Henna Budhwani

Identifies health care practitioner and maternity service factors contributing to racial disparities in maternal mortality in Alabama, as well as potential strategies to address these contributors.

Details the collaboration with a community advisory board to create a teaching handout about how adverse pregnancy outcomes can influence risk for future cardiovascular disease for incorporation into hospital-based postpartum care, as part of the American Heart Association–supported program entitled Providing an Optimized and Empowered Pregnancy for You (P3OPPY).

Informs the adaptation of a mobile provider-to-provider intervention designed to lower the maternal mortality and perinatal mortality rate in Cameroon.

Assesses the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention in reducing blood pressure in adults with uncontrolled hypertension in rural Vietnam.

Elucidates the relationship between provider attitudes toward evidence-based practices, leadership behaviors, and training implementation strategy (e.g., workshop attendance and participation in one-on-one coaching) adherence.

Utilizes the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment framework in an iterative analytic design to compare adolescent HIV clinics that demonstrated either high or low implementation completion in the context of a hybrid Type III trial of tailored motivational interviewing. Finds that several factors distinguish high-completion clinics from low-completion clinics including optimism, problem-solving barriers, leadership, and staff stress and turnover.

Uses social media postings–to negate desirability bias that can emerge when directly asking respondents for their opinions on vaccination–to find that states in the South had significantly higher prevalence of negative tweets about COVID vaccines compared to states in other parts of the country, and higher-income states reported lower prevalence of negative tweets.

Addresses best practices for implementing Motivational Interviewing (MI) within adolescent serving medical settings (e.g., pediatrics, family practices, rural health clinics, community health organizations, and so forth), including an orientation to MI, examples of efficacious interventions that were developed leveraging MI, and consideration for the design of training programs that include ongoing support to maximize the likelihood of sustainment.

Applies qualitative and participatory methods (in-depth interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders) to inform the adaptation of mMIST, which could be a powerful tool enabling providers in low-resource settings to deliver improved pregnancy care, thereby reducing maternal and fetal deaths.

Elucidates statistical relationships between patients' perceptions of clinic-based stigma and stigma's impact on health among New York City's diverse residents.