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Matthew M. Kavanagh
Researcher at Georgetown University
Publications - 48
Citations - 751
Matthew M. Kavanagh is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Global health & Health policy. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 41 publications receiving 483 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthew M. Kavanagh include University of Washington & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Access to lifesaving medical resources for African countries: COVID-19 testing and response, ethics, and politics.
Matthew M. Kavanagh,Ngozi A Erondu,Oyewale Tomori,Victor J. Dzau,Emelda A. Okiro,Allan Maleche,Ifeyinwa C. Aniebo,Umunya Rugege,Charles B. Holmes,Lawrence O. Gostin +9 more
TL;DR: Although health system weakness remains acute in many places, investments by national governments, the African Union, and international initiatives to tackle AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, polio, and post-Ebola global health security have built important public health capacities.
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Democracy, Capacity, and Coercion in Pandemic Response: COVID-19 in Comparative Political Perspective.
Matthew M. Kavanagh,Renu Singh +1 more
TL;DR: Questions about capacity and mechanisms through which democracy has been shown to be beneficial for health have not traveled well to explain the performance of governments in this pandemic are explored, even amid the pandemic when it is too soon to draw conclusions.
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Mobility restrictions were associated with reductions in COVID-19 incidence early in the pandemic: evidence from a real-time evaluation in 34 countries.
Juhwan Oh,Hwa Young Lee,Quynh Long Khuong,Jeffrey F. Markuns,Chris Bullen,Osvaldo Enrique Artaza Barrios,Seung Sik Hwang,Young Sahng Suh,Judith McCool,S. Patrick Kachur,Chang-Chuan Chan,Soonman Kwon,Naoki Kondo,Van Minh Hoang,J. Robin Moon,Mikael Rostila,Ole Frithjof Norheim,Myoungsoon You,Mellissa Withers,Mu Li,Eun-Jeung Lee,Caroline Benski,Soo Kyung Park,Eun Woo Nam,Katie Gottschalk,Matthew M. Kavanagh,Thi Giang Huong Tran,Jong Koo Lee,S. V. Subramanian,Martin McKee,Lawrence O. Gostin +30 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between changes in mobility and the ratio of the newly confirmed cases on a given day to the total number of cases over the past 14 days from the index day (the potentially infective 'pool' in that population), per million population, using LOESS regression and logit regression.
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The Right to Health: Institutional Effects of Constitutional Provisions on Health Outcomes
TL;DR: Empirical evidence finds empirical evidence of a positive role of the right to health in the production of population health, and suggests that focusing research on political institutions primarily on democratic participation rights ignores important impacts of “entitlement” rights on norms and actors in health policy-making.