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  1. HEARTS quality: a policy framework to strengthen hypertension and cardiovascular risk management in primary healthcare—insights from HEARTS in the Americas

    Article • The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, January 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  2. Determinants of Domestic Violence Against Women in Cambodia: How Digital Access, Media Exposure, Motorcycle Ownership, and Partners’ Alcohol Use Matter

    Article • August 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  3. Hypertension Cascade Across Three Healthcare Systems and in Relation to the Level of Implementation of the Integrated Care Package

    Article • International Journal of Integrated Care, August 2025, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  4. Translating Guidelines, Protocols, and Care Pathways for Hypertension Into Effective Program Implementation

    Article • American Journal of Hypertension, August 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  5. Improving the quality of chronic care through purchasing arrangements in resource-constrained settings: insights from an international Delphi survey

    Article • Global Health Action, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  6. Tobacco Use and Associations with Alcohol Consumption and Socio-Demographic Factors Among Cambodian Men Aged 15–49 Years: Evidence from the Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey 2021–2022

    Article • June 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  7. Prevalence and factors associated with prediabetes and undiagnosed diabetes in Cambodia: Cross-sectional study based on the World Health Survey Plus 2023

    Article • March 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  8. Lived experiences of people with chronic kidney disease on maintenance dialysis: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

    Article • BMC Nephrology, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  9. Antepartum depression among women attending antenatal care in the third trimester in Conakry, Guinea: Findings from the MISPOD study

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  10. Country-Specific Roadmaps for Scaling Up Integrated Care in Belgium, Slovenia, and Cambodia – Lessons Learned from the SCUBY Project

    Article • International Journal of Integrated Care, December 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  11. A framework for chronic care quality: results of a scoping review and Delphi survey

    Article • Global Health Action, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  12. Cost of “Ideal Minimum Integrated Care” for Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension Patients in Cambodia Context: Provider Perspective

    Article • International Journal of Integrated Care, November 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  13. Process Evaluations for the Scale-Up of Complex Interventions – a Scoping Review

    Article • International Journal of Integrated Care, November 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  14. A framework for chronic care quality: results of a scoping review and Delphi survey

    Article • August 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  15. Quality of care for chronic conditions: identifying specificities of quality aims based on scoping review and Delphi survey

    Article • Global Health Action, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  16. Quality of care for chronic conditions: Identifying specificities of quality aims based on scoping review and Delphi survey

    Article • April 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  17. Scale-Up of Integrated Care Interventions for Chronic Diseases in Diverse Settings

    Article • International Journal of Integrated Care, January 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  18. The barriers and facilitators of implementing a national laboratory-based AMR surveillance system in Cambodia: key informants’ perspectives and assessments of microbiology laboratories

    Article • Frontiers in Public Health, December 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  19. Country-specific roadmaps for scaling up integrated care in Belgium, Slovenia, and Cambodia - Lessons learned from the SCUBY project

    Article • November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  20. Descriptive assessment of COVID-19 responses and lessons learnt in Cambodia, January 2020 to June 2022

    Article • BMJ Global Health, May 2023, BMJ

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  21. Establishing a global regulatory floor for children’s decisions about participation in clinical research

    Article • Pediatric Research, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  22. COVID-19 in Cambodia, January 2020–June 2022: a success story

    Article • December 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  23. Process evaluation of the scale-up of integrated diabetes and hypertension care in Belgium, Cambodia and Slovenia (the SCUBY Project): a study protocol

    Article • BMJ Open, December 2022, BMJ

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  24. Tackling bad air and promoting prevention and care for chronic lung diseases in sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, October 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  25. The effect of text message support on diabetes self-management in developing countries – A randomised trial

    Article • Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  26. Process evaluation of a mobile health intervention for people with diabetes in low income countries – the implementation of the TEXT4DSM study

    Article • Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  27. Cost-effectiveness analysis of dengue vaccination in the Philippines

    Article • International Journal of Infectious Diseases, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  28. Content, participants and outcomes of three diabetes care programmes in three low and middle income countries

    Article • Primary Care Diabetes, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  29. Implementing elements of a context-adapted chronic care model to improve first-line diabetes care: effects on assessment of chronic illness care and glycaemic control among people with diabetes enrolled to the First-Line Diabetes Care (FiLDCare) Projec...

    Article • Primary Health Care Research & Development, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  30. Adapting chronic care models for diabetes care delivery in low-and-middle-income countries: A review

    Article • World Journal of Diabetes, January 2015, Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press)

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  31. A cross-sectional study of the differences in diabetes knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and self-care practices as related to assessment of chronic illness care among people with diabetes consulting in a family physician-led hospital-based first line ...

    Article • Asia Pacific Family Medicine, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  32. Integrating chronic care with primary care activities: enriching healthcare staff knowledge and skills and improving glycemic control of a cohort of people with diabetes through the First Line Diabetes Care Project in the Philippines

    Article • Global Health Action, October 2014, Co-Action Publishing

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  33. Effects of the First Line Diabetes Care (FiLDCare) self-management education and support project on knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, self-management practices and glycaemic control: a quasi-experimental study conducted in the Northern Philippines

    Article • BMJ Open, August 2014, BMJ

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  34. Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of people with type 2 diabetes as related to self-management practices: Results of a cross-sectional study conducted in Luzon, Philippines

    Article • Chronic Illness, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  35. The performance of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score, a modified Finnish Diabetes Risk Score and a simplified Finnish Diabetes Risk Score in community-based cross-sectional screening of undiagnosed type 2 diabetes in the Philippines

    Article • Primary Care Diabetes, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  36. The effectiveness of text messages support for diabetes self-management: protocol of the TEXT4DSM study in the democratic Republic of Congo, Cambodia and the Philippines

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  37. Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis

    Article • The Lancet, August 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  38. Partnerships In Health Markets Need Regulation

    Article • Health Affairs, June 2011, Health Affairs

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku

  39. The growing caseload of chronic life-long conditions calls for a move towards full self-management in low-income countries

    Article • Globalization and Health, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Grace Marie V. Ku