0709 203000 - Nairobi 0709 983000 - Kilifi
0709 203000 - NRB 0709 983000 - Kilifi
0709 203000 - NRB | 0709 983000 - Kilifi

Clinical Research

Bio

Martha Mwangome holds an M.Sc. in Global Health Sciences from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in Nutrition Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She is a research scientist at KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Program, Kilifi, Kenya. She has more than 16 years’ experience in public health and nutrition research in Africa. Her research has broadly focused on strategies to identify, prevent and manage nutritional vulnerability among infants aged below 6 months.

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Current Work

Martha is currently a Wellcome Trust International Intermediate Fellow working toward developing and determine effectiveness of a home-based post-discharge breastfeeding support intervention to enhance growth and development of malnourished infants recovering from an illness (link to IBAMI-2 study) and https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/people-and-projects/grants-awarded/enhancing-growth-and-development-among Working within the larger nutrition and intervention team lead by Professor James Berkley, Dr Mwangome has been funded by Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to identify optimal doses of multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) among non-pregnant women of reproductive age (WRA) and pregnant women in Kilifi County, Kenya (link to Virutubisho study). Dr Mwangome has published extensively on extending the use of simple anthropometric measurements such as the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) to define nutritional vulnerability in early infancy and on the role of breastfeeding in nutritional recovery, growth and development of nutritionally vulnerable infants discharged from hospital treatment. She has previously been funded by the Global health strategy funded by the Global Health strategy, to assess the applicability of the 2013 WHO updated guidelines for treatment of ill malnourished infants u6m and explore the use of breastfeeding peer supporters towards re-establishing exclusive breastfeeding of ill malnourished infants within public hospital setting (link to IBAMI-1 & SIBS studies). Also funded by the BMGF and AREF to determine the composition of breastmilk consumed by infants u6m presenting with different nutritional classifications (BMC-CHAIN) and estimate body composition of malnourished infants u6m (link to CHAIN).

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Recent publications

Getting back on track to meet global anaemia reduction targets: a Lancet Haematology Commission.
Atkinson, S. H., Suchdev, P. S., Bode, M., Carducci, B., Cerami, C., Mwangi, M. N., Namaste, S., Winichagoon, P., Leung, S., Mutua, A. M., Abuga, K. M., Angeles-Agdeppa, I., Blythe, R., Carvalho, N., Cepeda-Lopez, A., Cross, J. H., de Pee, S., Di Ruggiero, E., Fanzo, J., Gentilini, U., Gichohi-Wainaina, W. N., Glover-Wright, C., Gomes, F., Hess, S., Holloway-Brown, J., Joof, F., Karakochuk, C., Kassebaum, N. J., Larson, L., Mettananda, S., Muriuki, J. M., Mwangome, M., Ohuma, E. O., Oliver, V., Perumal, N., Phiri, K., Samuel, F., Sinharoy, S., Tizifa, T., Valleriani, G., van Zutphen-Küffer, K. G., Vasta, F., Verhoef, H., Wang, Y., Yadav, K., Yang, Z., Young, M., Zimmermann, M. B., Pasricha, S. R.
Lancet Haematol, (2025). :

Nutrition in pregnancy and the early years.
Dalrymple, K. V., Mwangome, M., Lamb, S., Wolfe, I.
Bmj, (2025). 389:r1202

Stunting in Developing Countries.
Okello, E., Mwangome, M. K., Kathembe, J., Tapkigen, J., Prentice, A. M., Nabwera, H. M.
World Rev Nutr Diet, (2025). 128:16-32

Re-thinking "non-response" to wasting treatment: Exploratory analysis from 14 studies.
Cazes, C., Stobaugh, H., Bahwere, P., Binns, P., Black, R. E., Boyd, E., Briend, A., Isanaka, S., Kangas, S. T., Khara, T., Lelijveld, N., Mwangome, M., Myatt, M., Odei Obeng-Amoako, G., Trehan, I., James, P. T.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2025). 5:e0003741

Inpatient and postdischarge mortality among children with anaemia and malaria parasitaemia in Kenya: a cohort study.
Ngari, M., Mwangome, M., Ouma, N., Nyaguara, A., Mturi, N., Obiero, C., Kamau, A., Walson, J. L., Iversen, P. O., Maitland, K., Snow, R. W., Berkley, J.
BMJ Glob Health, (2024). 9: