Center for Health and Gender Equity

Disparities in late-stage cancer diagnosis across a multi-site academic health system

Abstract Background Disparities in cancer stage at diagnosis persist despite the availability of screening for several common cancers. We evaluated demographic, clinical, insurance, and neighborhood-level factors associated with late-stage diagnosis in a multisite academic health...

Investment or extraction? Reframing private equity in healthcare

Abstract Moral hazard is built into the structure of private equity investments, which incentivises debt-based extraction rather than value-adding investment. To craft effective regulation of private equity’s participation in healthcare, and to cut through the industry’s talking...

Association of Anxiety and Depression with Mortality in Rural Nepal: A 16-Year Longitudinal Community Cohort Study

Background: Common mental health conditions are associated with increased mortality, but longitudinal evidence from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains limited. We aimed to examine whether baseline depression and anxiety were associated with all-cause mortality over...

Postpartum integration of infant vaccines and contraception through gender transformative programming: A cluster randomized trial in India

Barriers to using contraception in India include norms that promote gender inequality by restricting mobility of women to reach health clinics. We evaluated whether PIVoT (Postpartum Integration of Vaccines and contraception through gender-Transformative programming) improves con...

“A beautiful chaos¨: a qualitative study on exploring the role of international communities of practice in knowledge translation for sexual and reproductive health and rights

Persistent knowledge-to-action gaps in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) limit the translation of evidence into policy and practice. Knowledge platform Share-Net International (SNI) uses Communities of Practice (CoPs) to support knowledge exchange, yet little is kn...