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Chea Sanford Wesseh

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Articles 13
Citations 399
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General Medicine
Public Health
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Tashrik Ahmed
Tawab Hashemi
Gil Shapira
Pablo Amor Fernandez
Charles Nzelu
Michael A Peters
Peter M Hansen
Prativa Baral
Charles Mwansambo
Sylvain Yuma
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PLoS One
PLoS Med
Health Policy Plan
J Glob Health
Lancet Glob Health
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Recent Articles
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Vaccination Utilization and Subnational Inequities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis of Administrative Data across 12 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Mwinnyaa G, Peters M, Shapira G, Neill R, Sadat H, Yuma S, et al.
Vaccines (Basel) . 2023 Sep; 11(9). PMID: 37766092
Background: During and after the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, many countries experienced declines in immunization that have not fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels. This study uses routine health facility immunization data...
2.
Association between urban-rural location and prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in West Africa: a cross-sectional population-based epidemiological study
Issaka A, Stevenson C, Paradies Y, Houehanou Y, Bosu W, Kiwallo J, et al.
BMJ Open . 2023 Sep; 13(9):e063318. PMID: 37734888
Objectives: We investigated the association between urban/rural location and both type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and pre-diabetes among populations of five West African countries. Design: Cross-sectional studies, using the WHO...
3.
Availability and use of personal protective equipment in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic
Drouard S, Ahmed T, Fernandez P, Baral P, Peters M, Hansen P, et al.
PLoS One . 2023 Jul; 18(7):e0288465. PMID: 37459298
Background: Availability and appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is of particular importance in Low and Middle-Income countries (LMICs) where disease outbreaks other than COVID-19 are frequent and health...
4.
Vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from facility surveys across six countries
Baral P, Ahmed T, Fernandez P, Peters M, Drouard S, Muhoza P, et al.
PLoS One . 2023 Jul; 18(7):e0288124. PMID: 37418435
Background: Vaccine hesitancy remains a critical barrier in mitigating the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The willingness of health care workers (HCWs) to be vaccinated, and, in turn, recommend...
5.
Resilience of front-line facilities during COVID-19: evidence from cross-sectional rapid surveys in eight low- and middle-income countries
Peters M, Ahmed T, Azais V, Fernandez P, Baral P, Drouard S, et al.
Health Policy Plan . 2023 May; 38(7):789-798. PMID: 37256762
Responsive primary health-care facilities are the foundation of resilient health systems, yet little is known about facility-level processes that contribute to the continuity of essential services during a crisis. This...
6.
Readiness of health facilities to provide safe childbirth in Liberia: a cross-sectional analysis of population surveys, facility censuses and facility birth records
King J, Tarway-Twalla A, Dennis M, Twalla M, Konwloh P, Wesseh C, et al.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth . 2022 Dec; 22(1):952. PMID: 36539750
Background: The provision of quality obstetric care in health facilities is central to reducing maternal mortality, but simply increasing childbirth in facilities not enough, with evidence that many facilities in...
7.
Healthcare utilization and maternal and child mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 18 low- and middle-income countries: An interrupted time-series analysis with mathematical modeling of administrative data
Ahmed T, Roberton T, Vergeer P, Hansen P, Peters M, Ofosu A, et al.
PLoS Med . 2022 Aug; 19(8):e1004070. PMID: 36040910
Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had wide-reaching direct and indirect impacts on population health. In low- and middle-income countries, these impacts can halt progress toward reducing maternal...
8.
Disruptions in maternal and child health service utilization during COVID-19: analysis from eight sub-Saharan African countries
Shapira G, Ahmed T, Drouard S, Fernandez P, Kandpal E, Nzelu C, et al.
Health Policy Plan . 2021 Jun; 36(7):1140-1151. PMID: 34146394
The coronavirus-19 pandemic and its secondary effects threaten the continuity of essential health services delivery, which may lead to worsened population health and a protracted public health crisis. We quantify...
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Strengthening the community health program in Liberia: Lessons learned from a health system approach to inform program design and better prepare for future shocks
Simen-Kapeu A, Lewycka S, Ibe O, Yeakpalah A, Horace J, Ehounou G, et al.
J Glob Health . 2021 Mar; 11:07002. PMID: 33763217
Background: Arising from the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, the 2015-2021 Investment Plan aimed to improve the health status of the Liberian population through building a resilient health system that...
10.
Contact tracing performance during the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, 2014-2015
Swanson K, Altare C, Wesseh C, Nyenswah T, Ahmed T, Eyal N, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis . 2018 Sep; 12(9):e0006762. PMID: 30208032
Background: During the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in Liberia, contact tracing was implemented to rapidly detect new cases and prevent further transmission. We describe the scope and characteristics of...