DrAtsumi Hirose
Senior Teaching Fellow
School of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine
Orcid identifier0000-0002-3967-5529 (opens in a new tab)
- Senior Teaching FellowSchool of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine
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RESEARCH
Overview
My research interests focus on understanding health-systems, environmental factors and gender roles affecting the accessibility, quality and coverage of maternal and neonatal healthcare in low-resource settings in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
For my PhD, I investigated care-seeking delays of women being admitted to a large maternity hospital with severe obstetric complications (“near-miss”) in Afghanistan. In addition to examining individual factors and gender roles affecting care-seeking delays, I assessed geographical accessibility by estimating travel times from women’s homes to hospital and examined to what extent modelled travel times and other resources explain actual travel times.
After my PhD, I worked in a number of global health research projects in various countries, including the USA, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Uganda. Most of my postdoctoral work has focused on strengthening health systems in low- and middle-income countries to improve quality of care, with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and newborn survival.
I am currently part of a research team at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden evaluating Smart Paper Technology (SHIFO) which allows routine health management information collected by health care providers during antenatal, delivery and postnatal care to be scanned and digitalised in Tanzania.
My research interests focus on understanding health-systems, environmental factors and gender roles affecting the accessibility, quality and coverage of maternal and neonatal healthcare in low-resource settings in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
For my PhD, I investigated care-seeking delays of women being admitted to a large maternity hospital with severe obstetric complications (“near-miss”) in Afghanistan. In addition to examining individual factors and gender roles affecting care-seeking delays, I assessed geographical accessibility by estimating travel times from women’s homes to hospital and examined to what extent modelled travel times and other resources explain actual travel times.
After my PhD, I worked in a number of global health research projects in various countries, including the USA, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Uganda. Most of my postdoctoral work has focused on strengthening health systems in low- and middle-income countries to improve quality of care, with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and newborn survival.
I am currently part of a research team at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden evaluating Smart Paper Technology (SHIFO) which allows routine health management information collected by health care providers during antenatal, delivery and postnatal care to be scanned and digitalised in Tanzania.
GRANTS
- GRANTSELECTEDSwedish Research Council1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
