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Overview

George Pariyo is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and health professions, focusing on both general and public health topics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, their subfields of specialization are:

  • General Health Professions
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Information Systems

Their work centers on several key topics, including:

  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • ICT in Developing Communities
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

George Pariyo has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in the following journals:

  • PLoS ONE
  • PLOS Global Public Health
  • BMJ Open
  • Global Health Action
  • JMIR Formative Research

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 2. Planning, coordination, and partnerships", 2021, Health Research Policy and Systems
  • "Cohort Profile: The Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Uganda (IMHDSS, Uganda)", 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • "Adaptation and validation of UNICEF/Washington group child functioning module at the Iganga-Mayuge health and demographic surveillance site in Uganda", 2020, BMC Public Health
  • "Implementation of global health competencies: A scoping review on target audiences, levels, and pedagogy and assessment strategies", 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "An exploratory study on the quality of patient screening and counseling for hypertension management in Tanzania", 2020, PLoS ONE

Collaborations are a notable aspect of Pariyo's career, working regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Dustin G. Gibson
  • Joseph Ali
  • Elizeus Rutebemberwa
  • Andrés I. Vecino-Ortiz
  • Adnan A. Hyder

Best Publications

  • What do we know about community-based health worker programs? A systematic review of existing reviews on community health workers

    Kerry Scott;S. W. Beckham;Margaret Gross;George Pariyo

  • Reducing child mortality: Can public health deliver?

    Jennifer Bryce;Shams El Arifeen;George Pariyo;Claudio F. Lanata

  • Access to and utilisation of health services for the poor in Uganda: a systematic review of available evidence

    S.N. Kiwanuka;E.K. Ekirapa;S. Peterson;S. Peterson;O. Okui

  • Acceptability of evidence-based neonatal care practices in rural Uganda - implications for programming.

    Peter Waiswa;Peter Waiswa;Margaret Kemigisa;Juliet Kiguli;Sarah Naikoba

  • Using the three delays model to understand why newborn babies die in eastern Uganda

    Peter Waiswa;Peter Waiswa;Karin Kallander;Karin Kallander;Stefan Peterson;Stefan Peterson;Stefan Peterson;Goran Tomson

  • Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from experience--capitalizing on new opportunities.

    Katharina Hermann;Wim Van Damme;George W Pariyo;Erik Schouten

  • Delayed care seeking for fatal pneumonia in children aged under five years in Uganda: a case-series study

    Karin Källander;Helena Hildenwall;Peter Waiswa;Edward Galiwango

  • Improving facility-based care for sick children in Uganda: training is not enough

    George W Pariyo;Eleanor Gouws;Eleanor Gouws;Jennifer Bryce;Gilbert Burnham

  • Inequalities in full immunization coverage: trends in low- and middle-income countries.

    Maria Clara Restrepo-Mendez;Aluisio J. D. Barros;Kerry L. M. Wong;Hope L. Johnson

  • Discontinuation of cost sharing in Uganda

    Gilbert M. Burnham;George Pariyo;Edward Galiwango;Fred Wabwire-Mangen

  • Improving antimicrobial use among health workers in first-level facilities: results from the Multi-Country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy

    Eleanor Gouws;Jennifer Bryce;Jean Pierre Habicht;João Amaral

  • Poor newborn care practices - a population based survey in eastern Uganda

    Peter Waiswa;Peter Waiswa;Stefan Peterson;Stefan Peterson;Stefan Peterson;Goran Tomson;George W Pariyo

  • Utilization of public or private health care providers by febrile children after user fee removal in Uganda.

    Elizeus Rutebemberwa;Elizeus Rutebemberwa;George Pariyo;Stefan Peterson;Stefan Peterson;Stefan Peterson;Goran Tomson

  • Determinants of delay in care-seeking for febrile children in eastern Uganda.

    Elizeus Rutebemberwa;Karin Kallander;Goran Tomson;Stefan Peterson

  • Community perceptions and factors influencing utilization of health services in Uganda

    Solome K Bakeera;Solome K Bakeera;Sarah P Wamala;Sandro Galea;Andrew State

  • Mobile Phone Surveys for Collecting Population-Level Estimates in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Literature Review

    Dustin G Gibson;Amanda Pereira;Brooke A Farrenkopf;Alain B Labrique

  • Evidence summaries tailored to health policy-makers in low- and middle-income countries

    Sarah E Rosenbaum;Claire Glenton;Charles Shey Wiysonge;Edgardo Abalos

  • Context matters: interpreting impact findings in child survival evaluations

    Cesar G. Victora;Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg;Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg;Luis Huicho;João Amaral;João Amaral

  • Can lay community health workers be trained to use diagnostics to distinguish and treat malaria and pneumonia in children? Lessons from rural Uganda

    D. Mukanga;R. Babirye;Stefan Peterson;Stefan Peterson;Stefan Peterson;G. W. Pariyo

  • Digital Technologies for Health Workforce Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.

    Lesley Anne Long;George Pariyo;Karin Kallander

  • Increasing access to institutional deliveries using demand and supply side incentives: early results from a quasi-experimental study.

    Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho;Peter Waiswa;M Hafizur Rahman;Fred Makumbi

Frequent Co-Authors

Göran Tomson
Göran Tomson Karolinska Institute
David H. Peters
David H. Peters Johns Hopkins University
David M. Bishai
David M. Bishai Johns Hopkins University
Adnan A. Hyder
Adnan A. Hyder George Washington University
Gerald Bloom
Gerald Bloom Institute of Development Studies
Barbara McPake
Barbara McPake University of Melbourne
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Qingyue Meng
Qingyue Meng Peking University
Gilbert Burnham
Gilbert Burnham Johns Hopkins University
Robert Colebunders
Robert Colebunders University of Antwerp

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