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Overview

Don de Savigny is affiliated with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with notable contributions across Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The scientist's work covers a range of global health topics including Global Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Data-Driven Disease Surveillance, Health Policy Implementation Science, Disaster Response and Management, and Global Health Care Issues.

Recent publications by Don de Savigny include:

  • A health systems resilience research agenda: moving from concept to practice, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • The COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Civil Registration of Births and Deaths and on Availability and Utility of Vital Events Data, 2021, American Journal of Public Health
  • Mortality surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Evidence From the Decade of Action for Road Safety: A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Interventions in Low and Middle-Income Countries, 2022, Public health reviews
  • Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification: evolution and state of the art of verbal autopsy, 2021, Global Health Action

Frequent coauthors in de Savigny's research include:

  • Daniel Cobos Muñoz (18 collaborations)
  • Aliya Karim (7 collaborations)
  • Carmen Sant Fruchtman (6 collaborations)
  • Philip Setel (4 collaborations)
  • Daniel Mäusezahl (4 collaborations)

De Savigny's work has appeared in journals such as BMJ Global Health, Global Health Action, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, BMC Medicine, and BMC Health Services Research, with the highest number of publications in BMJ Global Health and Global Health Action.

Best Publications

  • How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings?

    Alexander K Rowe;Don de Savigny;Claudio F Lanata;Cesar G Victora

  • Systems thinking for health systems strengthening.

    D. de Savigny;T. Adam

  • A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems: monitoring data quality and progress.

    Lene Mikkelsen;David E Phillips;Carla AbouZahr;Philip W Setel

  • Inequities among the very poor: health care for children in rural southern Tanzania

    Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg;Cesar G. Victora;Adiel K Mushi;Don de Savigny

  • Schistosomiasis and neglected tropical diseases: towards integrated and sustainable control and a word of caution

    J. Utzinger;G. Raso;S. Brooker;D. De Savigny

  • In vitro maintenance of Toxocara canis larvae and a simple method for the production of Toxocara ES antigen for use in serodiagnostic tests for visceral larva migrans.

    D. H. de Savigny

  • Toxocariasis: serological diagnosis by enzyme immunoassay.

    D H de Savigny;A Voller;A W Woodruff

  • Systems thinking for strengthening health systems in LMICs: need for a paradigm shift

    Taghreed Adam;Don de Savigny

  • Human Benefits of Animal Interventions for Zoonosis Control

    Jakob Zinsstag;Esther Schelling;Felix Roth;Bassirou Bonfoh

  • Effectiveness and cost of facility-based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Tanzania

    Joanna R M Armstrong Schellenberg;Taghreed Adam;Hassan Mshinda;Honorati Masanja

  • Using knowledge brokering to promote evidence-based policy-making: the need for support structures

    Jessika van Kammen;Don de Savigny;Nelson K. Sewankambo

  • Civil registration and vital statistics: progress in the data revolution for counting and accountability

    Carla AbouZahr;Don de Savigny;Lene Mikkelsen;Philip W Setel

  • Care-seeking patterns for fatal malaria in Tanzania.

    Don de Savigny;Charles Mayombana;Eleuther Mwageni;Honorati Masanja

  • Applying clinical epidemiological methods to health equity: the equity effectiveness loop.

    Peter Tugwell;Don de Savigny;Gillian Hawker;Vivian Robinson

  • Malaria eradication back on the table

    Marcel Tanner;Don de Savigny

  • Child survival gains in Tanzania: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys

    Honorati Masanja;Don de Savigny;Paul Smithson;Joanna Schellenberg

  • Evaluating health systems strengthening interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: are we asking the right questions?

    Taghreed Adam;Justine Hsu;Don De Savigny;John N. Lavis

  • The silent burden of anaemia in Tanzanian children: a community-based study

    D. Schellenberg;J. R. M. Armstrong Schellenberg;A. Mushi;D. de Savigny

  • Towards a comprehensive simulation model of malaria epidemiology and control.

    T. Smith;N. Maire;A. Ross;M. Penny

  • Informed choices for attaining the Millennium Development Goals: towards an international cooperative agenda for health- systems research

    F Becerra-Posada;D Berwick;Z Bhutta;M Chowdhury

  • Effective coverage and systems effectiveness for malaria case management in sub-Saharan African countries.

    Katya Galactionova;Katya Galactionova;Fabrizio Tediosi;Fabrizio Tediosi;Don de Savigny;Don de Savigny;Thomas Smith;Thomas Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrizio Tediosi
Fabrizio Tediosi Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Taghreed Adam
Taghreed Adam World Health Organization
Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Osman Sankoh
Osman Sankoh University of the Witwatersrand
Mitchell G. Weiss
Mitchell G. Weiss Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Göran Tomson
Göran Tomson Karolinska Institute
Anne Mills
Anne Mills London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
John N. Lavis
John N. Lavis McMaster University
Jakob Zinsstag
Jakob Zinsstag Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Esther Schelling
Esther Schelling University of Basel

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