Oana Pop, PhD, MS(c)

Assistant Professor

oana.blaga@publichealth.ro

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Dr. Blaga is a young, enthusiastic, and resourceful public health researcher and a newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Public Health. She has an interdisciplinary educational background (PhD in political sciences with a thesis on behavioural economics and the development of tobacco control policies, MS in research design and data analysis in social sciences, and BA in communication), allowing her to integrate social and behavioural health concepts, strong research skills, and public policy components in her work. Her research and teaching activities are also benefitting from the knowledge and skills she acquired as a recipient of two Fogarty-sponsored scholarships on community and behavioural health (at University of Iowa’s College of Public Health) and mHealth (to participate in the 2016 Global mHealth Research Training Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health). Her research is focused on improving maternal and child health in Romania by promoting smoking cessation among Romanian couples and preventing smoking relapse in the postpartum period for women who quit during pregnancy. In the past 3 years, she has led two teams at Babes-Bolyai University that contributed to the implementation of two mHealth-based projects in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Research Interests

Maternal and Child HealthmHealthResearch Capacity BuildingSmoking CessationStatistical Methods

Research Projects & Grants

  1. BIRTH Cost Action
  2. MAIA
  3. RESPREMO
  4. IFF Notifications
  5. QT / PERSIST
  6. TABLO
  7. TESSA
  8. SMART-SMK
  9. PRISM

Selected Publications

Dascal MD, Rusu A, Onisor A, Blaga OM, Miller M, Meghea C. An mHealth intervention to prevent postnatal smoking relapse: The RESPREMO study protocol. Tob. Prev. Cessation 2020;6(April):24,  DOI: doi.org/10.18332/tpc/118724

Dascăl MD, Meghea C I, Blaga OM. A Cross-Section Study of  Relationship Characteristics and Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy in a Sample of Romanian Pregnant Women. Maternal and Child Health Journal 2020, 1-8.DOI:10.1007/s10995-020-02898-3

Blaga OM, Cherecheș RM, Baba CO. A Community-Based  Intervention for Increasing Access to Health Information in Rural Settings. Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences 2019, 15(58), 24-37. dx.doi.org/10.24193/tras.58E.2

Blaga OM, Vasilescu V, Chereches RM. Use and effectiveness of  behavioural economics in interventions for lifestyle risk factors of non- communicable diseases: a systematic review with policy implications. Perspectives in public health. 2018. 138(2), 100-110. doi.org/10.1177/1757913917720233

Meghea CI, Brinzaniuc A, Sidor A, Chereches RM, Mihu D, Iuhas C, Stamatian F, Caracostea G, Dascal M, Foley KF, Baban A, Voice TC, Blaga OM. A Couples-Focused Intervention for Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy: The Study Protocol of The Quit Together Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation. 2018;4(May):17. doi.org/10.18332/tpc/89926

Brinzaniuc A, Strilciuc A, Blaga OM, Chereches RM, Meghea CI. Smoking and quitting smoking during pregnancy: A qualitative exploration of the socio-cultural context for the development of a couple-based smoking cessation intervention in Romania. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation. 2018; 4(March), 9. doi.org/10.18332/tpc/86161

Meghea CI, Brinzaniuc A, Rus IA, Chereches RM, Mihu D, Iuhas CI,  Stamatian F, Caracostea G, Blaga OM. Characteristics of Romanian women who enrolled in a postpartum tobacco smoking relapse prevention trial. Public health. 2017;154:98. doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2017.10.017

Blaga OM, Brinzaniuc A, Rus IA, Chereches RM, Wallis AB. Smoking and Smoking Cessation during Pregnancy. An Analysis of a Hospital Based Cohort of Women in Romania. Journal of Community Health. 2016. 42(2):333-343 doi.org/10.1007/s10900-016-0259-6

Meghea CI, Brinzaniuc A, Mihu D, Iuhas CI, Stamatian F, Caracostea G,  Sidor A, Alexa PM, Branza C, Pop OM, Chereches RM. A Couples Intervention to Prevent Postnatal Smoking Relapse: PRISM study design. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2015. 41:273-279. doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2015.02.002

Pop OM, Brînzaniuc A, Șirlincan EO, Baba CO, Cherecheș RM. 2013. Assessing health literacy in rural settings: A pilot study in rural areas of Cluj County, Romania. Global Health Promotion. 2013. 20:35-43. doi.org/10.1177/1757975913502686