Sarah Macfarlane, MS, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

Publications (103)

Top publication keywords:
Surgery Department, HospitalSchools, MedicalCompetency-Based EducationCommunity NetworksCurriculumRural Health ServicesHospitals, DistrictInternational CooperationProgram DevelopmentDeveloping CountriesRural PopulationHealth OccupationsTanzaniaInterinstitutional RelationsAcademic Medical Centers

• Readiness of medical universities in Tanzania to implement competency-based curricula using e-learning in teaching and assessment: an exploratory qualitative case study.
  BMC medical education 2025 Minja IK, Sirili N, Hamad AK, Tarimo E, Mloka D, Macfarlane S, O'Sullivan P, Mselle LT
• Preparing Institutions to Implement Harmonized Medicine and Nursing Curricula Through the Use of Cross-Institutional Faculty Developers.
  Advances in medical education and practice 2024 Mloka DA, Sakita F, Minja IK, Dika H, Tarimo EAM, Sirili N, Mselle LT, Kisenge RR, Sasi P, Nsemwa L, Msanga DR, Matayan EY, Ngowi NB, Moshi MJ, Bartlett J, Macfarlane SB, Kaaya E, O'Sullivan PS
• Mosaic Muir Torre Syndrome: Keratoacanthoma as a Piece of the Puzzle.
  The American Journal of dermatopathology 2024 O'Brien A, Macfarlane S, Sommerlad M, Schirwani S
• The process of harmonizing competency-based curricula for medicine and nursing degree programmes: A Multi-institutional and multi-professional experience from Tanzania.
  Medical teacher 2023 Mloka D, Tarimo E, Mselle L, Mshana S, Sirili N, Rogathi J, Msuya L, Rugarabamu P, Mteta A, Moshi M, Kwesigabo G, Lyamuya E, Bartlett J, Martin-Holland J, O'Sullivan P, Macfarlane S, Kaaya E
• Distinct Biomarker Profiles Distinguish Malawian Children with Malarial and Non-malarial Sepsis.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2019 Kortz TB, Nyirenda J, Tembo D, Elfving K, Baltzell K, Bandawe G, Rosenthal PJ, Macfarlane SB, Mandala W, Nyirenda TS

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• A Matter of Trust: Data Quality and Information Integrity.
  2019 Sarah B. Macfarlane, Carla AbouZahr
• Challenges in Shaping Health Programmes with Data.
  The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health Data Methods for Policy and Practice 2019 Sarah B. Macfarlane, Muhammed M. Lecky, Olufemi Adegoke, Nkata Chuku
• Challenges in Shaping Policy with Data.
  The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health Data Methods for Policy and Practice 2019 Claire D. Brindis, Sarah B. Macfarlane
• Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: A Unique Source of Data for Policy.
  2019 Carla AbouZahr, Gloria Mathenge, Tanja Brøndsted Sejersen, Sarah B. Macfarlane
• Epidemiology for Policy and Programme Management.
  The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health Data Methods for Policy and Practice 2019 Mary Ann Lansang, Rodolfo J. Dennis, Jimmy Volmink, Sarah B. Macfarlane
• Global Health Data: An Unfinished Agenda.
  2019 Carla AbouZahr, Sarah B. Macfarlane
• Indicators for Monitoring Health Targets.
  2019 Sarah B. Macfarlane, Carla AbouZahr, John Frank
• National Household Surveys: Collecting Data Where People Live.
  The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health Data Methods for Policy and Practice 2019 Sarah B. Macfarlane
• National Systems for Generating and Managing Data for Health.
  2019 Sarah B. Macfarlane, Carla AbouZahr, Viroj Tangcharoensathien
• Tracking Health Outcomes in Space and Time: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Methods.
  The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health Data Methods for Policy and Practice 2019 Peter Diggle, Emanuele Giorgi, Michael Chipeta, Sarah B. Macfarlane
• Breast Cancer knowledge, perceptions and practices in a rural Community in Coastal Kenya.
  BMC public health 2019 Sayed S, Ngugi AK, Mahoney MR, Kurji J, Talib ZM, Macfarlane SB, Wynn TA, Saleh M, Lakhani A, Nderitu E, Agoi F, Premji Z, Zujewski JA, Moloo Z
• Public health in developing countries.
  The Ethics of Public Health 2018 Sarah Macfarlane, Mary Racelis, Florence Muli-Musiime
• Suicidality and associated risk factors in outpatients attending a general medical facility in rural Kenya.
  Journal of affective disorders 2017 Ongeri L, McCulloch CE, Neylan TC, Bukusi E, Macfarlane SB, Othieno C, Ngugi AK, Meffert SM
• Population Health Science: A Core Element of Health Science Education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2017 Hiatt RA, Engmann NJ, Ahmed M, Amarsi Y, Macharia WM, Macfarlane SB, Ngugi AK, Rabbani F, Walraven G, Armstrong RW
• Utilization of health services in a resource-limited rural area in Kenya: Prevalence and associated household-level factors.
  PloS one 2017 Ngugi AK, Agoi F, Mahoney MR, Lakhani A, Mang'ong'o D, Nderitu E, Armstrong R, Macfarlane S
• Where teachers are few: documenting available faculty in five Tanzanian medical schools.
  Global health action 2016 Mkony CA, Kaaya EE, Goodell AJ, Macfarlane SB
• Population-based study to determine prevalence of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors in a rural region of Kenya.
  Annals of Global Health 2016 J. Shabani, B. Cogburn, A. Ngugi, S. Macfarlane, M. Mahoney
• Utilization of health services in a resource-limited rural area in Kenya: prevalence and associated household-level factors.
  Annals of Global Health 2016 Anthony K. Ngugi, Felix Agoi, Megan R. Mahoney, Amyn Lakhani, David Mango, Esther Nderitu, Robert Armstrong, Sarah Macfarlane
• Modeling solutions to Tanzania's physician workforce challenge.
  Global health action 2016 Goodell AJ, Kahn JG, Ndeki SS, Kaale E, Kaaya EE, Macfarlane SB
• Strengthening the health system capacity to monitor demographic and population health metrics through surveillance nested on existing government community health structures: A pilot from a rural area of Kenya.
  Annals of Global Health 2015 A. Ngugi, D. Mang'ong’o, A. Omar, A. Lakhani, M. Mahoney, F. Agoi, S. Macfarlane
• Interprofessional curriculum on environmental and social determinants of health in rural Kenya: Aga Khan University East Africa-University of California San Francisco Integrated Primary Health Care Program.
  Annals of Global Health 2014 M.R. Mahoney, K. Baltzell, E. Nderitu, R. Dhanani, S. Macfarlane
• Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS): a trust-based network.
  Emerging health threats journal 2013 Phommasack B, Jiraphongsa C, Ko Oo M, Bond KC, Phaholyothin N, Suphanchaimat R, Ungchusak K, Macfarlane SB
• The evolution and expansion of regional disease surveillance networks and their role in mitigating the threat of infectious disease outbreaks.
  Emerging health threats journal 2013 Bond KC, Macfarlane SB, Burke C, Ungchusak K, Wibulpolprasert S
• Educating enough competent health professionals: advancing educational innovation at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania.
  PLoS medicine 2012 Kaaya EE, Macfarlane SB, Mkony CA, Lyamuya EF, Loeser H, Freeman P, Kirumira EK, Pallangyo K, Debas HT
• An institutional research agenda: focusing university expertise in Tanzania on national health priorities.
  Journal of public health policy 2012 Masalu JR, Aboud M, Moshi MJ, Mugusi F, Kamuhabwa A, Mgimwa N, Freeman P, Goodell AJ, Kaaya EE, Macfarlane SB
• Curricular transformation of health professions education in Tanzania: the process at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (2008-2011).
  Journal of public health policy 2012 Ngassapa OD, Kaaya EE, Fyfe MV, Lyamuya EF, Kakoko DC, Kayombo EJ, Kisenge RR, Loeser H, Mwakigonja AR, Outwater AH, Martin-Holland J, Mwambete KD, Kida I, Macfarlane SB
• First steps towards interprofessional health practice in Tanzania: an educational experiment in rural Bagamoyo district.
  Journal of public health policy 2012 Leshabari S, Lubbock LA, Kaijage H, Kalala W, Koehler G, Massawe S, Muganyizi P, Macfarlane SB, O'Sullivan PS
• Health professions educators as agents of change in Tanzania: creativity to implement new curricula.
  Journal of public health policy 2012 Mloka DA, Omer S, Mkony CA, Kisenge RR, Macfarlane SB, O'Sullivan PS
• Partnering on education for health: Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and the University of California San Francisco.
  Journal of public health policy 2012 Pallangyo K, Debas HT, Lyamuya E, Loeser H, Mkony CA, O'Sullivan PS, Kaaya EE, Macfarlane SB
• Tanzania's health system and workforce crisis.
  Journal of public health policy 2012 Kwesigabo G, Mwangu MA, Kakoko DC, Warriner I, Mkony CA, Killewo J, Macfarlane SB, Kaaya EE, Freeman P
• Teaching and educational scholarship in Tanzania: faculty initiative to improve performance of health professions' students.
  Journal of public health policy 2012 Mkony CA, O'Sullivan PS, Owibingire SS, Fyfe MV, Omer S, Freeman P, Makubi A, Mloka DA, Portillo CJ, Leyna GH, Tarimo E, Kaaya EE, Macfarlane SB
• Tracking university graduates in the workforce: information to improve education and health systems in Tanzania.
  Journal of public health policy 2012 Pemba S, Macfarlane SB, Mpembeni R, Goodell AJ, Kaaya EE
• Universities in transition to improve population health: a Tanzanian case study.
  Journal of public health policy 2012 Macfarlane SB, Kaaya EE
• Access to emergency and surgical care in sub-Saharan Africa: the infrastructure gap.
  Health policy and planning 2011 Hsia RY, Mbembati NA, Macfarlane S, Kruk ME
• Clinical trial: the microbiological and immunological effects of synbiotic consumption - a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study in active Crohn's disease.
  Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics 2010 Steed H, Macfarlane GT, Blackett KL, Bahrami B, Reynolds N, Walsh SV, Cummings JH, Macfarlane S
• Essential surgery at the district hospital: a retrospective descriptive analysis in three African countries.
  PLoS medicine 2010 Galukande M, von Schreeb J, Wladis A, Mbembati N, de Miranda H, Kruk ME, Luboga S, Matovu A, McCord C, Ndao-Brumblay SK, Ozgediz D, Rockers PC, Quiñones AR, Vaz F, Debas HT, Macfarlane SB
• Human resource and funding constraints for essential surgery in district hospitals in Africa: a retrospective cross-sectional survey.
  PLoS medicine 2010 Kruk ME, Wladis A, Mbembati N, Ndao-Brumblay SK, Hsia RY, Galukande M, Luboga S, Matovu A, de Miranda H, Ozgediz D, Quiñones AR, Rockers PC, von Schreeb J, Vaz F, Debas HT, Macfarlane SB
• Increasing access to surgical services in sub-saharan Africa: priorities for national and international agencies recommended by the Bellagio Essential Surgery Group.
  PLoS medicine 2009 Luboga S, Macfarlane SB, von Schreeb J, Kruk ME, Cherian MN, Bergström S, Bossyns PB, Denerville E, Dovlo D, Galukande M, Hsia RY, Jayaraman SP, Lubbock LA, Mock C, Ozgediz D, Sekimpi P, Wladis A, …
• Bridging the gap between public health and surgery: access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries.
  Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 2009 Ozgediz D, Dunbar P, Mock C, Cherion M, Rogers SO, Riviello R, Meara JG, Jamison D, Macfarlane SB, Burkle F, McQueen K
• Global public health: a new era. Edited by Beaglehole R, Second Edition, Oxford University Press
  Putting the public into public health: Towards a more people centred approach; 2009 Macfarlane SB, and Irwin A.
• In the name of global health: trends in academic institutions.
  Journal of public health policy 2008 Macfarlane SB, Jacobs M, Kaaya EE
• Think globally, act locally, and collaborate internationally: global health sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2008 Macfarlane SB, Agabian N, Novotny TE, Rutherford GW, Stewart CC, Debas HT
• University partnership to address the shortage of healthcare professionals in Africa.
  Global public health 2008 Tache S, Kaaya E, Omer S, Mkony CA, Lyamuya E, Pallangyo K, Debas HT, Macfarlane SB
• A scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone.
  Lancet (London, England) 2007 Setel PW, Macfarlane SB, Szreter S, Mikkelsen L, Jha P, Stout S, AbouZahr C, Monitoring of Vital Events
• The way forward.
  Lancet (London, England) 2007 AbouZahr C, Cleland J, Coullare F, Macfarlane SB, Notzon FC, Setel P, Szreter S, Monitoring of Vital Events (MoVE) writing group, Anderson RN, Bawah AA, Betrán AP, Binka F, Bundhamcharoen K, Castro R,…
• Millennium: invest in country statistical systems.
  Nature 2007 Macfarlane SB, Thomson M, AbouZahr CL
• Critical Public Health
  Researching health, poverty and human development 2007 Macfarlane SB.
• Harmonizing health information systems with information systems in other social and economic sectors.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2005 Macfarlane SB
• Hidden Diabetes in the UK: Use of Capture-Recapture Methods to Estimate total Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in an Urban Population.
  Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2003 Geoffrey V Gill, Aziz A Ismail, Nicholas J Beeching, Sarah B J Macfarlane, Mark A Bellis
• Hidden diabetes in the UK: use of capture-recapture methods to estimate total prevalence of diabetes mellitus in an urban population.
  Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2003 Gill GV, Ismail AA, Beeching NJ, Macfarlane SB, Bellis MA
• Int J Epid
  Review of Dying for growth: Global inequality and the health of the poor, JY Kim et al, 2001 Macfarlane S
• Lancet
  Public Health in Developing Countries 2000 Macfarlane S, Racelis M and Muli-Musiime F
• Global health research and INCLEN. International Clinical Epidemiology Network.
  Lancet (London, England) 1999 Macfarlane SB, Evans TG, Muli-Musiime FM, Prawl OL, So AD
• Conducting a descriptive survey: 3. Summarizing and presenting data.
  Tropical doctor 1998 Macfarlane SB
• Wld hlth statist. Quart
  Health transition: from research to policy? 1998 Chen L, Macfarlane S and Jones D.
• Informed consent. British institutions collaborating in projects overseas may face dilemma.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 1997 Squire SB, Gray N, Hawley R, Hayward C, Ali A, Macfarlane S, Bianco AE, Beeching NJ, Taylor M, Agbaje S, Brabin B, Wyatt GB, Coulter JB, De Koning K
• More growth-chart confusion.
  Lancet (London, England) 1997 Macfarlane SB
• BMJ
  Informed consent. British institutions collaborating in projects overseas may face dilemma. 1997 Squire SB, Gray N, Hawley R, Hayward C, Ali A, Macfarlane S, Bianco AE, Beeching NJ, Taylor M, Agbaje S, Brabin B, Wyatt GB, Coulter JB, and De Koning K.
• Conducting a descriptive survey: 2. Choosing a sampling strategy.
  Tropical doctor 1997 Macfarlane SB
• The relationship between anthropometric indices derived from the CDC/WHO international reference.
  Annals of human biology 1996 Macfarlane SB
• Conducting a descriptive survey: 1. Planning the survey.
  Tropical doctor 1996 Macfarlane SB
• Epidemiology training for primary health care: the use of computer-assisted distance learning.
  Journal of the Royal Society of Health 1996 Macfarlane SB, Cuevas LE, Moody JB, Russell WB, Schlecht BJ
• A universal growth reference or fool's gold?
  European journal of clinical nutrition 1995 Macfarlane SB
• Errors in calculating weight-for-height.
  Disasters 1995 Macfarlane SB
• Methods for field trials of interventlons against tropical diseases. A Toolbox, P. G. Smith and Richard H. Morrow (eds.), Oxford University Press on behalf of UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, 1991. No. of pages: xxii + 326. price: £15 (paperback). ISBN: 0-19-262017-7.
  Statistics in Medicine 1994 Sarah B. J. Macfarlane
• Health and disease in developing countries edited by Lankinen KS, Bergstrom S, Makela PH, Peltomaa M, Macmillan Press Ltd/ Macmillan Education
  Information for a change 1994 Macfarlane SBJ, and Tekeste A
• Statistics in Medicine
  Review of PG Smith and RH Morrow Methods for field trials of interventions against tropical diseases. A toolbox. 1994 Macfarlane SBJ
• A computer assisted exercise in classifying nutritional status: a new tool for learning.
  Disasters 1993 Macfarlane SB, McConnell CR, Russell WB
• The use of hypertext: demonstration of the methods for investigating an epidemic of meningitis.
  Medical education 1993 Cuevas LE, Moody JB, Macfarlane SB, Rada R, Ghaoui C
• Review of DJP Barker, AJ Hall: Practical epidemiology, Medicine in the Tropics,
  Review of DJP Barker, AJ Hall: Practical epidemiology, Medicine in the Tropics, 1992 Macfarlane SBJ,
• edited by Feachem RG, Jamison DT, Oxford University Press
  Morbidity and mortality at Malumfashi, Nigeria, 1974-79; Studies of Child Health in Hausaland. Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa 1991 Tomkins A, Bradley A, Bradley-Moore A, Greenwood B, Macfarlane SBJ, and Gilles H.
• Protein-energy malnutrition in northern Sudan: clinical studies.
  European journal of clinical nutrition 1988 Coulter JB, Suliman GI, Omer MI, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Hendrickse RG
• Protein-energy malnutrition in northern Sudan: prevalence, socio-economic factors and family background.
  Annals of tropical paediatrics 1988 Coulter JB, Omer MI, Suliman GI, Moody JB, Macfarlane SB, Hendrickse RG
• Detection of cow's milk protein intolerance by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
  Acta paediatrica Scandinavica 1988 Taylor CJ, Hendrickse RG, McGaw J, Macfarlane SB
• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A
  Fitting centile curves to data 1988 Macfarlane SBJ
• World Health Forum
  Epidemiology for all 1988 The Liverpool Epidemiology Programme.
• The chemotherapy of onchocerciasis. XII. The prediction of microfilarial loads in patients with onchocerciasis after treatment with diethylcarbamazine in northern Ghana.
  Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology 1987 Fulford AJ, Macfarlane SB, Awadzi K, Bell DR, Gilles HM
• Loperamide in acute diarrhoea in childhood: results of a double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial.
  Annals of tropical paediatrics 1987 Karrar ZA, Abdulla MA, Moody JB, Macfarlane SB, Al Bwardy M, Hendrickse RG
• The interaction of alpha thalassaemia with malaria.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1987 Oppenheimer SJ, Hill AV, Gibson FD, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Pringle J
• Malumfashi Endemic Diseases Research Project XXI. Some aspects of the collection of demographic data.
  Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology 1986 Bradley AK, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Gilles HM, Musa BD
• Aflatoxins and kwashiorkor: clinical studies in Sudanese children.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1986 Coulter JB, Hendrickse RG, Lamplugh SM, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Omer MI, Suliman GI, Williams TE
• Effect of iron prophylaxis on morbidity due to infectious disease: report on clinical studies in Papua New Guinea.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1986 Oppenheimer SJ, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Bunari O, Hendrickse RG
• Iron supplementation increases prevalence and effects of malaria: report on clinical studies in Papua New Guinea.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1986 Oppenheimer SJ, Gibson FD, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Harrison C, Spencer A, Bunari O
• Total dose iron infusion, malaria and pregnancy in Papua New Guinea.
  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1986 Oppenheimer SJ, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Harrison C
• Telematics for health in the global information society: can Europe and developing countries work together? DG XIII-C-4- Health Telematics (AIM), European Commission, edited by Sosa-Iudicissa MC, Levett J, Mandil SH, Beales P, IOS press
  Computer assisted learning in epidemiology. 1985 Cuevas LE, Macfarlane SBJ, and Moody JB.
• Iron and infection in infancy--report on field studies in Papua New Guinea: 1. Demographic description and pilot surveys.
  Annals of tropical paediatrics 1984 Oppenheimer SJ, MacFarlane SB, Moody JB, Bunari O, Williams TE, Harrison C, Hendrickse RG
• Iron and infection in infancy--report on field studies in Papua New Guinea: II. Protocol and description of study cohort.
  Annals of tropical paediatrics 1984 Oppenheimer SJ, Hendrickse RG, MacFarlane SB, Moody JB, Harrison C, Alpers M, Heywood P, Vrbova H
• Some opportunities for biometry in promoting child health in the Third World.
  Biometrics 1984 Macfarlane SB
• Iron supplementation and malaria.
  Lancet (London, England) 1984 Oppenheimer SJ, Gibson FD, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Hendrickse RG
• Aflatoxins and kwashiorkor. Epidemiology and clinical studies in Sudanese children and findings in autopsy liver samples from Nigeria and South Africa.
  Bulletin de la Societe de pathologie exotique et de ses filiales 1983 Hendrickse RG, Coulter JB, Lamplugh SM, MacFarlane SB, Williams TE, Omer MI, Suliman GI, El-Zorgani GA
• Aflatoxins and kwashiorkor: a study in Sudanese children.
  British medical journal (Clinical research ed.) 1982 Hendrickse RG, Coulter JB, Lamplugh SM, Macfarlane SB, Williams TE, Omer MI, Suliman GI
• Malumfashi Endemic Diseases Research Project, XIX. Demographic findings: population structure and fertility.
  Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology 1982 Bradley AK, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Gilles HM, Blacker JG, Musa BD
• Malumfashi Endemic Diseases Research Project, XX. Demographic findings: mortality.
  Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology 1982 Bradley AK, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB, Gilles HM, Blacker JG, Musa BD
• Neonatal mortality in San Serriffe: a game for teaching survey methods.
  Statistics in medicine 1982 MacFarlane SB, Moody JB
• Saudi Medical Journal
  Normal spirometry values in Saudi Arabia. 1982 Haddock DJ, Al-Hadramy MB and Macfarlane SBJ.
• Height and weight growth standards for Nigerian children.
  Paediatrics and International Child Health 1981 M. D. Janes, S. B. J. Macfarlane, J. B. Moody
• Height and weight growth standards for Nigerian children.
  Annals of tropical paediatrics 1981 Janes MD, Macfarlane SB, Moody JB
• Anthropometric assessment of malnutrition in children.
  Lancet (London, England) 1979 Janes MD, MacFarlane SB, Moody JB