A5003536816- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Forest Management and Policy
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation
- Mining and Resource Management
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Growth and nutrition in plants
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Light effects on plants
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
2020-2023
Stockholm Environment Institute
2015-2021
World Bank
2020-2021
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2010-2016
University of London
2010-2012
University of New Hampshire
2009
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
2009
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
1999-2002
Stove and fuel stacking is becoming accepted as part of the clean cooking transition process, even though it attenuates positive health climate benefits that can be realized by cookstove interventions. This study analyses underlying drivers stove from household perspectives, its implications for improving impact programs. The draws on a case two communities in Western Northern Kenya: rural households predominantly using biomass fuels urban liquefied petroleum gas cooking. Data was collected...
Abstract Three quarters of the population in Sub Saharan Africa lacks access to modern energy, and relies instead on biomass fuels for cooking heating. The environment health implications use fuel has been widely documented literature, raised topic energy various policy development arenas. Still, impact food security at household level not explored detail; consequently two sectoral policies remain unaligned. Our aims this review were document how lack can through influence dietary choices...
There is broad agreement that antenatal care (ANC) interventions, skilled attendance at birth and management of complications arising after delivery are key strategies can tackle the high burden maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, utilisation rate these services has remained low despite a government policy on free care. The present study sought to understand what factors leading healthcare seeking during pregnancy, child postnatal period Siaya County Kenya.Six Focus Group...
Household use of biomass fuels is a major source indoor air pollution and poor health in developing countries. We conducted cross-sectional investigation rural Kenya to assess household homes with traditional three-stone stove rocket mud (RMS), low-cost unvented wood stove. continuous measurements kitchen carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations personal exposures 102 households. Median 48-h CO were 7.3 6.5 ppm, respectively, for stoves, while the corresponding RMS 5.8 4.4 ppm. After adjusting...
Integration of immunizations with hygiene interventions may improve use both interventions. We interviewed 1361 intervention and 1139 comparison caregivers about practices vaccination history, distributed water treatment kits to during infant sessions in clinics for 12 months, conducted a followup survey 2361 1033 caregivers. observed significant increases reported household (30% vs 44%, P < .0001) correct handwashing technique (25% 51%, households no changes households. Immunization...
Over half of the world’s population lack access to modern energy cooking services (MECS) and instead rely on locally harvested biomass for fuel. The collection burning such have significant negative social, health, economic environmental impacts is a major sustainability challenge. adverse development from households’ continued dependence polluting stove-and-fuel combinations are significant. Household Air Pollution (HAP) fuel use accounts some 4.3 million premature deaths each year,...
Background. Integration of routine vaccination and other maternal child health services is becoming more common the being integrated diverse. Yet knowledge gaps remain regarding community members workers acceptance, priorities, concerns related to integration.
Abstract The two datasets outlined in this paper contain information related to (a) the local impacts of biofuel feedstock production, and (b) factors that influence adoption and/or sustained use ethanol stoves southern Africa. first dataset was generated through extensive household surveys around four operational jatropha sugarcane production sites Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland. This project aimed examine most prominent modes existing or intended resulting contains about on rural...
There is increasing awareness of the importance gender in natural resource management. Especially for communities dependent upon forests their livelihoods, roles and relations can affect access to forest resources, income food generating activities. As a consequence, mediated products may lead different security outcomes women, men children. Because cross-cutting issue many development, research state institutions, this study examines existing evidence base related gendered low middle...
Antenatal care (ANC), facility delivery and postnatal (PNC) are proven to reduce maternal child mortality morbidity in high-burden settings. However, few pregnant rural women use these services sufficiently. This study aims assess the impact, cost-effectiveness scalability of conditional cash transfers promote increased contact between or who have recently given birth formal healthcare system Kenya.The intervention tested is a transfer for ANC health visits, PNC visits until their newborn...
Current research on cleaner cookstoves (CCS) is focused primarily women, thus removing men from the cookstove adoption equation despite their decision making role in households. Very little understood about what would motivate to purchase CCS, and whether such motivations are key factors that influence a household's acquire CCS. There paucity of comparative analyses women perspectives this topic. This study adopted qualitative approach gain first-hand perspective issue, compare findings with...