Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

Dados Biográficos

ID1734532
NOMEBethany Hedt-Gauthier
PRENOMESBethany
SOBRENOMEHedt-Gauthier
ASSINATURAHEDT-GAUTHIER B
AFILIAÇÕESHarvard University
ORCID0000-0002-9689-5413
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS44
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES6
TOTAL COMO AUTOR37
TOTAL COMO EDITOR7
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2013
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Measuring community engagement and trust in community health workers in Haiti, Malawi, and Rwanda

    Open AccessStephanie Armbruster, Stefanie A Joseph et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2026

    Background: Community health workers (CHWs) increase the accessibility of institutional health systems by building trust in communities. We assessed community members' trust in CHWs in Haiti, Malawi, and Rwanda. We explored whether potentially modifiable factors, including sex concordance between community members and CHWs and time spent by CHWs engaging with their community, are associated with increased trust in CHWs. Methods: test and explored…

  • Identifying context-specific community understanding of Covid-19 and mental health in Haiti, Malawi, and Rwanda

    Open AccessStefanie A Joseph, Vincent K Cubaka et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    Background Community health workers (CHWs) play a vital role in spreading health-related information in low-and middle-income countries. Assessing their knowledge is crucial to combat health misinformation.Objective To identify locally relevant COVID-19 and mental health-related information commonly held by CHWs and the misconceptions most prevalent in their communities in Haiti, Malawi, and Rwanda.Methods A card-sorting activity was conducted wi…

  • Exploring supportive roles for global north investigators in global health research

    Open AccessJade Pearce, Deepa Rao et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Many academics are increasingly pushing for solutions to address inequitable partnership dynamics in global health research and practice. Efforts to improve equity in collaborations have prompted academic institutions to grapple with promotion and tenure criteria (usually Global North institutions), as these criteria often require leadership on grants, publications, and conference presentations for advancement. From inequitable funding opportunit…

  • Adaptation and validation of the Children’s Surgical Assessment Tool for Rwandan district hospitals

    Open AccessSarah Nuss, Jean Paul Majyambere et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND/AIMS: Paediatric surgical care is a critical component of child health and basic universal health coverage and therefore should be included in comprehensive evaluations of surgical capacity. This study adapted and validated the Children's Surgical Assessment Tool (CSAT), a tool developed for district and tertiary hospitals in Nigeria to evaluate hospital infrastructure, workforce, service delivery, financing, and training capacity for …

  • Academic global surgical competencies

    Open AccessNatalie Pawlak, Christine Dart et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Academic global surgery is a rapidly growing field that aims to improve access to safe surgical care worldwide. However, no universally accepted competencies exist to inform this developing field. A consensus-based approach, with input from a diverse group of experts, is needed to identify essential competencies that will lead to standardization in this field. A task force was set up using snowball sampling to recruit a broad group of content and…

  • Image-based surgical site infection algorithms to support home-based post-cesarean monitoring

    Open AccessBarnabas Tobi Alayande, Siona Prasad et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

  • Machine learning models to predict traumatic brain injury outcomes in Tanzania

    Open AccessArmand Zimmerman, Cyrus Elahi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Constraints to emergency department resources may prevent the timely provision of care following a patient’s arrival to the hospital. In-hospital delays may adversely affect health outcomes, particularly among trauma patients who require prompt management. Prognostic models can help optimize resource allocation thereby reducing in-hospital delays and improving trauma outcomes. The objective of this study was to investigate the predictive value of…

  • Point-Of-Care Ultra-Sound (Pocus) for suspected surgical abdominal conditions in rural India–a mixed-method health needs assessment

    Open AccessOwen Thomas, Noel Aruparayil et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Introduction Evidence has shown a trend towards rising mortality from surgical abdominal conditions with increasing distance from hospitals in Eastern India. It has been claimed that imaging modalities such as portable ultrasound are ideal for use in rural areas of developing countries for diagnosis and management of a variety of acute abdominal conditions. This mixed-methods study aimed to explore the need for increased access to POCUS in rural,…

  • The impact of Covid-19 and national pandemic responses on health service utilisation in seven low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessDonald Fejfar, Afom T Andom et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted health services worldwide, which may have led to increased mortality and secondary disease outbreaks. Disruptions vary by patient population, geographic area, and service. While many reasons have been put forward to explain disruptions, few studies have empirically investigated their causes. OBJECTIVE: We quantify disruptions to outpatient services, facility-based deliveries, and family planning in …

  • Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa

    Open AccessAnwaar Baobeid, Tara Faghani-Hamadani et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Women researchers find it more difficult to publish in academic journals than men, an inequity that affects women's careers and was exacerbated during the pandemic, particularly for women in low-income and middle-income countries. We measured publishing by sub-Saharan African (SSA) women in prestigious authorship positions (first or last author, or single author) during the time frame 2014-2016. We also examined policies and practic…

  • MHealth-community health worker telemedicine intervention for surgical site infection diagnosis

    Open AccessTheoneste Nkurunziza, Wendy R Williams et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) cause a significant global public health burden in low and middle-income countries. Most SSIs develop after patient discharge and may go undetected. We assessed the feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of an mHealth-community health worker (CHW) home-based telemedicine intervention to diagnose SSIs in women who delivered via caesarean section in rural Rwanda. METHODS: This prospective cohort study includ…

  • Disruptions in maternal health service use during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020

    Open AccessZeus Aranda, Thierry Binde et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic has heterogeneously affected use of basic health services worldwide, with disruptions in some countries beginning in the early stages of the emergency in March 2020. These disruptions have occurred on both the supply and demand sides of healthcare, and have often been related to resource shortages to provide care and lower patient turnout associated with mobility restrictions and fear of contracting COVID-19 at facilities. I…

  • Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through integrated and sustainability-focused programming in Zambia

    Open AccessAniset Kamanga, Lupenshyo Ngosa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality is a critical health priority within Zambia and globally. Although evidence-based clinical interventions can prevent a majority of these deaths, scalable and sustainable delivery of interventions across low-resource settings remains uneven, particularly across rural and marginalized communities. The Zambian Ministry of Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative implemented an integrated sexual, reprod…

  • Authorship trends in infectious diseases society of America affiliated journal articles conducted in low-income countries, 1998–2018

    Open AccessChelsea Modlin, Qiao Deng et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    An increasing amount of infectious diseases research is conducted in low-income countries (LIC) given their high burden of disease; however, the contribution of LIC investigators as measured by authorship metrics, specifically to infectious diseases research, has not been thoroughly studied. We performed a literature search for primary research conducted either within LICs or using samples from LIC participants published between 1998–2017 in the …

  • Exploring the lived experiences of parents caring for infants with gastroschisis in Rwanda

    Open AccessSamuel Kidane, Semay Desta Shamebo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Pediatric surgery is a crucial pillar of health equity but is often not prioritized in the global health agenda, especially in low-and middle-income countries. Gastroschisis (GS) is a type of structural congenital anomaly that can be treated through surgical interventions. In Rwanda, neonatal surgical care is only available in one hospital. The experience of parents of children born with gastroschisis has not been previously studied in Rwanda. Th…

  • Risk factors for stillbirth and neonatal mortality among participants in Mobile WACh NEO pilot, a two-way SMS communication program in Kenya

    Open AccessAnna B Hedstrom, Esther M Choo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Globally, 2.5 million neonates die and 2 million more are stillborn each year; the vast majority occur where access to life-saving care is limited. High quality, feasible interventions are needed to reach, educate and empower pregnant women and new mothers to improve care-seeking behaviors. Mobile WACh (Mobile solutions for Women’s and Children’s health) NEO is a human-computer hybrid mobile health (mHealth) system that allows for two-way short m…

  • How to estimate health service coverage in 58 districts of Benin with no survey data

    Open AccessAlex Ocampo, Joseph J Valadez et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The global movement to use routine information for managing health systems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, relies on administrative data which have inherent biases when used to estimate coverage with health services. Health policies and interventions planned with incorrect information can have detrimental impacts on communities. Statistical inferences using administrative data can be improved when they are combined with random proba…

  • Discharge instructions given to women following delivery by cesarean section in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessJuliet Musabeyezu, Jenna Santos et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Objective A scoping review of discharge instructions for women undergoing cesarean section (c-section) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Method Studies were identified from PubMed, Globus Index Medicus, NiPAD, EMBASE, and EBSCO databases. Eligible papers included research based in a SSA country, published in English or French, and containing information on discharge instructions addressing general postnatal care, wound care, planning of future births,…

  • Receipt of a combined economic and peer support intervention and clinical outcomes among HIV-positive youth in rural Rwanda

    Open AccessDale A Barnhart, Lorenzo Jesús Blanco Nieto et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Introduction To combat poor clinical outcomes among HIV-positive youth, Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima (PIH/IMB) implemented Adolescent Support Groups (ASGs), which combined peer support and group-based economic incentives to promote treatment adherence, economic empowerment, and viral suppression. This study assesses the association between ASG membership and clinical outcomes among HIV-positive youth living in rural Rwanda. Methods We con…

  • The true costs of cesarean delivery for patients in rural Rwanda

    Open AccessAnne Niyigena, Barnabas Tobi Alayande et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2022

    Introduction While it is recognized that there are costs associated with postoperative patient follow-up, risk assessments of catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) due to surgery in sub-Saharan Africa rarely include expenses after discharge. We describe patient-level costs for cesarean section (c-section) and follow-up care up to postoperative day (POD) 30 and evaluate the contribution of follow-up to CHEs in rural Rwanda. Methods We interviewe…

  • Adapting Lot Quality Assurance Sampling to accommodate imperfect diagnostic tests

    Open AccessIsabel R Fulcher, Mary Clisbee et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The LQAS-IMP procedure accounts for imperfect sensitivity and specificity in system design; if the accuracy of a test is known, the use of LQAS-IMP extends LQAS to applications for indicators that are based on laboratory tests, such as SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

  • Caregiver parenting practices, dietary diversity knowledge, and association with early childhood development outcomes among children aged 18-29 months in Zanzibar, Tanzania

    Open AccessAllyson R Nelson, Allyson L Russell et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Our findings demonstrate a positive association between both the frequency of caregiver child interactions and knowledge of adequate dietary diversity, and ECD outcomes. This aligns with global evidence that promoting early stimulation, play and learning opportunities, and dietary diversity can improve developmental outcomes. Further study is needed to establish causal relationships and assess the impact of ECD programming in Zanzibar

  • Identifying Programmatic Factors that Increase Likelihood of Health Facility Delivery

    Open AccessElizabeth Hentschel, Allyson R Nelson et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2022

  • Using the Covid-19 pandemic to reimagine global health teaching in high-income countries

    Open AccessSalla Atkins, Ananya Banerjee et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

  • One hundred thirty-three observed Covid-19 deaths in 10 months

    Open AccessClarisse Musanabaganwa, Vincent K Cubaka et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    The African region was predicted to have worse COVID-19 infection and death rates due to challenging health systems and social determinants of health. However, in the 10 months after its first case, Rwanda recorded 10316 cases and 133 COVID-19-related deaths translating to a case fatality rate (CFR) of 1.3%, which raised the question: why does Rwanda have a low COVID-19 CFR? Here we analysed COVID-19 data and explored possible explanations to bet…