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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.
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).Collaborations
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Publications
Time to full enteral feeds in hospitalised preterm and very low birth weight infants in Nigeria and Kenya.
Imam, Z. O., Nabwera, H. M., Tongo, O. O., Andang'o, P. E. A., Abdulkadir, I., Ezeaka, C. V., Ezenwa, B. N., Fajolu, I. B., Mwangome, M. K., Umoru, D. D., Akindolire, A. E., Otieno, W., Olwala, M., Nalwa, G. M., Talbert, A. W., Abubakar, I., Embleton, N. D., Allen, S. J.
PLoS One, (2024). 19:e0277847
Stunting in the first year of life: Pathway analysis of a birth cohort.
Mwangome, M., Ngari, M., Brals, D., Bawhere, P., Kabore, P., McGrath, M., Berkley, J. A.
PLOS Glob Public Health, (2024). 4:e0002908
Time to full enteral feeds in hospitalised preterm and very low birth weight infants in Nigeria and Kenya.
Imam, Z. O., Nabwera, H. M., Tongo, O. O., Andang'o, P. E. A., Abdulkadir, I., Ezeaka, C. V., Ezenwa, B. N., Fajolu, I. B., Mwangome, M. K., Umoru, D. D., Akindolire, A. E., Otieno, W., Olwala, M., Nalwa, G. M., Talbert, A. W., Abubakar, I., Embleton, N. D., Allen, S. J.
PLoS One, (2024). 19:e0277847
Corrigendum to "Maternal BMI is positively associated with human milk fat: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis" American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2021 113:1009-1022.
Daniel, A. I., Shama, S., Ismail, S., Bourdon, C., Kiss, A., Mwangome, M., Bandsma, R. H., O'Connor, D. L.
Am J Clin Nutr, (2023). S0002-9165:48903-4
Stunting of Growth in Developing Countries.
Kathembe, J., Tapkigen, J., Mwangome, M. K., Prentice, A. M., Nabwera, H. M.
World Rev Nutr Diet, (2023). 126:17-31
Letter to the Editor of the Journal of Nutritional Science.
Kerac, M., McGrath, M., Berkley, J. A., Grijalva-Eternod, C. S., Lelijveld, N., Mwangome, M., Rogers, E.
J Nutr Sci, (2023). 12:e26
Anthropometric criteria for best identifying children at high risk of mortality: a pooled analysis of 12 cohorts.
Khara, T., Myatt, M., Sadler, K., Bahwere, P., Berkley, J. A., Black, R. E., Boyd, E., Garenne, M., Isanaka, S., Lelijveld, N., McDonald, C., Mertens, A., Mwangome, M., O'Brien, K., Stobaugh, H., Taneja, S., West, K. P. Jr., Briend, A.
Public Health Nutr, (2023). :1-38
Trends in inpatient and post-discharge mortality among young infants admitted to Kilifi County Hospital, Kenya: a retrospective cohort study.
Talbert, A., Ngari, M., Obiero, C., Nyaguara, A., Mwangome, M., Mturi, N., Ouma, N., Otiende, M., Berkley, J.
BMJ Open, (2023). 13:e067482
Prospective observational study of the challenges in diagnosing common neonatal conditions in Nigeria and Kenya.
Staunton, A. P., Nabwera, H. M., Allen, S. J., Tongo, O. O., Akindolire, A. E., Abdulkadir, I., Ezeaka, C. V., Ezenwa, B. N., Fajolu, I. B., Imam, Z. O., Umoru, D. D., Otieno, W., Nalwa, G. M., Olwala, M., Talbert, A. W., Andang'o, P. E. A., Mwangome, M. K., Abubakar, I., Embleton, N. D.
BMJ Open, (2022). 12:e064575
Evaluating the role of breastfeeding peer supporters' intervention on the inpatient management of malnourished infants under 6 months in Kenyan public hospitals.
Mwangome, M., de Colombi, N. F., Chabeda, S., Mumbo, E., Jemutai, J., Tsofa, B., Nzinga, J., Jones, C.
Int Breastfeed J, (2022). 17:79