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Overview

Sally Theobald is affiliated with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research career encompasses a significant focus on medicine, with an emphasis on pediatrics, perinatology, child health, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, and the intersection of sociology and political science within health contexts.

Theobald's work covers a variety of topics primarily concentrated around global maternal and child health, global public health policies and epidemiology, parasites and host interactions, global health and surgery, healthcare systems and reforms, poverty, education and child welfare, and global health workforce issues.

Frequent co-authors with whom Theobald has collaborated extensively include Laura Dean, Kim Ozano, Karsor Kollie, Rosie Steege, and Joanna Raven.

Theobald's publications appear regularly in several journals and publication venues, notably:

  • BMJ Global Health
  • International Health
  • Social Sciences
  • Human Resources for Health
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Recent papers featuring Theobald's contributions include:

  • Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements, 2020, Environment and Urbanization
  • Why onchocerciasis transmission persists after 15 annual ivermectin mass drug administrations in South-West Cameroon, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • Integration of prevention and control measures for female genital schistosomiasis, HIV and cervical cancer, 2020, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • How should community health workers in fragile contexts be supported: qualitative evidence from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo, 2020, Human Resources for Health
  • Diversifying Implementation Science: A Global Perspective, 2022, Global Health Science and Practice

Best Publications

  • Implementation research: new imperatives and opportunities in global health.

    Sally Theobald;Neal Brandes;Margaret Gyapong;Sameh El-Saharty

  • Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease. Part 1: determinants operating at individual and household level.

    Imelda Bates;Caroline Fenton;Janet Gruber;David Lalloo

  • How does context influence performance of community health workers in low- and middle-income countries? Evidence from the literature

    Maryse C Kok;Maryse C Kok;Sumit S Kane;Olivia Tulloch;Hermen Ormel

  • Community health workers in rural India: analysing the opportunities and challenges Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) face in realising their multiple roles

    Lipekho Saprii;Esther Richards;Puni Kokho;Sally Theobald

  • Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements

    Annie Wilkinson;Harris Ali;Juliet Bedford;Somsook Boonyabancha

  • How to do (or not to do)… gender analysis in health systems research

    Rosemary Morgan;Asha George;Sarah Ssali;Kate Hawkins

  • Going beyond the surface: gendered intra-household bargaining as a social determinant of child health and nutrition in low and middle income countries.

    Esther Richards;Sally Theobald;Asha George;Asha George;Julia C. Kim

  • Innovative Community-Based Approaches Doubled Tuberculosis Case Notification and Improve Treatment Outcome in Southern Ethiopia

    Mohammed A. Yassin;Mohammed A. Yassin;Daniel G. Datiko;Olivia Tulloch;Paulos Markos

  • 'Lost' smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases: where are they and why did we lose them?

    S B Squire;A K Belaye;A Kashoti;F M L Salaniponi

  • Performance of community health workers: situating their intermediary position within complex adaptive health systems.

    Maryse C. Kok;Jacqueline E. W. Broerse;Sally Theobald;Hermen Ormel

  • Limits and opportunities to community health worker empowerment: A multi-country comparative study.

    Sumit Kane;Maryse Kok;Hermen Ormel;Lilian Otiso

  • Optimising the benefits of community health workers' unique position between communities and the health sector: A comparative analysis of factors shaping relationships in four countries.

    Maryse C. Kok;Hermen Ormel;Jacqueline E. W. Broerse;Sumit Kane

  • Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS infection and disease. Part II: determinants operating at environmental and institutional level

    Imelda Bates;Caroline Fenton;Janet Gruber;David Lalloo

  • Salaried and voluntary community health workers: exploring how incentives and expectation gaps influence motivation

    Hermen Ormel;Maryse Kok;Sumit Kane;Rukhsana Ahmed

  • How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review.

    Rosalind McCollum;Woedem Gomez;Sally Theobald;Miriam Taegtmeyer

  • ''He will ask why the child gets sick so often'': The gendered dynamics of intra-household bargaining over healthcare for children with fever in the Volta Region of Ghana *

    Rachel Tolhurst;Yaa Peprah Amekudzi;Frank K. Nyonator;S. Bertel Squire

  • Transactional sex and HIV: understanding the gendered structural drivers of HIV in fishing communities in Southern Malawi.

    Eleanor E MacPherson;Eleanor E MacPherson;John Sadalaki;Macdonald Njoloma;Victoria Nyongopa

  • Gendered health systems: evidence from low- and middle-income countries.

    Rosemary Morgan;Richard Mangwi Ayiasi;Debjani Barman;Stephen Buzuzi

  • LED Fluorescence Microscopy for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Multi-Country Cross-Sectional Evaluation

    Luis Eduardo Cuevas;Luis Eduardo Cuevas;Najla Al-Sonboli;Lovett Lawson;Mohammed Ahmed Yassin

  • The role of women's leadership and gender equity in leadership and health system strengthening

    R Dhatt;Sally Theobald;Stephen Buzuzi;B Ros

  • Intersectionality and gender mainstreaming in international health: Using a feminist participatory action research process to analyse voices and debates from the global south and north

    Rachel Tolhurst;Beryl Leach;Janet Price;Jude Robinson

  • Development of a participatory monitoring and evaluation strategy

    Merydth Holte-McKenzie;Sarah Forde;Sally Theobald

  • Why onchocerciasis transmission persists after 15 annual ivermectin mass drug administrations in South-West Cameroon.

    Armelle Forrer;Samuel Wanji;Elisabeth Dibando Obie;Theobald Mue Nji

Frequent Co-Authors

Miriam Taegtmeyer
Miriam Taegtmeyer Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Sassy Molyneux
Sassy Molyneux University of Oxford
Asha George
Asha George University of the Western Cape
Janet Seeley
Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sophie Witter
Sophie Witter Queen Margaret University
Jacqueline E. W. Broerse
Jacqueline E. W. Broerse Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Edwine Barasa
Edwine Barasa KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Louis W. Niessen
Louis W. Niessen Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Mark J. Taylor
Mark J. Taylor Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Joseph D. Turner
Joseph D. Turner Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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