 
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
Characterizing the referral care continuum among complex obstetric patients in the Blantyre District of Malawi: A mixed methods study.
PLOS global public health
      
            
      
      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
      
            
      
      