
Harry Coleman
- Department
- Health Systems Strengthening
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- Advisor
- Phone
- +31205688260
- h.coleman@kit.nl
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Harry completed his master’s degree (MSc.) in Global Health from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he is currently finishing a PhD.
His PhD focuses on the relationship between housing insecurity (primarily, homelessness) and health, and interventions in healthcare outreach, local policy and advocacy that can leaven the ill health and social disadvantage associated with inadequate housing conditions. The research was engaged with the Centre for Equity Studies in New Delhi, India that manages healthcare outreach teams for homeless persons.
Harry is interested in health policy and systems research, financing, novel service delivery approaches, governance and institutional arrangements, and integrating social science theory, mixed methods and participatory action research to strengthen global and local health systems.
Harry is involved with KIT’s portfolio of health financing projects, and also looking at research and learning within ASCEND (Accelerating Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases) Lot 1 countries; particularly in the context of disruption to community health worker activities due to Covid-19.
Projects
Publications
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Why did informal sector workers stop paying for health insurance in Indonesia? Exploring enrollees’ ability and willingness to pay
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Research article
Indonesia faces a growing informal sector in the wake of implementing a national social health insurance system—Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN)—that supersedes the vertical programmes historically tied to informal employment. This study aims to assess the ability- and willingness-to-pay of informal sector workers who have stopped paying the JKN premium for at least six months, across […]
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Challenges and motivating factors for integrating geostatistical models in targeted schistosomiasis control: A qualitative case study in Northwestern Tanzania
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Research article
To address problems of over- and under-treatment with preventive chemotherapy resulting in ongoing transmission of schistosomiasis, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends targeted mass drug administration (MDA) interventions at a sub-district level. In Tanzania, the lack of sub-district (ward) prevalence data has inhibited a transition to targeted treatment. Model-based prevalence estimation combined with routine surveillance […]
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- December 2024
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Determinants of health seeking behaviour in South Sudan: a cross-sectional household survey
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Study
Access to healthcare is a major challenge in South Sudan, but evidence on the factors influencing health seeking behaviour (HSB) and the magnitude of their effect is limited. This study aims to identify which determinants are associated with seeking care for perceived health needs and with seeking care at private or public healthcare facilities in […]
- Year of publication
- January 2025
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Uniting Resources and Solidarity: Gaza Initiative Conference Amsterdam
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Report
“Uniting Knowledge, Resources and Solidarity”, the third Gaza Health Initiative (GHI) conference, held on Friday, 13 September 2024 at KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam convened over 200 humanitarian and development practitioners, global health experts and policy makers, working in Gaza and internationally, to support the recovery of Gaza’s devastated health sector. The conference discussed […]
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- 2024
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Evaluation of the Decade for Strengthening Human Resources for Health in the WHO South-East Asian Region (2015-2024)
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Evaluation
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Report
Facing some of the most significant shortages in health workers globally, the World Health Organization’s South-East Asian regional office selected UHC, focusing on human resources for health (HRH) and essential medicines, as a flagship priority in 2014. This commitment then evolved into the ‘Decade of HRH Strengthening (2015-2024)’: a ten-year agenda of HRH strengthening launched […]
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- 2024
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare access and utilisation in South Sudan: a cross-sectional mixed methods study
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Research article
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities in fragile and conflict-affected settings may be severe due to reduced access and use of healthcare, as happened during the 2015 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak. Achieving a balance between short-term emergency response and addressing long-term health needs is particularly challenging in fragile and conflict-affected settings such as […]
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- 2022
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Access to and utilisation of healthcare services in three states supported by the Health Pooled Fund in South Sudan: a mixed methods study
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Report
Accessing and using healthcare service remains a challenge for South Sudanese people, with geographic coverage estimates varying from 29% to 44% of the population living within 5km of a healthcare facility (Integrity Global, 2018; Macharia, Odera, Snow, & Noor, 2017; Ministry of Health, 2015b). Even reaching a health facility, however, does not guarantee access to […]
- Year of publication
- 2022
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Other Publications
- Muttaqien S., Setiyaningsih H., Aristianti V., Coleman H. L. S., Hidayat M. S., Dhanalvin E., Siregar D. R., Kok M. O., & Mukti A. G. (2020). Ability and willingness to pay for National Health Insurance in Indonesia: a study of the informal sector. Health Policy and Planning (submitted).
- Lumagbas, L. B., Coleman, H. L. S., Bunders, J., Pariente, A., Belonje, A., & de Cock Buning, T. (2018). Non-communicable diseases in Indian slums: re-framing the Social Determinants of Health. Global Health Action, 11(1), 1438840.
- Houngbo, P. T., Zweekhorst, M., Bunders, J., Coleman, H. L. S., Medenou, D., Dakpanon, L., & De Cock Buning, T. (2017). The root causes of ineffective and inefficient healthcare technology management in Benin public health sector. Health Policy and Technology, 6(4), 446–456.
- Houngbo, P. T., De Cock Buning, T., Bunders, J., Coleman, H. L. S., Medenou, D., Dakpanon, L., & Zweekhorst, M. (2017). Ineffective Healthcare Technology Management in Benin’s Public Health Sector: The Perceptions of Key Actors and Their Ability to Address the Main Problems. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 6(10), 587–600.
- Houngbo, P. T., Coleman, H. L. S., Zweekhorst, M., De Cock Buning, T., Medenou, D., & Bunders, J. F. G. (2017). A Model for Good Governance of Healthcare Technology Management in the Public Sector: Learning from Evidence-Informed Policy Development and Implementation in Benin. PLOS ONE, 12(1), e0168842.