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Researcher

Noni Mumba

Head Of Engagement

KEMRI | Wellcome Trust

About

Noni Mumba heads the Engagement platform at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP). Her primary role at KWTRP involves developing best practice strategies for the engagement and involvement of communities, stakeholders/policy makers, and publics in research work across the different KWTRP sites in Kenya and Uganda. She is also responsible for mentoring and building capacity of community liaison and research staff in engagement. Additionally, she plays a role in the monitoring and evaluation of KWTRP engagement activities, including sharing lessons learnt with other researchers and engagement practitioners in Africa, Europe and Asia.

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Current Work

In addition to Programme engagement activities, I am coordinating engagement activities as Co-lead of a Dissemination and Sustainability Core work package in a project called UZIMA-DS, which is a partnership between Aga Khan University, Michigan University, and KWTRP. I am also part of 2 NIHR funded projects; one looking at Hypertension management at community level (IHCoR), and another looking at Vaccine uptake barriers and enablers among vulnerable populations in Sub-sahara Africa (Vanguard). In these projects, I co-lead the community engagement and involvement work packages.

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Recent Publications

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  1. 2026
    Feasibility of a community-based intervention for the diagnosis and management of hypertension in two rural populations in Kenya and The Gambia: IMPLEMENT-IHCoR feasibility study protocol

    Hassan, S. Kagwanja, N. Diallo, et al.

    BMJ Open. 2026; 16:e108926

  2. 2026
    Understanding the role of 'software' in health system capacity for non-communicable disease response: hypertension care in rural Coastal Kenya

    Oyando, R. Kagwanja, N. Diallo, et al.

    Health Policy Plan. 2026; 41:584-598

  3. 2026
    Understanding what factors influence community health worker involvement in hypertension service delivery in Kenya: applying a community health system lens

    Kagwanja, N. Oyando, R. Hassan, et al.

    Health Policy Plan. 2026; 41:627-639

  4. 2025
    Access to hypertension services and health-seeking experiences in rural Coastal Kenya: A qualitative study

    Oyando, R. Kagwanja, N. Diallo, et al.

    PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025; 5:e0004324

  5. 2024
    Fourth Controlled Human Infection Model (CHIM) meeting - CHIMs in endemic countries, May 22-23, 2023

    Kapulu, M. Manda-Taylor, L. Balasingam, et al.

    Biologicals. 2024; 85:101747