Blair Darney, PhD, MPH

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Oregon Health & Science University

Biosketch:

Dr. Blair G. Darney is a reproductive health services researcher. She holds a PhD in Health Services Research from the University of Washington School of Public Health. She is currently a postdoctoral trainee at Oregon Health & Science University in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and will transition to faculty in July 2014. She previously earned an MPH in Global Health from Yale University and an undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. Darney served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and has also worked in Burkina Faso, Mexico, and Colombia on maternal health and family planning. Her areas of methodological focus are around improving causal inference in non-randomized designs, including developing appropriate comparison groups, triangulating data sources and analytic approaches, and correlated data. Her impact evaluation work ranges from evaluating clinical training programs to national policies and her populations of interest include adolescents, poor women, and clinical trainees. She has experience working with non-governmental organizations to recognize the value that rigorous evaluation can bring to programmatic work and currently partners with the State of Oregon to study the state family planning program and with the Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Dr. Darney also has expertise in economic outcomes and supply and demand-side reproductive health service provision, quality, and access interventions. 

Citations:

  • Darney BG, Weaver M, VanDerhei D, Stevens NG, Prager SW. One of those areas that people avoid": A qualitative study of implementation in miscarriage management. BMC Health Services Research. 2013:13:123.
  • Knafl KA, Darney BG, Gallo A, Angst D. The Family Medicine Residency Training Initiative in Miscarriage Management: Impact on practice in Washington State. Family Medicine. 2010:45(2):102-108.
  • Darney BG, VanDerhei D, Weaver MR, Stevens NG, Prager SW. We have to what?": Lessons learned about engaging support staff in an interprofessional intervention to implement MVA for management of spontaneous abortion. Contraception. 2013:88:221-225.
  • Thompson KM, Raine TR, Foster DG, Speidel JJ, Darney PD, Brindis CD, Harper CC. Access to levonorgestrel emergency contraception: science versus federal politics. Womens Health (Lond Engl). 2013:9(2):139-43.
  • Darney BG, Snowden JM, Cheng WY, Jacob J, Nicholson M, Kaimal AJ, Dublin S, Getahun D, Caughey AB.. Elective induction of labor at term compared to expectant management: Maternal and neonatal outcomes. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2013:122(4):761-769.
  • Snowden J, Darney B, Cheng Y, McConnell K, Caughey A. Systems Factors in Obstetric Care: The Role of Daily Obstetric Volume. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2013:122(4):851-857.
  • Rosenfeld AG, Lindauer A, Darney BG . Understanding treatment-seeking delay in women with acute myocardial infarction: Descriptions of decision-making patterns. American Journal of Critical Care. 2005:14:285-293.
  • Darney BG, Weaver M, Sosa-Rubi SG, Walker D, Mori E, Prager S, Gakidou E. Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program: Impacts on pregnancy and contraceptive use in young rural women in Mexico. International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. In press:.
  • Callegari L, Darney BG, Godfrey EM, Sementi O, Dunsmoor-Smith R, Prager S. Correlates of evidence-based provision of intrauterine contraception among physicians in Seattle . Journal of the American Board of Family Practice. In press :.
  • Stephen SA, Darney BG, Rosenfeld AG. Symptoms of acute coronary syndrome in women with diabetes: An integrative review of the literature. Heart & Lung. 2008:37:179-189.