Ryan Schwarz

Biographic Data

ID9001106
NAMERyan Schwarz
GIVEN NAMESRyan
FAMILY NAMESchwarz
SIGNATURESCHWARZ R
AFFILIATIONSBrigham and Women's Hospital
ORCID0000-0001-8486-8373
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • A Type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation study of an integrated CHW intervention to address maternal healthcare in rural Nepal

    Open AccessAparna Tiwari, Aradhana Thapa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Skilled care during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum is essential to prevent adverse maternal health outcomes, yet utilization of care remains low in many resource-limited countries, including Nepal. Community health workers (CHWs) can mitigate health system challenges and geographical barriers to achieving universal health coverage. Gaps remain, however, in understanding whether evidence-based interventions delivered by CHWs, closely aligne…

  • Transforming Nepal’s primary health care delivery system in global health era

    Open AccessBipin Adhikari, Shiva Raj Mishra et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2022

    Nepal’s Primary Health Care (PHC) is aligned vertically with disease control programs at the core and a vast network of community health workers at the periphery. Aligning with the globalization of health and the factors affecting global burden of diseases, Nepal echoes the progressive increase in life expectancy, changes in diseases patterns, including the current impact of COVID-19. Nepal’s health system is also accommodating recent federalizat…

  • Compensation models for community health workers

    Open AccessMadeleine Ballard, Carey Westgate et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: , there is an urgent need to better understand the types of CHW payment models and their implications. METHODS: This study examines the legal framework on CHW compensation in five countries: Brazil, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa. In order to map the characteristics of each approach, a review of the regulatory framework governing CHW compensation in each country was undertaken. Law firms in each of the five countries were en…

  • Prioritising the role of community health workers in the Covid-19 response

    Open AccessMadeleine Ballard, Emily Bancroft et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    COVID-19 disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable. Community health workers are poised to play a pivotal role in fighting the pandemic, especially in countries with less resilient health systems. Drawing from practitioner expertise across four WHO regions, this article outlines the targeted actions needed at different stages of the pandemic to achieve the following goals: (1) PROTECT healthcare workers, (2) INTERRUPT the virus, (3) MAIN…

  • At a crossroads

    Open AccessRyan Schwarz, Aradhana Thapa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

  • Partnerships in mental healthcare service delivery in low-resource settings

    Open AccessBibhav Acharya, Duncan Maru et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Mental illnesses are the largest contributors to the global burden of non-communicable diseases. However, there is extremely limited access to high quality, culturally-sensitive, and contextually-appropriate mental healthcare services. This situation persists despite the availability of interventions with proven efficacy to improve patient outcomes. A partnerships network is necessary for successful program adaptation and implementati…

  • Power, potential, and pitfalls in global health academic partnerships

    Open AccessDavid Citrin, Stephen Mehanni et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: Global health academic partnerships are centered around a core tension: they often mirror or reproduce the very cross-national inequities they seek to alleviate. On the one hand, they risk worsening power dynamics that perpetuate health disparities; on the other, they form an essential response to the need for healthcare resources to reach marginalized populations across the globe. OBJECTIVES: This study characterizes the broader land…

  • Crossing the quality chasm in resource-limited settings

    Open AccessDuncan Maru, Jason R Andrews et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2012

    Over the last decade, extensive scientific and policy innovations have begun to reduce the "quality chasm"--the gulf between best practices and actual implementation that exists in resource-rich medical settings. While limited data exist, this chasm is likely to be equally acute and deadly in resource-limited areas. While health systems have begun to be scaled up in impoverished areas, scale-up is just the foundation necessary to deliver effectiv…

  • Turning a blind eye

    Open AccessDuncan Maru, Duncan SMITH-ROHRBERG Maru et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2010

    While primary care, obstetrical, and surgical services have started to expand in the world's poorest regions, there is only sparse literature on the essential support systems that are required to make these operations function. Diagnostic imaging is critical to effective rural healthcare delivery, yet it has been severely neglected by the academic, public, and private sectors. Currently, a large portion of the world's population lacks access to a…