Beth Phillips, MPH
Project Director
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Beth builds dynamic study teams and fosters equitable partnerships to maintain and strengthen robust research methods and innovative implementation approaches to improve sexual and reproductive health globally. For the past 15+ years, Beth has led the implementation of numerous multi-site, global reproductive health research projects and intervention programs. She also has extensive field-based experience in implementation science across several geographies, most recently including Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Sudan, Uganda, Namibia, South Africa, San Francisco Bay Area, American Samoa, and the Navajo Nation. She also served twice with the US Peace Corps HIV prevention programs in Namibia and Uganda, earned a Masters in Global Family and Child Health from University of Arizona, and completed a Fulbright Fellowship on obstetric fistula treatment in Nigeria.

• Development of a community-based peer-support intervention to improve contraceptive agency and diffuse self-injectable contraception in Uganda: Application of the human-centered design approach.
  BMC women's health 2025 Birabwa C, Phillips B, Amongin D, Atuyambe L, Turinayo A, Etap J, Kaudha B, Alum S, Agnes K, Kramer J, Sedlander E, Liu J, Holt K, Waiswa P
• Validation of the contraception-focused Preference-aligned Fertility Management Index in Uganda and Nigeria.
  Contraception 2025 Holt K, Gomez R, Amongin D, Omoluabi E, Chung S, Birabwa C, Dimowo S, Challa S, Waiswa P, Idiodi I, Phillips B, Nanono S, Jegede A, Liu J, Wasswa R, Nmadu G, Okoli C, Tijani A, Galavotti C
• Women's Perspectives on the Unique Benefits and Challenges of Self-Injectable Contraception: A Four-Country In-Depth Interview Study in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Studies in family planning 2024 Himes E, Suchman L, Kamanga M, Birabwa C, Gitome S, Omoluabi E, Okumu S, Nmadu G, Kwena Z, Liu J, Challa S, Amongin D, Wekesa P, Ndunyu L, Bukusi E, Malata A, Atuyambe L, Nyando M, Okoli C, Tijani A, …
• “I mean to be out of this urine”: Physical, psychological and social assessments of their fistula recovery among women in Nigeria and Uganda
  A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa: Public Health, Anthropological, and Medical Perspectives. 2024 El-Ayadi A, Phillips B, Ononokpono D.
• Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Iterating a Qualitative Analysis Process Across Multiple Countries, Sites, and Teams.
  Global health, science and practice 2023 Suchman L, Gitome S, Nyando M, Kwena ZA, Wekesa P, Okumu S, Ndunyu L, Okoli C, Tijani A, Jegede A, Idiodi I, Nmadu G, Dimowo S, Maluwa A, Atuyambe L, Birabwa C, Alitubeera P, Kaudha B, Kayego A, Jumbe…
• 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
• Assessing the impact of group antenatal care on gestational length in Rwanda: A cluster-randomized trial.
  PloS one 2021 Sayinzoga F, Lundeen T, Musange SF, Butrick E, Nzeyimana D, Murindahabi N, Azman-Firdaus H, Sloan NL, Benitez A, Phillips B, Ghosh R, Walker D
• Perspectives on implementing a quality improvement collaborative to improve person-centered care for maternal and reproductive health in Kenya.
  International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care 2020 Giessler K, Seefeld A, Montagu D, Phillips B, Mwangi J, Munson M, Green C, Opot J, Golub G
• Development and validation of a person-centered abortion scale: the experiences of care in private facilities in Kenya.
  BMC women's health 2020 Sudhinaraset M, Landrian A, Afulani PA, Phillips B, Diamond-Smith N, Cotter S
• Do you need to pay for quality care? Associations between bribes and out-of-pocket expenditures on quality of care during childbirth in India.
  Health policy and planning 2020 Landrian A, Phillips BS, Singhal S, Mishra S, Kajal F, Sudhinaraset M
• Patient-experience during delivery in public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
  Health policy and planning 2020 Montagu D, Landrian A, Kumar V, Phillips BS, Singhal S, Mishra S, Singh S, Cotter SY, Singh VP, Kajal F, Sudhinaraset M
• 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
• Model fidelity of group antenatal and postnatal care: a process analysis of the first implementation of this innovative service model by the Preterm Birth Initiative-Rwanda.
  Gates open research 2020 Butrick E, Lundeen T, Phillips BS, Tengera O, Kambogo A, Uwera YDN, Musabyimana A, Sayinzoga F, Nzeyimana D, Murindahabi N, Musange S, Walker D
• Patient-experience during delivery in public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
  Health policy and planning 2019 Montagu D, Landrian A, Kumar V, Phillips BS, Singhal S, Mishra S, Singh S, Cotter SY, Singh VP, Kajal F, Sudhinaraset M
• An intervention to improve the quality of medication abortion knowledge among pharmacists in India.
  International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 2019 Diamond-Smith N, Phillips B, Percher J, Saxena M, Dwivedi P, Srivastava A
• Evaluating concordance between government administrative data and externally collected data among high-volume government health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.
  Global health action 2019 Phillips BS, Singhal S, Mishra S, Kajal F, Cotter SY, Sudhinaraset M
• Person-centred maternity care in low-income and middle-income countries: analysis of data from Kenya, Ghana, and India.
  The Lancet. Global health 2019 Afulani PA, Phillips B, Aborigo RA, Moyer CA
• Validation of the person-centered maternity care scale in India.
  Reproductive health 2018 Afulani PA, Diamond-Smith N, Phillips B, Singhal S, Sudhinaraset M
• Complicating causality: patient and professional perspectives on obstetric fistula in Nigeria.
  Culture, health & sexuality 2016 Phillips BS, Ononokpono DN, Udofia NW
• Impacts of treatment practices among vesicovaginal fistula patients and practitioners in Nigeria
  Journal of Women's Health, Issues and Care 2014 Phillips, B
• Slums are not places for children to live: vulnerabilities, health outcomes, and possible interventions.
  Advances in pediatrics 2013 Ernst KC, Phillips BS, Duncan BD
• Child Immunization Status Among a Sample of Adolescent Mothers: Comparing the Validity of Measurement Strategies
  Journal of Family Social Work 2011 Clarissa Phillips, Sonia Cota-Robles, Margaret Knight, Judith Francis, Elizabeth Phillips, and Laurie Mazerbo
• Learning from youth exposed to domestic violence: decentering DV and the primacy of gender stereotypes.
  Violence against women 2010 Phillips B, Phillips DA
• Gender and Modernities: Education amongst Cape Town's Poor Youth
  Focus Anthropology 2005 Phillips, B