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

Nairobi Programme

Bio


Dorothy is a Social scientist, with over 10 years’ experience in qualitative research, with a focus on health systems research and medical anthropology. Her doctoral project was trying to understand the experiences of mothers of hospitalised sick newborns in Nairobi using ethnographic approaches. She has a keen interest in Maternal, neonatal, and Child Health, health systems, health care access, and delivery as well as patient experiences research.

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Current Work


Her current project is focused on exploring the potential for using mothers’ experiences narratives and digital stories of pre-term birth in Kenya as educational tools to improve people-centered care in LMICs. She is also a Co-Investigator on a project Learning to Harness Innovation in Global Health for Quality Care (HIGH – Q). This project seeks to evaluate how the introduction of essential neonatal technologies coupled with the increase in nursing numbers in the neonatal units affects the quality of care provided. She is co-leading work on patients' and staff experiences of introduction of new technologies and workforce interventions. She has previously worked on the Inter-bio 21st study, leading the qualitative component of this project, where she assessed the perceptions and experiences of the use of ultrasound screening services for women attending routine antenatal clinics (ANC) in Kilifi County Hospital (KCH).

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Recent publications


Improving facility-based care: eliciting tacit knowledge to advance intervention design.
English, M., Nzinga, J., Oliwa, J., Maina, M., Oluoch, D., Barasa, E., Irimu, G., Muinga, N., Vincent, C., McKnight, J.
BMJ Glob Health, (2022). 7:e009410

Infant malnutrition treatment in Kenya: Health worker and breastfeeding peer supporter experiences.
Chabeda, S., Oluoch, D., Mwangome, M., Jones, C.
Matern Child Nutr, (2021). 17:e13148