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Sassy Molyneux is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of medicine and health professions, with significant contributions in subfields such as general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, finance, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of main topics, including:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Disaster Response and Management

Sassy Molyneux has published extensively in various academic venues. Some frequent publication outlets include:

  • Wellcome Open Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Health Policy and Planning

Among their recent papers are:

  • Childhood mortality during and after acute illness in Africa and south Asia: a prospective cohort study, 2022, The Lancet Global Health
  • Analysing the Efficiency of Health Systems: A Systematic Review of the Literature, 2022, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
  • An appeal for practical social justice in the COVID-19 global response in low-income and middle-income countries, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Prolonged health worker strikes in Kenya- perspectives and experiences of frontline health managers and local communities in Kilifi County, 2020, International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Health system responsiveness: a systematic evidence mapping review of the global literature, 2021, International Journal for Equity in Health

Sassy Molyneux's frequent co-authors include:

  • Edwine Barasa
  • Mike English
  • Benjamin Tsofa
  • Julie Jemutai
  • Dorothy Oluoch

In addition to research papers, Molyneux has contributed to book publications. One noted book published through Berghahn Books is Evidence, Ethos and Experiment (2022), which has received citations in academic literature.

Best Publications

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

    Rosemary Morgan;Asha George;Sarah Ssali;Kate Hawkins

  • Everyday resilience in district health systems: emerging insights from the front lines in Kenya and South Africa

    Lucy Gilson;Edwine Barasa;Nonhlanhla Nxumalo;Susan Cleary

  • Taking social relationships seriously: lessons learned from the informed consent practices of a vaccine trial on the Kenyan Coast.

    Caroline Gikonyo;Phillip Bejon;Vicki Marsh;Sassy Molyneux

  • Beginning community engagement at a busy biomedical research programme: Experiences from the KEMRI CGMRC-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

    Vicki Marsh;Dorcas Kamuya;Yvonne Rowa;Caroline Gikonyo

  • Community accountability at peripheral health facilities: a review of the empirical literature and development of a conceptual framework

    Sassy Molyneux;Martin Atela;Vibian Angwenyi;Catherine Goodman

  • Resources, attitudes and culture: an understanding of the factors that influence the functioning of accountability mechanisms in primary health care settings

    Susan M Cleary;Sassy Molyneux;Lucy Gilson;Lucy Gilson

  • Ethics and the ethnography of medical research in Africa

    Sassy Molyneux;P. Wenzel Geissler

  • 'All her children are born that way': gendered experiences of stigma in families affected by sickle cell disorder in rural Kenya.

    Vicki M. Marsh;Dorcas M. Kamuya;Sassy S. Molyneux

  • Childhood mortality during and after acute illness in Africa and south Asia: a prospective cohort study

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  • Evaluating controlled human malaria infection in Kenyan adults with varying degrees of prior exposure to Plasmodium falciparum using sporozoites administered by intramuscular injection

    Susanne H. Hodgson;Elizabeth Juma;Elizabeth Juma;Amina Salim;Charles Magiri

  • Benefits and payments for research participants: experiences and views from a research centre on the Kenyan coast.

    Sassy Molyneux;Stephen Mulupi;Lairumbi Mbaabu;Vicki Marsh;Vicki Marsh

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

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

  • Analysing the Efficiency of Health Systems: A Systematic Review of the Literature

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  • How does decentralisation affect health sector planning and financial management? a case study of early effects of devolution in Kilifi County, Kenya.

    Benjamin Tsofa;Benjamin Tsofa;Sassy Molyneux;Sassy Molyneux;Lucy Gilson;Lucy Gilson;Catherine Goodman

  • Engaging Communities to Strengthen Research Ethics in Low-Income Settings: Selection and Perceptions of Members of a Network of Representatives in Coastal Kenya

    Dorcas Kamuya;Vicki Marsh;Francis Kombe;Paul Wenzel Geissler

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

    R Dhatt;Sally Theobald;Stephen Buzuzi;B Ros

  • Experiences with community engagement and informed consent in a genetic cohort study of severe childhood diseases in Kenya

    Vicki M Marsh;Dorcas M Kamuya;Albert M Mlamba;Thomas N Williams;Thomas N Williams

  • Recentralization within decentralization: County hospital autonomy under devolution in Kenya.

    Edwine W. Barasa;Edwine W. Barasa;Anthony M. Manyara;Sassy Molyneux;Sassy Molyneux;Benjamin Tsofa

  • Devolution and its effects on health workforce and commodities management - early implementation experiences in Kilifi County, Kenya.

    Benjamin Tsofa;Benjamin Tsofa;Catherine Goodman;Lucy Gilson;Lucy Gilson;Sassy Molyneux;Sassy Molyneux

  • Hospitals as complex adaptive systems: A case study of factors influencing priority setting practices at the hospital level in Kenya.

    Edwine W. Barasa;Edwine W. Barasa;Sassy Molyneux;Sassy Molyneux;Mike English;Mike English;Susan Cleary

  • Use of deferred consent for severely ill children in a multi-centre phase III trial

    Kathryn Maitland;Sassy Molyneux;Mwamvua Boga;Sarah Kiguli

  • Setting healthcare priorities in hospitals: a review of empirical studies

    Edwine W Barasa;Sassy Molyneux;Mike English;Susan Cleary

Frequent Co-Authors

Edwine Barasa
Edwine Barasa KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Catherine Goodman
Catherine Goodman London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Philip Bejon
Philip Bejon University of Oxford
Sally Theobald
Sally Theobald Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Michael Parker
Michael Parker University of Oxford
Asha George
Asha George University of the Western Cape
Simon J. Draper
Simon J. Draper University of Oxford

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