Lavanya Vasudevan
Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Lavanya Vasudevan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Global Health Institute at Duke University. She is also a member of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and a faculty affiliate with the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research and the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. Her research focuses on studying the timeliness of vaccinations, identifying vaccination barriers, and understanding the role of misinformation in driving vaccine hesitancy. In addition, she works on developing and evaluating novel interventions, including those that leverage digital health technologies, for health information or service delivery. In her research, Dr. Vasudevan seeks to study and alleviate the complex challenges with vaccination delivery and uptake in low resource settings and in populations experiencing health disparities. In the context of these challenges, Dr. Vasudevan is interested in the use of multidisciplinary collaborations, mixed methods and implementation science frameworks. Dr. Vasudevan has led or collaborated on studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Vasudevan is a recipient of the Duke Clinical and Translational Sciences KL2 Research and Career Development Award. She has received several honors including induction in the Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health and the Triangle Global Health Consortium’s Ward Cates Emerging Leader in Global Health award. Dr. Vasudevan completed her doctoral training in molecular biology and genetics at Cornell University and received her Master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Vasudevan is Certified in Public Health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners.
Office Hours
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Science Departments 2021
- Assistant Research Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2018
- Member of the DHVI, Medicine, Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Medicine 2020
Contact Information
- 2200 West Main Street, Suite 600 Room 606, Durham, NC 27705
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lavanya.vasudevan@duke.edu
(919) 613-1423
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Duke Family Medicine and Community Health
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- M.P.H., Johns Hopkins Unversity, Bloomberg School of Public Health 2012
- Ph.D., Cornell University 2009
- Ph.D., Cornell University 2008
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Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Science Departments 2018 - 2020
- Visiting Scholar in the Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2012 - 2013
- Recognition
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In the News
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NOV 20, 2019 Duke Research Blog -
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MAY 9, 2017 Duke Global Health Institute
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Awards & Honors
- Inductee, Alpha chapter. Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health. 2018
- Ward Cates Emerging Leader in Global Health. Triangle Global Health Consortium. 2017
- 31 Inspiring People. Vaccine Ambassadors. 2013
- MPH Capstone Award for Outstanding Achievement. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 2012
- Peter Jay Sharp Scholarship (declined). Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. 2011
- Travel Award. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 2008
- Honorable mention, Poster contest, Annual symposium. Pharmacology Department, Cornell University. 2007
- Travel Award. American Society for Cell Biology. 2007
- Young Investigator Award. Cornell University. 2007
- Academic Merit Award. Indian Pharmaceutical Association. 2003
- Dr. M. K. Rangnekar Medal. University of Mumbai. 2003
- Graduate fellowship. Cornell University. 2003
- Jethibai Hirdaram Jagtiani Award. Prin. K. M. Kundnani College of Pharmacy. 2003
- Jewel of KMK. Prin. K. M. Kundnani College of Pharmacy. 2003
- Late Shri H. G. Advani Gold Medal. Prin. K. M. Kundnani College of Pharmacy. 2003
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
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Global Scholarship
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Duke Creating ADRD Researchers for the Next Generation - Stimulating Access to Research in Residency Program (CARiNG-StARR)" awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2023
- Duke CTSA (KL2) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
- Reducing disparities in adolescent HPV vaccination coverage in the Carolinas awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018 - 2021
- mHealth-supported telecolposcopy for cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2021
- A digital case management system for reducing pediatric cancer treatment abandonment awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2021
- RAPID: Poirot: From Contact Tracing to Private Exposure Detection awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 2021
- mHealth-assisted conditional cash transfers to improve timeliness of vaccinations. awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2018
- Notification and/or registration of births via mobile devices: A systematic review awarded by World Health Organization 2017
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External Relationships
- GapHealth
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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Vasudevan, Lavanya, Emmanuel Walter, and Geeta Swamy. “Vaccine Hesitancy in North Carolina: The Elephant in the Room?” N C Med J 82, no. 2 (March 2021): 130–37. https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.82.2.130.Full Text Link to Item
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Mackness, Jessica, John A. Gallis, Raymond Kofi Owusu, Mohammed Ali, Safiyatu Abubakr-Bibilazu, Haliq Adam, Raymond Aborigo, et al. “Prevalence and correlates of maternal early stimulation behaviors during pregnancy in northern Ghana: a cross-sectional survey.” Bmc Pregnancy Childbirth 21, no. 1 (January 4, 2021): 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03476-9.Full Text Link to Item
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Vasudevan, Lavanya, Sandra Stinnett, Cecelia Mizelle, Katherine Melgar, Christina Makarushka, Michelle Pieters, Luis Enrique Roman Sanchez, Jose Jeronimo, Megan J. Huchko, and Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell. “Barriers to the uptake of cervical cancer services and attitudes towards adopting new interventions in Peru.” Prev Med Rep 20 (December 2020): 101212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2020.101212.Full Text Link to Item
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Vasudevan, Lavanya, Joy Noel Baumgartner, Sara Moses, Esther Ngadaya, Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga, and Jan Ostermann. “Parental concerns and uptake of childhood vaccines in rural Tanzania - a mixed methods study.” Bmc Public Health 20, no. 1 (October 20, 2020): 1573. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09598-1.Full Text Link to Item
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Bhardwaj, Anvita, Prasansa Subba, Sauharda Rai, Chaya Bhat, Renasha Ghimire, Mark J. D. Jordans, Eric Green, Lavanya Vasudevan, and Brandon A. Kohrt. “Lessons learned through piloting a community-based SMS referral system for common mental health disorders used by female community health volunteers in rural Nepal.” Bmc Res Notes 13, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 309. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05148-5.Full Text Link to Item
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Ni, Zhao, Namratha Atluri, Ryan J. Shaw, Jingru Tan, Kinza Khan, Helena Merk, Yunfan Ge, et al. “Correction: Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health-Based Female Community Health Volunteer Program for Hypertension Control in Rural Nepal: Cross-Sectional Study.” Jmir Mhealth Uhealth 8, no. 6 (June 11, 2020): e19048. https://doi.org/10.2196/19048.Full Text Link to Item
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Vasudevan, Lavanya, Jan Ostermann, Sara Marwerwe Moses, Esther Ngadaya, and Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga. “Patterns of Mobile Phone Ownership and Use Among Pregnant Women in Southern Tanzania: Cross-Sectional Survey.” Jmir Mhealth Uhealth 8, no. 4 (April 8, 2020): e17122. https://doi.org/10.2196/17122.Full Text Link to Item
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Vasudevan, Lavanya, Kristin Schroeder, Yadurshini Raveendran, Kunal Goel, Christina Makarushka, Nestory Masalu, and Leah L. Zullig. “Using digital health to facilitate compliance with standardized pediatric cancer treatment guidelines in Tanzania: protocol for an early-stage effectiveness-implementation hybrid study.” Bmc Cancer 20, no. 1 (March 29, 2020): 254. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-6611-3.Full Text Link to Item
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Ni, Zhao, Namratha Atluri, Ryan J. Shaw, Jingru Tan, Kinza Khan, Helena Merk, Yunfan Ge, et al. “Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health-Based Female Community Health Volunteer Program for Hypertension Control in Rural Nepal: Cross-Sectional Study.” Jmir Mhealth Uhealth 8, no. 3 (March 9, 2020): e15419. https://doi.org/10.2196/15419.Full Text Link to Item
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Ostermann, Jan, Lavanya Vasudevan, Joy Noel Baumgartner, Esther Ngadaya, and Sayoki Godfrey Mfinanga. “Do mobile phone-based reminders and conditional financial transfers improve the timeliness of childhood vaccinations in Tanzania? Study protocol for a quasi-randomized controlled trial.” Trials 20, no. 1 (July 4, 2019): 397. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3430-4.Full Text Link to Item
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Labrique, Alain, Lavanya Vasudevan, Garrett Mehl, Ellen Rosskam, and Adnan A. Hyder. “Digital Health and Health Systems of the Future.” Glob Health Sci Pract 6, no. Suppl 1 (October 10, 2018): S1–4. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00342.Full Text Link to Item
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Labrique, Alain, Lavanya Vasudevan, William Weiss, and Kate Wilson. “Establishing Standards to Evaluate the Impact of Integrating Digital Health into Health Systems.” Glob Health Sci Pract 6, no. Suppl 1 (October 10, 2018): S5–17. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00230.Full Text Link to Item
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Orton, Maeghan, Smisha Agarwal, Pierre Muhoza, Lavanya Vasudevan, and Alexander Vu. “Strengthening Delivery of Health Services Using Digital Devices.” Glob Health Sci Pract 6, no. Suppl 1 (October 10, 2018): S61–71. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00229.Full Text Link to Item
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Rivenbark, Joshua, Lily Martyn, Kathryn Whetten, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “A survey of healthcare-seeking practices and related stigma among community- and street-based children in Cambodia.” Int Health 10, no. 3 (May 1, 2018): 211–13. https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihy008.Full Text Link to Item
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Agarwal, S., L. Vasudevan, T. Tamrat, C. Glenton, S. Lewin, H. Bergman, N. Henschke, G. L. Mehl, and M. S. Fønhus. “Digital tracking, provider decision support systems, and targeted client communication via mobile devices to improve primary health care.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018, no. 1 (January 18, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012925.Full Text
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Vasudevan, L., N. Henschke, C. Glenton, S. Lewin, N. Maayan, J. Eyers, M. S. Fønhus, T. Tamrat, and G. L. Mehl. “Birth and death notification via mobile devices.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018, no. 1 (January 4, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012909.Full Text
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Agarwal, Smisha, Amnesty E. LeFevre, Jaime Lee, Kelly L’Engle, Garrett Mehl, Chaitali Sinha, Alain Labrique, and Alain WHO mHealth Technical Evidence Review Group. “Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist.” Bmj 352 (March 17, 2016): i1174. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i1174.Full Text Link to Item
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Uddin, Md Jasim, Md Shamsuzzaman, Lily Horng, Alain Labrique, Lavanya Vasudevan, Kelsey Zeller, Mridul Chowdhury, Charles P. Larson, David Bishai, and Nurul Alam. “Use of mobile phones for improving vaccination coverage among children living in rural hard-to-reach areas and urban streets of Bangladesh.” Vaccine 34, no. 2 (January 4, 2016): 276–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.11.024.Full Text Link to Item
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Vasudevan, Lavanya, Alain B. Labrique, Sucheta Mehra, Lee Wu, Orin Levine, Danny Feikin, Rolf Klemm, Parul Christian, and Keith P. West. “Maternal determinants of timely vaccination coverage among infants in rural Bangladesh.” Vaccine 32, no. 42 (September 22, 2014): 5514–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.06.092.Full Text Link to Item
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Bloomfield, Gerald S., Rajesh Vedanthan, Lavanya Vasudevan, Anne Kithei, Martin Were, and Eric J. Velazquez. “Mobile health for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the literature and strategic framework for research.” Global Health 10 (June 13, 2014): 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-10-49.Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
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Majeed, Sophia R., Lavanya Vasudevan, Chih-Ying Chen, Yi Luo, Jorge A. Torres, Timothy M. Evans, Andrew Sharkey, et al. “Clathrin light chains are required for the gyrating-clathrin recycling pathway and thereby promote cell migration.” Nat Commun 5 (May 23, 2014): 3891. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4891.Full Text Link to Item
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Labrique, Alain B., Lavanya Vasudevan, Erica Kochi, Robert Fabricant, and Garrett Mehl. “mHealth innovations as health system strengthening tools: 12 common applications and a visual framework.” Glob Health Sci Pract 1, no. 2 (August 2013): 160–71. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00031.Full Text Link to Item
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Labrique, Alain, Lavanya Vasudevan, Larry William Chang, and Garrett Mehl. “H_pe for mHealth: more "y" or "o" on the horizon?” Int J Med Inform 82, no. 5 (May 2013): 467–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.11.016.Full Text Link to Item
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Bonazzi, Matteo, Andreas Kühbacher, Alejandro Toledo-Arana, Adeline Mallet, Lavanya Vasudevan, Javier Pizarro-Cerdá, Frances M. Brodsky, and Pascale Cossart. “A common clathrin-mediated machinery co-ordinates cell-cell adhesion and bacterial internalization.” Traffic 13, no. 12 (December 2012): 1653–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/tra.12009.Full Text Link to Item
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Bonazzi, Matteo, Lavanya Vasudevan, Adeline Mallet, Martin Sachse, Anna Sartori, Marie-Christine Prevost, Allison Roberts, et al. “Clathrin phosphorylation is required for actin recruitment at sites of bacterial adhesion and internalization.” J Cell Biol 195, no. 3 (October 31, 2011): 525–36. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201105152.Full Text Link to Item
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Ni, Zhao, Namratha Atluri, Ryan J. Shaw, Jingru Tan, Kinza Khan, Helena Merk, Yunfan Ge, et al. “Correction: Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health–Based Female Community Health Volunteer Program for Hypertension Control in Rural Nepal: Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.19048.Full Text
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Ni, Zhao, Namratha Atluri, Ryan J. Shaw, Jingru Tan, Kinza Khan, Helena Merk, Yunfan Ge, et al. “Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health–Based Female Community Health Volunteer Program for Hypertension Control in Rural Nepal: Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.15419.Full Text
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Rossman, Andrea H., Hadley W. Reid, Michelle M. Pieters, Ceclia Mizelle, Megan von Isenberg, Nimmi Ramanujam, Megan J. Huchko, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “Digital Health Strategies for Cervical Cancer Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Current Implementations and Gaps in Research (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.23350.Full Text
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Rossman, Andrea H., Hadley W. Reid, Michelle M. Pieters, Ceclia Mizelle, Megan von Isenberg, Nimmi Ramanujam, Megan J. Huchko, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “Digital Health Strategies for Cervical Cancer Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Current Implementations and Gaps in Research (Preprint).” Journal of Medical Internet Research, n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/23350.Full Text
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Schroeder, Kristin, James Maiarana, Mwitasrobert Gisiri, Emma Joo, Charles Muiruri, Leah Zullig, Nestory Masalu, and Lavanya Vasudevan. “Caregiver acceptability of mobile phone use for pediatric cancer care in Tanzania (Preprint),” n.d. https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.27988.Full Text
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Book Sections
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Vasudevan, L., S. Ghoshal, and A. B. Labrique. “mHealth and its role in disease surveillance.” In Disease Surveillance: Technological Contributions to Global Health Security, 131–38, 2016.
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Mehl, Garrett, Lavanya Vasudevan, Lianne Gonsalves, Matt Berg, Tamsyn Seimon, Marleen Temmerman, and Alain Labrique. “Harnessing mHealth in Low-Resource Settings to Overcome Health System Constraints and Achieve Universal Access to Healthcare.” In Behavioral Health Care and Technology, 239–63. Oxford University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199314027.003.0017.Full Text
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Conference Papers
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Zhang, Y., C. Wang, D. Pujol, J. Bater, M. Lentz, A. MacHanavajjhala, K. Nayak, L. Vasudevan, and J. Yang. “Poirot: Private contact summary aggregation: Poster abstract.” In Sensys 2020 Proceedings of the 2020 18th Acm Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 774–75, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3384419.3430603.Full Text
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Baird, Barbara, Lavanya Vasudevan, Nathaniel Calloway, Alice Wagenknecht-Wiesner, Kirsten Elzer, and David Holowka. “Phosphoinositides in Ca2+ Signaling and Plasma Membrane Biogenesis: Roles for Electrostatic Interactions.” In Biophysical Journal, 96:564a-564a. Elsevier BV, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2008.12.3698.Full Text
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. Data+ Project Lead. 2018 2018
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. Vaccine Misinformation and Its Link to Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Durham. 2018 - 2019 2018 - 2019
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. mHealth for Better Routine Immunization Data in Honduras. August 2017 - May 2018 2017 - 2018
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Pocket Colposcope: Increased Distribution and Adoption . August 2016 - May 2017 2016 - 2017
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Interculturally Competent Analysis of the Uptake of Routine Vaccination. August 2015 - May 2016 2015 - 2016
- Global Health Outreach. mHealth-assisted conditional cash transfers to improve timeliness ofnchildhood vaccinations. Mfinanga, National Institute for Health Research. July 2015 2015
- Duke Global Health Outreach. Using mobile technologies to improve outcomes for orphaned and separated children. October 2014 2014
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