Kimberly Baltzell, RN, PhD, MS

Adjunct Professor

Family Health Care Nursing

Kim Baltzell works in several sub-Saharan African countries to support the development of nursing leadership and clinical skills. She is especially passionate about nurses given their vital role as the primary front line workers in LMICs. Her past work in understanding cancer risk, particularly breast cancer, align with current priorities among many sub-Saharan African sites. A recent member of the Global Cancer Program, Kim is working on developing tools to help nurses with wound care and pain control in Tanzania based on the Global Action in Nursing (GAIN) model she leads in Malawi. In addition to her work in nursing leadership, Kim’s research also explores how health providers, including nurses, make diagnostic decisions in settings with few resources. She is particularly interested in febrile illness, including malaria and fevers that mimic malaria.

Publications:

Exploring the long-term impact of a nurse-midwife mentorship intervention in Neno district, Malawi: a secondary data analysis of maternal and neonatal complications.

BMC global and public health

Rouse M, Mphande I, Mwale N, Kapira S, Sayenda M, Mvula MG, Openshaw M, Kapito E, Kutsamba M, Maweu D, Mitchell A, Dandu M, Muller A, Blair AH, Baltzell K

Evaluating a clinical mentorship intervention on maternal and neonatal complications in primary health facilities in Blantyre district, Malawi: A longitudinal analysis of the Global Action in Nursing program.

International journal of nursing studies

Blair A, Mwanza O, Rouse M, Magid S, Simwinga L, Phiri M, Malirakwenda R, Muller A, Jere J, Baltzell K

Midwives' experience of telehealth and remote care: a systematic mixed methods review.

BMJ open

Golden BN, Elrefaay S, McLemore MR, Alspaugh A, Baltzell K, Franck LS

Assessing the acceptability and feasibility of reactive drug administration for malaria elimination in a Plasmodium vivax predominant setting: a qualitative study in two provinces in Thailand.

BMC public health

Suwannarong K, Cotter C, Ponlap T, Bubpa N, Thammasutti K, Chaiwan J, Finn TP, Kitchakarn S, Mårtensson A, Baltzell KA, Hsiang MS, Lertpiriyasuwat C, Sudathip P, Bennett A

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on reported maternal and neonatal complications and access to maternal health care in five government health facilities in Blantyre, Malawi.

PloS one

Blair A, Haile W, Muller A, Simwinga L, Malirakwenda R, Baltzell K

Basic emergency care course and longitudinal mentorship completed in a rural Neno District, Malawi: A feasibility, acceptability, and impact study.

PloS one

Khongo BD, Schmiedeknecht K, Aron MB, Nyangulu PN, Mazengera W, Ndarama E, Tenner AG, Baltzell K, Connolly E

Assessing Combined Longitudinal Mentorship and Skills Training on Select Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Rural and Urban Health Facilities in Malawi.

Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society

Blair AH, Openshaw M, Mphande I, Jana O, Malirakwenda R, Muller A, Rankin S, Baltzell K

SARS-CoV-2 PCR and antibody testing for an entire rural community: methods and feasibility of high-throughput testing procedures.

Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique

Appa A, Chamie G, Sawyer A, Baltzell K, Dippell K, Ribeiro S, Duarte E, Vinden J, Consortium C, Kramer-Feldman J, Rahdari S, MacIntosh D, Nicholson K, Im J, Havlir D, Greenhouse B

Effectiveness and safety of reactive focal mass drug administration (rfMDA) using dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine to reduce malaria transmission in the very low-endemic setting of Eswatini: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.

BMJ global health

Vilakati S, Mngadi N, Benjamin-Chung J, Dlamini N, Dufour MK, Whittemore B, Bhangu K, Prach LM, Baltzell K, Nhlabathi N, Malambe C, Dlamini B, Helb D, Greenhouse B, Maphalala G, Pindolia D, Kalungero M, Tesfa G, Gosling R, Ntshalintshali N, Kunene S, Hsiang MS

Community acceptance of reactive focal mass drug administration and reactive focal vector control using indoor residual spraying, a mixed-methods study in Zambezi region, Namibia.

Malaria journal

Roberts KW, Smith Gueye C, Baltzell K, Ntuku H, McCreesh P, Maglior A, Whittemore B, Uusiku P, Mumbengegwi D, Kleinschmidt I, Gosling R, Hsiang MS

The impact of pulse oximetry and Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) training on antibiotic prescribing practices in rural Malawi: A mixed-methods study.

PloS one

Sylvies F, Nyirenda L, Blair A, Baltzell K

Alignment between expectations and experiences of egg donors: what does it mean to be informed?

Reproductive biomedicine & society online

Tober D, Garibaldi C, Blair A, Baltzell K

Covariates and Spatial Interpolation of HIV Screening in Mozambique: Insight from the 2015 AIDS Indicator Survey.

International journal of environmental research and public health

Agbadi P, Nutor JJ, Darkwah E, Duah HO, Duodu PA, Alhassan RK, Baltzell K

SARS-CoV-2 PCR and antibody testing for an entire rural community: methods and feasibility of high-throughput testing procedures.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Appa A, Chamie G, Sawyer A, Baltzell K, Dippel K, Ribeiro S, Duarte E, Vinden J, Consortium C, Kramer-Feldman J, Rahdari S, MacIntosh D, Nicholson K, Im J, Havlir D, Greenhouse B

The World Needs 6 Million More Nurses: What Are We Waiting For?

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene

Bialous SA, Baltzell K

A 14-day follow-up of adult non-malarial fever patients seen by mobile clinics in rural Malawi.

Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi

Baltzell KA, Kortz TB, Blair A, Scarr E, Mguntha AM, Bandawe G, Schell E, Rankin SH

What about the men? Perinatal experiences of men of color whose partners were at risk for preterm birth, a qualitative study.

BMC pregnancy and childbirth

Edwards BN, McLemore MR, Baltzell K, Hodgkin A, Nunez O, Franck LS

Distinct Biomarker Profiles Distinguish Malawian Children with Malarial and Non-malarial Sepsis.

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene

Kortz TB, Nyirenda J, Tembo D, Elfving K, Baltzell K, Bandawe G, Rosenthal PJ, Macfarlane SB, Mandala W, Nyirenda TS

What is community engagement and how can it drive malaria elimination? Case studies and stakeholder interviews.

Malaria journal

Baltzell K, Harvard K, Hanley M, Gosling R, Chen I

"We were afraid of the lion that has roared next to us"; community response to reactive focal mass drug administration for malaria in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland).

Malaria journal

Baltzell KA, Maglior A, Bangu K, Mngadi N, Prach LM, Whittemore B, Ntshalintshali N, Saini M, Dlamini N, Kunene S, Hsiang MS

'Not all fevers are malaria': a mixed methods study of non-malarial fever management in rural southern Malawi.

Rural and remote health

Baltzell K, Kortz TB, Scarr E, Blair A, Mguntha A, Bandawe G, Schell E, Rankin S

Pathogen Clearance and New Respiratory Tract Infections Among Febrile Children in Zanzibar Investigated With Multitargeting Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction on Paired Nasopharyngeal Swab Samples.

The Pediatric infectious disease journal

Elfving K, Shakely D, Andersson M, Baltzell K, Msellem MI, Björkman A, Mårtensson A, Petzold M, Trollfors B, Lindh M

Characterizing Pediatric Non-Malarial Fever and Identifying the At-Risk Child in Rural Malawi.

Global pediatric health

Kortz TB, Blair A, Scarr E, Mguntha AM, Bandawe G, Schell E, Rankin S, Baltzell K

Bovine leukemia virus linked to breast cancer but not coinfection with human papillomavirus: Case-control study of women in Texas.

Cancer

Baltzell KA, Shen HM, Krishnamurthy S, Sison JD, Nuovo GJ, Buehring GC

Principles, practices and knowledge of clinicians when assessing febrile children: a qualitative study in Kenya.

Malaria journal

Hooft AM, Ripp K, Ndenga B, Mutuku F, Vu D, Baltzell K, Masese LN, Vulule J, Mukoko D, LaBeaud AD

Impacts on Global Health from Nursing Research.

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene

Baltzell K, McLemore M, Shattell M, Rankin S

Impact of introduction of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria on antibiotic prescribing: analysis of observational and randomised studies in public and private healthcare settings.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Hopkins H, Bruxvoort KJ, Cairns ME, Chandler CI, Leurent B, Ansah EK, Baiden F, Baltzell KA, Björkman A, Burchett HE, Clarke SE, DiLiberto DD, Elfving K, Goodman C, Hansen KS, Kachur SP, Lal S, Lalloo DG, Leslie T, Magnussen P, Jefferies LM, Mårtensson A, Mayan I, Mbonye AK, Msellem MI, Onwujekwe OE, Owusu-Agyei S, Reyburn H, Rowland MW, Shakely D, Vestergaard LS, Webster J, Wiseman VL, Yeung S, Schellenberg D, Staedke SG, Whitty CJ

Improving prescribing practices with rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs): synthesis of 10 studies to explore reasons for variation in malaria RDT uptake and adherence.

BMJ open

Burchett HE, Leurent B, Baiden F, Baltzell K, Björkman A, Bruxvoort K, Clarke S, DiLiberto D, Elfving K, Goodman C, Hopkins H, Lal S, Liverani M, Magnussen P, Mårtensson A, Mbacham W, Mbonye A, Onwujekwe O, Roth Allen D, Shakely D, Staedke S, Vestergaard LS, Whitty CJ, Wiseman V, Chandler CI

Acute Uncomplicated Febrile Illness in Children Aged 2-59 months in Zanzibar - Aetiologies, Antibiotic Treatment and Outcome.

PloS one

Elfving K, Shakely D, Andersson M, Baltzell K, Ali AS, Bachelard M, Falk KI, Ljung A, Msellem MI, Omar RS, Parola P, Xu W, Petzold M, Trollfors B, Björkman A, Lindh M, Mårtensson A

Febrile illness management in children under five years of age: a qualitative pilot study on primary health care workers' practices in Zanzibar.

Malaria journal

Baltzell K, Elfving K, Shakely D, Ali AS, Msellem M, Gulati S, Mårtensson A

Prevalence of PCR detectable malaria infection among febrile patients with a negative Plasmodium falciparum specific rapid diagnostic test in Zanzibar.

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene

Baltzell KA, Shakely D, Hsiang M, Kemere J, Ali AS, Björkman A, Mårtensson A, Omar R, Elfving K, Msellem M, Aydin-Schmidt B, Rosenthal PJ, Greenhouse B

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