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Overview

Valéry Ridde is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France and has contributed substantially to research in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their work spans multiple subfields including General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Finance, Infectious Diseases, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist has been notably active in research on topics such as Global Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Healthcare Systems and Practices, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Valéry Ridde include:

  • Assessing healthcare access using the Levesque's conceptual framework- a scoping review, 2021, International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Governance of the Covid-19 response: a call for more inclusive and transparent decision-making, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • Using implementation science theories and frameworks in global health, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • COVID-19: time for paradigm shift in the nexus between local, national and global health, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • A health systems resilience research agenda: moving from concept to practice, 2021, BMJ Global Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Valéry Ridde include Emmanuel Bonnet, Kate Zinszer, Linda Cambon, François Alla, and Adama Faye. The scientist has been publishing extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMJ Global Health, Santé Publique, Health Systems & Reform, and HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

Valéry Ridde has also contributed to book publications, with several books released through the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and IRD Éditions eBooks. Titles include "Une couverture sanitaire universelle en 2030? Réformes en Afrique subsaharienne" (2021), "Population health intervention research: concepts, methods, applications" (2023), "La recherche interventionnelle en santé des populations: concepts, méthodes, applications" (2023), "Hôpitaux et santé publique face à la pandémie de Covid-19" (2023), and the forthcoming "La financiarisation de la santé au Sénégal (1840-1960)" (2025). Additional works include "La recherche interventionnelle en santé des populations" (2024), "Population health intervention research" (2023), and "Investigación de intervenciones en salud poblacional" (2024).

Best Publications

  • The concept of mechanism from a realist approach: a scoping review to facilitate its operationalization in public health program evaluation

    Anthony Lacouture;Eric Breton;Anne Guichard;Valéry Ridde

  • A scoping review of the literature on the abolition of user fees in health care services in Africa

    Valéry Ridde;Florence Morestin

  • Taking account of context in population health intervention research: guidance for producers, users and funders of research

    Peter Craig;Erica Di Ruggiero;Katherine L. Frohlich;Eric Mykhalovskiy

  • Assessing healthcare access using the Levesque's conceptual framework- a scoping review.

    Anthony Cu;Sofia Meister;Bertrand Lefebvre;Valéry Ridde

  • Determinants of utilisation of maternal care services after the reduction of user fees: A case study from rural Burkina Faso

    Manuela De Allegri;Valéry Ridde;Valérie R. Louis;Malabika Sarker

  • Removing user fees in the health sector: a review of policy processes in six sub-Saharan African countries

    Bruno Meessen;David Hercot;Mathieu Noirhomme;Valéry Ridde

  • Governance of the Covid-19 response: a call for more inclusive and transparent decision-making.

    Dheepa Rajan;Kira Koch;Katja Rohrer;Csongor Bajnoczki

  • Performance-based financing in low-income and middle-income countries: isn’t it time for a rethink?

    Elisabeth Paul;Lucien Albert;Badibanga N’Sambuka Bisala;Oriane Bodson

  • Fees-for-services, cost recovery, and equity in a district of Burkina Faso operating the Bamako Initiative

    Valéry Ridde

  • POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN AN AFRICAN STATE: AN EXTENSION OF KINGDON'S MULTIPLE-STREAMS APPROACH

    Valéry Ridde

  • Need for more and better implementation science in global health

    Valéry Ridde

  • Transferability of interventions in health education: a review

    Linda Cambon;Laetitia Minary;Laetitia Minary;Valery Ridde;François Alla;François Alla

  • Using implementation science theories and frameworks in global health

    Valéry Ridde;Dennis Pérez;Emilie Robert

  • Conceptual analysis of health systems resilience: A scoping review

    Charlotte Pailliard Turenne;Lara Gautier;Lara Gautier;Lara Gautier;Stéphanie Degroote;Etienne Guillard

  • Why are people with dengue dying? A scoping review of determinants for dengue mortality

    Mabel Carabali;Libia Milena Hernandez;Maria Jose Arauz;Luis Angel Villar

  • The national subsidy for deliveries and emergency obstetric care in Burkina Faso.

    Valéry Ridde;Fabienne Richard;Abel Bicaba;Ludovic Queuille

  • "The problem of the worst-off is dealt with after all other issues": the equity and health policy implementation gap in Burkina Faso.

    Valéry Ridde

  • Health financing policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: government ownership or donors’ influence? A scoping review of policymaking processes

    Lara Gautier;Lara Gautier;Lara Gautier;Valéry Ridde;Valéry Ridde

  • A literature review of the disruptive effects of user fee exemption policies on health systems

    Valéry Ridde;Emilie Robert;Bruno Meessen

  • Approches et pratiques en évaluation de programmes

    Christian Dagenais;Valéry Ridde

  • A process evaluation of user fees abolition for pregnant women and children under five years in two districts in Niger (West Africa)

    Valéry Ridde;Aissa Diarra

  • Per diems undermine health interventions, systems and research in Africa: burying our heads in the sand.

    Valéry Ridde

  • Knowledge sharing in global health research – the impact, uptake and cost of open access to scholarly literature

    Elise Smith;Stefanie Haustein;Philippe Mongeon;Fei Shu

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuela De Allegri
Manuela De Allegri Heidelberg University
Slim Haddad
Slim Haddad Université Laval
Louise Potvin
Louise Potvin University of Montreal
Bruno Marchal
Bruno Marchal Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson University of Cape Town
Jay S. Kaufman
Jay S. Kaufman McGill University
Paula Braitstein
Paula Braitstein University of Toronto
Sophie Witter
Sophie Witter Queen Margaret University
Roch K. Dabiré
Roch K. Dabiré Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé

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