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Dr Josephine Exley

Research Fellow

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

My background is in public health, with a Masters and PhD from LSHTM. I joined the School in October 2017 as the Centre for Evaluation Fellow. I previously worked at RAND Europe, a not-for-profit research organisation, as part of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research. Before that I worked for LSHTM based at the Ifakara Health Insitute in Tanzania.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society

Centres

Centre for Evaluation
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH)

Teaching

I lead seminars on Health Systems and Applying Public Health Prinicples modules.

Research

I am currently a research fellow in the Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit (PIRU). My work focuses on evaluations of health services, and recent studies including examining the public's attitudes to sharing the cost of social care for older people and international comparative case study research to help inform the further development and roll-out of innovative, population-based service delivery approaches that seek to bring together health and social care.

I worked on the IDEAS project focused on the quality of maternal and newborn health in northeast Nigeria. I worked on methodological ways to improve measurement for maternal and newborn health; tracking progress in coverage to help stakeholders identify and focus on key objectives; supporting the use of evidence for decision making at multiple levels; and, developing effective coverage measures. 

Research Area
Health care policy
Health services research
Maternal health
Primary care
Evaluation
International comparisons
Mixed methods
Discipline
Policy analysis
Country
United Kingdom
Nigeria
Tanzania
Region
European Union
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications

The sociocultural framing of public attitudes to sharing the costs of social care for older people in England.
Dixon J; Exley J; Wistow G; Wittenberg R; Knapp M; Mays N
2022
Health and Social Care in the Community
Operationalising effective coverage measurement of facility based childbirth in Gombe State; a comparison of data sources.
Exley J; Bhattacharya A; Hanson C; Shuaibu A; Umar N; Marchant T
2022
PLOS Global Public Health
Improving maternal and newborn health services in Northeast Nigeria through a government-led partnership of stakeholders: a quasi-experimental study.
Willey B; Umar N; Beaumont E; Allen E; Anyanti J; Bello AB; Bhattacharya A; Exley J; Makowiecka K; Okolo M
2022
BMJ open
A rapid systematic review and evidence synthesis of effective coverage measures and cascades for childbirth, newborn and child health in low- and middle-income countries.
Exley J; Gupta PA; Schellenberg J; Strong KL; Requejo JH; Moller A-B; Moran AC; Marchant T; Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group (C
2021
Journal of global health
A 'telephone first' approach to demand management in English general practice: a multimethod evaluation
Newbould J; Ball S; Abel G; Barclay M; Brown T; Corbett J; Doble B; Elliott M; Exley J; Knack A
2019
Health Services and Delivery Research
GPs' and practice staff's views of a telephone first approach to demand management: a qualitative study in primary care.
Newbould J; Exley J; Ball S; Corbett J; Pitchforth E; Roland M
2019
The British journal of general practice
Newborn resuscitation in Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.
Exley JL; Umar N; Moxon S; Usman AU; Marchant T
2018
Journal of Global Health
Impact of issuing longer- versus shorter-duration prescriptions: a systematic review.
King S; Miani C; Exley J; Larkin J; Kirtley A; Payne RA
2018
BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE
Timely evaluation in international development
Webster J; Exley J; Copestake J; Davies R; Hargreaves J
2018
Journal of Development Effectiveness
Evaluation of telephone first approach to demand management in English general practice: observational study.
Newbould J; Abel G; Ball S; Corbett J; Elliott M; Exley J; Martin A; Saunders C; Wilson E; Winpenny E
2017
BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
Going to scale: design and implementation challenges of a program to increase access to skilled birth attendants in Nigeria.
Okeke EN; Pitchforth E; Exley J; Glick P; Abubakar IS; Chari AV; Bashir U; Gu K; Onwujekwe O
2017
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
Persistent barriers to care; a qualitative study to understand women's experiences in areas served by the midwives service scheme in Nigeria.
Exley J; Pitchforth E; Okeke E; Glick P; Abubakar IS; Chari A; Bashir U; Gu K; Onwujekwe O
2016
BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
The use and impact of quality of life assessment tools in clinical care settings for cancer patients, with a particular emphasis on brain cancer: insights from a systematic review and stakeholder consultations.
King S; Exley J; Parks S; Ball S; Bienkowska-Gibbs T; MacLure C; Harte E; Stewart K; Larkin J; Bottomley A
2016
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
The effect of increasing the supply of skilled health providers on pregnancy and birth outcomes: evidence from the midwives service scheme in Nigeria.
Okeke E; Glick P; Chari A; Abubakar IS; Pitchforth E; Exley J; Bashir U; Gu K; Onwujekwe O
2016
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
The sanitation ladder, what constitutes an improved form of sanitation?
Exley JLR; Liseka B; Cumming O; Ensink JHJ
2015
Environmental science & technology
The four health systems of the United Kingdom: how do they compare? Source report.
Mays N; Bevan G; Karanikolos M; Exley J; Nolte E; Connolly S
2014
The four health systems of the United Kingdom: how do they compare? Source report.
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