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Melisa Martínez-Álvarez

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GB
Area of research
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health · Finance
Research interest
Research interests include Medicine, Reproductive health, Environmental health, Countdown, Child health, and Tanzania.
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citations
1,104
works
30
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Broken promises: the USA foreign aid freeze threatens women's, children's, and adolescents' health
The Lancet 2025cited by 8position: firstdoi
Cohort Profile: PRECISE-DYAD: a prospective cohort study linking maternal and infant health trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa
medRxiv 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
How to (or how not to) implement crowdsourcing for the development of health interventions: lessons learned from four African countries
Health Policy and Planning 2024cited by 3position: middledoi
Perceptions and acceptability of the controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) model in The Gambia: a qualitative study
Scientific Reports 2023cited by 11position: middledoi
Partnership preferences, economic drivers, and health consequences of Gambian men’s interactions with foreign tourists: A mixed methods study
PLOS Global Public Health 2023cited by 4position: lastdoi
Maternal nutritional risk factors for pre-eclampsia incidence: findings from a narrative scoping review
Reproductive Health 2022cited by 43position: middledoi
Barriers and enablers to kangaroo mother care prior to stability from perspectives of Gambian health workers: A qualitative study
Frontiers in Pediatrics 2022cited by 13position: middledoi
Intense and Mild First Epidemic Wave of Coronavirus Disease, The Gambia
Emerging infectious diseases 2021cited by 25position: middledoi
Falling aid for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in the lead-up to the COVID-19 pandemic
BMJ Global Health 2021cited by 12position: lastdoi
Estimates of aid for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: findings from application of the Muskoka2 method, 2002–17
The Lancet Global Health 2020cited by 47position: middledoi
What the percentage of births in facilities does not measure: readiness for emergency obstetric care and referral in Senegal
BMJ Global Health 2020cited by 23position: lastdoi
The contribution of qualitative research within the PRECISE study in sub-Saharan Africa
Reproductive Health 2020cited by 10position: middledoi
Equity of resource flows for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: are those most in need being left behind?
BMJ 2020cited by 8position: firstdoi
Barriers to accessing maternal healthcare among ethnic minority women in Western China: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Health Policy and Planning 2019cited by 21position: middledoi
Tracking aid for global health goals: a systematic comparison of four approaches applied to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health
The Lancet Global Health 2018cited by 35position: middledoi
Donor funding for family planning: levels and trends between 2003 and 2013
Health Policy and Planning 2018cited by 23position: middledoi
Ownership in Name, But not Necessarily in Action Comment on "It’s About the Idea Hitting the Bull’s Eye": How Aid Effectiveness Can Catalyse the Scale-up of Health Innovations"
International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2018cited by 5position: firstdoi
Progress and challenges in maternal health in western China: a Countdown to 2015 national case study
The Lancet Global Health 2017cited by 121position: middledoi
Health financing at district level in Malawi: an analysis of the distribution of funds at two points in time
Health Policy and Planning 2017cited by 40position: lastdoi
Countdown to 2015: an analysis of donor funding for prenatal and neonatal health, 2003–2013
BMJ Global Health 2017cited by 25position: middledoi
Trends In The Alignment And Harmonization Of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, And Child Health Funding, 2008–13
Health Affairs 2017cited by 21position: firstdoi
Developing a dataset to track aid for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, 2003–2013
Scientific Data 2017cited by 15position: middledoi
Malawi and Millennium Development Goal 4: a Countdown to 2015 country case study
The Lancet Global Health 2016cited by 149position: middledoi
11 years of tracking aid to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: estimates and analysis for 2003–13 from the Countdown to 2015
The Lancet Global Health 2016cited by 46position: middledoi
Is Development Assistance for Health fungible? Findings from a mixed methods case study in Tanzania
Social Science & Medicine 2016cited by 33position: firstdoi
Subnational variation for care at birth in Tanzania: is this explained by place, people, money or drugs?
BMC Public Health 2016cited by 30position: middledoi
Countdown to 2015 country case studies: what can analysis of national health financing contribute to understanding MDG 4 and 5 progress?
BMC Public Health 2016cited by 18position: middledoi
Child mortality in Malawi – Authors' reply
The Lancet Global Health 2016cited by 1position: middledoi
Tanzania's Countdown to 2015: an analysis of two decades of progress and gaps for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, to inform priorities for post-2015
The Lancet Global Health 2015cited by 255position: middledoi
Countdown to 2015: changes in official development assistance to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, and assessment of progress between 2003 and 2012
The Lancet Global Health 2015cited by 58position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Josephine Borghi · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine17 papers (2015–2025)Catherine Pitt · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine10 papers (2015–2025)Leonardo Arregocés · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine7 papers (2015–2020)Christopher Grollman · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine6 papers (2016–2018)Spy Munthali · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine4 papers (2016–2017)Joy E Lawn · University of London4 papers (2015–2022)Neha Singh · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine3 papers (2016–2020)Tim Colbourn · UK Dementia Research Institute3 papers (2016–2016)Giulia Greco · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine3 papers (2015–2025)Francesca Cavallaro · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2018–2020)Georgina Msemo · Ifakara Health Institute2 papers (2015–2016)Hoviyeh Afnan‐Holmes · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2015–2016)Brahima A. Diallo · MRC Unit the Gambia2 papers (2020–2022)Justine Hsu · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2015–2017)Carine Ronsmans · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2017–2019)Anne Mills · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2015–2016) · 2 papers (2020–2020)Corinne Armstrong · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2015–2016)Peter Binyaruka · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2021–2025) · 2 papers (2015–2016)