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Overview

Bruno Marchal is affiliated with the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp in Belgium. Their research encompasses a range of topics within health professions and medicine, with a noted focus on economics and financing in healthcare. The main fields of study associated with their work include Health Professions, Medicine, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Subfields that receive particular attention include General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Economics and Econometrics and Finance.

Their research topics cover several areas within global and public health, such as:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Among Bruno Marchal's recent papers are works addressing causal configurations in qualitative research, evaluations of health leadership, and health policy responses to COVID-19. Selected recent publications include:

  • "What's in a Realist Configuration? Deciding Which Causal Configurations to Use, How, and Why," 2020, International Journal of Qualitative Methods
  • "Action leveraging evidence to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity (ALERT): study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda," 2021, BMC Health Services Research
  • "The effect of leadership on public service motivation: a multiple embedded case study in Morocco," 2020, BMJ Open
  • "What role can health policy and systems research play in supporting responses to COVID-19 that strengthen socially just health systems?," 2020, Health Policy and Planning
  • "Unravelling the role of leadership in motivation of health workers in a Moroccan public hospital: a realist evaluation," 2020, BMJ Open

Research dissemination frequently occurs in journals such as BMJ Open, Health Policy and Planning, BMJ Global Health, Health Research Policy and Systems, and Frontiers in Public Health. These venues represent the main platforms for Bruno Marchal's scholarly output.

Collaborative efforts form an important aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include Sara Van Belle, Lenka Beňová, Jean-Paul Dossou, Zakaria Belrhiti, and Bart Criel, indicating active engagement in multidisciplinary team research.

Best Publications

  • Going to scale with professional skilled care

    Marge Koblinsky;Marge Koblinsky;Zoë Matthews;Julia Hussein;Dileep Mavalankar

  • Is realist evaluation keeping its promise? A review of published empirical studies in the field of health systems research:

    Bruno Marchal;Sara van Belle;Josefien van Olmen;Tom Hoerée

  • Health workforce imbalances in times of globalization: brain drain or professional mobility?

    Bruno Marchal;Guy Kegels

  • Global Health Actors Claim To Support Health System Strengthening—Is This Reality or Rhetoric?

    Bruno Marchal;Anna Cavalli;Guy Kegels

  • Realist RCTs of complex interventions - an oxymoron.

    Bruno Marchal;Gill Westhorp;Geoff Wong;Sara Van Belle

  • Using the realist interview approach to maintain theoretical awareness in realist studies

    Ferdinand C Mukumbang;Bruno Marchal;Sara Van Belle;Brian van Wyk

  • A realist evaluation of the management of a well- performing regional hospital in Ghana

    Bruno Marchal;McDamien Dedzo;Guy Kegels

  • Performance-based financing in low-income and middle-income countries: isn’t it time for a rethink?

    Elisabeth Paul;Lucien Albert;Badibanga N’Sambuka Bisala;Oriane Bodson

  • Health systems frameworks in their political context: framing divergent agendas

    Josefien van Olmen;Bruno Marchal;Wim Van Damme;Guy Kegels

  • Measuring the health systems impact of disease control programmes: a critical reflection on the WHO building blocks framework.

    Sandra Mounier-Jack;Ulla K Griffiths;Svea Closser;Helen Burchett

  • The Health System Dynamics Framework: The introduction of an analytical model for health system analysis and its application to two case-studies

    J van Olmen;B Criel;U Bhojani;B Marchal

  • Viewpoint: HIV/AIDS and the health workforce crisis: what are the next steps?

    Bruno Marchal;Vincent De Brouwere;Guy Kegels

  • Research, evidence and policymaking: the perspectives of policy actors on improving uptake of evidence in health policy development and implementation in Uganda

    Juliet Nabyonga Orem;David Kaawa Mafigiri;Bruno Marchal;Freddie Ssengooba

  • How to develop a theory-driven evaluation design? Lessons learned from an adolescent sexual and reproductive health programme in West Africa

    Sara B Van Belle;Bruno Marchal;Dominique Dubourg;Guy Kegels

  • Erratum: Going to scale with professional skilled care (Lancet (2006) 368 (1377-1386))

    M. Koblinsky;Z. Matthews;J. Hussein;D. Mavalankar

  • What’s in a Realist Configuration? Deciding Which Causal Configurations to Use, How, and Why:

    E. De Weger;N. J. E. Van Vooren;G. Wong;Sonia Dalkin

  • Analysing health systems to make them stronger

    J. van Olmen;B. Criel;W. Van Damme;B. Marchal

  • Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: a realist evaluation of a capacity building programme for district managers in Tumkur, India

    Nuggehalli Srinivas Prashanth;Bruno Marchal;Narayanan Devadasan;Guy Kegels

  • Can “realist” randomised controlled trials be genuinely realist?

    Sara Van Belle;Geoff Wong;Gillian Sue Westhorp;Mark Pearson

  • Interface flow process audit: using the patient's career as a tracer of quality of care and of system organisation

    Jean-Pierre Unger;Bruno Marchal;Sylvie Dugas;Marie-Jeanne Wuidar

  • The contribution of international health volunteers to the health workforce in sub-Saharan Africa

    Geert Laleman;Guy Kegels;Bruno Marchal;Dirk Van der Roost

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart Criel
Bart Criel Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Miguel San Sebastian
Miguel San Sebastian Umeå University
Isabel Goicolea
Isabel Goicolea Umeå University
Wim Van Damme
Wim Van Damme Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Asha George
Asha George University of the Western Cape
Sophie Witter
Sophie Witter Queen Margaret University
Valéry Ridde
Valéry Ridde Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Geoff Wong
Geoff Wong University of Oxford
Astrid Blystad
Astrid Blystad University of Bergen

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