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

Beth builds dynamic 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 implementation of numerous multi-site, global reproductive health research and intervention programs. She 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 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
• 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
• 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