Malini Nijagal, MD, MPH
Professor
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
School of Medicine
Dr. Malini Nijagal is an obstetrician and gynecologist who provides maternity care for women. She sees patients in the clinic as well as in the hospital.
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One focus of Nijagal's research is how to deliver health care – particularly maternity care – so that patients perceive it as valuable and of high quality. She also studies how to define high-quality care during pregnancy and the postpartum period, the role of human-centered design in optimizing outcomes and experience, and how to encourage superior care by improving methods of paying for health care.
Nijagal earned her medical degree at UCSF and completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has a master of public health degree, with a focus on health care management, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Nijagal belongs to AcademyHealth and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Education & Training
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- MPH Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2016
- Residency Obstetrics and Gynecology UCLA 2006
- UCSF 2002
Publications (13)
Top publication keywords:
PregnancyHealthcare DisparitiesPrivate PracticeTelemedicineHealth Care ReformMidwiferyCooperative BehaviorCesarean SectionDelivery of Health CareDelivery RoomsMaternal Health ServicesObstetricsPerinatal CareHospitals, CommunityPhysician-Nurse Relations
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Physician Suicide: A Personal Story and Call to Action.
Journal of pediatric surgery 2023 Jelin A, Nijagal M, Wu A, Flaherty M, Perrone EE -
System-Level Factors Associated With Telephone and Video Visit Use: Survey of Safety-Net Clinicians During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
JMIR formative research 2022 Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Sierra M, Rivadeneira NA, Nijagal MA, Su G, Lyles CR, DeFries T, Tuot DS, Sarkar U -
Satisfaction can co-exist with hesitation: qualitative analysis of acceptability of telemedicine among multi-lingual patients in a safety-net healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMC health services research 2022 Nguyen MT, Garcia F, Juarez J, Zeng B, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Sarkar U, Su G, Lyles CR -
Using human centered design to identify opportunities for reducing inequities in perinatal care.
BMC health services research 2021 Nijagal MA, Patel D, Lyles C, Liao J, Chehab L, Williams S, Sammann A -
Clinician experience with telemedicine at a safety-net hospital network during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey.
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021 Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Lyles CR, Su G, DeFries T, Sarkar U, Tuot D
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Ensuring Equitable Implementation of Telemedicine in Perinatal Care.
Obstetrics and gynecology 2021 Ukoha EP, Davis K, Yinger M, Butler B, Ross T, Crear-Perry J, Perron-Burdick M, Nijagal MA -
Patient interest in and barriers to telemedicine video visits in a multilingual urban safety-net system.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Khoong EC, Butler BA, Mesina O, Su G, DeFries TB, Nijagal M, Lyles CR -
Standardized outcome measures for pregnancy and childbirth, an ICHOM proposal.
BMC health services research 2018 Nijagal MA, Wissig S, Stowell C, Olson E, Amer-Wahlin I, Bonsel G, Brooks A, Coleman M, Devi Karalasingam S, Duffy JMN, Flanagan T, Gebhardt S, Greene ME, Groenendaal F, R Jeganathan JR, Kowaliw T, … -
Both patients and maternity care providers can benefit from payment reform: four steps to prepare.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2018 Nijagal MA, Shah NT, Levin-Scherz J -
The Association of Expanded Access to a Collaborative Midwifery and Laborist Model With Cesarean Delivery Rates.
Obstetrics and gynecology 2015 Rosenstein MG, Nijagal M, Nakagawa S, Gregorich SE, Kuppermann M -
8: The effect of expanded midwifery and hospitalist services on primary cesarean delivery rates.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2015 Melissa Rosenstein, Malini Nijagal, Sanae Nakagawa, Steven Gregorich, Miriam Kuppermann -
Two practice models in one labor and delivery unit: association with cesarean delivery rates.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2014 Nijagal MA, Kuppermann M, Nakagawa S, Cheng Y -
Expanding access to midwifery care: using one practice's success to create community change.
Journal of midwifery & women's health 2012 Nijagal MA, Wice M