About Tess Shiras

Tess Shiras is a Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Specialist on the SHOPS Plus project. She has four years of experience in global health programmatic and academic research and health policy analysis. Her background includes research in maternal, child, and neonatal health, sanitation, and gender. Shiras holds an MSPH in international health and social and behavioral interventions from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in public policy from Duke University.

Expertise

Qualitative research methods, gender and women’s empowerment, social and behavior change communication

Country experience

India, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria

Authored Publications

• Informing Reproductive and Child Health Social and Behavior Change Programs
• Nepal Child Health Diarrhea Treatment: Qualitative Research to Inform ORS and Zinc Promotion
• Sources for Sick Child Care in 24 USAID Priority Countries
• Sources for Family Planning: Where Women Go and Why It Matters
• Using New Evidence to Support Data-Driven Programming in Nepal
• HIV Workplace Programs Targeting Male Employees in Tanzania: Qualitative Research Findings
• Family Planning Barriers in a High Fertility Conflict Setting: Methods and Results from a Household Survey in Afghanistan
• Motivation and barriers to health product use in Afghanistan
• Promoting Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health through Beauty Parlors in Afghanistan
• Interactive Infographic: How SHOPS Plus is transforming beauticians into change agents to increase use of priority health products in Afghanistan
• Evidence-based social marketing in Afghanistan and Nepal: Using data to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Use of the opportunity, ability, and motivation behavior change framework to generate family planning demand in rural settings: Findings from Nepal
• Executive Summary: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Surveys in Nepal
• Tanzania Total Market Approach for Condoms: Mixed-Methods Research Results
• Saving Children through Increased Access to Care: The Transformational Power of Data
• Where Do Caregivers Take Their Sick Children for Care? An Analysis of Care Seeking and Equity in 24 USAID Priority Countries
• Understanding Modern Contraceptive Sources Among Adolescents: A Global Analysis
• Awareness and use of D’zire condom among urban Nepali men: Reach & recall baseline and endline results
• Setting global research priorities for private sector child health service delivery: Results from a CHNRI exercise