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Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovation from Polio Eradication
Oluwaseun Akinyemi, Adedamola Adebayo, Christopher Bassey, Chioma Nwaiwu, Anna Kalbarczyk, Terna Nomhwange, Olakunle O Alonge, Eme T Owoaje
Journal Article
Published: 06/06/2022
Country:
Nigeria
Background The Nigerian health care system is weak due to lack of coordination, fragmentation of services by donor funding of vertical services, dearth and poor distribution of resources, and inadequate infrastructures. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has supported the country’s health system and provided strategies and skills which need to be documented for use by other health programs attempting disease control or eradication. This study, therefore, explored the contributions of the Po...
Oluwaseun Akinyemi, Adedamola Adebayo, Christopher Bassey, Chioma Nwaiwu, Anna Kalbarczyk, Akinola A Fatiregun, Olakunle O Alonge, Eme Owoaje
Journal Article
Published: 08/09/2021
Country:
Nigeria
Objective This study employed the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to assess factors that enhanced or impeded the implementation of community engagement strategies using the Nigerian polio programme as a point of reference. Design This study was a part of a larger descriptive cross-sectional survey. The CFIR was used to design the instrument which was administered through face-to-face and phone interviews as well as a web-based data collection platform, Qualtrics. Settin...
Abigal H Neel, Svea Closser, Catherine Villanueva, Piyusha Majumdar, SD Gupta, Daniel Krugman, Oluwaseun O Akinyemi, Wakgari Deressa, Anna Kalbarczyk, Olakunle Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 08/03/2021
Country:
Ethopia, India, Nigeria
Introduction The debate over the impact of vertical programmes, including mass vaccination, on health systems is long-standing and often polarised. Studies have assessed the effects of a given vertical health programme on a health system separately from the goals of the vertical programme itself. Further, these health system effects are often categorised as either positive or negative. Yet health systems are in fact complex, dynamic and tightly linked. Relationships between elements of the syste...
Eme Owoaje, Ahmad Ohmid Rahimi, Anna Kalbarczyk, Oluwaseun Akinyemi, Michael A Peters, Olakunle O Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 12/18/2020
Country:
Afghanistan, Nigeria
Background Afghanistan and Nigeria are two of the three remaining polio endemic countries. While these two countries have unique sociocultural characteristics, they share major polio risk factors. This paper describes the countries’ shared contexts and highlights important lessons on implementing polio eradication activities among hard-to-reach populations relevant for future global health programs. Methods A grey literature review of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) followed by an...
Akinyemi, O, Adebayo, A, Bassey, C, Nwaiwu, C, Oyebowale, O, Kalbarczyk, A, Nomhwange, T, Alonge, O, Owoaje, E
Policy Briefs
Published: 12/16/2020
Country:
Nigeria
Community engagement has been widely accepted as a tool to foster communities’ participation in health promotion activities, increase acceptance to health interventions and promote sustainability of the program. The implementing organization’s planning process and the convictions held by the communities are crucial factors to be considered for a successful community engagement activity. The funding process of the health intervention is a major constraint to be considered while implem...
Akinyemi, O, Adebayo, A, Bassey, C, Nwaiwu, C, Oyebowale, O, Kalbarczyk, A, Nomhwange, T, Alonge, O, Owoaje, E
Policy Briefs
Published: 12/16/2020
Country:
Nigeria
The polio program has provided tangible physical assets which have been beneficial to the primary health care system of the country. The polio program formed sustainable relationships in communities where the eradication exercise was implemented; these relationships have been useful for other health programs. There is a deliberate action to transit assets and lessons learnt from the polio program to other initiatives that have benefited from the program. This will ensure that such polio leverage...
Olakunle Alonge, Abigail H. Neel, Anna Kalbarczyk, Michael A. Peters, Yodi Mahendradhata, Malabika Sarker, Eme Owoaje, Wakgari Deressa, Patrick K. Kayembe, Ahmad Shah Salehi, S.D. Gupta
Journal Article
Published: 08/12/2020
Country:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria
Background Lessons from polio eradication efforts and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) are useful for improving health service delivery and outcomes globally. The Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovations from Polio Eradication (STRIPE) is a multi-phase project which aims to map, package and disseminate knowledge from polio eradication initiatives as academic and training programs. This paper discusses initial findings from the knowledge mapping around polio eradication...
Michael A. Peters, Wakgari Deressa, Malabika Sarker, Neeraj Sharma, Eme Owoaje, Riris Andono Ahmad, Tawab Saljuqi, Eric Mafuta, Olakunle Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 08/12/2020
Country:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria
Background Complex global initiatives, like the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), have prevented millions of paralyses and improved the health status of diverse populations. Despite the logistical challenges these initiatives must overcome at several levels, scant methods exist for systematically identifying and reaching a range of actors involved in their implementation. As a result, efforts to document the lessons learned from such initiatives are often incomplete. This paper describ...
Anna Kalbarczyk, Aditi Rao, Yodi Mahendradhata, Piyusha Majumdar, Ellie Decker, Humayra Binte Anwar, Oluwaseun O. Akinyemi, Ahmad Omid Rahimi, Patrick Kayembe, Olakunle O. Alonge
Journal Article
Published: 08/12/2020
Country:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria
Background Thoughtful and equitable engagement with international partners is key to successful research. STRIPE, a consortium of 8 academic and research institutions across the globe whose objective is to map, synthesize, and disseminate lessons learned from polio eradication, conducted a process evaluation of this partnership during the project’s first year which focused on knowledge mapping activities. Methods The STRIPE consortium is led by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in partnership with...