Marc Boulay

Community Report from the 2025 SNOLAB Future Projects Workshop

Miriam L. Diamond, Peter Abbamonte, A Arvanitaki, D. M. Asner et autres

SNOLAB hosts a biannual Future Projects Workshop (FPW) with the goal of encouraging future project stakeholders to present ideas, concepts, and needs for experiments or programs that could one day be hosted at SNOLAB. The 2025 FPW was held in the larger …

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Do academic knowledge brokers exist? Using social network analysis to explore academic research-to-policy networks from six schools of public health in Kenya

Nasreen Jessani, Marc Boulay, Sara Bennett

The potential for academic research institutions to facilitate knowledge exchange and influence evidence-informed decision-making has been gaining ground. Schools of public health (SPHs) may play a key knowledge brokering role-serving as agencies of and for development. Understanding academic-policymaker networks can facilitate the …

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The Effect of Single or Repeated Home Visits on the Hanging and Use of Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets following a Mass Distribution Campaign - A Cluster Randomized, Controlled Trial

Albert Kilian, Connie Balayo, Mitra Feldman, Hannah Koenker et autres

BACKGROUND: Study objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of commonly used post-campaign hang-up visits on the hanging and use of campaign nets. METHODS: A cluster-randomized trial was carried out in Uganda following an ITN distribution campaign. Five clusters (parishes, consisting of ∼11 …

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The use of mediation analysis to assess the effects of a behaviour change communication strategy on bed net ideation and household universal coverage in Tanzania

Emily Ricotta, Marc Boulay, Robert Ainslie, Stella Babalola et autres

BACKGROUND: SBCC campaigns are designed to act on cognitive, social and emotional factors at the individual or community level. The combination of these factors, referred to as 'ideation', play a role in determining behaviour by reinforcing and confirming decisions about a particular …

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Comparing two approaches for estimating the causal effect of behaviour-change communication messages promoting insecticide-treated bed nets: an analysis of the 2010 Zambia malaria indicator survey

Marc Boulay, Matthew Lynch, Hannah Koenker

Over the past decade, efforts to increase the use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) have relied primarily on the routine distribution of bed nets to pregnant women attending antenatal services or on the mass distribution of bed nets to households. While these …

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Strengthening Nonrandomized Studies of Health Communication Strategies for HIV Prevention

Calum Davey, Marc Boulay, James Hargreaves

BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in impact evaluations of health communication (HC) interventions for HIV prevention. Although cluster randomized trials may be optimal in terms of internal validity, they are often unfeasible for political, practical, or ethical reasons. However, a common alternative, …

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Schwandt HM, Boulay M. (2014). Spatial Examination of Family Planning Provider Networks in Urban Nigeria

Hilary Schwandt, Marc Boulay

Enhancing contraceptive stock out information with a couple years protection lost measure – a useful tool for family planning programs

Hilary Schwandt, Marc Boulay, Abdulmumin Saad

Community Capacity as Means to Improved Health Practices and An End in Itself: Evidence from a Multi-Stage Study

Carol Underwood, Marc Boulay, Gail Snetro-Plewman, Mubiana Macwan’gi et autres

This three-phase study characterized, validated, and applied community capacity domains in a health communication project evaluation in Zambia. Phase I explored community capacity domains from community members' perspectives (16 focus groups, 14 in-depth interviews, 4 sites. These were validated in Phase II …

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Outcome-Based Massage: Putting Evidence into Practice

Carla‐Krystin Andrade, Marc Boulay

Offers information on the theory and manual technique of massage. This book introduces an evidence-based clinical reasoning process for incorporating massage into therapeutic practice. It instructs readers on how to identify impairments, select and apply appropriate massage techniques, and integrate massage with …

Biases in Contraceptive Service Provision among Clinical and Non-Clinical Family Planning Provider Network Members in Nigeria

Hilary Schwandt, Marc Boulay, Abdulmumin Saad

Innovations in Evaluating Health Campaigns in Developing Countries

W. Douglas Evans, Marc Boulay, Rebecca Firestone, Rajiv N. Rimal