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Dr. Martha Mwangome
Principal Investigator
KEMRI | Wellcome Trust
About
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.
See moreCurrent 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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2026
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Breastfeeding Support Intervention Among Mothers of Infants Under Six Months Old Discharged From Malnutrition Treatment in Kilifi County
Unda, J. Munene, F. Kagwanja, et al.
Matern Child Nutr. 2026; 22:e70202
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2026
Growth Monitoring and Promotion: Guidance and New Statistical Tools to Promote the Uptake of International Standards With the Aim of Improving Newborn and Child Health Everywhere
Requejo, J. Manji, K. Perumal, et al.
BJOG. 2026
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2025
Nutrition in pregnancy and the early years
Dalrymple, K. V. Mwangome, M. Lamb, et al.
BMJ. 2025; 389:r1202
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2025
Re-thinking "non-response" to wasting treatment: Exploratory analysis from 14 studies
Cazes, C. Stobaugh, H. Bahwere, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025; 5:e0003741
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2025
Getting back on track to meet global anaemia reduction targets: a Lancet Haematology Commission
Atkinson, S. H. Suchdev, P. S. Bode, et al.
Lancet Haematol. 2025; 12:e717-e767