Ari Johnson, MD

Associate Professor

Ari Johnson MD serves patients at San Francisco General Hospital through the Department of Medicine and the Division of Hospital Medicine. His research and global work focuses on curing delay in health care. Research areas include health systems design, symptom-to-treatment time, healthcare financing, barriers to timely care, and strategies for improving population level morbidity and mortality through early access. He is the co-founder and CEO of the global health NGO Muso. More at www.musohealth.org

Education
7/2014 - Residency, Internal Medicine, Primary Care, UCSF
MD, 05/2011 - , Harvard Medical Shool
Publications

  1. Ballard M, Dahn B, O'Donovan J, Jiménez A, Kawooya P, Raghavan M, Ganjian N, Johnson AD, Boxer C, Gray K, Palazuelos D, Berry-Moorcroft C, Aranda Z, Iberico MM, Cordier L, Mbewe D, Yegon EK, Ernst J, DiStefano L, Traill T, Finnegan KE, Rakotonirina L, Hofmann R, Sano ED, Johnston JS, Ward V, Westgate C, Shanmugarasa T, Alban R, Mann D, Asmara-Petersen R, Keronyai P, Settle D, Aidam J, Obbuyi A, Oladeji O, Muyingo P, Cho K, Kok M. One term to transform: universal health coverage through professional community health workers. Lancet (London, England) 2024. PMID: 39674183


  2. Liu J, Treleaven E, Whidden C, Doumbia S, Kone N, Cisse AB, Diop A, Berthé M, Guindo M, Koné BM, Fay MP, Johnson AD, Kayentao K. Home visits versus fixed-site care by community health workers and child survival: a cluster-randomized trial, Mali. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2024. PMID: 39219760


  3. Yang JE, Lassala D, Liu JX, Whidden C, Holeman I, Keita Y, Djiguiba Y, N'Diaye SI, Fall F, Kayentao K, Johnson AD. Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali: a randomised controlled trial. 2021. PMID: 34815242


  4. Treleaven E, Whidden C, Cole F, Kayentao K, Traoré MB, Diakité D, Sidibé S, Lin TK, Boettiger D, Cissouma S, Sanogo V, Padian N, Johnson A, Liu J. Relationship between symptoms, barriers to care and healthcare utilisation among children under five in rural Mali. 2021. PMID: 33866656


  5. Whidden C, Keita Y, Treleaven E, Beckerman J, Johnson A, Cissé A, Liu J, Kayentao K. Women's empowerment, intrahousehold influences, and health system design on modern contraceptive use in rural Mali: a multilevel analysis of cross-sectional survey data. 2021. PMID: 33658054


  6. Ballard M, Westgate C, Alban R, Choudhury N, Adamjee R, Schwarz R, Bishop J, McLaughlin M, Flood D, Finnegan K, Rogers A, Olsen H, Johnson A, Palazuelos D, Schechter J. Compensation models for community health workers: Comparison of legal frameworks across five countries. 2021. PMID: 33692894


  7. Boettiger DC, Treleaven E, Kayentao K, Guindo M, Coumaré M, Johnson AD, Whidden C, Koné N, Cissé AB, Padian N, Liu J. Household factors and under-five mortality in Bankass, Mali: results from a cross-sectional survey. 2021. PMID: 33514345


  8. Ballard M, Bancroft E, Nesbit J, Johnson A, Holeman I, Foth J, Rogers D, Yang J, Nardella J, Olsen H, Raghavan M, Panjabi R, Alban R, Malaba S, Christiansen M, Rapp S, Schechter J, Aylward P, Rogers A, Sebisaho J, Ako C, Choudhury N, Westgate C, Mbeya J, Schwarz R, Bonds MH, Adamjee R, Bishop J, Yembrick A, Flood D, McLaughlin M, Palazuelos D. Prioritising the role of community health workers in the COVID-19 response. 2020. PMID: 32503889


  9. Whidden C, Thwing J, Gutman J, Wohl E, Leyrat C, Kayentao K, Johnson AD, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D. Proactive case detection of common childhood illnesses by community health workers: a systematic review. BMJ global health 2019. PMID: 31908858


  10. Whidden C, Treleaven E, Liu J, Padian N, Poudiougou B, Bautista-Arredondo S, Fay MP, Samaké S, Cissé AB, Diakité D, Keita Y, Johnson AD, Kayentao K. Proactive community case management and child survival: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ open 2019. PMID: 31455700


  11. Whidden C, Kayentao K, Liu JX, Lee S, Keita Y, Diakité D, Keita A, Diarra S, Edwards J, Yembrick A, Holeman I, Samaké S, Plea B, Coumaré M, Johnson AD. Improving Community Health Worker performance by using a personalised feedback dashboard for supervision: a randomised controlled trial. Journal of global health 2018. PMID: 30333922


  12. Johnson AD, Thiero O, Whidden C, Poudiougou B, Diakité D, Traoré F, Samaké S, Koné D, Cissé I, Kayentao K. Proactive community case management and child survival in periurban Mali. BMJ global health 2018. PMID: 29607100


  13. Johnson AD, Thomson DR, Atwood S, Alley I, Beckerman JL, Koné I, Diakité D, Diallo H, Traoré B, Traoré K, Farmer PE, Murray M, Mukherjee J. Assessing early access to care and child survival during a health system strengthening intervention in Mali: a repeated cross sectional survey. Volume 8 of Issue 12. PloS one 2013. PMID: 24349053


  14. Palazuelos D, Ellis K, Im DD, Peckarsky M, Schwarz D, Farmer DB, Dhillon R, Johnson A, Orihuela C, Hackett J, Bazile J, Berman L, Ballard M, Panjabi R, Ternier R, Slavin S, Lee S, Selinsky S, Mitnick CD. 5-SPICE: the application of an original framework for community health worker program design, quality improvement and research agenda setting. 2013. PMID: 23561023