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Dr. Alayne M. Adams is an Associate Professor (tenured) and Global Health Director in the Department of Family Medicine. She holds adjunct professor and senior scientist positions at the BRAC School of Public Health and icddr,b, an international research population health institute, both in Bangladesh. In addition, she holds adjunct faculty positions in the Department of Public and Global Health and the Department of Ethics, Equity and Policy located in McGill’s School of Population and Global Health. She founded and co-leads the Social Prescription Collaborative at McGill, and Listen-Up, an inter-disciplinary initiative that centers the voice of youth in promoting mental health and well-being.

Training: A Commonwealth Scholar, Dr. Adams completed her MSc in Human Nutrition and PhD in Public Health at the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, followed by post-doctoral studies at Harvard University as a McArthur fellow.

Research Interests: An applied social scientist, Dr. Adams’ research focuses on innovative strategies to address the social and structural determinants of health equity and access to primary healthcare in both local and global contexts. She has led numerous interdisciplinary projects spanning the fields of social science, health systems, knowledge translation, and implementation science, utilizing qualitative, mixed, participatory and geospatial methodologies. Dr. Adams has a particular interest in community-engaged innovations in service delivery and holistic primary care models that integrate health and social services with an emphasis on co-design and equity-deserving populations.

Current projects: Social prescribing in primary care; gender-sensitive social prescription for women with heart failure,; intergenerational approaches to addressing youth mental health and climate change; the design of culturally tailored non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and management programs; migrant health and social care; healthcare equity in racialized and culturally diverse populations; and integrated nutrition and gender-transformative rural health programs. These projects span community and healthcare settings in Montreal and international collaborations in Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Australia, Ghana, and Nigeria.

Educational Development: A passionate educator, Dr. Adams brings decades of experience in developing innovative academic programs in population and global health. Her accomplishments include co-founding the flagship Master of Public Health program at the BRAC School of Public Health in Bangladesh and its Centre for Urban Equity and Health, designing the MSc Concentration in Global Health in Family Medicine, and leading the development of the undergraduate Faculty Program in Population and Global Health, which she now co-directs.

Keywords: Social and structural determinants of health, health equity, adolescent mental health and nutrition, urban health & food systems, informal health & social care, urban private sector in LMICs, NCD prevention, social prescription, community mobilization, knowledge mobilization, implementation research, qualitative, mixed methods and participatory research.

List of Publications:

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Adams, A.M., Ahmed, R., Tanzir, S., Yusuf, S., Akhter, S. & I. Anwar (2019). An exploratory qualitative study to understand the underlying motivations and strategies of the private-for profit healthcare sector in urban Bangladesh. BMJ Open; 9:e026586.

Begum,T., Nababan, H., Rahman, A., Islam, R., Adams, A.M., &I. Anwar (2019). Monitoring caesarean births using the Robson ten group classification system: A cross-sectional survey of private for-profit facilities in urban Bangladesh. PLoS One.

Adams, A.M., Nambiar, D., Siddiqi, S., Alam, B.B., & S. Reddy (2018). Advancing universal health coverage in South Asian cities: a framework. BMJ; 363.

Adams, A.M., Vuckovic, M., Birch, E., Brant, T.A., Bialek, S., Yoon, D., Koroma J., Direny, A., Shott, J., Lemoine, J.F., Dembele, M. & M.C. Baker (2018). Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases in urban areas: a review of challenges, strategies and research directions for successful mass drug administration Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 3(4), 122;

Das, P., Kim, D. & A.M. Adams (2018). Understanding spatial and contextual factors influencing intra-regional differences in child vaccination coverage in Bangladesh. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health

Islam, R., Hossain, S., Bashar, F., Khan S.M., Sikder, A.A.S. & A. M. Adams (2018). Contracting-out urban primary health care in Bangladesh: a qualitative exploration of implementation processes and experience. International Journal for Equity in Health (2018) 17:93

Vargas, V., Ahmed, S. & A.M. Adams (2018). Factors enabling comprehensive maternal health services in the benefits package of emerging financing schemes: A cross-sectional analysis from 1990 to 2014. PLoS ONE 13(9): e0201398.

Shafique, S., Bhattacharyya, D.S., Anwar, I. & A.M. Adams (2018). Right to health and social justice in Bangladesh: ethical dilemmas and obligations of state and non-state actors to ensure health for urban poor. BMC Medical Ethics 19 (Suppl 1): 46 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-018-0285-2

Adams, A.M., Ahmed S.M., and T.G. Evans (January 1, 2018). Universal Health Care in Bangladesh—promises and perils. The Lancet Global Health. Issue 6, no. 1: e10–11, .

Devaki, N., Razzak, J., Afsana, J., Adams, A.M., Hasan A., Mohan D. & V. Patel (2017). Mental illness and injuries: the emerging health challenges of urbanization in South Asia. The BMJ; 357;j1126 doi .

Adams, A.M., Ahmed, R., Mahbub Latif, A. H. M., Rasheed, S., Das, D.K, Hasib, E., Ferdous, F.D.F., Ahmed, S. & A.S.G. Faruque (2017). Impact of fortified biscuits on micronutrient deficiencies among primary school children in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE 12(4): eD174673.

Rabbani, A., Khan, A., Yusuf, S. & A.M. Adams (2016). Trends and determinants of inequities in childhood stunting in Bangladesh from 1996/7 to 2014. 15: 186. Published online 2016 Nov 16. doi: .

Panciera, R., Khan, A., Rizvi, S.J.R, Ahmed, S., Ahmed, T., Islam, R. & A.M. Adams (2016). The influence of travel time on emergency obstetric care seeking behavior in the urban poor of Bangladesh: A GIS study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2016 Aug 22; 16:240. doi: 10.1186/s12884-016-1032-7.

Shuvo, T.A., Islam, R. Hossain, S., Evans, J., Khatun, F. Ahmed, T., Gazi, R. & A.M. Adams (2015). eHealth innovations in LMICs of Africa and Asia: a literature review exploring factors affecting implementation, scale-up and sustainability. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health. Volume 2015:2 pages 95-106. over 2500 views.

Adams, A.M., Saroj, S., McNab, S & M. Sarker. (2015). Lessons learned in using realist evaluation to assess maternal and newborn health programming in rural Bangladesh. Health Policy and Planning doi: 10.1093/heapol/czv053

Adams, A.M., Islam R. & T. Ahmed (2015). Who serves the urban poor? a geospatial and descriptive analysis of health services in slum settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Health Policy and Planning: 30 (3): i32-i45 doi: 10.1093/heapol/czu094

Adams, A.M., Nababan H.Y. & S.M. Hanifi (2015). Building Social Networks for Maternal and »ÆƬÀóÖ¦ÊÓƵborn Health in Poor Urban Settlements: A Cross-Sectional Study in Bangladesh PLoS One 2015 Apr 24;10(4):e0123817. doi: 10.1371/ journal.pone. 0123817. eCollection 2015.

Adams, A.M. et al. (2014).Healthcare seeking in poor urban settlements in Sylhet City Corporation: A quantitative survey. icddr,b & GIZ.

Adams, A.M, et. al (2013). Explaining equity gains in child survival in Bangladesh: scale, speed and selectivity in health and development. The Lancet. November: 46-56.

Adams, A.M et al. (2013). Innovation for universal health coverage in Bangladesh: a call to action. The Lancet. November: 67-74.