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public health

Innovation for public engagement

Science Cafes - This concept has been developed in Nairobi as a mechanism to promote and communicate the science undertaken at the programme to the public and media. This began with Wellcome Trust support in 2009, has grown in scope and coverage and will be expanded between 2011 and 2016.

Google Earth Kenya Health Atlas - A platform is under development in collaboration with the Google Earth Offices in Nairobi to create a public domain visualization of all malaria, helminth, health service access and population data generated through Wellcome Trust support. This will serve as a modern information service to increase accessibility to GIS and epidemiological data assembled by the programme.

 

Improving malaria case-management practices in the public sector

Principal Investigator(s): 
Dejan Zurovac

Since 2004 standard malaria treatment guidelines across Africa have universally changed to support the management of clinical malaria in formal, public health services with ACTs, representing one of the most significant policy changes in malaria. However, we have shown through facility-based studies in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Somalia that malaria case-management in the public sector remains characterized by a poor drug supply, inappropriate prescription practices, inadequate counselling of patients and a disregard of results of parasitological diagnosis aimed at reducing over-treatment.

Malaria control in school children

Principal Investigator(s): 
Simon Brooker

The risks and severity of clinical outcomes following exposure to P. falciparum increase among older children as transmission intensity declines. Malaria control in Africa has focused on pre-school children and pregnant women over the last decade, but as transmission intensity declines school aged children will become an important clinical risk group. As a result of a historical pre-school prevention focus, we have shown that children aged 5-19 years have the lowest ITN use in any community and thus pose a threat to universal coverage targets and abilities to reduce local transmission. Our group have undertaken randomized-controlled and plausibility trials of malaria prevention among school children, notably IPTsc and the delivery of ITN to school children in hard-to-reach areas.

Human population movement and vulnerability to importation of malaria

A public health consequence of reductions in local malaria transmission is the risk posed by imported malaria to areas aiming for elimination. A series of meta-analysis GIS model frameworks will be developed using varied data sources on malaria risks and human movement (including national census data, mobile phone data and nested detailed case studies) to quantify the extent, reach and possible threats to the changing malaria landscape in Kenya and other parts of East and Horn of Africa.

Jacinta Nzinga

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Email: 
jnzingaatnairobi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org
Group: 
Child and Newborn Health Group

Jacinta graduated with a B.Sc. in Environmental Health from Moi University.

Patrick Mbindyo

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Email: 
pmbindyoatnairobi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org
Group: 
Child and Newborn Health Group

Patrick graduated with a BA Sociology and Geography (Hons) from Kenyatta University and also holds an M.Sc.

Charles Opondo

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Email: 
copondoatnairobi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org
Group: 
Child and Newborn Health Group

Charles studied Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy

Edwine Barasa

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Email: 
ebarasaatnairobi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org
Group: 
Child and Newborn Health Group

Edwine is a Pharmacist and Health Economist with research interests in economic evaluation, health technology assessment (HTA), health financing, priority setting and resource

Mike English

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Email: 
menglishatnairobi [dot] kemri-wellcome [dot] org
Group: 
Child and Newborn Health Group

Mike worked in Kilifi from 1992-1996 on malaria and returned to the UK to complete specialist training as a General Paediatrician in 1998.

Affordability of health care

Principal Investigator(s): 
Sassy Molyneux

No description available.