Research & writing

below, my academic and quasi-academic research and writing. see also my cv, my google scholar profile, and orcid profile.

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dissertation. (forthcoming!): achieving access to antimalarials: views from ghana on the political-economy of adopting and implementing the affordable medicines facility – malaria (AMFm). defense slides.

related work

• poster for third health systems research symposium.  does the private sector deliver access? retailer compliance with a recommended retail price for anti-malarials in northern ghana under the AMFm).  presented at third global symposium on health systems research.  cape town, south africa: 2 october 2014.

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text messages and antimalarial treatment in northern ghana.

related work

• with julia raifman, slawa rokicki & günther fink, PLoS ONE article: the impact of text message reminders on adherence to antimalarial treatment in northern ghana: a randomized trial
• blog for ipa on follow-up with participating vendors: learning by asking
• presentation at 3ie’s delhi seminar series: do mobile sms reminders affect medical treatment?
• blog for 3ie on proof-of-concept evaluations and moving forward: proof-of-concept evaluations: building evidence for effective scale-ups

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theory of change, external validity & mixed-methods work.

related work

• with vegard iversen, external validity clues in development: on what to looks for and how.
  • presentation at making impact evaluation matter conference. manila, philippines: 27 september 2014.
  • presentation at clear south asia m&e webinar series. 17 april 2015.
  • working paper available here.

• with shagun sabarwal, integration and interpretation: understanding what works and why by meaningfully mixing methods in impact evaluation.
  • presentation at the canadian evaluation society (CES) 2015 national conference (#c2015). montreal, canada:  27 may 2015.
  • presentation at the community of evaluators conclave (#evalcon). kathmandu, nepal: 27 november 2015.

• key personal blogs:
  • theories of change, stakeholders, imagined beneficiaries, & stealing from product design. that is, meet ‘mary.’

    • thinking more about using personas/personae in developing theories of change

  • anecdotes and simple observations are dangerous; words and narratives are not.
  • median impact narratives: who, why, and how
  • reflecting on being radical: integrating theories of change as practice

  • teaching qualitative analysis: an intro

  • planning for qualitative data collection and analysis

  • survey design and methods matter (and sometimes people in ghana aren’t truthful about loans)

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stakeholders, decision-making, use-of-evidence .

related work

• with suvojit chattopadhyay:
  • paper:
  • blogs:
    • avoiding perversions of evidence-informed decision-making
    • have evidence, will… um, erm?
    • have evidence, will… um, erm (2 of 2)
    • ‘relevant reasons’ in decision-making‘going public’ with decision-making
    • allowing ‘revisibility’ in decision-making
    • enforcing accountability in decision-making

• key personal blogs:
  • thinking about stakeholder risk and accountability in pilot experiments

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sharing research results.

related work

• with mike frick,

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diabetes in chennai.

related work

• “diabetes understandings and actions in chennai.” presented at global health and the uae:  asia-middle east connections.  al ain, uae.  4 january 2010.
• with madras diabetes research foundation, increased awareness about diabetes and its complications in a whole city: effectiveness of “prevention, awareness, counselling and evaluation” (PACE) diabetes project (PACE-6).
• with madras diabetes research foundation, prevention awareness counselling and evaluation (PACE) diabetes project: a mega multi-pronged program for diabetes awareness and prevention in south india (PACE-5).
• with madras diabetes research foundation, incidence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in a selected urban south indian population (CUPS – 19) 

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disease self-management.

related work

• with danielle buechler giuseffi, patients at center stage: diabetes control through self-management. lanthorn, giuseffi, mohan, diabetes self- management