Avery Seefeld
Operations Program Manager, ME
GHS - Programs
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Avery Seefeld is a Program Coordinator at UCSF working on the African Health Markets for Equity (AHME) evaluation and the Strengthening Person-centered Accessibility, Respect, and Quality (SPARQ) project. The overall goal of AHME is to increase access to quality health services for the poorest individuals in Kenya and Ghana. UCSF is managing a qualitative evaluation as well as a process evaluation of AHME.

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The overall goal of SPARQ is to improve the quality of patient-centered care for women who seek delivery, family planning, and abortion services in Kenya and India. Her primary research interests are global reproductive health and maternal health issues. On the AHME evaluation, Avery manages project logistics and deliverables to ensure that data collection and project reporting are completed on time as well as on budget. On the SPARQ project, Avery works on the abortion initiative in Kenya to develop a program that will provide women with support post-abortion and supports a number of other project activities. Prior to working at UCSF, Avery was a Program Manager at the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ), where she worked with teams across the United States using quality improvement methodology to make system-level changes. While at NICHQ, Avery worked on a large-scale initiative focusing on improving care for individuals with sickle cell disease and a project focused on improving breastfeeding rates in the US.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
• BS Mathematics St. Lawrence University 05/2009

Publications (6)

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SexismHealth Services AccessibilityPolicy MakingPregnancyCell PhonePatient-Centered CareSocial StigmaKenyaHumansQuality of Health CareHealth PolicyAbortion, InducedPrivate FacilitiesQualitative ResearchFemale

• Improving stigma and psychosocial outcomes among post-abortion Kenyan women attending private clinics: A randomized controlled trial of a person-centered mobile phone-based intervention.
  PloS one 2022 Sudhinaraset M, Landrian A, Cotter SY, Golub G, Opot J, Seefeld CA, Phillips B, Ikiugu E
• Bridging the gap with a gender lens: How two implementation research datasets were repurposed to inform health policy reform in Kenya.
  Health policy and planning 2020 Suchman L, Appleford G, Owino E, Seefeld CA
• Equity lessons from a large scale private-sector healthcare intervention in Ghana and Kenya: Results for a multi-year qualitative study.
  Gates open research 2020 Montagu D, Suchman L, Seefeld CA
• Person-centred care for abortion services in private facilities to improve women's experiences in Kenya.
  Culture, health & sexuality 2020 Cotter SY, Sudhinaraset M, Phillips B, Seefeld CA, Mugwanga Z, Golub G, Ikiugu E
• Social Franchising Compendium: An Annual Survey of Programs: findings from 2015
  Social Franchising Compendium: An Annual Survey of Programs: findings from 2015 2016 Viswanathan, R., Behl, R., and Seefeld, C.A.
• Clinical Social Franchising Compendium: An Annual Survey of Programs: findings from 2014
  Clinical Social Franchising Compendium: An Annual Survey of Programs: findings from 2014 2015 Viswanathan, R. and Seefeld, C.A.