Dr Herfina Nababan

Consultant

Biography

 

Herfina Nababan is a part-time consultant with the World Health Organization (WHO) Centre for Health Development in Kobe from April 2024, supporting the programme of research on Metrics for monitoring UHC in the context of population ageing. She is currently also a research associate with the Department of Global Health at University of Bremen in Germany. Prior to this, she worked as the officer for Universal Health Coverage with WHO Country Office for Indonesia. Between 2012 – 2016 she worked with International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b) in different research projects related to health systems and policy research, as well as maternal, newborn and child health.

Herfina completed her medical training from Indonesia. She received a master’s degree from Global Health Policy Department at the University of Tokyo – Japan and obtained her PhD degree from Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne – Australia.

 

Publication

  • Asefa A., Gebremedhin S., Marthias T., Nababan H., Christou A., Semaan A., Banke-Thomas A., Tabana H., Alwy Al-beity FM, Dossou JP., Gutema K., Delvaux T., Birabwa C., Dennis M., Grovogui FM., McPake B., Beňová L. Wealth-based inequality in the continuum of maternal health service utilisation in 16 sub-Saharan African countries. International Journal for Equity in Health. Published: 2 October 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-02015-0
  • Quach A, Tosif S, Nababan H.Y, Duke TD, Graham SM, Were WM, Muzigaba M, Russell FM. Measuring the quality of care for children attending health facilities: a systematic review of assessment tools. BMJ Global Health. Published: 4 October 2021. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006804 
  • Begum T, Nababan H, Rahman A, Islam MR, Adams A, Anwar I. Monitoring caesarean births using the Robson ten group classification system: A cross-sectional survey of private for-profit facilities in urban Bangladesh. PLoS One. Published: 8 August 2019. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220693.eCollection 2019
  • Islam M., Nababan H.Y., Siddique K.B., Islam S., Paul S., Paul A., Ahmed S.M. Perceptions and Barriers for Appropriate Treatment Among Informal Health Care Providers: Findings from A Qualitative Study in A Peri-Urban Area in Bangladesh. BMC Health Services Research. Published: 26 June 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4254-3
  • Nababan H.Y., Islam R., Mostari S., Tariqujjaman Md., Sarker M., Islam MT., Moucheraud C. Improving quality of care for maternal and newborn health: A pre-post evaluation of the Safe Childbirth Checklist at a district hospital in Bangladesh. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Published: 4 December 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1588-x
  • Begum, T., Rahman, A., Nababan, HY., Haque, DE., Khan, AF., Khan, T., Anwar, I. Indications and determinants of Caesarean Section Delivery: Evidence from a population-based study in Matlab, Bangladesh. PlosOne. Published: 20 November 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188074
  • Nababan H.Y., Hasan M., Marthias T., Dhital R., Rahman A., Anwar I. Trends and inequities in use of maternal healthcare services in Indonesia, 1986-2012. International Journal of Women's Health. Published: 29 December 2017. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2147%2FIJWH.S144828
  • Adams A.M., Nababan H.Y., & Hanifi, S.M.M.A. (2015). Building social networks for maternal and newborn health in poor urban settlements: a cross-sectional study in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE. Published: 24 April 2015. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123817 
  • Anwar I., Nababan H.Y., Mostari S., & Khan J. (2015) Trends and inequities in use of maternal health care services in Bangladesh, 1991-2011. PLoS ONE. Published: 23 March 2015. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120309 
  • Moreno R., Nababan H.Y., Ota E., Wariki, W.M.V., Ezoe S., Gilmour S., Shibuya K. (2014). Structural and community-level interventions for increasing condom use to prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Published: 29 July 2014. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003363.pub3