Context Matters: Strategies to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Serbanescu F, Kruk ME, Dominico S, Nimako K.
Glob Health Sci Pract. 2022 Apr 28. 10(2). PMID: 35487551
QuEST Center Director
Global Health and Population
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Margaret E. Kruk is Professor of Health Systems at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Kruk’s research generates evidence on how health systems can improve health for people living in low-income countries. Working with colleagues in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, and India, among other countries, she develops novel measures of health system quality and studies the links between quality and population demand for health care, health outcomes, and confidence in the system. Dr. Kruk and her team use implementation science and econometric methods to evaluate large-scale health system reforms.
Dr. Kruk is Director of the QuEST Centers and Network: a multi-country collaboration to produce a global evidence base for improving health systems. The QuEST Network responds to the findings of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era (HQSS Commission), a global initiative chaired by Dr. Kruk. QuEST will develop new instruments to assess health system quality, test structural and policy solutions to systemic quality deficits, and support expansion of high-impact health systems research in partner countries.
Prior to coming to Harvard, Dr. Kruk was Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Better Health Systems Initiative at Columbia University. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. She has held posts at the United Nations Development Program and McKinsey and Company and practiced medicine in northern Ontario, Canada. She holds an MD degree from McMaster University and an MPH from Harvard University. She is on Twitter @mkruk.
Serbanescu F, Kruk ME, Dominico S, Nimako K.
Glob Health Sci Pract. 2022 Apr 28. 10(2). PMID: 35487551
Vaivada T, Lassi ZS, Irfan O, Salam RA, Das JK, Oh C, Carducci B, Jain RP, Als D, Sharma N, Keats EC, Patton GC, Kruk ME, Black RE, Bhutta ZA.
Lancet. 2022 05 07. 399(10337):1810-1829. PMID: 35489360
Kruk ME, Lewis TP, Arsenault C, Bhutta ZA, Irimu G, Jeong J, Lassi ZS, Sawyer SM, Vaivada T, Waiswa P, Yousafzai AK.
Lancet. 2022 05 07. 399(10337):1830-1844. PMID: 35489361
Bhutta ZA, Boerma T, Black MM, Victora CG, Kruk ME, Black RE.
Lancet. 2022 05 07. 399(10337):1759-1761. PMID: 35489362
Lee HY, Leslie HH, Oh J, Kim R, Kumar A, Subramanian SV, Kruk ME.
Sci Rep. 2022 Apr 13. 12(1):6220. PMID: 35418654
Lewis TP, Ndiaye Y, Manzi F, Kruk ME.
J Glob Health. 2022. 12:04025. PMID: 35356662
Arsenault C, Gage A, Kim MK, Kapoor NR, Akweongo P, Amponsah F, Aryal A, Asai D, Awoonor-Williams JK, Ayele W, Bedregal P, Doubova SV, Dulal M, Gadeka DD, Gordon-Strachan G, Mariam DH, Hensman D, Joseph JP, Kaewkamjornchai P, Eshetu MK, Gelaw SK, Kubota S, Leerapan B, Margozzini P, Mebratie AD, Mehata S, Moshabela M, Mthethwa L, Nega A, Oh J, Park S, Passi-Solar Á, Pérez-Cuevas R, Phengsavanh A, Reddy T, Rittiphairoj T, Sapag JC, Thermidor R, Tlou B, Valenzuela Guiñez F, Bauhoff S, Kruk ME.
Nat Med. 2022 Mar 14. PMID: 35288697
Doubova SV, Robledo-Aburto ZA, Duque-Molina C, Borrayo-Sánchez G, González-León M, Avilés-Hernández R, Contreras-Sánchez SE, Leslie HH, Kruk M, Pérez-Cuevas R, Arsenault C.
BMJ Glob Health. 2022 03. 7(3). PMID: 35260393
Leslie HH, Lee HY, Blouin B, Kruk ME, García PJ.
BMJ Qual Saf. 2022 Feb 04. PMID: 35121652
Nimako K, Gage A, Benski C, Roder-DeWan S, Ali K, Kandie C, Mohamed A, Odeny H, Oloo M, Otieno JTB, Wanzala M, Okumu R, Kruk ME.
Glob Health Sci Pract. 2021 12 31. 9(4):1000-1010. PMID: 34933993
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