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Razavi Donya, Postdoctoral Fellow

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Donya Razavi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral Fellows
Department of Health Aging & Society

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Biography

Donya Razavi is a Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University and the Canadian Red Cross (CRC). Her PhD research focused on public and vulnerable populations’ participation in health system priority setting Uganda. She is also a member of the International Society for Priorities in Health and involved with research relating to the impact of priority setting on pandemic preparedness and response during the COVID-19 pandemic with colleagues from the Society. Her current postdoctoral work focuses on understanding decision-making and program implementation in humanitarian contexts. Through her project on implementation of menstrual hygiene management (MHM) programming in fragile and conflict-affected settings, Donya aims to understand how CRC program implementers made prioritization and resource allocation decisions for MHM in the humanitarian context of South Sudan, and a focus on how the COVID-19 pandemic may have affected implementation.  

Education

  • PhD in Health Policy, McMaster University (2019) 
  • MSC in Global Health, McMaster University (2014) 
  • BSc Double Major, Human Biology (Global Health) and Psychology, University of Toronto (2012) 

Teaching

  • 2F03 Aging and Healthcare Systems (Health, Aging & Society, Winter, 2022) 

Research

Recent Publications:

Razavi, SD. et al. Priority setting for pandemic preparedness and response: A comparative analysis of COVID-19 pandemic plans in 12 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Health Policy OPEN. Forthcoming.   

Kapiriri L, Razavi SD. Equity, justice, and social values in priority setting: a qualitative study of resource allocation criteria for global donor organizations working in low-income countries. Int J Equity Health. 2022;21(1):1–13.  

Kapiriri L, Kiwanuka S, Biemba G, Velez C, Razavi SD, Abelson J, et al. Priority setting and equity in COVID-19 pandemic plans: a comparative analysis of 18 African countries. Health Policy Plan. 2022;37(3):297–309.  

Kapiriri L, Razavi DS. Salient stakeholders: Using the salience stakeholder model to assess stakeholders’ influence in healthcare priority setting. Heal Policy OPEN [Internet]. 2021;2(July):100048. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2021.100048 

Razavi SD, Kapiriri L, Abelson J, Wilson M. Barriers to Equitable Public Participation in Health-System Priority Setting Within the Context of Decentralization : The Case of Vulnerable Women in a Ugandan District. Int J Heal Policy Manag. 2020;x(x):1–11.  

Razavi SD, Kapiriri L, Abelson J, Wilson M. Who is in and who is out? A qualitative analysis of stakeholder participation in priority setting for health in three districts in Uganda. Health Policy Plan. 2019;34(5):358–69.