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disability inclusive global health

• Mactaggart I, Ssemata AS, Menya A, Smythe T, Rotenberg S, Marks S, [...] & Kuper H (2024) Adapting and pilot testing a tool to assess the accessibility of primary health facilities for people with disabilities in Luuka District, Uganda. International Journal for Equity in Health 23(1): 237. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-024-02314-0 (opens in new tab)
• Mactaggart I, Hasan Bek A, Banks LM, Bright T, Dionicio C, Hameed S, [...] & Kuper H (2021) Interrogating and reflecting on disability prevalence data collected using the Washington Group tools: results from population-based surveys in Cameroon, Guatemala, India, Maldives, Nepal, Turkey and Vanuatu. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(17): 9213. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179213 (opens in new tab)
• Mactaggart I, Kuper H, Murthy GVS, Oye J, Polack S (2016) Measuring Disability in Population Based Surveys: The Interrelationship between Clinical Impairments and Reported Functional Limitations in Cameroon and India. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164470. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164470 (opens in new tab)
• Jobe M, Mactaggart I, Bell S, Kim MJ, Hydara A, Bascaran C, [...] & Burton MJ (2024) Prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, multimorbidity, and related risk factors among adult Gambians: a cross-sectional nationwide study. The Lancet Global Health 12(1): e55–e65. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00435-9 (opens in new tab)

global eye health

• Bourne R, Steinmetz JD, Flaxman S, [...] Mactaggart I [...] et al. (2021) The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: Vision Beyond 2020. Lancet Global Health 9(4): e489–e551. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30488-5 (opens in new tab)
• McCormick I, Butcher R, Ramke J, Bolster NM, Limburg H, Chroston H, Bastawrous A, Burton MJ, Mactaggart I (2024) The Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness survey: Review of the methodology and protocol for the seventh version (RAAB7). Wellcome Open Research 8(9): 133. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20907.1 (opens in new tab)
• Mactaggart I, Limburg H, Bastawrous A, Burton MJ, Kuper H (2019) Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness: looking back, looking forward. British Journal of Ophthalmology 103: 1549–1552. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2019-314015 (opens in new tab)
• Hydara A, Bastawrous A, Bell S, Boggs D, Bright T, Bobat H, [...] & Mactaggart I (2021) The Gambia national eye health survey 2019: survey protocol. Wellcome Open Research 6: 10. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16531.2 (opens in new tab)

disability-inclusive WASH

• Wilbur J, Dreibelbis R & Mactaggart I (2024) Addressing water, sanitation and hygiene inequalities: A review of evidence, gaps, and recommendations for disability-inclusive WASH by 2030. PLOS Water 3(6): e0000257. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000257 (opens in new tab)
• Mactaggart I, Baker S, Bambery L, Iakavai J, Kim MJ, Morrison C, [...] & Wilbur J (2021) Water, women and disability: Using mixed-methods to support inclusive WASH programme design in Vanuatu. The Lancet Regional Health — Western Pacific 8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100109 (opens in new tab)
• Mactaggart I, Schmidt W-P, Bostoen K et al. (2018) Access to water and sanitation among people with disabilities: results from cross-sectional surveys in Bangladesh, Cameroon, India and Malawi. BMJ Open 8: e020077. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020077 (opens in new tab)