
Advisory Board, Nursing Lead
UCSF School of Nursing & Institute for Global Health Sciences
Dr. Kimberly Baltzell is a Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF and Director of Partnerships for UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences. She is the Director of Global Action in Nursing (GAIN) with projects across Malawi, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Baltzell has worked with colleagues across UCSF on updating the WHO Basic Emergency Care Course, particularly as it pertains to training nurses. With other nursing colleagues, she is exploring appropriate intervals for emergency care refresher training to make sure emergency skills are sustained across sites. In addition to her PhD, Dr. Baltzell has a Masters in Global Health Sciences.
Publications
Exploring the long-term impact of a nurse-midwife mentorship intervention in Neno district, Malawi: a secondary data analysis of maternal and neonatal complications.
BMC global and public health
Evaluating a clinical mentorship intervention on maternal and neonatal complications in primary health facilities in Blantyre district, Malawi: A longitudinal analysis of the Global Action in Nursing program.
International journal of nursing studies
Assessing Combined Longitudinal Mentorship and Skills Training on Select Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Rural and Urban Health Facilities in Malawi.
Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society
SARS-CoV-2 PCR and antibody testing for an entire rural community: methods and feasibility of high-throughput testing procedures.
Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique
Alignment between expectations and experiences of egg donors: what does it mean to be informed?
Reproductive biomedicine & society online
Covariates and Spatial Interpolation of HIV Screening in Mozambique: Insight from the 2015 AIDS Indicator Survey.
International journal of environmental research and public health
SARS-CoV-2 PCR and antibody testing for an entire rural community: methods and feasibility of high-throughput testing procedures.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
The World Needs 6 Million More Nurses: What Are We Waiting For?
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
A 14-day follow-up of adult non-malarial fever patients seen by mobile clinics in rural Malawi.
Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi
What about the men? Perinatal experiences of men of color whose partners were at risk for preterm birth, a qualitative study.
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
Distinct Biomarker Profiles Distinguish Malawian Children with Malarial and Non-malarial Sepsis.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
What is community engagement and how can it drive malaria elimination? Case studies and stakeholder interviews.
Malaria journal
'Not all fevers are malaria': a mixed methods study of non-malarial fever management in rural southern Malawi.
Rural and remote health
Pathogen Clearance and New Respiratory Tract Infections Among Febrile Children in Zanzibar Investigated With Multitargeting Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction on Paired Nasopharyngeal Swab Samples.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal
Characterizing Pediatric Non-Malarial Fever and Identifying the At-Risk Child in Rural Malawi.
Global pediatric health
Principles, practices and knowledge of clinicians when assessing febrile children: a qualitative study in Kenya.
Malaria journal
Impacts on Global Health from Nursing Research.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Impact of introduction of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria on antibiotic prescribing: analysis of observational and randomised studies in public and private healthcare settings.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
A New Master's Degree in Global Health: Reflections on a 5-year Experience.
Annals of global health
A qualitative study to assess community barriers to malaria mass drug administration trials in The Gambia.
Malaria journal
The usefulness of rapid diagnostic tests in the new context of low malaria transmission in Zanzibar.
PloS one
Perception of malaria risk in a setting of reduced malaria transmission: a qualitative study in Zanzibar.
Malaria journal
Febrile illness management in children under five years of age: a qualitative pilot study on primary health care workers' practices in Zanzibar.
Malaria journal
Prevalence of PCR detectable malaria infection among febrile patients with a negative Plasmodium falciparum specific rapid diagnostic test in Zanzibar.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Epstein-Barr virus is seldom found in mammary epithelium of breast cancer tissue using in situ molecular methods.
Breast cancer research and treatment
A descriptive study of variables associated with obtaining nipple aspirate fluid in a cohort of non-lactating women.
BMC women's health
Strengths and limitations of breast cancer risk assessment.
Oncology nursing forum
Breast carcinogenesis: can the examination of ductal fluid enhance our understanding?
Oncology nursing forum