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D-Index
56
Citations
9939
World Ranking
1921
National Ranking
915

Overview

James F. Phillips is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Medicine, with a focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Their research encompasses important aspects of global maternal and child health, healthcare systems and reforms, nutrition and dietetics, general health professions, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

Their work addresses key topics such as:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Global Health and Epidemiology
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Frequent publication venues for Phillips include:

  • Global Health Action
  • PLoS ONE
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Global Health Science and Practice
  • Research in Health Services & Regions

James F. Phillips has co-authored publications regularly with the following researchers:

  • Ayaga A. Bawah
  • John Koku Awoonor-Williams
  • Abraham Oduro
  • Edmund Wedam Kanmiki
  • Elizabeth F. Jackson

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Phillips include:

  • Community-Based Health Planning and Services Plus programme in Ghana: A qualitative study with stakeholders in two Systems Learning Districts on improving the implementation of primary health care (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Neonatal mortality rates, characteristics, and risk factors for neonatal deaths in Ghana: analyses of data from two health and demographic surveillance systems (2021, Global Health Action)
  • Volunteer responsibilities, motivations and challenges in implementation of the community-based health planning and services (CHPS) initiative in Ghana: qualitative evidence from two systems learning districts of the CHPS+ project (2020, BMC Health Services Research)
  • It's a woman's thing: gender roles sustaining the practice of female genital mutilation among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana (2021, Reproductive Health)
  • Adapting a nurse-led primary care initiative to cardiovascular disease control in Ghana: a qualitative study (2020, BMC Public Health)

Best Publications

  • The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative for scaling up service delivery innovation

    Frank K Nyonator;J Koku Awoonor-Williams;James F Phillips;Tanya C Jones

  • Women's fears and men's anxieties: The impact of family planning on gender relations in northern Ghana

    Ayaga Agula Bawah;Patricia Akweongo;Ruth Simmons;James F. Phillips

  • Improving health information systems for decision making across five sub-Saharan African countries: Implementation strategies from the African Health Initiative

    Wilbroad Mutale;Wilbroad Mutale;Namwinga Chintu;Cheryl Amoroso;Koku Awoonor-Williams

  • The demographic impact of family planning programs.

    J. Bongaarts;W. P. Mauldin;J. F. Phillips

  • Relevance of major stress events as an indicator of disease activity prevalence in inflammatory bowel disease.

    Linda C. Duffy;Linda C. Duffy;Maria A. Zielezny;James R. Marshall;Tim E. Byers

  • The impact of the Navrongo Project on contraceptive knowledge and use, reproductive preferences, and fertility.

    Cornelius Debpuur;James F. Phillips;Elizabeth F. Jackson;Alex Nazzar

  • The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project.

    Fred N. Binka;Alex Nazzar;James F. Phillips

  • Birth intervals and childhood mortality in rural Bangladesh.

    Michael A. Koenig;James F. Phillips;Oona M. Campbell;Stan D'Souza

  • Determinants of reproductive change in a traditional society: evidence from Matlab, Bangladesh.

    James F. Phillips;Ruth Simmons;Michael A. Koenig;J. Chakraborty

  • The demographic impact of the Family Planning--Health Services Project in Matlab Bangladesh.

    James F. Phillips;Wayne S. Stinson;Shushum Bhatia;Makhlisur Rahman

  • Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community-based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: 8. summary and recommendations of the Expert Panel.

    Robert E Black;Carl E Taylor;Shobha Arole;Abhay Bang

  • Impact of Measles Vaccination on Childhood Mortality in Rural Bangladesh

    M. A. Koenig;M. A. Khan;B. Wojtyniak;J. D. Clemens

  • Cultural factors constraining the introduction of family planning among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana.

    Philip B. Adongo;James F. Phillips;Beverly Kajihara;Clara K. Fayorsey

  • Factors influencing the intention of women in rural Ghana to adopt postpartum family planning

    Sebastian Eliason;Frank Baiden;Gloria Quansah-Asare;Yvonne Graham-Hayfron

  • The Ghana essential health interventions program: a plausibility trial of the impact of health systems strengthening on maternal & child survival.

    John Koku Awoonor-Williams;Ayaga A Bawah;Frank K Nyonator;Rofina Asuru

  • The Tanzania Connect Project: a cluster-randomized trial of the child survival impact of adding paid community health workers to an existing facility-focused health system

    Kate Ramsey;Kate Ramsey;Ahmed Hingora;Malick Kante;Malick Kante;Elizabeth Jackson

  • Socio-economic and demographic determinants of under-five mortality in rural northern Ghana

    Edmund Wedam Kanmiki;Ayaga A Bawah;Isaiah Agorinya;Fabian S Achana

  • Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: The Navrongo experiment in Ghana

    James F. Phillips;Ayaga A. Bawah;Fred N. Binka

  • Lessons learned from scaling up a community-based health program in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana

    John Koku Awoonor-Williams;Elias Kavinah Sory;Frank K Nyonator;James F Phillips

  • Beyond supply: the importance of female family planning workers in rural Bangladesh.

    Ruth Simmons;Laila Baqee;Michael A. Koenig;James F. Phillips

  • The Determinants of Reproductive Change in Bangladesh: Success in a Challenging Environment.

    Geoffrey McNicoll;John Cleland;James F. Phillips;Sajeda Amin

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Clemens
John D. Clemens University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa R. Hirschhorn
Lisa R. Hirschhorn Northwestern University
John Cleland
John Cleland London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
John C. Caldwell
John C. Caldwell Australian National University
Don de Savigny
Don de Savigny Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Sajeda Amin
Sajeda Amin Population Council
John Bongaarts
John Bongaarts Population Council

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