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Dr. Dorothy Oluoch
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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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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).
Recent publications
Experiences of mothers in the context of a staffing intervention in select newborn units in Kenyan public hospitals.
Oluoch, D., Odinga, N., Waithira, C., Ngaiza, G., Maluni, J., Mutua, E., Maina, M., Karumba, K., Molyneux, S., Fuller, S., Were, F., English, M., Jones, C.
Int J Nurs Stud, (2025). 172:105222
Applying a multi-layered, mixed methods approach to evaluate technology and workforce interventions in Kenyan neonatal units.
Maina, M., Molyneux, S., Were, F., Oluoch, D., Mutua, E., Gathara, D., English, M., Imam, A., Ngaiza, G., Rababeh, A., Grewal, G., Nasir, N., Waithira, C., Odinga, N., Kagonya, V., Onyango, O., Karumba, K., Jones, C., Mwangi, P., Kinyua, L., Thuranira, L., Njoroge, V., Mwangi, N., Mwangi, L., Musyoka, P., Kioni, Z., Fuller, S. S.
Glob Health Action, (2025). 18:2558267
Nurses experiences with an intervention enhancing skill-mix in Kenyan neonatal units with severe workforce deficits: A qualitative study.
Odinga, N., Waithira, C., Maluni, J., Ngaiza, G., Kagonya, V., Onyango, O., Imam, A., Gathara, D., Maina, M., Karumba, K., Were, F., Fuller, S., English, M., Mutua, E., Molyneux, S., Jones, C., Oluoch, D.
Int J Nurs Stud, (2025). 171:105202
Newborn Technology Use in Low-Resource Settings: The Role of Health Professionals' Communication in Implementation.
Ngaiza, G. K., Oluoch, D., Molyneux, S., Jones, C., English, M., Pope, C.
Health Policy Plan, (2025). :
Communication among health professionals using newborn technology for care: an exploratory scoping review.
Ngaiza, G. K., Oluoch, D., Molyneux, C., Pope, C., Jones, C.
BMJ Open Qual, (2025). 14:
