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Professor Tanya Marchant

MSc PhD

Professor
of Implementation Science

Room
Room 419

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
+44 (0)20 7612 2345
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I am an epidemiologist with over 20 years experience of living and working in sub-Saharan Africa.  The focus of my research has been implementation science: generating evidence about what works to maximise coverage of high quality health care for women and children, using measurement to inform implemention and adjust programming.  

I lived in The Gambia at the Farafenni Medical Reseach Centre site 1990-95 working for Harvard School of Public Health; in Ifakara, Tanzania 1997-2000 working for Ifakara Health Institute and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute; and in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania 2001-07 working for LSHTM and IHI. Since 2007 I have been based at LSHTM in London while continuing to travel and work in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Currently I am the Principal Investigator of the IDEAS phase 2 project and the Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation in Ethiopia project; and co-editor of the journal Tropical Medicine & International Health.

Affiliations
Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

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

Teaching

I have been providing support to students on the MSc Public Health for Development (previously Public Health in Developing Countries) since 2007, and am co-module organiser for the statistics and epidemiology module Analysis and Design of Research Studies at LSHTM.

Research

I am motivated by efforts to improve the coverage of high quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. My research has included investigations into women's preferences and priorities for fertility control, testing delivery strategies of insecticide treated mosquito nets for the prevention of anaemia and malaria in pregnancy, and understanding the effectiveness of innovations designed to improve maternal and newborn health.  Through this work I have emphasised the use of evidence for evaluation concurrently with its use for programme improvement, working with project, district and national level actors to support data-informed decision making.    I currently supervise three PhD students, all of whom investigate issues of measurement or health care delivery for girls, women, and newborns in low and middle income settings.

Research Area
Child health
Complex interventions
Health services research
Maternal health
Public health
Quality improvement
Equity
Evaluation
Evidence use
Global Health
Neonatal health
Implementation research
Reproductive health
Discipline
Epidemiology
Operational research
Disease and Health Conditions
Infectious disease
Country
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Tanzania
Uganda
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Selected Publications
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
To call or not to call: exploring the validity of telephone interviews to derive maternal self-reports of experiences with facility childbirth care in northern Nigeria.
Umar N; Schellenberg J; Hill Z; Bhattacharya AA; Muzigaba M; Tunçalp Ö; Sambo NU; Shuaibu A; Marchant T
2022
BMJ Global 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
Methodological considerations for linking household and healthcare provider data for estimating effective coverage: a systematic review.
Carter ED; Leslie HH; Marchant T; Amouzou A; Munos MK
2021
BMJ open
From Theory to Implementation: Adaptations to a Quality Improvement Initiative According to Implementation Context.
Olaniran AA; Oludipe M; Hill Z; Ogunyemi A; Umar N; Ohiri K; Schellenberg J; Marchant T
2021
Qualitative Health Research
Improving the quality of routine maternal and newborn data captured in primary health facilities in Gombe State, Northeastern Nigeria: a before-and-after study.
Bhattacharya AA; Allen E; Umar N; Audu A; Felix H; Schellenberg J; Marchant T
2020
BMJ OPEN
Harnessing the health systems strengthening potential of quality improvement using realist evaluation: an example from southern Tanzania.
Manzi F; Marchant T; Hanson C; Schellenberg J; Mkumbo E; Mlaguzi M; Tancred T
2020
Health Policy and Planning
Measurement and accountability for maternal, newborn and child health: fit for 2030?
Marchant T; Boerma T; Diaz T; Huicho L; Kyobutungi C; Mershon C-H; Schellenberg J; Somers K; Waiswa P; Nairobi Group
2020
BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH
Toward improving respectful maternity care: a discrete choice experiment with rural women in northeast Nigeria.
Umar N; Quaife M; Exley J; Shuaibu A; Hill Z; Marchant T
2020
BMJ Global Health
Monitoring childbirth care in primary health facilities: a validity study in Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.
Bhattacharya AA; Allen E; Umar N; Usman AU; Felix H; Audu A; Schellenberg JR; Marchant T
2019
Journal of global health
Quality of routine facility data for monitoring priority maternal and newborn indicators in DHIS2: A case study from Gombe State, Nigeria.
Bhattacharya AA; Umar N; Audu A; Felix H; Allen E; Schellenberg JRM; Marchant T
2019
PLOS ONE
Characterising innovations in maternal and newborn health based on a common theory of change: lessons from developing and applying a characterisation framework in Nigeria, Ethiopia and India.
Makowiecka K; Marchant T; Betemariam W; Chaturvedi A; Jana L; Liman A; Mathewos B; Muhammad FB; Semrau K; Wunnava SS
2019
BMJ Global Health
Coverage and equity of maternal and newborn health care in rural Nigeria, Ethiopia and India.
Marchant T; Beaumont E; Makowiecka K; Berhanu D; Tessema T; Gautham M; Singh K; Umar N; Usman AU; Tomlin K
2019
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne
Advancing measurement and monitoring of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition: global and country perspectives.
Marchant T; Bhutta ZA; Black R; Grove J; Kyobutungi C; Peterson S
2019
BMJ global health
Understanding mistreatment during institutional delivery in Northeast Nigeria: a mixed-method study.
Umar N; Wickremasinghe D; Hill Z; Usman UA; Marchant T
2019
Reproductive Health
Newborn resuscitation in Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.
Exley JL; Umar N; Moxon S; Usman AU; Marchant T
2018
Journal of Global Health
High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution.
Kruk ME; Gage AD; Arsenault C; Jordan K; Leslie HH; Roder-DeWan S; Adeyi O; Barker P; Daelmans B; Doubova SV
2018
The Lancet Global health
Linking data sources for measurement of effective coverage in maternal and newborn health: what do we learn from individual- vs ecological-linking methods?
Willey B; Waiswa P; Kajjo D; Munos M; Akuze J; Allen E; Marchant T
2018
Journal of global health
Unpredictability dictates quality of maternal and newborn care provision in rural Tanzania-A qualitative study of health workers' perspectives.
Baker U; Hassan F; Hanson C; Manzi F; Marchant T; Swartling Peterson S; Hylander I
2017
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
Using contraceptives to delay first birth: a qualitative study of individual, community and health provider perceptions in southern Tanzania.
Sedekia Y; Jones C; Nathan R; Schellenberg J; Marchant T
2017
BMC public health
Effects of the EQUIP quasi-experimental study testing a collaborative quality improvement approach for maternal and newborn health care in Tanzania and Uganda.
Waiswa P; Manzi F; Mbaruku G; Rowe AK; Marx M; Tomson G; Marchant T; Willey BA; Schellenberg J; Peterson S
2017
Implementation science
Improved measurement for mothers, newborns and children in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Marchant T; Bryce J; Victora C; Moran AC; Claeson M; Requejo J; Amouzou A; Walker N; Boerma T; Grove J
2016
Journal of global health
Identifying implementation bottlenecks for maternal and newborn health interventions in rural districts of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Baker U; Peterson S; Marchant T; Mbaruku G; Temu S; Manzi F; Hanson C
2015
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Adding content to contacts: measurement of high quality contacts for maternal and newborn health in Ethiopia, north east Nigeria, and Uttar Pradesh, India.
Marchant T; Tilley-Gyado RD; Tessema T; Singh K; Gautham M; Umar N; Berhanu D; Cousens S; Armstrong Schellenberg JRM
2015
PloS one
The use of continuous surveys to generate and continuously report high quality timely maternal and newborn health data at the district level in Tanzania and Uganda.
Marchant T; Schellenberg J; Peterson S; Manzi F; Waiswa P; Hanson C; Temu S; Darious K; Sedekia Y; Akuze J
2014
Implementation science
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Tanya Marchant

Contact

Room
Room 419

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
+44 (0)20 7612 2345