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

Nairobi Programme

Bio


Jacquie is a paediatrician, clinical epidemiologist, a lecturer and doctorate research fellow, with a research focus in health systems and implementation science. Her current project is trying to understand the complex epidemiology of tuberculosis in children and optimising use of guidelines and TB diagnostic tests to improve case detection of tuberculosis in children. She has collaborated with the Kenyan Ministry of Health and government hospitals in various quality improvement projects, clinical trials and systematic reviews-all of which have contributed to building evidenced-based care and policies for sick children in Kenya. She serves on the Kenya Paediatric TB Technical Working Group, is a member of the International Union of Lung Health and the WHO Child TB subgroup providing technical expertise in policy development and advocacy for improved care for children with tuberculosis. She also has vast experience in medical education. She is a trainer of trainers for the Paediatric HIV Care Course; Paediatric TB; as well as Paediatric Life support courses. She also lectures Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Nairobi; and the Diploma in Tropical Medicine with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has taken part in curriculum development/review of the mentioned courses and has trained/facilitated several courses in Kenya and the wider East Africa region. Jacquie has expertise in curriculum development and medical education; health systems research; quality improvement; monitoring and evaluation; policy formulation and implementation. She is passionate about capacity building and use of evidence to improve quality of care in children.

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Current Work


Her current projects, one is looking at the implementation of essential emergency and critical care services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the other on the knowledge translation efforts linked to COVID-19 modeling.

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Recent publications


Perspectives and practices of health workers around diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in hospitals in a resource-poor setting - modern diagnostics meet age-old challenges.
Oliwa, J. N., Odero, S. A., Nzinga, J., van Hensbroek, M. B., Jones, C., English, M., Van't Hoog, A.
BMC Health Serv Res, (2020). 20:708

Improving case detection of tuberculosis in hospitalised Kenyan children-employing the behaviour change wheel to aid intervention design and implementation.
Oliwa, J. N., Nzinga, J., Masini, E., van Hensbroek, M. B., Jones, C., English, M., Van't Hoog, A.
Implement Sci, (2020). 15:102

Diagnostic practices and estimated burden of tuberculosis among children admitted to 13 government hospitals in Kenya: An analysis of two years' routine clinical data.
Oliwa, J. N., Gathara, D., Ogero, M., van Hensbroek, M. B., English, M., Van't Hoog, A., Clinical Information, Network
PLoS One, (2019). 14:e0221145

Effective training-of-trainers model for the introduction of continuous positive airway pressure for neonatal and paediatric patients in Kenya.
Olayo, B., Kirigia, C. K., Oliwa, J. N., Agai, O. N., Morris, M., Benckert, M., Adudans, S., Murila, F., Wilson, P. T.
Paediatr Int Child Health, (2019). 39:193-200

Variability in distribution and use of tuberculosis diagnostic tests in Kenya: a cross-sectional survey.
Oliwa, J. N., Maina, J., Ayieko, P., Gathara, D., Kathure, I. A., Masini, E., Van't Hoog, A. H., van Hensbroek, M. B., English, M.
BMC Infect Dis, (2018). 18:328