Jenny X Liu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1732767 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jenny X Liu |
| PRENOMES | Jenny X |
| SOBRENOME | Liu |
| ASSINATURA | LIU J X |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3929-0135 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Understanding clients’ and providers’ perspectives on the implementation of subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) for self-injection programming in Nigeria
Subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) is an injectable contraceptive method with a small needle and prefilled syringe system that has been approved for self-injection (SI) by clients. As DMPA-SC for SI programmes are being scaled, employing an implementation science lens is critical to understanding what works. This study explored providers’ and clients’ experiences with providing and receiving services, respectively, for DMPA-…
Pharmacy-based non-communicable diseases screening has high potential for reach
Low and middle-income countries are entering an epidemiological transition where non-communicable diseases (NCDs) increasingly contribute to disease burden. While Rwanda has one of the most robust public health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, rapid urbanization is leading to an emerging middle-class population who are at high risk for NCDs, but who also underutilize preventive care. The Goodlife Access pilot program in Rwanda screened over 9,000 i…
Exploring the impact of a Call tool for emergent bilinguals
This study evaluates the impact of a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) tool for the acquisition of academic English and oral language skills in children learning English as a second language. Using a quasi-experimental design, we compare English proficiency scores for K-5 students who did or did not use the program during the 2020–21 school year. Analyses showed that learners who used the program scored higher on the overall test, includ…
Mortality among 5 to 19-year-olds in rural Mali
The unique healthcare needs of 5 to 9-year-olds and adolescents (10 – 19 years) in low- and middle-income countries have been largely neglected. We generated estimates of 5 to 9-year-old and adolescent mortality in rural Mali, a setting with high under-five mortality, and aimed to define associated individual and household risk factors. We analysed cross-sectional baseline household survey data from the ProCCM trial (NCT02694055) conducted in Ban…
Evaluation of the SKILLZ intervention to promote HIV testing and contraception uptake in adolescent girls in Lusaka, Zambia
Adolescent girls are at disproportionately high-risk for HIV and unintended pregnancy. Effective interventions to increase uptake of HIV testing and contraceptives are urgently needed. Our cluster-randomized controlled trial in 46 schools in Lusaka, Zambia evaluated the SKILLZ intervention: (a) 12 after-school sessions of sexuality and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education culminating in a community “graduation” soccer event where a pop-…
Cost-effectiveness analysis of proactive home visits compared with site-based community health worker care on antenatal care outcomes in Mali
INTRODUCTION: Despite recommendations from the WHO, antenatal care (ANC) coverage remains low in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Community health workers (CHWs) can play an important role in expanding ANC coverage through pregnancy identification, provision of health education, screening for complications, delivery of therapeutic care and referral to higher levels of care. However, despite the success of CHW programmes in var…
Qualified, skilled or trained delivery care provider
box This commentary highlights various definitions of maternal and newborn health care providers used globally and demonstrates the considerable effect of a definition on study findings
Community case management to accelerate access to healthcare in Mali
The Proactive Community Case Management (ProCCM) trial in Mali reinforced the health system across both arms with user fee removal, professional community health workers (CHWs) and upgraded primary health centres (PHCs)—and randomized village-clusters to receive proactive home visits by CHWs (intervention) or fixed site-based services by passive CHWs (control). Across both arms, sick children’s 24-hour treatment and pregnant women’s four or more …
Women's Perspectives on the Unique Benefits and Challenges of Self‐Injectable Contraception
Implementing self‐injection (SI) of subcutaneous depot‐medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA‐SC) is a key self‐care strategy for sexual and reproductive health, but SI uptake remains low, and assertions about the potential of SI to increase women's control over contraceptive use lack evidence. We sought to qualitatively explore how women with diverse contraceptive experiences—including those with and without experience using SI—view the benefits and …
Effect of community health worker home visits on antenatal care and institutional delivery
INTRODUCTION: Though community health workers (CHWs) have improved access to antenatal care (ANC) and institutional delivery in different settings, it is unclear what package and delivery strategy maximises impact. METHODS: This study reports a secondary aim of the Proactive Community Case Management cluster randomised trial, conducted between December 2016 and April 2020 in Mali. It evaluated whether proactive home visits can improve ANC access …
Effects of proactive vs fixed community health care delivery on child health and access to care
Background: Professional community health workers (CHWs) can help achieve universal health coverage, although evidence gaps remain on how to optimise CHW service delivery. We conducted an unblinded, parallel, cluster randomised trial in rural Mali to determine whether proactive CHW delivery reduced mortality and improved access to health care among children under five years, compared to passive delivery. Here we report the secondary access endpoi…
Preference‐Aligned Fertility Management as a Person‐Centered Alternative to Contraceptive Use‐Focused Measures
Equating contraceptive use with programmatic success is fundamentally flawed in failing to account for whether individuals desire contraceptive use; this is problematic because nonuse can reflect empowered decision‐making and use may reflect an individual's inability to refuse or discontinue a method. A rights‐based approach demands respect for individuals’ freedom to weigh options and choose how their desire for pregnancy prevention can be accom…
Designing for two
Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali
BACKGROUND: Proactive community case management (ProCCM) has shown promise to advance goals of universal health coverage (UHC). ProCCM community health workers (CHWs) face operational challenges when pursuing their goal of visiting every household in their service area at least twice monthly to proactively find sick patients. We developed a software extension (UHC Mode) to an existing CHW mobile application featuring user interface design improve…
Projecting health labor market dynamics for a health system in transition
BACKGROUND: Health workforce planning is critical for health systems to safeguard the ability to afford, train, recruit, and retain the appropriate number and mix of health workers. This balance is especially important when macroeconomic structures are also reforming. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is moving toward greater diversification, privatization, and resiliency; health sectorreform is a key pillar of this transition. METHODS: We used the Min…
Household factors and under-five mortality in Bankass, Mali
U5 mortality is very high in Bankass and is associated with living a greater distance from healthcare and several other household factors that may be amenable to intervention or facilitate program targeting
Designing drug shops for young women in Tanzania
Adolescent and young adult women in sub-Saharan Africa experience barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services that elevate their risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition and unintended pregnancy. Community drug shops may be effective distribution points to connect young women with SRH products. Thus, we used human-centred design (HCD) to create drug shops where young women could access HIV self-testing and contraceptio…
Family monetary incentives as a value‐based care model for oral hygiene
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT03576326
The effects of political protests on youth human capital and well-being in Egypt
Improving Community Health Worker performance by using a personalised feedback dashboard for supervision
BACKGROUND: Countries across sub-Saharan Africa are scaling up Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes, yet there remains little high-quality research assessing strategies for CHW supervision and performance improvement. This randomised controlled trial aimed to determine the effect of a personalised performance dashboard used as a supervision tool on the quantity, speed, and quality of CHW care. METHODS: We conducted a randomised controlled tri…
Bias in Contraceptive Provision to Young Women Among Private Health Care Providers in South West Nigeria
CONTEXT: Health care providers' biases regarding the provision of contraceptives to adolescent and young adult women may restrict women's access to contraceptive methods. METHODS: Two mystery client visits were made to each of 52 private-sector health care facilities and individual providers in South West Nigeria in June 2016. In one visit, the mystery client portrayed an unmarried, nulliparous adolescent, and in the other, the client portrayed a…
The mental health of youth and young adults during the transition to adulthood in Egypt
BACKGROUND: There has been growing interest in the stalled transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its consequences for young people's socioeconomic outcomes. However, little is known about how important life transitions relate to youth psychosocial well-being in the region. OBJECTIVE: Drawing on a life course framework, we estimate the associations between making transitions in education, employment, and marriage w…
Evaluation of SMS reminder messages for altering treatment adherence and health seeking perceptions among malaria care-seekers in Nigeria
In Nigeria, access to malaria diagnostics may be expanded if drug retailers were allowed to administer malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). A 2012 pilot intervention showed that short message service (SMS) reminder messages could boost treatment adherence to RDT results by 10-14% points. This study aimed to replicate the SMS intervention in a different population, and additionally test the effect of an expanded message about anticipated RDT acc…
Social support in the practices of informal providers
Namibia’s path toward malaria elimination
In addition to allocating sufficient human resources to vector control activities, developing a greater emphasis on surveillance will be central to the ongoing program shift from control to elimination, particularly in light of the malaria importation challenges experienced in the northern border regions. While overall program resources may continue on a downward trajectory, the program will be well positioned to actively eliminate the remaining …
The impact of natural disasters on child health and investments in rural India
Preference‐Aligned Fertility Management as a Person‐Centered Alternative to Contraceptive Use‐Focused Measures
Equating contraceptive use with programmatic success is fundamentally flawed in failing to account for whether individuals desire contraceptive use; this is problematic because nonuse can reflect empowered decision‐making and use may reflect an individual's inability to refuse or discontinue a method. A rights‐based approach demands respect for individuals’ freedom to weigh options and choose how their desire for pregnancy prevention can be accom…
The effects of political protests on youth human capital and well-being in Egypt
Voter Decision Making 1972 and 1974
Journal Article Voter Decision Making 1972 and 1974 Get access Garrett J. O'Keefe, Garrett J. O'Keefe Garrett J. O'Keefe, Jr. is Associate Professor, Harold Mendelsohn is Professor and Chairman, and Jenny Liu is Research Assistant in the Department of Mass Communications, University of Denver. The authors thank Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., for the open and unrestrictive funding of the research reported here. Search for other works by this …
Social support in the practices of informal providers
The mental health of youth and young adults during the transition to adulthood in Egypt
BACKGROUND: There has been growing interest in the stalled transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its consequences for young people's socioeconomic outcomes. However, little is known about how important life transitions relate to youth psychosocial well-being in the region. OBJECTIVE: Drawing on a life course framework, we estimate the associations between making transitions in education, employment, and marriage w…
Voter Decision Making 1972 and 1974
Journal Article Voter Decision Making 1972 and 1974 Get access Garrett J. O'Keefe, Garrett J. O'Keefe Garrett J. O'Keefe, Jr. is Associate Professor, Harold Mendelsohn is Professor and Chairman, and Jenny Liu is Research Assistant in the Department of Mass Communications, University of Denver. The authors thank Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., for the open and unrestrictive funding of the research reported here. Search for other works by this …
First-Time Voters
Garrett J. O'Keefe, Jenny Liu; First-Time Voters: Do Media Matter?, Journal of Communication, Volume 30, Issue 4, 1 December 1980, Pages 122–129, https://d
Experiences of Social Discrimination Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shanghai, China
Exploration of pathways related to the decline in female circumcision in Egypt
Women's empowerment and social media appear to be more important in explaining differences across communities; within communities, socioeconomic status is a key driver of girls' circumcision risk. Further investigation of community-level women's educational attainment for mothers suggests that investments made in female education a generation ago may have had echo effects on girls' FGC risk a generation later
The impact of natural disasters on child health and investments in rural India
Namibia’s path toward malaria elimination
In addition to allocating sufficient human resources to vector control activities, developing a greater emphasis on surveillance will be central to the ongoing program shift from control to elimination, particularly in light of the malaria importation challenges experienced in the northern border regions. While overall program resources may continue on a downward trajectory, the program will be well positioned to actively eliminate the remaining …
Social support in the practices of informal providers
Evaluation of SMS reminder messages for altering treatment adherence and health seeking perceptions among malaria care-seekers in Nigeria
In Nigeria, access to malaria diagnostics may be expanded if drug retailers were allowed to administer malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). A 2012 pilot intervention showed that short message service (SMS) reminder messages could boost treatment adherence to RDT results by 10-14% points. This study aimed to replicate the SMS intervention in a different population, and additionally test the effect of an expanded message about anticipated RDT acc…
The mental health of youth and young adults during the transition to adulthood in Egypt
BACKGROUND: There has been growing interest in the stalled transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its consequences for young people's socioeconomic outcomes. However, little is known about how important life transitions relate to youth psychosocial well-being in the region. OBJECTIVE: Drawing on a life course framework, we estimate the associations between making transitions in education, employment, and marriage w…
Improving Community Health Worker performance by using a personalised feedback dashboard for supervision
BACKGROUND: Countries across sub-Saharan Africa are scaling up Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes, yet there remains little high-quality research assessing strategies for CHW supervision and performance improvement. This randomised controlled trial aimed to determine the effect of a personalised performance dashboard used as a supervision tool on the quantity, speed, and quality of CHW care. METHODS: We conducted a randomised controlled tri…
Bias in Contraceptive Provision to Young Women Among Private Health Care Providers in South West Nigeria
CONTEXT: Health care providers' biases regarding the provision of contraceptives to adolescent and young adult women may restrict women's access to contraceptive methods. METHODS: Two mystery client visits were made to each of 52 private-sector health care facilities and individual providers in South West Nigeria in June 2016. In one visit, the mystery client portrayed an unmarried, nulliparous adolescent, and in the other, the client portrayed a…
The effects of political protests on youth human capital and well-being in Egypt
Family monetary incentives as a value‐based care model for oral hygiene
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT03576326
Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali
BACKGROUND: Proactive community case management (ProCCM) has shown promise to advance goals of universal health coverage (UHC). ProCCM community health workers (CHWs) face operational challenges when pursuing their goal of visiting every household in their service area at least twice monthly to proactively find sick patients. We developed a software extension (UHC Mode) to an existing CHW mobile application featuring user interface design improve…
Projecting health labor market dynamics for a health system in transition
BACKGROUND: Health workforce planning is critical for health systems to safeguard the ability to afford, train, recruit, and retain the appropriate number and mix of health workers. This balance is especially important when macroeconomic structures are also reforming. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is moving toward greater diversification, privatization, and resiliency; health sectorreform is a key pillar of this transition. METHODS: We used the Min…
Household factors and under-five mortality in Bankass, Mali
U5 mortality is very high in Bankass and is associated with living a greater distance from healthcare and several other household factors that may be amenable to intervention or facilitate program targeting
Designing drug shops for young women in Tanzania
Adolescent and young adult women in sub-Saharan Africa experience barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services that elevate their risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition and unintended pregnancy. Community drug shops may be effective distribution points to connect young women with SRH products. Thus, we used human-centred design (HCD) to create drug shops where young women could access HIV self-testing and contraceptio…
Effect of community health worker home visits on antenatal care and institutional delivery
INTRODUCTION: Though community health workers (CHWs) have improved access to antenatal care (ANC) and institutional delivery in different settings, it is unclear what package and delivery strategy maximises impact. METHODS: This study reports a secondary aim of the Proactive Community Case Management cluster randomised trial, conducted between December 2016 and April 2020 in Mali. It evaluated whether proactive home visits can improve ANC access …
Effects of proactive vs fixed community health care delivery on child health and access to care
Background: Professional community health workers (CHWs) can help achieve universal health coverage, although evidence gaps remain on how to optimise CHW service delivery. We conducted an unblinded, parallel, cluster randomised trial in rural Mali to determine whether proactive CHW delivery reduced mortality and improved access to health care among children under five years, compared to passive delivery. Here we report the secondary access endpoi…
Preference‐Aligned Fertility Management as a Person‐Centered Alternative to Contraceptive Use‐Focused Measures
Equating contraceptive use with programmatic success is fundamentally flawed in failing to account for whether individuals desire contraceptive use; this is problematic because nonuse can reflect empowered decision‐making and use may reflect an individual's inability to refuse or discontinue a method. A rights‐based approach demands respect for individuals’ freedom to weigh options and choose how their desire for pregnancy prevention can be accom…
Designing for two
Cost-effectiveness analysis of proactive home visits compared with site-based community health worker care on antenatal care outcomes in Mali
INTRODUCTION: Despite recommendations from the WHO, antenatal care (ANC) coverage remains low in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Community health workers (CHWs) can play an important role in expanding ANC coverage through pregnancy identification, provision of health education, screening for complications, delivery of therapeutic care and referral to higher levels of care. However, despite the success of CHW programmes in var…
Qualified, skilled or trained delivery care provider
box This commentary highlights various definitions of maternal and newborn health care providers used globally and demonstrates the considerable effect of a definition on study findings
Community case management to accelerate access to healthcare in Mali
The Proactive Community Case Management (ProCCM) trial in Mali reinforced the health system across both arms with user fee removal, professional community health workers (CHWs) and upgraded primary health centres (PHCs)—and randomized village-clusters to receive proactive home visits by CHWs (intervention) or fixed site-based services by passive CHWs (control). Across both arms, sick children’s 24-hour treatment and pregnant women’s four or more …
Women's Perspectives on the Unique Benefits and Challenges of Self‐Injectable Contraception
Implementing self‐injection (SI) of subcutaneous depot‐medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA‐SC) is a key self‐care strategy for sexual and reproductive health, but SI uptake remains low, and assertions about the potential of SI to increase women's control over contraceptive use lack evidence. We sought to qualitatively explore how women with diverse contraceptive experiences—including those with and without experience using SI—view the benefits and …
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