Considerations for a sustainability framework for neglected tropical diseases programming.
Espinal M, Kruk ME, Mohamed MCM, Wainwright E.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Jan 28. 115(2):176-178. PMID: 33508097
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.
Espinal M, Kruk ME, Mohamed MCM, Wainwright E.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Jan 28. 115(2):176-178. PMID: 33508097
Hategeka C, Arsenault C, Kruk ME.
BMJ Glob Health. 2020 11. 5(11). PMID: 33187962
Gage AD, Yahya T, Kruk ME, Eliakimu E, Mohamed M, Shamba D, Roder-DeWan S.
Bull World Health Organ. 2020 Dec 01. 98(12):849-858A. PMID: 33293745
Roder-DeWan S, Nimako K, Twum-Danso NAY, Amatya A, Langer A, Kruk M.
BMJ Glob Health. 2020 10. 5(10). PMID: 33055093
Bukhman G, Mocumbi AO, Atun R, Becker AE, Bhutta Z, Binagwaho A, Clinton C, Coates MM, Dain K, Ezzati M, Gottlieb G, Gupta I, Gupta N, Hyder AA, Jain Y, Kruk ME, Makani J, Marx A, Miranda JJ, Norheim OF, Nugent R, Roy N, Stefan C, Wallis L, Mayosi B.
Lancet. 2020 10 03. 396(10256):991-1044. PMID: 32941823
Moucheraud C, Sarma H, Ha TTT, Ahmed T, Epstein A, Glenn J, Hanh HH, Huong TTT, Luies SK, Moitry AN, Nhung DP, Payán DD, Rahman M, Tariqujjaman M, Thuy TT, Tuan T, Bossert TJ, Kruk ME.
BMC Public Health. 2020 Sep 04. 20(1):1361. PMID: 32887601
Duran D, Bauhoff S, Berman P, Gaudet T, Konan C, Ozaltin E, Kruk M.
BMJ Glob Health. 2020 09. 5(9). PMID: 32999053
Arsenault C, Kim MK, Aryal A, Faye A, Joseph JP, Kassa M, Degfie TT, Yahya T, Kruk ME.
Bull World Health Organ. 2020 Nov 01. 98(11):735-746D. PMID: 33177770
Kruk ME, Ataguba JE, Akweongo P.
Lancet. 2020 10 17. 396(10258):1130-1131. PMID: 32861311
Roder-DeWan S, Gage A, Hirschhorn LR, Twum-Danso NAY, Liljestrand J, Asante-Shongwe K, Yahya T, Kruk M.
BMJ Glob Health. 2020 08. 5(8). PMID: 32859647
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