Decision-making for childhood vaccination in crisis settings: a survey of practice & barriers

Authors: Page M. Light, Neha S. Singh, Mervat Alhaffar, Lauren E. Allison, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Ruwan Ratnayake, Francesco Checchi, Nada Abdelmagid

Source: Conflict and Health, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2024)

Subject Terms: Vaccination, Decision-making, Guidance, Humanitarian, Crisis, Conflict, Special situations and conditions, RC952-1245, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1752-1505

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Translation, cultural adaptation and linguistic validation of the postgraduate hospital educational environment measure into Arabic

Authors: Ghaith Alfakhry, Khattab Mustafa, Rawan Khwanda, Mervat Alhaffar, Khaled Alhomsi, Rama Kodmani

Source: BMC Medical Education, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2024)

Subject Terms: Translation, Validation, Postgraduate hospital educational environment measure, PHEEM, Arabic language, Syria, Special aspects of education, LC8-6691, Medicine

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1472-6920

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Adult mortality patterns in Yemen before and during armed conflict: evidence from a web survey of the global diaspora

Authors: Catherine R. McGowan, Mervat Alhaffar, Promise Ekoriko, Sawsan Al-Refai, Jamal Badr, Lucy Bell, Francesco Checchi

Source: Conflict and Health, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2023)

Subject Terms: Respondent-driven sampling, Mortality estimation, webRDS, Sibling survival, Child survival, Conflict, Special situations and conditions, RC952-1245, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1752-1505

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Design and implementation of a web-based, respondent-driven sampling solution

Authors: Catherine R. McGowan, Promise Ekoriko, Mervat Alhaffar, Sarah Cassidy-Seyoum, Steven Whitbread, Phil Rogers, Lucy Bell, Francesco Checchi

Source: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2023)

Subject Terms: Respondent-driven sampling, Mortality estimation, webRDS, Hard-to-reach populations, Chain-referral, Yemen, Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, R858-859.7

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1472-6947

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‘COVID-19 is just another way to die…’: a qualitative longitudinal study of frontline COVID-19 response governance across Syria

Authors: Natasha Howard, Yazan Douedari, Manar Marzouk, Mervat Alhaffar, Omar Alrashid Alhiraki, Ahmad Khanshor

Source: BMJ Global Health, Vol 8, Iss 12 (2023)

Subject Terms: Medicine (General), R5-920, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216

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Relation: https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/12/e013199.full; https://doaj.org/toc/2059-7908

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Adult mortality before and during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in nine communities of Yemen: a key informant study

Authors: Mervat Alhaffar, Huda Basaleem, Fouad Othman, Khaled Alsakkaf, Sena Mohammed Mohsen Naji, Hussein Kolaise, Abdullah K. Babattah, Yassin Abdulmalik Mahyoub Salem, Hannah Brindle, Najwa Yahya, Pasquale Pepe, Francesco Checchi

Source: Conflict and Health, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2022)

Subject Terms: Yemen, Humanitarian, Armed conflict, Crisis, Mortality, SARS-CoV-2, Special situations and conditions, RC952-1245, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1752-1505

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'In general people aren’t excited about the vaccine…': Frontline perspectives on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy across Syria

Authors: Mervat Alhaffar, Yazan Douedari, Natasha Howard

Source: Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, Vol 19, Iss 2 (2023)

Subject Terms: sars-cov-2, covid-19, vaccine hesitancy, remote research, syria, conflict, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607, Therapeutics. Pharmacology, RM1-950

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2164-5515; https://doaj.org/toc/2164-554X

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The Governance of Childhood Vaccination Services in Crisis Settings: A Scoping Review

Authors: Nada Abdelmagid, Rosamund J. Southgate, Mervat Alhaffar, Matab Ahmed, Hind Bani, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Maysoon Dahab, Francesco Checchi, Majdi M. Sabahelzain, Barni Nor, Bhargavi Rao, Neha S. Singh

Source: Vaccines, Vol 11, Iss 12, p 1853 (2023)

Subject Terms: vaccination, governance, humanitarian, scoping review, Medicine

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Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/12/1853; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-393X

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A Systematic Review of Vaccination Guidance for Humanitarian Responses

Authors: Lauren E. Allison, Mervat Alhaffar, Francesco Checchi, Nada Abdelmagid, Barni Nor, Majdi M. Sabahelzain, Page M. Light, Neha S. Singh

Source: Vaccines, Vol 11, Iss 12, p 1743 (2023)

Subject Terms: vaccination, guidance, humanitarian, vaccine-preventable diseases, zero dose children, crises, Medicine

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Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/12/1743; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-393X

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Leveraging community mortality indicators to infer COVID-19 mortality and transmission dynamics in Damascus, Syria

Authors: Oliver J. Watson, Mervat Alhaffar, Zaki Mehchy, Charles Whittaker, Zack Akil, Nicholas F. Brazeau, Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg, Arran Hamlet, Hayley A. Thompson, Marc Baguelin, Richard G. FitzJohn, Edward Knock, John A. Lees, Lilith K. Whittles, Thomas Mellan, Peter Winskill, Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, Natasha Howard, Hannah Clapham, Francesco Checchi, Neil Ferguson, Azra Ghani, Emma Beals, Patrick Walker

Source: Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)

Subject Terms: Science

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723

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‘We need someone to deliver our voices’: reflections from conducting remote qualitative research in Syria

Authors: Yazan Douedari, Mervat Alhaffar, Diane Duclos, Mohamed Al-Twaish, Samer Jabbour, Natasha Howard

Source: Conflict and Health, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)

Subject Terms: Remote research, Participatory methods, Online interviews, Research decolonisation, Syria, Special situations and conditions, RC952-1245, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1752-1505

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’We are trying to live in a normal way, but nothing is normal about us anymore…’: a qualitative study of women’s lived experiences of healthcare in opposition-controlled areas of Syria

Authors: Natasha Howard, Yazan Douedari, Aseel Hamid, Mervat Alhaffar

Source: BMJ Global Health, Vol 7, Iss 7 (2022)

Subject Terms: Medicine (General), R5-920, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216

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Relation: https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/7/e008812.full; https://doaj.org/toc/2059-7908

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'They cannot afford to feed their children and the advice is to stay home. How‥?': A qualitative study of community experiences of COVID-19 response efforts across Syria.

Authors: Mervat Alhaffar, Hala Mkhallalati, Omar Alrashid Alhiraki, Manar Marzouk, Ahmad Khanshour, Yazan Douedari, Natasha Howard

Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 11, p e0277215 (2022)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203

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Whose voices should shape global health education? Curriculum codesign and codelivery by people with direct expertise and lived experience

Authors: Shyam Sundar Budhathoki, Aula Abbara, Maryam Omar, Mervat Alhaffar, Victoria Pilkington, Melanie Leis, Amelia Kataria Golestaneh, Mariam Sbaiti, Mike J Streule, Hala Mkhallalati, Lillian Liu

Source: BMJ Global Health, Vol 6, Iss 9 (2021)

Subject Terms: Medicine (General), R5-920, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216

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Relation: https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/9/e006262.full; https://doaj.org/toc/2059-7908

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Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a geospatial and statistical analysis in Aden governorate, Yemen

Authors: Francesco Checchi, Emilie S Koum Besson, Andy Norris, Abdulla S Bin Ghouth, Terri Freemantle, Mervat Alhaffar, Yolanda Vazquez, Chris Reeve, Patrick J Curran

Source: BMJ Global Health, Vol 6, Iss 3 (2021)

Subject Terms: Medicine (General), R5-920, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216

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Relation: https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/3/e004564.full; https://doaj.org/toc/2059-7908

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'Ten years of war! You expect people to fear a ‘germ’?': A qualitative study of initial perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic among displaced communities in opposition-controlled northwest Syria

Authors: Yazan Douedari, Mervat Alhaffar, Muhammed Al-Twaish, Hala Mkhallalati, Raheb Alwany, Nafeesah Bte Mohamed Ibrahim, Ayshath Zaseela, Nour Horanieh, Aula Abbara, Natasha Howard

Source: Journal of Migration and Health, Vol 1, Iss , Pp 100021- (2020)

Subject Terms: Displacement, Conflict, Lived experience, COVID-19, Syria, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270, Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration, JV1-9480

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Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666623520300210; https://doaj.org/toc/2666-6235

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Lessons from humanitarian clusters to strengthen health system responses to mass displacement in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review

Authors: Anna Durrance-Bagale, Omar Mukhtar Salman, Maryam Omar, Mervat Alhaffar, Muhammad Ferdaus, Sanjida Newaz, Sneha Krishnan, Natasha Howard

Source: Journal of Migration and Health, Vol 1, Iss , Pp 100028- (2020)

Subject Terms: Mass displacement, Humanitarian cluster, Health systems, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270, Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration, JV1-9480

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Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666623520300283; https://doaj.org/toc/2666-6235

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