A5037925925- Global Maternal and Child Health
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Geophysics and Sensor Technology
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- GNSS positioning and interference
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Global Health and Surgery
- Community Health and Development
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Global Health and Epidemiology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- ICT in Developing Communities
Blantyre Institute for Community Ophthalmology
2024-2025
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
2022-2025
Kamuzu Central Hospital
2024-2025
Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit
2022-2024
Partners In Health
2020-2024
HealthPartners
2024
Severe malaria poses a significant challenge to under-five children in Malawi, leading high rates of hospitalization and mortality. The World Health Organization has recently recommended post-discharge chemoprevention (PDMC) as preventive strategy for with severe anaemia malaria-endemic regions. In response this recommendation, Malawi's Ministry (MoH) plans implement PDMC nationwide. To facilitate effective implementation, the MoH partnered Training Research Unit Excellence (TRUE) conduct...
Abstract Background Community Health Workers (CHWs) have a positive impact on the provision of community-based primary health care through screening, treatment, referral, psychosocial support, and accompaniment. With broad scope work, CHW programs must balance breadth depth tasks to maintain motivation for high-quality delivery. Few studies described perspective intrinsic extrinsic enhance their programmatic activities. Methods We utilized an exploratory qualitative study design with CHWs...
Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) continues to pose a global public health challenge. However, literature is scarce on the burden of COPD in Malawi. We assessed prevalence and risk factors for among adults Neno, Methodology: conducted population-based analytical cross-sectional study Neno District between December 2021 November 2022. Using multi-stage sampling technique, we included 525 aged≥ 40 years. All participants underwent spirometry according American Thoracic...
Background Community health workers (CHWs) play a vital role in facilitating social connectedness, building trust, decrease stigma, and link communities to essential healthcare support services. More studies are needed understand the factors these interactions among CHWs, clients, community members.Objective This study examined CHW relationships between communities, facilities that promote positive relationships, connectedness.Methods In 2016, program Neno District, Malawi, was transitioned...
The use of mobile health technology (mHealth) by community workers (CHWs) can strengthen community-based service delivery and improve access to quality healthcare.
Background: Community health workers (CHWs) bridge the primary care (PHC) system and communities by providing in household. In Malawi, few studies have examined perspective of users household-level CHW services, remote areas, to understand CHW's role community-based PHC. Aim: To explore perspectives community facility stakeholders on enablers challenges PHC Neno District. Setting: The study was conducted District facilities, namely, Ligowe, Dambe, Chifunga, Zalewa. Methods: We eight focus...
Glucocorticoids are understood to represent useful biomarkers of stress and can be measured in saliva, hair, breastmilk. The collection such biosamples is increasingly included biobank cohort studies. While considered "non-invasive" by biomedical researchers (compared sampling blood), community perspectives may differ. This cross-sectional, qualitative study utilising eight focus groups aimed determine the feasibility acceptability collecting ostensibly biological samples Malawi....
Maternal mental health (MMH) is recognised as globally significant. The prevalence of depression and factors associated with its onset among perinatal women in Malawi has been previously reported, the need for further research this domain underscored. Yet, there little published scholarship regarding acceptability ethicality MMH to community representatives. study reported here sought address by engaging communities healthcare providers districts where was being planned. Qualitative data...
Abstract Introduction Community health workers (CHWs) are vital resources in delivering community-based primary care, especially low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC). However, few studies have investigated detailed time and task assessments of CHW's work. We conducted a time-motion study to evaluate CHWs' on conditions specific tasks Neno District, Malawi. Methods descriptive quantitative utilizing observation tracker capture spent by CHWs focused performed during household visits....
Obesity is increasingly a public health concern in low- and middle-income countries, including Malawi where 36% of women have body mass index overweight/obese categories urban areas. Eating behaviors, attitudes, beliefs are associated with size, but not been studied in-depth sub-Saharan African countries. This study therefore, explored eating Lilongwe, Malawi.This was descriptive ancillary qualitative utilising interviews 27 (13 normal weight range 14 overweight/obesity ranges) puporsively...
Abstract Background Choosing who should be recruited as a community health worker (CHW) is an important task, for their future performance partly depends on ability to learn the required knowledge and skills, personal attributes. Developing fair effective selection process CHWs challenging reports of attempts do so are rare. This paper describes five-stage development initial testing CHW in two programmes, one Malawi Ghana, highlighting lessons learned at each stage offering recommendations...
Children's health is a global public priority and determinant of development sustainability. Its effective delivery further improvements require constant dedicated research on children, especially by child healthcare workers (HCWs). Studies have shown high involvement HCWs from developed countries in research, with an under-representation the south authorship leadership international collaborations. To our knowledge, there very little literature challenges faced Malawi conducting research....
Abstract Background: There is growing global recognition that community health workers (CHWs) play a key role in facilitating social connectedness. Through direct interactions and relationship building, CHWs link people to services such as healthcare support. Several models aim understand how facilitate these interactions, but the theory of change not yet fully understood. In Neno District, Malawi, recently transitioned from disease-focused model what we call “household model.” Under...
Abstract Introduction: Community Health Workers (CHWs) are vital resources in delivering community-based primary health care, especially low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC). However, few studies have investigated detailed time and task assessments of CHW's work. We conducted a time-motion study to evaluate CHWs' on conditions specific tasks Neno District, Malawi. Methods: descriptive quantitative utilizing observation tracker capture spent by CHWs focused performed during household...
COVID-19-related knowledge and behaviors remain essential for controlling the spread of disease, especially among vulnerable patients with advanced, chronic diseases. We prospectively assessed changes over 11 months in testing, knowledge, non-communicable diseases rural Malawi using four rounds telephone interviews between November 2020 to October 2021. The most commonly reported risks included visiting health facilities (35-49%), attending mass gatherings (33-36%), travelling outside...
Abstract Objective To assess changes over time in COVID-19 knowledge, risks, symptoms, testing, and infection prevention practices among patients with complex non-communicable disease (NCD) receiving care at Neno District Lisungwi Community Hospitals, Malawi. Design participants We conducted a prospective open cohort study using telephone-based data collection enrolled NCD clinics. four rounds of between November 2020 October 2021. Setting Rural southwestern Malawi which has population 150,...