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Biography
Mike English is a UK trained paediatrician who has worked in Kenya for over 20 years supported by a series of Wellcome fellowships. His work often takes Child and Newborn Health as a focus but increasingly tackles health services or wider health systems issues. He works as part of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) in collaboration in Kenya with the Ministry of Health and a wide set of national and international collaborators. His work focuses predominantly on improving care in African Hospitals. The work of his team spans: clinical epidemiology (including developing national, evidence-based guidelines for care of severely ill children and newborns, clinical trials and observational studies); implementation research (including cluster randomised trials and mixed methods research), and health systems research (qualitative studies of health worker and managers’ behaviour and rethinking the health workforce).
Current Work
He co-leads Health Systems Research in KWTRP and established the Oxford Health Systems Research Collaboration (OHSCAR). Recently Mike helped establish a team focused on delivering simulation based training using gamification through mobile phones and virtual reality (https://oxlifeproject.org/). Mike’s 2013-2018 fellowship initiated the Kenyan Clinical Information Network (CIN). Working with 15 hospitals and focused on generating high quality routine data the CIN is exploring how to improve hospital care at scale while using aggregate data to trial feedback interventions and understand practice variation. Other major current work includes a 4.5 year project on how to improve health care provision for sick newborns, work that spans measuring effective coverage and multiple methodological approaches to inform thinking on the challenges of delivering effective nursing care and possible task-shifting. Mike frequently provides advice to the Kenyan government and WHO on a range of issues related to child and newborn survival and health systems performance and is a member of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era (https://www.hqsscommission.org/).Collaborations
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Publications
Hypothermia amongst neonatal admissions in Kenya: a retrospective cohort study assessing prevalence, trends, associated factors, and its relationship with all-cause neonatal mortality.
Wainaina, J., Ogero, M., Mumelo, L., Wairoto, K., Mbevi, G., Tuti, T., Mwaniki, P., Irimu, G., English, M., Aluvaala, J.
Front Pediatr, (2024). 12:1272104
Hospital readiness for the provision of care to critically ill patients in Tanzania- an in-depth cross-sectional study.
Khalid, K., Schell, C. O., Oliwa, J., English, M., Onyango, O., McKnight, J., Mkumbo, E., Awadh, K., Maiba, J., Baker, T.
BMC Health Serv Res, (2024). 24:182
First referral hospitals in low- and middle-income countries: the need for a renewed focus.
Jeffries Mazhar, R., Willows, T. M., Bhattarai, S., Tinn, C. S., Misago, N., English, M.
Health Policy Plan, (2024). 39:224-232
Breaking the silence on first referral hospitals and universal health coverage.
English, M., Rispel, L., Ssengooba, F., Edwards, N.
Lancet Glob Health, (2024). 12:e366-e367
The role of medical support workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the NHS in the UK: A qualitative service evaluation at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Chakma, S., Wang, H., English, M., Namedre, M., Hill, E., Nagraj, S.
Clin Med (Lond), (2024). 24:100006
Scoping review of interventions to improve continuity of postdischarge care for newborns in LMICs.
Grewal, G., Fuller, S. S., Rababeh, A., Maina, M., English, M., Paton, C., Papoutsi, C.
BMJ Glob Health, (2024). 9:e012894
Third delay in care of critically ill patients: a qualitative investigation of public hospitals in Kenya.
Onyango, O. O., Willows, T. M., McKnight, J., Schell, C. O., Baker, T., Mkumbo, E., Maiba, J., Khalid, K., English, M., Oliwa, J. N.
BMJ Open, (2024). 14:e072341
Receive, Sustain, and Flow: A simple heuristic for facilitating the identification and treatment of critically ill patients during their hospital journeys.
McKnight, J., Willows, T. M., Oliwa, J., Onyango, O., Mkumbo, E., Maiba, J., Khalid, K., Schell, C. O., Baker, T., English, M.
J Glob Health, (2023). 13:4139
Characterising support and care assistants in formal hospital settings: a scoping review.
Kagonya, V. A., Onyango, O. O., Maina, M., Gathara, D., English, M., Imam, A.
Hum Resour Health, (2023). 21:90
The influence of internship training experience on Kenyan and Ugandan doctors' career intentions and decisions: a qualitative study.
Zhao, Y., Mbuthia, D., Ankomisyani, D. S., Blacklock, C., Gathara, D., Molyneux, S., Nicodemo, C., Okello, T. R., Rutebemberwa, E., Tweheyo, R., English, M.
Glob Health Action, (2023). 16:2272390