- Assistant Professor, Global Health
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
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Dr. Wagenaar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, and a Technical Advisor to Health Alliance International, a Center in the Department of Global Health. His work focuses on using innovative implementation science methods to answer pressing questions around improving public-sector health systems and health policies globally. He has particular interests in improving the prevention and treatment of mental illness in low-resource settings in the US and globally. In addition, he is passionate about the use of quasi-experimental designs and routine health information systems data to optimize the scale-up of complex health systems approaches globally.
He is currently PI or Co-I on a number of mental health and/or implementation science projects in the US, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa, India, and Guatemala. As faculty in the DGH, he teaches the Advanced Global Health Evaluation Methods course (GH537) offered each spring focused on quasi-experimental designs and analyses. He has also worked to develop online distance learning courses in implementation science that have, trained >1,000 students from >30 countries.
- PhD (University of Washington)
- MPH (Emory University)
- BA (St. Olaf College)
- French
- Fulfulde
- Portuguese
- Biostatistics
- Burden of Disease
- Causes of Death
- Child and Adolescent Health (incl. Pediatrics)
- Child Mortality
- Chronic Disease (incl. Cardiovascular, Diabetes)
- Clinical Mentoring
- Community Health Workers
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Community-Based Primary Health Care
- Delivery Logistics
- Disease Surveillance
- Epidemiology
- Health Disparities
- Health Financing
- Health Information Systems
- Health Interventions
- Health Outcomes
- Health Policy
- Health Policy and Advocacy
- Health Systems Strengthening and Human Resources Development
- HIV/AIDS
- Implementation Science
- Injury, Violence, Trauma and Domestic Violence
- Mental Health
- Non-Communicable Diseases
- Operations Research
- Political Economy of Health
- Quality Improvement
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social Justice and Human Rights
- An individualized approach to promote nurturing care in low- and middle-income countries: a hybrid effectiveness implementation trial of the international guide for monitoring child development
- Development and implementation of a demonstration project of integrated mental healthcare for HIV+ individuals with common mental disorders
- Optimizing implementation strategies of the first scale-up of a primary care psychological intervention for common mental disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Friendship Bench
- Scale-up of a trans-diagnostic integrated mental healthcare model for HIV+ individuals with common mental disorders in Sofala and Manica Provinces (CETA-SOFALA PHASE 3)
- Southern African Research Consortium for Mental health INTegration (S-MhINT)-Research and capacity building consortium to strengthen mental health integration in South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania
- Spreading IDEAs: The Integrated District Evidence to Action program to Improve Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
- Spreading the Integrated District Evidence-to-Action Program for Neonatal Mortality Reduction (IDEAs) in Mozambique
- STARS-Seattle: Addressing refugee and immigrant youth mental health in the time of COVID-19 usng a digital psychological intervention
- Strengthening the identification and treatment of depression in primary care in Mozambique
- Systems analysis and improvement approach to optimize task-shifted mental health diagnosis and treatment cascades (SAIA-MH)
- Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach to Optimize the Task-Shared Mental Health Treatment Cascade (SAIA-MH): A Cluster Randomized Trial
- The University of Washington / Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research
- University of Washington Developmental AIDS Research Center for Mental Health (UW ARCH)
Wagenaar BH, Augusto O, Beste J, Toomay SJ, Wickett E, Dunbar N, Bawo L, Wesseh CS. The 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak and primary healthcare delivery in Liberia: Time-series analyses for 2010-2016
PLoS Med. 2018 Feb 20;15(2):e1002508. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002508. eCollection 2018 Feb.
PMID: 29462138
Wagenaar, B.H., Sherr, K., Fernandes, Q., Wagenaar, A.C. (2015). Using routine health information systems for well-designed health evaluations in low and middle-income countries. Health Policy & Planning. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czv029
Xiao H, Augusto O, Wagenaar BH. Reflection on modern methods: a common error in the segmented regression parameterization of interrupted time-series analyses. Int J Epidemiol. 2021 Jul 9;50(3):1011-1015. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa148. PMID: 33097937
Fabian KE, Muanido A, Cumbe VFJ, Manaca N, Hicks L, Weiner BJ, Sherr K, Wagenaar BH. Optimizing treatment cascades for mental healthcare in Mozambique: preliminary effectiveness of the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach for Mental Health (SAIA-MH). Health Policy Plan. 2021 Feb 16;35(10):1354-1363. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czaa114. PMID: 33221835
Fernandes QF, Wagenaar BH, Anselmi L, Pfeiffer J, Gloyd S, Sherr K. Effects of health-system strengthening on under-5, infant, and neonatal mortality: 11-year provincial-level time-series analyses in Mozambique
Lancet Glob Health. 2014 Aug;2(8):e468-77. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70276-1. Epub 2014 Jul 23. PMID: 25103520