Joanna Schellenberg BA MSc PhD

Reader in Epidemiology & International Health

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My main research interest is the development and evaluation of public health interventions for newborn, infant and child survival in developing countries, including evaluation of equity as well as effectiveness. I lived in Tanzania for 9 of the past 15 years, and have been involved in collaborative research with Ifakara Health Institute since 1992.

Affiliation

• Department of Disease Control
• Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Teaching

I have taught on the Master's Course in Epidemiology by Distance Learning since 2002, and I currently organise the Study Design Module.

Research

I am the principal investigator of IDEAS: Informed Decisions for Actions to improve Maternal and Newborn Health. This is a 5-year project from 2010, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with the aim of improving the evidence base for maternal and newborn health programs in NE Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Uttar Pradesh in India.

I am a collaborator on "EQUIP", an EU-funded intervention study from 2010-2014, involving Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, Makerere University in Uganda, Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania and Evaplan in Germany. The intervention consists of a quality management approach that links communities and health facilities empowered by locally generated high quality health data from continuous health surveys complemented by data from health facilities.

I am principal investigator for a four-year study to find ways to improve newborn survival in southern Tanzania, funded by Saving Newborn Lives, the Laerdal Foundation, and UNICEF. The strategies under development include quality improvement in the health system and home-based counselling visits to women in pregnancy and shortly after birth.

I was also a co-principal investigator on an evaluation of the community effectiveness of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants (IPTi) in southern Tanzania. I was a Technical Advisor to WHO for the Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI. From 1999 to 2004 I was Principal Investigator for the Tanzania component of the Multi-Country Evaluation of IMCI. From 1995 to 2000 I was responsible for planning, co-ordination, and day-to-day running of KINET, a malaria control project using insecticide-treated nets in a rural population of 480,000 people.

• Selected publications

• Community effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment for infants (IPTi) in rural southern Tanzania.

  Armstrong Schellenberg, J.R.; Shirima, K.; Maokola, W.; Manzi, F.; Mrisho, M.; Mushi, A.; Mshinda, H.; Alonso, P.; Tanner, M.; Schellenberg, D.M.;

  Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2010; 82(5):772-81

• Measuring newborn foot length to identify small babies in need of extra care: a cross sectional hospital based study with community follow-up in Tanzania.

  Marchant, T.; Jaribu, J.; Penfold, S.; Tanner, M.; Schellenberg, J.A.;

  BMC Public Health, 2010; 10:624

• A large cross-sectional community-based study of newborn care practices in southern Tanzania.

  Penfold, S.; Hill, Z.; Mrisho, M.; Manzi, F.; Tanner, M.; Mshinda, H.; Schellenberg, D.; Armstrong Schellenberg, J.R.;

  PLoS One, 2010; 5(12):e15593

• Household ownership and use of insecticide treated nets among target groups after implementation of a national voucher programme in the United Republic of Tanzania: plausibility study using three annual cross sectional household surveys.

  Hanson, K.; Marchant, T.; Nathan, R.; Mponda, H.; Jones, C.; Bruce, J.; Mshinda, H.; Schellenberg, J.A.;

  BMJ, 2009; 339:b2434

• Child survival gains Tanzania: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys

  Masanja, H.; de Savigny, D.; Smithson, P.; Schellenberg, J.; John, T.; Mbuya, C.; Upunda, G.; Boerma, T.; Victora, C.; Smith, T.; Mshinda, H.

  Lancet, 2008; 371(9620):1276-1283

• Health and survival of young children in southern Tanzania.

  Armstrong Schellenberg, J.R.; Mrisho, M.; Manzi, F.; Shirima, K.; Mbuya, C.; Mushi, A.K.; Ketende, S.C.; Alonso, P.L.; Mshinda, H.; Tanner, M.; Schellenberg, D.;

  BMC Public Health, 2008; 8:194

• Effectiveness and cost of facility-based Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Tanzania.

  Armstrong Schellenberg, J.R.; Adam, T.; Mshinda, H.; Masanja, H.; Kabadi, G.; Mukasa, O.; John, T.; Charles, S.; Nathan, R.; Wilczynska, K.; Mgalula, L.; Mbuya, C.; Mswia, R.; Manzi, F.; de Savigny, D.; Schellenberg, D.; Victora, C.;

  Lancet, 2004; 364(9445):1583-94

• Inequities among the very poor: health care for children in rural southern Tanzania

  Schellenberg, J. A.; Victora, C. G.; Mushi, A.; de Savigny, D.; Schellenberg, D.; Mshinda, H.; Bryce, J.

  Lancet, 2003; 361(9357):561-566

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