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International Health Systems Program

The International Health Systems Program (IHSP) is a multidisciplinary team of faculty, scholars, and experts working to improve health systems in to improve health and living standards. 

Phone 617-432-0418
Location

665 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA

Publications

Croke K. Comment: Comparative Politics, Political Settlements, and the Political Economy of Health Financing Reform. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 2023.

Croke K, Gage A, Fulcher I, Opondo K, Nzinga J, Tsofa B, Haneuse S, Kruk M. Service delivery reform for maternal and newborn health in Kakamega County, Kenya: study protocol for a prospective impact evaluation and implementation science study. BMC Public Health. 2022;22 (1727).

Croke K. The Origins of Ethiopia’s Primary Health Care Expansion: The politics of state building and health system strengthening. Health Policy and Planning. 2020;35 (10) :1318–1327.

Croke K, Mengistu AT, O’Connell S, Tafere K. The impact of a health facility construction campaign on health service utilization and outcomes: Analysis of spatially-linked survey and facility location data in Ethiopia. BMJ Global Health. 2020;5 (8) :e002430

Croke K, Yusoff MM, Abdullah Z, Hanafiah ANM, Mokhtaruddin K, Emira Soleha Ramli, Borhan NF, Almodovar-Diaz Y, Atun R, Virk AK. The political economy of health financing reform in Malaysia. Health Policy and Planning. 2019;34 (10) :732-739.

Chukwuma A, Bossert TJ, Croke K. Health service delivery and political trust in Nigeria. Social Science and Medicine – Population Health. 2019;7

Bossert TJ, Lenz R, Guerrero R, Miranda R, Soto Rojas VE, Maldonado Vargas ND. Decentralization Can Improve Equity, but Can It Be Sustained?Health Syst Reform. 2022 Jan 1;8(1):e2064793.

Bossert TJ, Villalobos Dintrans P. Health Reform in the Midst of a Social and Political Crisis in Chile, 2019-2020.Health Syst Reform. 2020 Jan 1;6(1):e1789031.

Feldhaus I, Chatterjee S, Clarke-Deelder E, Brenzel L, Resch S, Bossert TJ. Examining decentralization and managerial decision making for child immunization program performance in India.Soc Sci Med. 2023 Jan;317:115457.

Glenn J, Moucheraud C, Payán DD, Crook A, Stagg J, Sarma H, Ahmed T, Epstein A, Luies SK, Rahman M, Kruk ME, Bossert TJ. What is the impact of removing performance-based financial incentives on community health worker motivation? A qualitative study from an infant and young child feeding program in Bangladesh.BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Sep 17;21(1):979. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06996-y.PMID: 34535147 

Delamou A, Grovogui FM, Miller L, Nye A, Kourouma M, Kolié D, Goumou T, Bossert TJ.
Implementation research protocol on the national community health policy in Guinea: A sequential mixed-methods study using a decision space approach.
PLoS One. 2023 Jan 20;18(1):e0280651.

Moucheraud C, Epstein A, Sarma H, Kim SS, Nguyen PH, Rahman M, Tariquijaman M, Glenn J, Payán DD, Menon P, Bossert TJ. Assessing sustainment of health worker outcomes beyond program end: Evaluation results from an infant and young child feeding intervention in Bangladesh.