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

Nairobi Programme

Bio

Michuki is a Kenyan trained board-certified paediatrician and clinical researcher based at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research. Michuki’ s research interests include improving quality of care in the neonatal and paediatric hospital units. He previously led a project that assessed Inappropriate prescription of cough remedies among children hospitalised with respiratory illness in Kenya. He was also actively involved in conducting systematic reviews that informed the evidence for the national paediatric protocols. Since 2014, he has also been actively involved in setting up a neonatal clinical learning network, which is a collaboration involving the ministry of health and county hospitals. This collaboration now includes more than 15 neonatal units across several counties in Kenya. Michuki was also a coinvestigator on an ESRC funded project that was assessing infection prevention and control and antibiotic stewardship practices across 16 public hospitals in Kenya. This work formed the basis of his doctoral work at the university of Amsterdam.

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Current Work

Currently he is the country lead on a project Learning to Harness Innovation in Global Health for Quality Care (HIGH – Q). This project seeks to evaluate how introduction of essential neonatal technologies coupled with the increase in nursing numbers in the neonatal units affects the quality of care provided. He teaches on the Diploma in Tropical Medicine with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and teaches on the systematic reviews’ module at the University of Nairobi School of Medicine. He is also an instructor and course director on the Emergency Triage and treatment training ETAT courses Collaborator; Sebastian Fuller- University of Oxford Jacob McKnight- University of Oxford, Caroline Wachu- Ministry of Health, Kenya Arabella Hayter- World Health Organization Committees, Boards, and other professional activities 1. Peer reviewer for various journals including Journal of Tropical paediatrics Science Communications; BMJ Open, Wellcome Open; amongst others 2. Member Kenya Paediatric Association Scientific Committee 3. External Examiner Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council

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Recent publications

Evaluating the effects of supplementing ward nurses on quality of newborn care in Kenyan neonatal units: protocol for a prospective workforce intervention study.
Imam, A., Gathara, D., Aluvaala, J., Maina, M., English, M.
BMC Health Serv Res, (2022). 22:1230

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

What is next in African neuroscience?.
Donald, K. A., Maina, M., Patel, N., Nguemeni, C., Mohammed, W., Abubakar, A., Brown, M., Stoyanova, R., Welchman, A., Walker, N., Willett, A., Kariuki, S. M., Figaji, A., Stein, D. J., Ihunwo, A. O., Daniels, W., Newton, C. R.
Elife, (2022). 11:e80488

Evaluation of an audit and feedback intervention to reduce gentamicin prescription errors in newborn treatment (ReGENT) in neonatal inpatient care in Kenya: a controlled interrupted time series study protocol.
Tuti, T., Aluvaala, J., Malla, L., Irimu, G., Mbevi, G., Wainaina, J., Mumelo, L., Wairoto, K., Mochache, D., Hagel, C., Maina, M., English, M., Clinical Information Network, Group
Implement Sci, (2022). 17:32

Nurse staffing and patient care outcomes: protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle-income countries in global literature.
Imam, A., Obiesie, S., Aluvaala, J., Maina, M., Gathara, D., English, M.
Wellcome Open Res, (2021). 6:363