Publications

Karim A, Burri C, Kila J.S, Bambwelo N, Bakukulu J.T, de Savigny D. Systems thinking for supply chains: identifying bottlenecks using process mapping of a child health intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Systems. 2024;12(4):137. DOI: 10.3390/systems12040137

Dadi R, Kalolo A, Kapologwe N.A, Kibusi S.M, Tanner M, de Savigny D. Beyond health-system building blocks: context and determinants of health. In: Kapologwe N.A,Kengia J.T,van Praag E,Killewo J,Kalolo A, eds. Primary health care in Tanzania through a health systems lens: a history of the struggle for universal health coverage, 385-418: CABI International, 2023. DOI: 10.1079/9781800623330.0010

de Savigny D. Foreword. In: Anasel M.G,Kapologwe N.A,Kalolo A, eds. Leadership and governance in primary healthcare: an exemplar for practice in resource limited settings, vii - ix. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2023. DOI: 10.1201/9781003346821

Kalolo A, Kengia J.T, Kapologwe N.A, de Savigny D, Killewo J. Achieving health-systems resilience in Tanzania. In: Kapologwe N.A,Kengia J.T,van Praag E,Killewo J,Kalolo A, eds. Primary health care in Tanzania through a health systems lens: a history of the struggle for universal health coverage, 350-384: CABI International, 2023. DOI: 10.1079/9781800623330.0009

Karim A, de Savigny D. Effective coverage in health systems: evolution of a concept. Diseases. 2023;11:35. DOI: 10.3390/diseases11010035

Kengia J.T, Kalolo A, van Praag E, de Savigny D, Tanner M, Killewo J, Kapologwe N.A. Looking to the future of primary health care in Tanzania. In: Kapologwe N.A,Kengia J.T,van Praag E,Killewo J,Kalolo A, eds. Primary health care in Tanzania through a health systems lens: a history of the struggle for universal health coverage, 419-452: CABI International, 2023. DOI: 10.1079/9781800623330.0011

Tanner M, de Savigny D. Foreword. In: Kapologwe N.A,Kengia J.T,van Praag E,Killewo J,Kalolo A, eds. Primary health care in Tanzania through a health systems lens: a history of the struggle for universal health coverage, 16-18: CABI International, 2023

Tavakkoli M, Takian A, Mohammadi M, Heidari H, Kouchakinejad-Eramsadati L, Yousefzade-Chabok S, de Savigny D, Fink G, Künzli N, Cobos Muñoz D. Assessing the design of road traffic death information systems in Iran: a participatory systems approach. Int J Med Inform. 2023;172:105005. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.105005

Tediosi F, de Savigny D. Global health and systems change. In: Raviglione Mario C.B,Tediosi Fabrizio,Villa Simone,Casamitjana Núria,Plasència Antoni, eds. Global health essentials, 267-271. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33851-9_40

Zafar S, Loo P.S, Avais A.R, Afghan S, de Savigny D, Cobos Muñoz D, Sant Fruchtman C. Unveiling maternal health insights during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan: using causal loop diagrams to illuminate and prevent unintended policy effects. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2023;11(5):e2100803. DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-21-00803

Cobos Muñoz D, Sant Fruchtman C, Miki J, Vargas-Herrera J, Woode S, Dake F.A.A, Clapham B, de Savigny D, Botchway E. The need to address fragmentation and silos in mortality information systems: the case of Ghana and Peru. Int J Public Health. 2022;67:1604721. DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604721

Karim A, de Savigny D, Awor P, Cobos Muñoz D, Mäusezahl D, Kitoto Tshefu A, Ngaima J.S, Enebeli U, Isiguzo C, Nsona H, Ogbonnaya I, Ngoy P, Alegbeleye A. The building blocks of community health systems: a systems framework for the design, implementation and evaluation of iCCM programs and community-based interventions. BMJ Glob Health. 2022;7(6):e008493. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008493

Karim A, de Savigny D, Ngaima J.S, Mäusezahl D, Cobos Muñoz D, Tshefu A. Assessing determinants of programmatic performance of community management of malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea in children in Africa: protocol and data collection for a mixed methods evaluation of integrated community case management. JMIR Res Protoc. 2022;11(3):e33076. DOI: 10.2196/33076

Revenga Becedas R, Sant Fruchtman C, Dincu I, de Savigny D, Cobos Muñoz D. Addressing the evidence gap in the economic and social benefits of civil registration and vital statistics systems: a systematic review. Public Health Rev. 2022;43:1604560. DOI: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1604560

Tavakkoli M, Karim A, Fischer F.B, Monzon Llamas L, Raoofi A, Zafar S, Sant Fruchtman C, de Savigny D, Takian A, Antillón M, Cobos Muñoz D. From public health policy to impact for COVID-19: a multi-country case study in Switzerland, Spain, Iran and Pakistan. Int J Public Health. 2022;67:1604969. DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604969

Tavakkoli M, Torkashvand-Khah Z, Fink G, Takian A, Künzli N, de Savigny D, Cobos Muñoz D. Evidence from the decade of action for road safety: a systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions in low and middle-income countries. Public Health Rev. 2022;43:1604499. DOI: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1604499

AbouZahr C, Bratschi M.W, Cercone E, Mangharam A, de Savigny D, Dincu I, Forsingdal A.B, Joos O, Kamal M, Fat D.M, Mathenge G, Marinho F, Mitra R.G, Montgomery J, Muhwava W, Mwamba R, Mwanza J, Onaka A, Sejersen T.B, Tuoane-Nkhasi M, Sferrazza L, Setel P. The COVID-19 pandemic: effects on civil registration of births and deaths and on availability and utility of vital events data. Am J Public Health. 2021;111(6):1123-1131. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306203

Chandramohan D, Fottrell E, Leitao J, Nichols E, Clark S.J, Alsokhn C, Cobos Muñoz D, AbouZahr C, Di Pasquale A, Mswia R, Choi E, Baiden F, Thomas J, Lyatuu I, Li Z, Larbi-Debrah P, Chu Y, Cheburet S, Sankoh O, Mohamed Badr A, Fat D.M, Setel P, Jakob R, de Savigny D. Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification: evolution and state of the art of verbal autopsy. Glob Health Action. 2021;14(Suppl. 1):1982486. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2021.1982486

Ehrenberg N, Ehrenberg J.P, Fontes G, Gyapong M, Rocha E.M.M, Steinmann P, Utzinger J, Zhao X.N, de Savigny D. Neglected tropical diseases as a barometer for progress in health systems in times of COVID-19. BMJ Glob Health. 2021;6:e004709. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004709

Mukasa O, Masanja H, De Savigny D, Schellenberg J. A cohort study of survival following discharge from hospital in rural Tanzanian children using linked data of admissions with community-based demographic surveillance. Emerg Themes Epidemiol. 2021;18:4. DOI: 10.1186/s12982-021-00094-4

Nyondo T, Msigwa G, Cobos Muñoz D, Kabadi G, Macha T, Karugendo E, Mugasa J, Semu G, Levira F, Sant Fruchtman C, Mwanza J, Lyatuu I, Bratschi M, Kumalija C.J, Setel P, de Savigny D. Improving quality of medical certification of causes of death in health facilities in Tanzania 2014-2019. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021;21(Suppl. 1):214. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06189-7

Sant Fruchtman C, Mbuyita S, Mwanyika-Sando M, Braun M, de Savigny D, Cobos Muñoz D. The complexity of scaling up an mHealth intervention: the case of SMS for Life in Tanzania from a health systems integration perspective. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021;21:343. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06285-8

Saulnier D.D, Blanchet K, Canila C, Cobos Muñoz D, Zennaro L.D, De Savigny D, Durski K.N, Garcia F, Grimm P.Y, Kwamie A, Maceira D, Marten R, Peytremann-Bridevaux I, Poroes C, Ridde V, Seematter L, Stern B, Suarez P, Teddy G, Wernli D, Wyss K, Tediosi F. A health systems resilience research agenda: moving from concept to practice. BMJ Glob Health. 2021;6:e006779. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006779

Adair T, Rajasekhar M, Bo K.S, Hart J, Kwa V, Mukut M.A.A, Reeve M, Richards N, Ronderos-Torres M, de Savigny D, Cobos Muñoz D, Lopez A.D. Where there is no hospital: improving the notification of community deaths. BMC Med. 2020;18:65. DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01524-x

Cobos Muñoz D, de Savigny D, Sorchik R, Bo K.S, Hart J, Kwa V, Ngomituje X, Richards N, Lopez A.D. Better data for better outcomes: the importance of process mapping and management in CRVS systems. BMC Med. 2020;18:67. DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01522-z

Karim A, Cobos Muñoz D, Mäusezahl D, de Savigny D. A systems approach to assessing complexity in health interventions: an effectiveness decay model for integrated community case management. Glob Health Action. 2020;13:1794106. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2020.1794106

Karim A, Cobos Muñoz D, Mäusezahl D, de Savigny D. Thematic areas and complexity of integrated community case management (iCCM) design, implementation, and evaluation: protocol for a scoping review. Syst Rev. 2020;9:205. DOI: 10.1186/s13643-020-01454-y

Sanga C, Kabadi G, Karugendo E, de Savigny D, Cobos Muñoz D, Adair T. Decentralization of birth registration to local government in Tanzania: the association with completeness of birth registration and certification. Glob Health Action. 2020;13:1831795. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2020.1831795

Setel P, AbouZahr C, Atuheire E.B, Bratschi M, Cercone E, Chinganya O, Clapham B, Clark S.J, Congdon C, de Savigny D, Karpati A, Nichols E, Jakob R, Mwanza J, Muhwava W, Nahmias P, Ortiz E.M, Tshangela A. Mortality surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bull World Health Organ. 2020;98:374. DOI: 10.2471/BLT.20.263194

Vital Strategies: World Health Organization. Revealing the toll of COVID-19: a technical package for rapid mortality surveillance and epidemic response. New York: Vital Strategies, 2020

Francetic I, Tediosi F, Salari P, de Savigny D. Going operational with health systems governance: supervision and incentives to health workers for increased quality of care in Tanzania. Health Policy Plan. 2019;34(Suppl. 2):ii77-ii92. DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czz104

Cobos Muñoz D, Abouzahr C, de Savigny D. The ‘Ten CRVS Milestones’ framework for understanding civil registration and vital statistics systems [Commentary]. BMJ Glob Health. 2018;3:e000673. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000673

Michel J, Evans D, Tediosi F, de Savigny D, Egger M, Bärninghausen T, McIntyre D, Rispel L. Lest we forget, primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa is nurse led. Is this reflected in the current health systems strengthening undertakings and initiatives?. J Glob Health Rep. 2018;2:e2018009. DOI: 10.29392/joghr.2.e2018009

de Savigny D,Blanchet K,Adam T, eds. Applied systems thinking for health systems research: a methodological handbook. London: McGraw Hill, 2017

de Savigny D, Riley I, Chandramohan D, Odhiambo F, Nichols E, Notzon S, AbouZahr C, Mitra R, Cobos Muñoz D, Firth S, Maire N, Sankoh O, Bronson G, Setel P, Byass P, Jakob R, Boerma T, Lopez A.D. Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS): system-level considerations. Glob Health Action. 2017;10(1):1272882. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1272882

Galactionova K, Smith T.A, de Savigny D, Penny M.A. State of inequality in malaria intervention coverage in sub-Saharan African countries. BMC Med. 2017;15:185. DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0948-8

Mukasa O, Mushi H.P, Maire N, Ross A, de Savigny D. Do surveys with paper and electronic devices differ in quality and cost? Experience from the Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Tanzania. Glob Health Action. 2017;10:1387984. DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1387984

The malERA Refresh Consultative Panel on Health Systems and Policy Research. malERA: an updated research agenda for health systems and policy research in malaria elimination and eradication. PLoS Med. 2017;14(11):e1002454. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002454

Tugwell P, Petkovic J, Welch V, Vincent J, Bhutta Z.A, Churchill R, de Savigny D, Mbuagbaw L, Pantoja T. Setting priorities for knowledge translation of Cochrane reviews for health equity: evidence for equity. Int J Equity Health. 2017;16:208. DOI: 10.1186/s12939-017-0697-5

Warren A, Cordon R, Told M, de Savigny D, Kickbusch I, Tanner M. The Global Fund's paradigm of oversight, monitoring, and results in Mozambique. Global Health. 2017;13:89. DOI: 10.1186/s12992-017-0308-7