Dina Balabanova

Affiliations

Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

Publications (49)

Equivalence in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient of Generic Antihypertensive Medicines Available in Nigeria (EQUIMEDS): A Case for Further Surveillance.

Global heart

Avec: Julie Redfern , Harparkash Kaur , Rufus Adesoji Adedoyin , Sandra Ofori , Raghupathy Anchala , Ajay S Vamadevan , Luciano De Andrade , Jose Zelaya , Dina Balabanova , Mahmoud Umar Sani

The global scale and implications of delivering multiple interventions through integrated child health events.

BMJ global health

Avec: Mahoko Kamatsuchi , Adrian Gheorghe , Dina Balabanova

"For how long are we going to take the tablets?" Kenyan stakeholders' views on priority investments to sustainably tackle soil-transmitted helminths.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Avec: Mishal S Khan , Rachel Pullan , George Okello , Mary Nyikuri , Martin McKee , Dina Balabanova

The Long and Winding Road: A Systematic Literature Review Conceptualising Pathways for Hypertension Care and Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

International journal of health policy and management

Avec: Rachel Brathwaite , Eleanor Hutchinson , Martin McKee , Benjamin Palafox , Dina Balabanova

World Heart Federation Roadmap for Hypertension - A 2021 Update.

Global heart

Avec: Panniyammakal Jeemon , Tania Séverin , Celso Amodeo , Dina Balabanova , Norm R C Campbell , Dan Gaita , Kazuomi Kario , Taskeen Khan , Rita Melifonwu , Andrew Moran , Elijah Ogola , Pedro Ordunez , Pablo Perel , Daniel Piñeiro , Fausto J Pinto , Aletta E Schutte , Fernando Stuardo Wyss , Lijing L Yan , Neil R Poulter , Dorairaj Prabhakaran

Maintaining population health in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: Why we should be investing in Community Health Workers.

Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH

Avec: Benjamin Palafox , Alicia Renedo , Gideon Lasco , Lia Palileo-Villanueva , Dina Balabanova , Martin McKee

Assessing the potential of wearable health monitors for health system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries: a prospective study of technology adoption in Cambodia.

Health policy and planning

Avec: Marco Liverani , Por Ir , Pablo Perel , Mishal Khan , Dina Balabanova , Virginia Wiseman

Prevalence, determinants and outcomes of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use for hypertension among low-income households in Malaysia and the Philippines.

BMC complementary medicine and therapies

Avec: Lia M Palileo-Villanueva , Benjamin Palafox , Arianna Maever L Amit , Veincent Christian F Pepito , Fadhlina Ab-Majid , Farnaza Ariffin , Dina Balabanova , Mohamad-Rodi Isa , Nafiza Mat-Nasir , Mazapuspavina My , Alicia Renedo , Maureen L Seguin , Khalid Yusoff , Antonio L Dans , Martin Mckee

Is it possible for drug shops to abide by the formal rules? The structural determinants of community medicine sales in Uganda.

BMJ global health

Avec: Eleanor Hutchinson , Kristian Schultz Hansen , Jacquellyn Sanyu , Lydia Peace Amonya , Sunday Mundua , Dina Balabanova , Sian E Clarke , Freddy Eric Kitutu

The gendered drivers of absenteeism in the Nigerian health system.

Health policy and planning

Avec: Pamela Ogbozor , Obinna Onwujekwe , Dina Balabanova , Aloysius Odii , Prince Agwu , Martin McKee , Uche Obi , Charles Tochukwu Orjiakor , Eleanor Hutchinson

Enmity then empathy: How militarisation facilitated collaborative but exclusive exchange in Sierra Leone's Ebola response.

Disasters

Avec: Samuel T Boland , Susannah H Mayhew , Hana Rohan , Louis Lillywhite , Dina Balabanova

How Do Nigerian Newspapers Report Corruption in the Health System?

International journal of health policy and management

Avec: Mohammed Abba-Aji , Dina Balabanova , Eleanor Hutchinson , Martin McKee

The influence of corruption and governance in the delivery of frontline health care services in the public sector: a scoping review of current and future prospects in low and middle-income countries of south and south-east Asia.

BMC public health

Avec: Nahitun Naher , Roksana Hoque , Muhammad Shaikh Hassan , Dina Balabanova , Alayne M Adams , Syed Masud Ahmed

Correction to: The influence of corruption and governance in the delivery of frontline health care services in the public sector: a scoping review of current and future prospects in low and middle-income countries of south and south-east Asia.

BMC public health

Avec: Nahitun Naher , Roksana Hoque , Muhammad Shaikh Hassan , Dina Balabanova , Alayne M Adams , Syed Masud Ahmed

BMJ global health

Avec: Gideon Lasco , Jhaki Mendoza , Alicia Renedo , Maureen L Seguin , Benjamin Palafox , Lia M Palileo-Villanueva , Arianna Maever L Amit , Antonio L Dans , Dina Balabanova , Martin McKee

Health system strengthening-Reflections on its meaning, assessment, and our state of knowledge.

The International journal of health planning and management

Avec: Sophie Witter , Natasha Palmer , Dina Balabanova , Sandra Mounier-Jack , Tim Martineau , Anna Klicpera , Charity Jensen , Miguel Pugliese-Garcia , Lucy Gilson

Targeting anticorruption interventions at the front line: developmental governance in health systems.

BMJ global health

Avec: Eleanor Hutchinson , Nahitun Naher , Pallavi Roy , Martin McKee , Susannah H Mayhew , Syed Masud Ahmed , Dina Balabanova

Crowdsourcing to identify social innovation initiatives in health in low- and middle-income countries.

Infectious diseases of poverty

Avec: Lindi van Niekerk , Arturo Ongkeko , Rachel Alice Hounsell , Barwani Khaura Msiska , Don Pascal Mathanga , Josselyn Mothe , Noel Juban , Phyllis Awor , Dina Balabanova

Connecting communities to primary care: a qualitative study on the roles, motivations and lived experiences of community health workers in the Philippines.

BMC health services research

Avec: Eunice Mallari , Gideon Lasco , Don Jervis Sayman , Arianna Maever L Amit , Dina Balabanova , Martin McKee , Jhaki Mendoza , Lia Palileo-Villanueva , Alicia Renedo , Maureen Seguin , Benjamin Palafox

Gender differences in informal payments for healthcare: evidence from 34 African countries.

Health policy and planning

Avec: Selina Rajan , Cornelia Santoso , Mohammed Abba-Aji , David Stuckler , Martin McKee , Eleanor Hutchinson , Obinna Onwujekwe , Dina Balabanova

Absenteeism in primary health centres in Nigeria: leveraging power, politics and kinship.

BMJ global health

Avec: Aloysius Odii , Obinna Onwujekwe , Eleanor Hutchinson , Prince Agwu , Charles Tochukwu Orjiakor , Pamela Ogbozor , Pallavi Roy , Martin McKee , Dina Balabanova

Strong structuration analysis of patterns of adherence to hypertension medication.

SSM. Qualitative research in health

Avec: Maureen Seguin , Jhaki Mendoza , Gideon Lasco , Lia M Palileo-Villanueva , Benjamin Palafox , Alicia Renedo , Martin McKee , Dina Balabanova

Re-aligning Incentives to Address Informal Payments in Tanzania Public Health Facilities: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

International journal of health policy and management

Avec: Peter Binyaruka , Antonio Andreoni , Dina Balabanova , Martin McKee , Eleanor Hutchinson , Blake Angell

The political economy of expedience: examining perspectives on military support to Sierra Leone's Ebola response.

Conflict and health

Avec: Samuel T Boland , Dina Balabanova , Susannah Mayhew

Where Do We Start? Building Consensus on Drivers of Health Sector Corruption in Nigeria and Ways to Address It.

International journal of health policy and management

Avec: Obinna Onwujekwe , Charles T Orjiakor , Eleanor Hutchinson , Martin McKee , Prince Agwu , Chinyere Mbachu , Pamela Ogbozor , Uche Obi , Aloysius Odii , Hyacinth Ichoku , Dina Balabanova

Universities as catalysts of social innovation in health systems in low-and middle-income countries: a multi-country case study.

Infectious diseases of poverty

Avec: Lindi van Niekerk , Don Pascal Mathanga , Noel Juban , Diana Maria Castro-Arroyave , Dina Balabanova

"I don't see gender": Conceptualizing a gendered system of academic publishing.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Avec: Jamie Lundine , Ivy Lynn Bourgeault , Ketevan Glonti , Eleanor Hutchinson , Dina Balabanova

(Re)arranging "systems of care" in the early Ebola response in Sierra Leone: An interdisciplinary analysis.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Avec: Susannah H Mayhew , Dina Balabanova , Ahmed Vandi , Gelejimah Alfred Mokuwa , Tommy Hanson , Melissa Parker , Paul Richards

"I can't kill myself": Local narratives and meanings that foster absenteeism in Nigerian primary health centres.

Journal of global health

Avec: Charles T Orjiakor , Obinna Onwujekwe , Martin McKee , Eleanor Hutchison , Prince Agwu , Dina Balabanova

The paradoxical surplus of health workers in Africa: The need for research and policy engagement.

The International journal of health planning and management

Avec: Eleanor Hutchinson , Suzanne Kiwanuka , Richard Muhindo , Christine Nimwesiga , Dina Balabanova , Martin McKee , Freddy Eric Kitutu

Targeting systems not individuals: Institutional and structural drivers of absenteeism among primary healthcare workers in Nigeria.

The International journal of health planning and management

Avec: Prince Agwu , Obinna Onwujekwe , Uche Obi , Martin McKee , Aloysius Odii , Charles Orjiakor , Eleanor Hutchinson , Dina Balabanova

Examining the militarised hierarchy of Sierra Leone's Ebola response and implications for decision making during public health emergencies.

Globalization and health

Avec: Samuel T Boland , Dina Balabanova , Susannah Mayhew

Determinants of government spending on primary healthcare: a global data analysis.

BMJ global health

Avec: Darius Erlangga , Timothy Powell-Jackson , Dina Balabanova , Kara Hanson

Policy space and pro-health equity national policymaking: a case study of Myanmar during political transition (2006-16).

Health policy and planning

Avec: Fiona Campbell , Than Tun Sein , Thant Sin Htoo , Wai Yee Krystal Khine , Natasha Howard , Dina Balabanova

Exploring key-stakeholder perceptions on non-communicable disease care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya.

The Pan African medical journal

Avec: Sugitha Sureshkumar , Kibachio Joseph Mwangi , Gladwell Gathecha , Kailing Marcus , Bogomil Kohlbrenner , David Issom , Mohamed Rida Benissa , Sigiriya Aebischer-Perone , Nirit Braha , Egidio Candela , Kumar Gaurav Chhabra , Bava Ramachandran Desikachari , Arianna Dondi , Marina Etchebehere , Andre Pascal Kengne , Eduardo Missoni , Feisul Mustapha , Benjamin Palafox , Sanghamitra Pati , Priyanka Paul Madhu , Nasheeta Peer , Jennifer Quint , Reza Tabrizi , Haironi Yusoff , Michel Oris , David Henry Beran , Dina Balabanova , Jean-François Etter

Exploring the path to optimal diabetes care by unravelling the contextual factors affecting access, utilisation, and quality of primary health care in West Africa: A scoping review protocol.

PloS one

Avec: Abdul-Basit Abdul-Samed , Ellen Barnie Peprah , Yasmin Jahan , Veronika Reichenberger , Dina Balabanova , Tolib Mirzoev , Henry Lawson , Eric Odei , Edward Antwi , Irene Agyepong

Effectiveness of lifestyle interventions for glycaemic control among adults with type 2 diabetes in West Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.

Systematic reviews

Avec: Ellen Barnie Peprah , Yasmin Jahan , Anthony Danso-Appiah , Abdul-Basit Abdul-Samed , Tolib Mirzoev , Edward Antwi , Dina Balabanova , Irene Agyepong

Predictors of unmet needs among people with diabetes mellitus type 2 in Gampaha district of Sri Lanka.

PLOS global public health

Avec: Nimali Widanapathirana , Rajitha Wickremasinghe , Susie Perera , Martin McKee , Benjamin Palafox , Dina Balabanova

A public-private partnership for dialysis provision in Ethiopia: a model for high-cost care in low-resource settings.

Health policy and planning

Avec: Ora Paltiel , Ephrem Berhe , Amanuel Haile Aberha , Mengistu Hagazi Tequare , Dina Balabanova

Assessing the field of health policy and systems research using symposium abstract submissions and machine learning techniques.

Health policy and planning

Avec: Erlyn K Macarayan , Dina Balabanova , George Gotsadze

Corruption in Anglophone West Africa health systems: a systematic review of its different variants and the factors that sustain them.

Health policy and planning

Avec: Obinna Onwujekwe , Prince Agwu , Charles Orjiakor , Martin McKee , Eleanor Hutchinson , Chinyere Mbachu , Aloysius Odii , Pamela Ogbozor , Uche Obi , Hyacinth Ichoku , Dina Balabanova

(De)constructing 'therapeutic itineraries' of hypertension care: A qualitative study in the Philippines.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Avec: Jhaki A Mendoza , Gideon Lasco , Alicia Renedo , Lia Palileo-Villanueva , Maureen Seguin , Benjamin Palafox , Arianna Maever L Amit , Veincent Pepito , Martin McKee , Dina Balabanova

The application of social innovation in healthcare: a scoping review.

Infectious diseases of poverty

Avec: Lindi van Niekerk , Lenore Manderson , Dina Balabanova

Enhancing the use of stakeholder analysis for policy implementation research: towards a novel framing and operationalised measures.

BMJ global health

Avec: Marysol Astrea Balane , Benjamin Palafox , Lia M Palileo-Villanueva , Martin McKee , Dina Balabanova

Do social accountability approaches work? A review of the literature from selected low- and middle-income countries in the WHO South-East Asia region.

Health policy and planning

Avec: Nahitun Naher , Dina Balabanova , Eleanor Hutchinson , Robert Marten , Roksana Hoque , Samiun Nazrin Bente Kamal Tune , Bushra Zarin Islam , Syed Masud Ahmed

Towards Core Competencies for Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) Training: Results From a Global Mapping and Consensus-Building Process.

International journal of health policy and management

Avec: Meike J Schleiff , Avanti Rangnekar , Francisco Oviedo Gomez , Gina Teddy , David H Peters , Dina Balabanova

'We stay silent and keep it in our hearts': a qualitative study of failure of complaints mechanisms in Malawi's health system.

Health policy and planning

Avec: Maryam Chilumpha , Gertrude Chatha , Eric Umar , Martin McKee , Kerry Scott , Eleanor Hutchinson , Dina Balabanova

The Promise of Grassroots Approaches to Solving Absenteeism in Primary Health-Care Facilities in Nigeria: Evidence from a Qualitative Study.

Health systems and reform

Avec: Obinna Onwujekwe , Prince Agwu , Pallavi Roy , Eleanor Hutchinson , Charles Orjiakor , Martin McKee , Aloysius Odii , Chukwudi Nwokolo , Mushtaq Khan , Susannah Mayhew , Dina Balabanova

Examining corruption risks in the procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in select states in Nigeria.

Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice

Avec: Obinna Onwujekwe , Charles Orjiakor , Pamela Ogbozor , Ifunanya Agu , Prince Agwu , Tom Wright , Dina Balabanova , Jillian Kohler

Réseau de co-auteurs

Martin McKee 22 collaborations

Eleanor Hutchinson 16 collaborations

Benjamin Palafox 10 collaborations

Obinna Onwujekwe 9 collaborations

Prince Agwu 8 collaborations

Alicia Renedo 6 collaborations

Aloysius Odii 6 collaborations

Gideon Lasco 5 collaborations

Pamela Ogbozor 5 collaborations

Lia M Palileo-Villanueva 4 collaborations

Arianna Maever L Amit 4 collaborations

Uche Obi 4 collaborations

Nahitun Naher 4 collaborations

Syed Masud Ahmed 4 collaborations

Charles Orjiakor 4 collaborations

Lia Palileo-Villanueva 3 collaborations

Samuel T Boland 3 collaborations

Susannah H Mayhew 3 collaborations

Roksana Hoque 3 collaborations

Jhaki Mendoza 3 collaborations

Pallavi Roy 3 collaborations

Lindi van Niekerk 3 collaborations

Maureen Seguin 3 collaborations

Susannah Mayhew 3 collaborations

Pablo Perel 2 collaborations

Maureen L Seguin 2 collaborations

Antonio L Dans 2 collaborations

Freddy Eric Kitutu 2 collaborations

Charles Tochukwu Orjiakor 2 collaborations

Mohammed Abba-Aji 2 collaborations

Muhammad Shaikh Hassan 2 collaborations

Alayne M Adams 2 collaborations

Don Pascal Mathanga 2 collaborations

Noel Juban 2 collaborations

Charles T Orjiakor 2 collaborations

Chinyere Mbachu 2 collaborations

Hyacinth Ichoku 2 collaborations

Abdul-Basit Abdul-Samed 2 collaborations

Ellen Barnie Peprah 2 collaborations

Yasmin Jahan 2 collaborations

Tolib Mirzoev 2 collaborations

Edward Antwi 2 collaborations

Irene Agyepong 2 collaborations

Julie Redfern 1 collaboration

Harparkash Kaur 1 collaboration

Rufus Adesoji Adedoyin 1 collaboration

Sandra Ofori 1 collaboration

Raghupathy Anchala 1 collaboration

Ajay S Vamadevan 1 collaboration

Luciano De Andrade 1 collaboration

Jose Zelaya 1 collaboration

Mahmoud Umar Sani 1 collaboration

Mahoko Kamatsuchi 1 collaboration

Adrian Gheorghe 1 collaboration

Mishal S Khan 1 collaboration

Rachel Pullan 1 collaboration

George Okello 1 collaboration

Mary Nyikuri 1 collaboration

Rachel Brathwaite 1 collaboration

Panniyammakal Jeemon 1 collaboration

Tania Séverin 1 collaboration

Celso Amodeo 1 collaboration

Norm R C Campbell 1 collaboration

Dan Gaita 1 collaboration

Kazuomi Kario 1 collaboration

Taskeen Khan 1 collaboration

Rita Melifonwu 1 collaboration

Andrew Moran 1 collaboration

Elijah Ogola 1 collaboration

Pedro Ordunez 1 collaboration

Daniel Piñeiro 1 collaboration

Fausto J Pinto 1 collaboration

Aletta E Schutte 1 collaboration

Fernando Stuardo Wyss 1 collaboration

Lijing L Yan 1 collaboration

Neil R Poulter 1 collaboration

Dorairaj Prabhakaran 1 collaboration

Marco Liverani 1 collaboration

Por Ir 1 collaboration

Mishal Khan 1 collaboration

Virginia Wiseman 1 collaboration

Veincent Christian F Pepito 1 collaboration

Fadhlina Ab-Majid 1 collaboration

Farnaza Ariffin 1 collaboration

Mohamad-Rodi Isa 1 collaboration

Nafiza Mat-Nasir 1 collaboration

Mazapuspavina My 1 collaboration

Khalid Yusoff 1 collaboration

Martin Mckee 1 collaboration

Kristian Schultz Hansen 1 collaboration

Jacquellyn Sanyu 1 collaboration

Lydia Peace Amonya 1 collaboration

Sunday Mundua 1 collaboration

Sian E Clarke 1 collaboration

Hana Rohan 1 collaboration

Louis Lillywhite 1 collaboration

Sophie Witter 1 collaboration

Natasha Palmer 1 collaboration

Sandra Mounier-Jack 1 collaboration

Tim Martineau 1 collaboration

Anna Klicpera 1 collaboration

Charity Jensen 1 collaboration

Miguel Pugliese-Garcia 1 collaboration

Lucy Gilson 1 collaboration

Arturo Ongkeko 1 collaboration

Rachel Alice Hounsell 1 collaboration

Barwani Khaura Msiska 1 collaboration

Josselyn Mothe 1 collaboration

Phyllis Awor 1 collaboration

Eunice Mallari 1 collaboration

Don Jervis Sayman 1 collaboration

Selina Rajan 1 collaboration

Cornelia Santoso 1 collaboration

David Stuckler 1 collaboration

Peter Binyaruka 1 collaboration

Antonio Andreoni 1 collaboration

Blake Angell 1 collaboration

Diana Maria Castro-Arroyave 1 collaboration

Jamie Lundine 1 collaboration

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault 1 collaboration

Ketevan Glonti 1 collaboration

Ahmed Vandi 1 collaboration

Gelejimah Alfred Mokuwa 1 collaboration

Tommy Hanson 1 collaboration

Melissa Parker 1 collaboration

Paul Richards 1 collaboration

Eleanor Hutchison 1 collaboration

Suzanne Kiwanuka 1 collaboration

Richard Muhindo 1 collaboration

Christine Nimwesiga 1 collaboration

Darius Erlangga 1 collaboration

Timothy Powell-Jackson 1 collaboration

Kara Hanson 1 collaboration

Fiona Campbell 1 collaboration

Than Tun Sein 1 collaboration

Thant Sin Htoo 1 collaboration

Wai Yee Krystal Khine 1 collaboration

Natasha Howard 1 collaboration

Sugitha Sureshkumar 1 collaboration

Kibachio Joseph Mwangi 1 collaboration

Gladwell Gathecha 1 collaboration

Kailing Marcus 1 collaboration

Bogomil Kohlbrenner 1 collaboration

David Issom 1 collaboration

Mohamed Rida Benissa 1 collaboration

Sigiriya Aebischer-Perone 1 collaboration

Nirit Braha 1 collaboration

Egidio Candela 1 collaboration

Kumar Gaurav Chhabra 1 collaboration

Bava Ramachandran Desikachari 1 collaboration

Arianna Dondi 1 collaboration

Marina Etchebehere 1 collaboration

Andre Pascal Kengne 1 collaboration

Eduardo Missoni 1 collaboration

Feisul Mustapha 1 collaboration

Sanghamitra Pati 1 collaboration

Priyanka Paul Madhu 1 collaboration

Nasheeta Peer 1 collaboration

Jennifer Quint 1 collaboration

Reza Tabrizi 1 collaboration

Haironi Yusoff 1 collaboration

Michel Oris 1 collaboration

David Henry Beran 1 collaboration

Jean-François Etter 1 collaboration

Veronika Reichenberger 1 collaboration

Henry Lawson 1 collaboration

Eric Odei 1 collaboration

Anthony Danso-Appiah 1 collaboration

Nimali Widanapathirana 1 collaboration

Rajitha Wickremasinghe 1 collaboration

Susie Perera 1 collaboration

Ora Paltiel 1 collaboration

Ephrem Berhe 1 collaboration

Amanuel Haile Aberha 1 collaboration

Mengistu Hagazi Tequare 1 collaboration

Erlyn K Macarayan 1 collaboration

George Gotsadze 1 collaboration

Jhaki A Mendoza 1 collaboration

Veincent Pepito 1 collaboration

Lenore Manderson 1 collaboration

Marysol Astrea Balane 1 collaboration

Robert Marten 1 collaboration

Samiun Nazrin Bente Kamal Tune 1 collaboration

Bushra Zarin Islam 1 collaboration

Meike J Schleiff 1 collaboration

Avanti Rangnekar 1 collaboration

Francisco Oviedo Gomez 1 collaboration

Gina Teddy 1 collaboration

David H Peters 1 collaboration

Maryam Chilumpha 1 collaboration

Gertrude Chatha 1 collaboration

Eric Umar 1 collaboration

Kerry Scott 1 collaboration

Chukwudi Nwokolo 1 collaboration

Mushtaq Khan 1 collaboration

Ifunanya Agu 1 collaboration

Tom Wright 1 collaboration

Jillian Kohler 1 collaboration