Malini Nijagal, MD, MPH
Professor
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
School of Medicine

The main focus of Nijagal's creative work is designing and implementing novel and sustainable models of care both within clinical settings (clinic, hospital) and in the community using a cross-sector approach. Her work leverages her expertise in areas of Human Centered Design, quality improvement, change management strategy, healthcare financing, and institutional-community collaboration. She also focuses how on how high value maternity care should be defined through an equity lens, and how healthcare payment design can be used to encourage superior care and outcomes.

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.

• 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
• 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