James R. Foreit, Dr.P.H.
Senior Associate
James R. Foreit is a senior program associate in the Population Council's Reproductive Health program. He is responsible for building the capacity of Council partner organizations to conduct and utilize operations research in solving reproductive health service delivery problems. Foreit was also the director of the Council's INOPAL II and III operations research projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining the Population Council, he was a staff member at the Center for Population and Family Health at Columbia University. Foreit has conducted research and capacity-building activities in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Foreit's current area of interest is the financial sustainability of reproductive health programs. He has also written about the community-based distribution of contraceptives, the contraceptive behavior of adolescents and young adults, HIV/AIDS prevention, and postpartum contraception.
James R. Foreit, Dr.P.H.
Senior Associate
Task-sharing between Community Health Workers and Community Mid-level Professionals: Increasing Access to FP and RH Services (more)
With the aim of improving access to family planning and reproductive health services in rural areas, the Council is conducting research to investigate how different cadres of health workers function in relation to each other in five priority countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, and Pakistan.
(10/2010 - 10/2015)
Topics: Family planning services; Strengthening health systems
Countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Pakistan
Extending Operations Research to the Problems of Scale Up: Costs, Compliance, and Effectiveness of Systematic Screening (more)
Council researchers with the FRONTIERS program worked to combine support for scaling up systematic screening with research on specific aspects of the scaling-up process.
(9/2005 - 12/2007)
Topics: Quality of care; Scaling up interventions
Countries: Bolivia, India, Mali, Senegal
James R. Foreit, Dr.P.H.
Senior Associate
Increasing access to family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) services through task-sharing between community health workers (CHWs) and community mid-level professionals in large-scale public-sector programs: A literature review to help guide case studies (PDF)Foreit,James R.; Raifman,Sarah
Publication date: 2011
Financial capacity building for NGO sustainability (PDF)
Bratt,John H.; Homan,Rick; Janowitz,Barbara; Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Program Brief (no. 12)
Publication date: 2008
Financial sustainability for reproductive health NGOs (HTML)
Bratt,John H.; Foreit,James R.
Publication date: 2008
Introducing systematic screening to reduce unmet health needs: A manager's manual (PDF) (HTML)
Vernon,Ricardo; Foreit,James R.; Ottolenghi,Emma
FRONTIERS Manual
Publication date: 2008
L'introduction de l'identification systématique pour réduire les besoins non satisfaits en santé : Manuel du manager (PDF) (HTML)
Vernon,Ricardo; Foreit,James R.; Ottolenghi,Emma
FRONTIERS Manual
Publication date: 2008
Operations research for managers of reproductive health programs (HTML)
Foreit,James R.; Khan,M.E.
Publication date: 2008
Studying provider compliance with systematic screening during scale up in Gujarat
Khan,M.E.; Mishra,Anurag; Sharma,Vivek; Foreit,James R.; Singh,Amarjit; Kishor Desai,Vikas; Patel,Pratibha; Patel,I.C.
Publication date: 2008
Using systematic screening to integrate health services in India and Senegal: Pilot study versus scale-up results (PDF)
Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2008
Developing regional operations research training capacity in South Asia (PDF)
Khan,M.E.; Foreit,James R.; Roychowdhury,Sohini; Ram,F.; Shekhar,Chander
FRONTIERS Asia and Near East Region Final Report
Publication date: 2007
How much will it cost to scale up a reproductive health pilot project? (PDF)
Janowitz,Barbara; Bratt,John H.; Homan,Rick; Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Program Brief (no. 8)
Publication date: 2007
Technical assistance to the Institute of Reproductive Health, Georgetown University in researching introduction strategies for the Standard Days contraceptive method (SDM) (PDF)
RamaRao,Saumya; Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2007
Using systematic screening to integrate reproductive health services in Vadodara, India (PDF)
Khan,M.E.; Foreit,James R.; Mishra,Anurag; Das,Narayan; Patel,Pratibha
Journal of Family Welfare 53(2): 73-80
Publication date: 2007
Building capacity to utilize operations research: Strategies and lessons learned (PDF)
Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Program Brief (no. 5)
Publication date: 2006
Cómo identificar y satisfacer la necesidad de servicios adicionales: Manual para gerentes (PDF) (HTML)
Vernon,Ricardo; Foreit,James R.; Ottolenghi,Emma
Manual de FRONTERAS
Publication date: 2006
Developing regional capacity in operations research and economic evaluation in South Asia (PDF)
Khan,M.E.; Roychowdhury,Sohini; Foreit,James R.; Hossain,Sharif Mohammed Ismail; Vaithyanathan,Geetha
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2006
Face-to-face complementary selling of health products in Ghana (PDF)
Bruce,Egbert; Mensah,Daniel; Idun,John; Ashabley,Francis; Foreit,James R.; Nyarko,Philomena
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2006
Public sector family planning: How can we pay for it? (PDF)
Janowitz,Barbara; Foreit,James R.
USAID Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQ) Technical Brief
Publication date: 2006
Scientific writing for reproductive health programs/Redacción científica para programas de salud reproductiva (HTML)
Foreit,James R.; Khanna,Jitendra; Joyce,Stephanie
Publication date: 2006
Systematic screening: A strategy for determining and meeting client reproductive health needs (PDF)
Foreit,James R.
USAID Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQ) Technical Brief
Publication date: 2006
Systematic screening: A strategy for determining and meeting clients' reproductive health needs (PDF)
Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Program Brief (no. 6)
Publication date: 2006
Enquêtes d'acceptation de paiment destinées à déterminer les prix des produits et services dans le domaine de la santé de la reproduction : manuel de l'utilisateur [Willingness to pay surveys for setting prices for reproductive health products and services: A user's manual] (PDF)
Foreit,Karen G.Fleischman; Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Report
Publication date: 2005
Postabortion family planning benefits clients and providers (PDF)
Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Program Brief (no. 4)
Publication date: 2005
Systematic screening as a strategy to increase services integration and revenues in Honduras (PDF)
Vernon,Ricardo; Foreit,James R.; Mancini,Fiorella; Pavón,Suyapa; Torres,Jheisy
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2005
Systematic screening to integrate reproductive health services in India (PDF)
Das,N.P.; Shah,Urvi; Chitania,Varsha; Patel,Pratibha; Khan,M.E.; Mishra,Anurag; Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2005
Use of systematic screening to increase the provision of reproductive health services in Bolivia (PDF)
Foreit,James R.; Vernon,Ricardo; Riveros Hamel,Patricia
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2005
Using systematic screening to increase integration of reproductive health services delivery in Senegal (PDF)
Sanogo,Diouratie; Vernon,Ricardo; Foreit,James R.; Seck,Awa; Adoye,Colonel Adama; Ndoye,Laty G.; Diop,Cheikh Bamba; Mboup,Balla Mbacke; Sarr,Omar
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2005
Building the capacity of the Regional Center for Quality of Health Care, Makerere University, to train consumers of operations research
Okullo,Joel; Foreit,James R.; Birungi,Harriet; Askew,Ian; Homan,Rick
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2004
Encuestas de voluntad de pago para fijar precios de productos y servicios de salud reproductiva: Manual de usuarios (PDF)
Foreit,Karen G.Fleischman; Foreit,James R.
FRONTERAS Reporte
Publication date: 2004
Willingness to pay surveys for setting prices for reproductive health products and services: A user's manual (PDF)
Foreit,Karen G.Fleischman; Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Report
Publication date: 2004
The reliability and validity of willingness to pay surveys for reproductive health pricing decisions in developing countries (abstract) (HTML)
Foreit,James R.; Foreit,Karen G.Fleischman
Health Policy 63(1): 37-47
Publication date: 2003
Designing HIV/AIDS Intervention Studies: An Operations Research Handbook (PDF)
Fisher,Andrew A.; Foreit,James R.; Laing,John E.; Stoeckel,John E.; Townsend,John W.
Publication date: 2002
FRONTIERS capacity building: An overview (PDF)
Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Report
Publication date: 2002
The impact of price changes on demand for family planning and reproductive health services in Ecuador (abstract) (PDF) (HTML)
Bratt,John H.; Weaver,Mark A.; Foreit,James R.; de Vargas,Teresa; Janowitz,Barbara
Health Policy and Planning 17(3): 281-287
Publication date: 2002
Using men as community-based distributors of condoms (PDF)
Green,Cynthia P.; Joyce,Stephanie; Foreit,James R.
FRONTIERS Program Brief (no. 2)
Publication date: 2002
Workshop on utilization of research results
Martin,Antonieta; Foreit,James R.; Ezcurra,Enrique; Vernon,Ricardo
Publication date: 2002
La recherche opérationnelle en planification familiale: Un recueil d'articles
Foreit,James R.; Frejka,Tomas
Publication date: 2001
Operations research in reproductive health and family planning at the Cairo Demographic Center (PDF)
Ibrahim,Magdi A.; Foreit,James R.; Khan,M.E.
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2001
Using simple survey techniques to set prices for social products and services (PDF)
Foreit,Karen G.Fleischman; Foreit,James R.
Social Marketing Quarterly 7(3): 14-27
Publication date: 2001
A comparison of four approaches for measuring clinician time use (abstract) (PDF) (HTML)
Bratt,John H.; Foreit,James R.; Chen,Pai-lien; West,Caroline; Janowitz,Barbara; de Vargas,Teresa
Health Policy and Planning 14(4): 374-381
Publication date: 1999
How to help clients obtain more preventive reproductive health care (PDF)
Vernon,Ricardo; Foreit,James R.
International Family Planning Perspectives 25(4): 200-202
Publication date: 1999
Investigación operativa en planificación familiar: Lecturas selectas (PDF)
Foreit,James R.; Frejka,Tomas
Publication date: 1999
Operations research: What is it, what has it done for family planning, what can it do for reproductive health?
Foreit,James R.; Frejka,Tomas
Social Sciences Translation Series 12
Publication date: 1999
Family Planning Operations Research: A Book of Readings (PDF)
Foreit,James R.; Frejka,Tomas
Publication date: 1998
Peru logistics chain analysis (PDF)
Noble,Jeanne; Foreit,James R.
INOPAL Final Report
Publication date: 1998
Three strategies to promote sustainability of CEMOPLAF clinics in Ecuador (abstract) (PDF)
Bratt,John H.; Foreit,James R.; de Vargas,Teresa
Studies in Family Planning 29(1): 58-68
Publication date: 1998
A comparison of the performance of male and female CBD distributors in Peru (abstract)
Foreit,James R.; Garate,Maria Rosa; Brazzoduro,Alfredo; Guillen,Felix; Herrera,Maria del Carmen; Suarez,Flor Cardoso
Studies in Family Planning 23(1): 58-62
Publication date: 1992
James R. Foreit, Dr.P.H.
Senior Associate
Towards a conceptualization for the study of the utilization of operations research findingsPaper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, 1 April
Foreit,James R.; Marin,M.Celeste; Foreit,Karen G.Fleischman
Publication date: 2005
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