Dr Bernadette O'Hare

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Email

bamo@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

Dr O?Hare is a senior lecturer in Global Health. She is also a senior lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine, Malawi and consultant paediatrician.

She has worked in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa as a paediatrician and public health doctor, most recently in Malawi since 2010. Between 2010-2015 full-time and 2016- 2020 part-time.

She is a former member of the Scottish Global Health Co-ordination Unit and a member of the executive committee of the Paediatric and Child Health Association (PACHA) in Malawi. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and a former member of the advocacy committee and the international board.

She is interested in the global influences on government revenue in low- and middle-income countries, and the impact this has on development and fundamental rights.

 These influences include tax revenue, debt service and military expenditure and she studies ways to quantify their impact in terms of access to fundamental rights (water, sanitation, education and healthcare), and the number of lives saved or lost. This project is called the Government Revenue and Development estimations, GRADE

Selected publications

• Government revenue and child and maternal mortality

  Hall, S., Illian, J., Makuta, I., McNabb, K., Murray, S. W., O'Hare, B. A-M., Python, A., Shah, H. & Bar-Zeev, N., 9 Jul 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Open Economies Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Public money creation to maintain fundamental human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Chimowa, T., Hall, S. & O'Hare, B. A-M., Jun 2020, In : Harvard Health and Human Rights Journal. 22, 1, p. 395?397

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Comment/debate

• International corporate tax avoidance and domestic government health expenditure

  O'Hare, B. A-M., Nov 2019, In : Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 97, 11, p. 746-753 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Addressing inequities in child health and development: towards social justice

  Spencer, N., Raman, S., O'Hare, B. A-M. & Tamburlini, G., 1 Aug 2019, In : BMJ Paediatrics Open. 3, 1, 6 p., e000503.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Survival rights for children: what are the national and global barriers?

  O'Hare, B. A-M., Mfutso Bengo, E. M., Devakumar, D. & Mfutso Bengo, J., 20 Dec 2018, In : African Human Rights Law Journal. 18, 2, p. 508-526

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Tax and the right to health

  O'Hare, B. A-M., 4 Dec 2018, In : Health and Human Rights Journal. 20, 2, p. 57-63 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Active global citizenship: ethical living to promote human rights

  O'Hare, B., 6 Nov 2018, Harvard Health and Human Rights Journal.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication ? Article

• Social determinants of child health and social justice

  Taylor, S. & O'Hare, B. A-M., 2019, Oxford Textbook of Global Health of Women, Newborns, Children, and Adolescents. Devakumar, D., Hall, J., Qureshi, Z. & Lawn, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Lost revenues in low income countries

  Curtis, M. & O'Hare, B. A-M., 10 Aug 2017, (In preparation) p. 1-27, 27 p.

  Research output: Working paper

• Using international human rights law to improve child health in low-income countries: a framework for healthcare professionals

  O'Hare, B. A-M., Devakumar, D. & Allen, S., 30 Mar 2016, In : BMC International Health and Human Rights. 16, 7 p., 11.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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