Ari Johnson, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Ari Johnson MD serves patients at San Francisco General Hospital through the Department of Medicine and the Division of Hospital Medicine. His research and global work focuses on curing delay in health care. Research areas include health systems design, symptom-to-treatment time, healthcare financing, barriers to timely care, and strategies for improving population level morbidity and mortality through early access. He is the co-founder and CEO of the global health NGO Muso. More at www.musohealth.org

Education & Training

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• Residency, Internal Medicine, Primary Care UCSF 7/2014
• MD Harvard Medical Shool 05/2011

Publications (13)

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Case ManagementHouse CallsContraceptive AgentsMaliInfectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalCommunity Health PlanningMobile ApplicationsContraception BehaviorRural PopulationChild Health ServicesQuality ImprovementInfant MortalityChild MortalityEmployee Performance AppraisalCommunity Health Workers

• Home visits versus fixed-site care by community health workers and child survival: a cluster-randomized trial, Mali.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2024 Liu J, Treleaven E, Whidden C, Doumbia S, Kone N, Cisse AB, Diop A, Berthé M, Guindo M, Koné BM, Fay MP, Johnson AD, Kayentao K
• Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali: a randomised controlled trial.
  BMJ global health 2021 Yang JE, Lassala D, Liu JX, Whidden C, Holeman I, Keita Y, Djiguiba Y, N'Diaye SI, Fall F, Kayentao K, Johnson AD
• Relationship between symptoms, barriers to care and healthcare utilisation among children under five in rural Mali.
  Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 2021 Treleaven E, Whidden C, Cole F, Kayentao K, Traoré MB, Diakité D, Sidibé S, Lin TK, Boettiger D, Cissouma S, Sanogo V, Padian N, Johnson A, Liu J
• Women's empowerment, intrahousehold influences, and health system design on modern contraceptive use in rural Mali: a multilevel analysis of cross-sectional survey data.
  Reproductive health 2021 Whidden C, Keita Y, Treleaven E, Beckerman J, Johnson A, Cissé A, Liu J, Kayentao K
• Compensation models for community health workers: Comparison of legal frameworks across five countries.
  Journal of global health 2021 Ballard M, Westgate C, Alban R, Choudhury N, Adamjee R, Schwarz R, Bishop J, McLaughlin M, Flood D, Finnegan K, Rogers A, Olsen H, Johnson A, Palazuelos D, Schechter J

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• Household factors and under-five mortality in Bankass, Mali: results from a cross-sectional survey.
  BMC public health 2021 Boettiger DC, Treleaven E, Kayentao K, Guindo M, Coumaré M, Johnson AD, Whidden C, Koné N, Cissé AB, Padian N, Liu J
• Prioritising the role of community health workers in the COVID-19 response.
  BMJ global health 2020 Ballard M, Bancroft E, Nesbit J, Johnson A, Holeman I, Foth J, Rogers D, Yang J, Nardella J, Olsen H, Raghavan M, Panjabi R, Alban R, Malaba S, Christiansen M, Rapp S, Schechter J, Aylward P, Rogers A…
• Proactive case detection of common childhood illnesses by community health workers: a systematic review.
  BMJ global health 2019 Whidden C, Thwing J, Gutman J, Wohl E, Leyrat C, Kayentao K, Johnson AD, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D
• Proactive community case management and child survival: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.
  BMJ open 2019 Whidden C, Treleaven E, Liu J, Padian N, Poudiougou B, Bautista-Arredondo S, Fay MP, Samaké S, Cissé AB, Diakité D, Keita Y, Johnson AD, Kayentao K
• Improving Community Health Worker performance by using a personalised feedback dashboard for supervision: a randomised controlled trial.
  Journal of global health 2018 Whidden C, Kayentao K, Liu JX, Lee S, Keita Y, Diakité D, Keita A, Diarra S, Edwards J, Yembrick A, Holeman I, Samaké S, Plea B, Coumaré M, Johnson AD
• Proactive community case management and child survival in periurban Mali.
  BMJ global health 2018 Johnson AD, Thiero O, Whidden C, Poudiougou B, Diakité D, Traoré F, Samaké S, Koné D, Cissé I, Kayentao K
• Assessing early access to care and child survival during a health system strengthening intervention in Mali: a repeated cross sectional survey.
  PloS one 2013 Johnson AD, Thomson DR, Atwood S, Alley I, Beckerman JL, Koné I, Diakité D, Diallo H, Traoré B, Traoré K, Farmer PE, Murray M, Mukherjee J
• 5-SPICE: the application of an original framework for community health worker program design, quality improvement and research agenda setting.
  Global health action 2013 Palazuelos D, Ellis K, Im DD, Peckarsky M, Schwarz D, Farmer DB, Dhillon R, Johnson A, Orihuela C, Hackett J, Bazile J, Berman L, Ballard M, Panjabi R, Ternier R, Slavin S, Lee S, Selinsky S, Mitnick …