Jamie Sewan Johnston

Biographic Data

ID8991333
NAMEJamie Sewan Johnston
GIVEN NAMESJamie Sewan
FAMILY NAMEJohnston
SIGNATUREJOHNSTON J S
AFFILIATIONSStanford Health Care
ORCID0000-0001-6992-5958
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Culturally and linguistically appropriate vaccine education (CLAVE) for Indigenous communities

    Open AccessJamie Johnston, Jamie Sewan Johnston et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2026

    Background In Guatemala, childhood vaccination rates, particularly in Indigenous communities, are low due to inaccessible information and mistrust. Using a human-centered design (HCD) process with community partners, we developed CLAVE (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Vaccine Education), a video series on routine and human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization in Kaqchikel, K’iche’, and Spanish. Content was distributed via social media and …

  • Strengthening vaccine uptake

    Open AccessNophiwe Job, Sei-kashe M’pfunya et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Vaccination strengthens health systems by preventing the spread of infectious diseases and reducing morbidity and mortality. The introduction of the malaria vaccine in Kenya, alongside the growing access to technological tools, offers a timely opportunity to explore the educational needs of community health workers (CHWs) and the feasibility of digital training and health education resources for CHWs. Methods: A qualitative descript…

  • Using WhatsApp for vaccine promotion in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessAmelia M Jamison, Amelia Jamison et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX The combination of WhatsApp’s widespread use in low- and middle-income countries and array of low-cost messaging and data features suggests that the platform has great potential for health communication applications, including for vaccine promotion

  • Evaluation of a massive open online course for just-in-time training of healthcare workers

    Open AccessMatthew Strehlow, Matthew Charles Strehlow et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: COVID-19 created a global need for healthcare worker (HCW) training. Initially, mass trainings focused on public health workers and physicians working in intensive care units. However, in resource-constrained settings, nurses and general practitioners provide most patient care, typically lacking the training and equipment to manage critically ill patients. We developed a massive open online course (MOOC) for HCWs in resource-constra…

  • Community health worker perspectives on advocacy

    Open AccessNophiwe Job, Jamie Sewan Johnston et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: While community health workers (CHWs) are well-positioned as health advocates, they frequently lack support and feel undervalued. Advocacy training may prepare CHWs to support communities better. Methods: = 25) perceptions of advocacy and (2) describe how CHW involvement shaped course development. Data were collected via five discussion groups and seven surveys over six months. Results: Initially, the CHWs perceived themselves as co…

  • Effectiveness of interactive satellite-transmitted instruction

    Open AccessJamie Johnston, Jamie Sewan Johnston et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2022

    Rural students in lower- and middle-income countries dramatically underperform their urban peers. Through a cluster randomized controlled trial, we explore live, interactive instruction via satellite as a potential solution. The studied program equipped 70 randomly selected schools in two areas of Ghana with technology to connect to a studio in Ghana's capital Accra, where instructors provided math and English lessons simultaneously to 10-12 scho…

  • “The Videos Gave Weight to Our Work”

    Open AccessMaya Adam, Nophiwe Job et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2022

    Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are increasingly used to support community health workers (CHWs) in low-and middle-income countries. As near-peers within their communities, the credibility of CHWs is sometimes questioned—a recognized barrier to their efficacy. Nested within a large, randomized-controlled trial, this qualitative study captured the experiences of South African CHWs, called “Mentor-Mothers,” using tablets and animated videos t…

  • Design preferences for global scale

    Open AccessMaya Adam, Rachel P Chase et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Our findings suggest that global learners may be willing to accept simplified visuals, designed for broad cross-cultural acceptability, especially if the content is localized in other ways, such as through the use of locally resonating narratives and voiceovers. Diverse, inclusive portrayals of age, gender roles and family structure were preferred

  • Marriage, Money, and African American Mothers' Self-Esteem

    Open AccessJelani Mandara, Jamie Sewan Johnston et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2008Cited by: 2References: 40

    This study examined the effects of marital status and family income on the self-esteem of 292 African American mothers. Counter to previous studies with European American mothers, family income moderated the effects of marital status. Those mothers with higher family income had higher self-esteem, regardless of their marital status. For those with less family income, married mothers had much higher self-esteem than unmarried mothers. Low-income m…