I am an academic/researcher specialising in Health, Governance, Citizen Engagement and Social Accountability. I work at DCU's School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health. I am the principal investigator of a 4-year research project focusing on unsalaried health workers in Sierra Leone.
From Sept 2019 until Feb 2022, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher with professor Anne Matthews (also at DCU's SNPCH), focusing on health policy implementation in Malawi, specifically in relation to breastfeeding and infant feeding support at community level.
My doctoral research focused on social accountability interventions in Sierra Leone. In recent years I worked as a researcher for the Ethiopia Social Accountability Program (VNG/World Bank), Making All Voices Count (IDS/University of Sussex) and UNICEF ESARO and UNICEF Ethiopia, and have further strengthened my academic and practical experience of citizen engagement programmes.
For much of my career, since, 1998, I worked as a freelance consultant, and most of that time I was based in the Global South (Ethiopia and Tanzania). I work on research, writing, policy, advocacy and programme design.
I am a policy and advocacy person, with a strong focus on social accountability, governance, corruption and 'access to healthcare' and with experience in gender-related research and the drafting of a protection policy for an international NGO.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2021 | Aisling Walsh; Pieternella Pieterse; Zoe McCormack; Ellen Chirwa; Anne Matthews (2021) 'Improving breastfeeding support through the implementation of the baby friendly hospital and community initiatives: a scoping review protocol'. HRB Open Research, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Pieternella Pieterse; Claire Dickson; Lilian Ndyetabula; Megan Hardeman; Patricia Scanlan (2021) 'Locally produced personal protective equipment can offer hospital staff protection against Covid‐19 if combined with surgical masks and rigorous personal protective equipment cleaning routine'. The International journal of health planning and management, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Pieterse, P.; Matthews, A.; Walsh, A.; Chirwa, E. (2020) 'Exploring how and why Care Groups work to improve infant feeding practices in low-and middle-income countries: A realist review protocol'. Systematic Reviews, 9 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | (2019) 'Citizen feedback in a fragile setting: social accountability interventions in the primary healthcare sector in Sierra Leone'. Disasters, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Pieterse, Pieternella (2017) 'Tech for governance programmes in Kenya: what is left of the conducive tech environment, and where to next?'. Institute of Development Studies, Bulletin, . [Link] | |
| 2017 | Pieterse, Pieternella (2017) 'Tech for governance programmes in Tanzania – (how) can tech be used to promote good governance in the Magufuli era?'. Institute of Development Studies, Bulletin, . [Link] | |
| 2015 | (2015) 'When free healthcare is not free. Corruption and mistrust in Sierra Leone's primary healthcare system immediately prior to the Ebola outbreak'. International Health, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | (2021) 'Health Budgeting at Woreda level and Effect on Access and Quality of Health Services in Somali Region of Ethiopia'. Texila International Journal of Public Health, . [Link] | |
| 2020 | Pieternella Pieterse (2020) 'Does the RCT tail wag the implementation dog?'. World Development, . [Link] [DOI] |
Working Paper
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2018 | Pieternella Pieterse; Pieternella Pieterse; Pieternella Pieterse (2018) Gender Responsive Budgeting in Ethiopia’s Country-wide Social Accountability Program. WP [Link] |