Beth Phillips, MPH

Project Director
Family Community Medicine

Beth Phillips is a Project Director in the Family and Community Medicine Department. She currently directs implementation research projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda that aim to innovate contraceptive counseling and follow-up care to support women's pregnancy prevention decisions. Beth builds dynamic teams and fosters equitable partnerships to maintain and strengthen robust research methods and innovative implementation approaches to improve sexual and reproductive health globally. For the past 15+ years, Beth has led implementation of numerous multi-site, global reproductive health research and intervention programs. She has extensive field-based experience in implementation science across several geographies, most recently including Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Sudan, Uganda, Namibia, South Africa, San Francisco Bay Area, American Samoa, and the Navajo Nation. She also served twice with the US Peace Corps HIV prevention programs in Namibia and Uganda, earned a Masters in Global Family and Child Health from University of Arizona, and completed a Fulbright Fellowship on obstetric fistula treatment in Nigeria.

Publications: 

“I mean to be out of this urine”: Physical, psychological and social assessments of their fistula recovery among women in Nigeria and Uganda

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa: Public Health, Anthropological, and Medical Perspectives.

El-Ayadi A, Phillips B, Ononokpono D.

Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Iterating a Qualitative Analysis Process Across Multiple Countries, Sites, and Teams.

Global health, science and practice

Suchman L, Gitome S, Nyando M, Kwena ZA, Wekesa P, Okumu S, Ndunyu L, Okoli C, Tijani A, Jegede A, Idiodi I, Nmadu G, Dimowo S, Maluwa A, Atuyambe L, Birabwa C, Alitubeera P, Kaudha B, Kayego A, Jumbe T, Mtalimanja I, Vallin J, Sinha E, Phillips BS, Amongin D, Bukusi E, Holt K, Kamanga M, Liu J, Malata A, Omoluabi E, Waiswa P

Assessing the impact of group antenatal care on gestational length in Rwanda: A cluster-randomized trial.

PloS one

Sayinzoga F, Lundeen T, Musange SF, Butrick E, Nzeyimana D, Murindahabi N, Azman-Firdaus H, Sloan NL, Benitez A, Phillips B, Ghosh R, Walker D

Perspectives on implementing a quality improvement collaborative to improve person-centered care for maternal and reproductive health in Kenya.

International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care

Giessler K, Seefeld A, Montagu D, Phillips B, Mwangi J, Munson M, Green C, Opot J, Golub G

Development and validation of a person-centered abortion scale: the experiences of care in private facilities in Kenya.

BMC women's health

Sudhinaraset M, Landrian A, Afulani PA, Phillips B, Diamond-Smith N, Cotter S

Do you need to pay for quality care? Associations between bribes and out-of-pocket expenditures on quality of care during childbirth in India.

Health policy and planning

Landrian A, Phillips BS, Singhal S, Mishra S, Kajal F, Sudhinaraset M

Patient-experience during delivery in public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Health policy and planning

Montagu D, Landrian A, Kumar V, Phillips BS, Singhal S, Mishra S, Singh S, Cotter SY, Singh VP, Kajal F, Sudhinaraset M

Model fidelity of group antenatal and postnatal care: a process analysis of the first implementation of this innovative service model by the Preterm Birth Initiative-Rwanda.

Gates open research

Butrick E, Lundeen T, Phillips BS, Tengera O, Kambogo A, Uwera YDN, Musabyimana A, Sayinzoga F, Nzeyimana D, Murindahabi N, Musange S, Walker D

Patient-experience during delivery in public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Health policy and planning

Montagu D, Landrian A, Kumar V, Phillips BS, Singhal S, Mishra S, Singh S, Cotter SY, Singh VP, Kajal F, Sudhinaraset M

Validation of the person-centered maternity care scale in India.

Reproductive health

Afulani PA, Diamond-Smith N, Phillips B, Singhal S, Sudhinaraset M

Complicating causality: patient and professional perspectives on obstetric fistula in Nigeria.

Culture, health & sexuality

Phillips BS, Ononokpono DN, Udofia NW

Child Immunization Status Among a Sample of Adolescent Mothers: Comparing the Validity of Measurement Strategies

Journal of Family Social Work

Clarissa Phillips, Sonia Cota-Robles, Margaret Knight, Judith Francis, Elizabeth Phillips, and Laurie Mazerbo

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