Malini Nijagal, MD, MPH

Title(s)Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address1219 6TH AVENUE
SAN FRANCISCO CA 94122
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    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthMPH2016
    UCSF2002
    UCLAResidency2006Obstetrics and Gynecology

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    Dr. Malini Nijagal (she/her) is an obstetrician and gynecologist who provides care at both Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF Health. Her non-clinical care focuses on reducing inequities in care access, experience and outcomes during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

    The main focus of Nijagal's creative work is designing and implementing novel and sustainable models of care both within clinical settings (clinic, hospital) and in the community using a cross-sector approach. Her work leverages her expertise in areas of Human Centered Design, quality improvement, change management strategy, healthcare financing, and institutional-community collaboration. She also focuses how on how high value maternity care should be defined through an equity lens, and how healthcare payment design can be used to encourage superior care and outcomes.

    Nijagal earned her medical degree at UCSF and completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has a master of public health degree, with a focus on health care management, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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    1. The Family and Pregnancy Pop-Up Village: Developing a one-stop shop of services to reduce pregnancy care-related inequities in San Francisco. Birth. 2024 Jun 17. Nijagal MA, Odiase OJ, Bell AJ, El Ayadi AM, Williams S, Nicolaisen C, Jacobs G, Mack B, LaSerre M, Stewart C, Crockett K, Afulani PA. PMID: 38887141.
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    2. Physician Suicide: A Personal Story and Call to Action. J Pediatr Surg. 2023 09; 58(9):1607-1608. Jelin A, Nijagal M, Wu A, Flaherty M, Perrone EE. PMID: 37270325.
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    3. System-Level Factors Associated With Telephone and Video Visit Use: Survey of Safety-Net Clinicians During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Mar 10; 6(3):e34088. Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Sierra M, Rivadeneira NA, Nijagal MA, Su G, Lyles CR, DeFries T, Tuot DS, Sarkar U. PMID: 35148271; PMCID: PMC8949684.
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    4. Satisfaction can co-exist with hesitation: qualitative analysis of acceptability of telemedicine among multi-lingual patients in a safety-net healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Health Serv Res. 2022 Feb 14; 22(1):195. Nguyen MT, Garcia F, Juarez J, Zeng B, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Sarkar U, Su G, Lyles CR. PMID: 35164746; PMCID: PMC8842908.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 14     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic Health
    5. Using human centered design to identify opportunities for reducing inequities in perinatal care. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Jul 20; 21(1):714. Nijagal MA, Patel D, Lyles C, Liao J, Chehab L, Williams S, Sammann A. PMID: 34284758; PMCID: PMC8293556.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    6. Clinician experience with telemedicine at a safety-net hospital network during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2021 May; 32(2 Suppl):220-240. Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Lyles CR, Su G, DeFries T, Sarkar U, Tuot D. PMID: 37020792; PMCID: PMC8428653.
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    7. Ensuring Equitable Implementation of Telemedicine in Perinatal Care. Obstet Gynecol. 2021 03 01; 137(3):487-492. Ukoha EP, Davis K, Yinger M, Butler B, Ross T, Crear-Perry J, Perron-Burdick M, Nijagal MA. PMID: 33543895; PMCID: PMC7884085.
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    8. Patient interest in and barriers to telemedicine video visits in a multilingual urban safety-net system. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 02 15; 28(2):349-353. Khoong EC, Butler BA, Mesina O, Su G, DeFries TB, Nijagal M, Lyles CR. PMID: 33164063; PMCID: PMC7883976.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 32     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    9. Standardized outcome measures for pregnancy and childbirth, an ICHOM proposal. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 Dec 11; 18(1):953. Nijagal MA, Wissig S, Stowell C, Olson E, Amer-Wahlin I, Bonsel G, Brooks A, Coleman M, Devi Karalasingam S, Duffy JMN, Flanagan T, Gebhardt S, Greene ME, Groenendaal F, R Jeganathan JR, Kowaliw T, Lamain-de-Ruiter M, Main E, Owens M, Petersen R, Reiss I, Sakala C, Speciale AM, Thompson R, Okunade O, Franx A. PMID: 30537958; PMCID: PMC6290550.
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    10. Both patients and maternity care providers can benefit from payment reform: four steps to prepare. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018 04; 218(4):411.e1-411.e6. Nijagal MA, Shah NT, Levin-Scherz J. PMID: 29338994.
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    11. The Association of Expanded Access to a Collaborative Midwifery and Laborist Model With Cesarean Delivery Rates. Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Oct; 126(4):716-723. Rosenstein MG, Nijagal M, Nakagawa S, Gregorich SE, Kuppermann M. PMID: 26348175; PMCID: PMC4580519.
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    12. 8: The effect of expanded midwifery and hospitalist services on primary cesarean delivery rates. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2015 Jan 1; 212(1):s5-s6. Rosenstein RM, Nijagal NM, Nakagawa NS, Gregorich GS, Kuppermann KM. .
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    13. Two practice models in one labor and delivery unit: association with cesarean delivery rates. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Apr; 212(4):491.e1-8. Nijagal MA, Kuppermann M, Nakagawa S, Cheng Y. PMID: 25446697; PMCID: PMC4387106.
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    14. Expanding access to midwifery care: using one practice's success to create community change. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2012 Jul-Aug; 57(4):376-80. Nijagal MA, Wice M. PMID: 22727215.
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