Egbert Sondorp
- Department
- Global Health
- Title
- Associate
- Phone
- +31(0)20 568 8706
- e.sondorp@kit.nl
Egbert Sondorp is a public health specialist with expertise in health policy & planning, evaluation, health system research, and disease control. He has 30 years of experience in international health, as field practitioner, manager and academic. A specific area of interest is health in fragile and conflict affected areas.
Projects
Publications
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Third party monitoring for health in Afghanistan: the good, the bad and the ugly
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Research article
Third party monitoring (TPM) is used in development programming to assess deliverables in a contract relationship between purchasers (donors or government) and providers (non-governmental organisations or non-state entities). In this paper, we draw from our experience as public health professionals involved in implementing and monitoring the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) and the Essential […]
- Year of publication
- 2023
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Estimating maternal mortality: what have we learned from 16 years of surveys in Afghanistan?
This article contextualises experience within the history of previous efforts to measure maternal mortality in Afghanistan, reviews lessons learnt and reflects on their implications. ‘Particularly hard hit by Afghanistan’s 23 years of war, civil strife and Taliban misrule are Afghan women, who are experiencing what health officials call ”catastrophic”death rates associated with pregnancy and childbirth’. […]
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The long way to post-conflict health recovery
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Research article
Most armed conflicts over the past decades have been characterised by prolonged civil strife, disproportionally affecting the civil population. Displacement, affected livelihoods, deteriorated health status and economic decline are only some of the consequences. Morbidity and mortality may increase substantially, due to the direct effects of warfare, but often predominantly due to indirect effects as a result of deteriorating determinants of health, […]
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Health systems research in fragile and conflict-affected states: a research agenda-setting exercise
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Research article
There is increasing interest amongst donors in investing in the health sectors of fragile and conflict-affected states, although there is limited research evidence and research funding to support this. Agreeing priority areas is therefore critical. This paper describes an 18-month process to develop a consultative research agenda and questions for health systems research, providing reflections […]
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Going for governance
Lessons learned from advisory interventions by the Royal Tropical Institute Governance is important in every aspect of sustainable development, as it affects guidance, processes, consistent management, cohesive policies, accountability mechanisms and the right to decide on particular areas of responsibility. This is equally true of all types of organisation, regardless of their purpose and motivation […]
- Year of publication
- 2013
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Other publications
- Is Forced Migration a Barrier to Treatment Success? Similar HIV Treatment Outcomes Among Refugees and a Surrounding Host Community in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2013)
- The range and diversity of providers’ viewpoints towards the Iraqi primary health care system: an exploration using Q-methodology (2013)
- Implementing a Basic Package of Health Services in post-conflict Liberia:
- Perceptions of key stakeholders (2013)
- The Promise and Challenge of Global Network Governance: The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (2012)
- Understanding Public Health: Conflict and Health (book, 2012)
- Iraqi primary care system in Kurdistan region: providers’ perspectives on problems and opportunities for improvement (2012)
- Relevance or Excellence? Setting Research Priorities for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Settings (2012)
- Economic Feasibility of a New Method to Estimate Mortality in Crisis-Affected and Resource-Poor Settings (2011)
- The influence of the humanitarian Cluster Approach on sexual and reproductive health services in northern Uganda (2011)
- Health sector recovery in early post-conflict environments: experience from southern Sudan (2010)
- The Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluation initiative in humanitarian crises: Moving from single-agency to joint, sectorwide evaluations (2010)
- The influence of demographic characteristics, living conditions, and trauma exposure on the overall health of a conflict-affected population in Southern Sudan (2010)
- A case study of health sector reform in Kosovo (2010)
- Reproductive health and quality of life of young Burmese refugees in Thailand (2010)
- Promoting health equity in conflict-affected fragile states (2010)
- Neglected Health Systems Research: Health Policy and Systems Research in Conflict-Affected Fragile States (2008)
- A new tool for measuring the brutality of war (2008)
- A basic package of health services for post-conflict countries: implications for sexual and reproductive health services (2007)
- Contracting health services in Afghanistan: a feasible option to reach the poor? (2007)
- Promoting health equity in conflict-affected fragile states (2007)