care Network (QCN) to reduce maternal, newborn and stillbirth mortality via learning and sharing networks. Guided by the principle of equity and dignity, the network members agreed to implement the programme in 2017-2021. OBJECTIVE: This paper seeks to explore how QCN has contributed to improving data quality and to identify factors influencin…

  • Implementation of the ‘Optimising the Health Extension Program’ Intervention in Ethiopia

    Open AccessYemisrach B Okwaraji, Zelee Hill et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    An intervention called 'Optimising the Health Extension Program', aiming to increase care-seeking for childhood illnesses in four regions of Ethiopia, was implemented between 2016 and 2018, and it included community engagement, capacity building, and district ownership and accountability. A pragmatic trial comparing 26 districts that received the intervention with 26 districts that did not found no evidence to suggest that the intervention increa…