Dr Katherine Kalaris
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Katherine Kalaris
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Katherine Kalaris completed her DPhil with the Health Systems Collaborative and is now a postdoc in the group. Her DPhil work explored how and why health system networks form, function, and perform to change practices to improve service delivery and quality of care in LMIC health systems, using Realist approaches. In her postdoc work, she continues to use a Realist approach to explore technology use in Kenyan newborn units and supports the HIGH-Q Exchange project and HSIE Masters. Katherine’s research interests include health system improvement, the relational aspects of health systems, and maternal and newborn health. She has been a consultant for the WHO and UNFPA and prior to her DPhil was based in West and Central Africa supporting Ministry of Health programmes in reproductive health, HIV, malaria, and supply chain for 10 years.
Recent publications
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Developing an understanding of networks with a focus on LMIC health systems: How and why clinical and programmatic networks form and function to be able to change practices: A realist review
Kalaris K. et al, (2023), SSM - Health Systems, 1, 100001 - 100001
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Understanding how and why networks improve and provide high-quality healthcare and services in LMIC health systems: a realist review
Kalaris K. et al, (2023), The Global Health Network Collections
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Networks of care to strengthen primary healthcare in resource constrained settings.
Agyekum EO. et al, (2023), BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 380
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Understanding networks in low-and middle-income countries’ health systems: A scoping review
Kalaris K. et al, (2023), PLOS Global Public Health, 3, e0001387 - e0001387
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Networks of Care: An Approach to Improving Maternal and Newborn Health.
Kalaris K. et al, (2022), Glob Health Sci Pract, 10