Sustainable Development for HIV Health seminar 2021
We host a bi-weekly Sustainable Development for HIV Health (SD4H) seminar via zoom for Maseno University graduate students. The course is led by the Fellowship Directors (Drs. Bukusi, Ndunyu, Weiser, and Cohen) and features guest lectures by Maseno University, KEMRI and UCGHI faculty, and Kenyan SD4H researchers. The SD4H seminar combines lectures, participatory discussions, and student presentations focusing on the SD4H core competencies.
Translation of research into policy with sample case studies
Dec 16, 2021
Irene Mukui, MBCHB, MPH, is a Medical Epidemiologist with over 17 years’ experience in clinical and health programme management. Currently, she is the HIV Access and Medical Affairs Leader at Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi). Dr Mukui has been involved in implementation research across HIV prevention and treatment with her current focus being on pediatric HIV treatment and outcomes, mental health among HIV infected adolescents, and HIV drug resistance. She is a former Fogarty Global Health Fellow (2018-2019). Dr Mukui served also in various leadership roles in the Ministry of Health in Kenya: Deputy Head of the ministry’s Universal Health Coverage Secretariat, Deputy Head of the National AIDS and STI Control Programme and Programme, and Manager for HIV Care and Treatment and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. She has contributed to the global HIV response as a member of WHO HIV Treatment Guidelines Development Group and she co-chaired the WHO HIV Drug Resistance Steering Group.
"How and Why Did Food Insecurity of Households and Individuals Become So Important?"
December 2, 2021
Edward Frongillo, Jr. Ph.D. is a Professor and Director, Global Health Initiatives at University of South Carolina in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior at the Arnold School of Public Health. He leads research on the measurement, determinants, and consequences of household and child food insecurity. His research program also aims to understand how to advance policy and programs for improving nutrition and development. He has expertise in validation of measures, policy and program evaluation, and design and analysis of longitudinal studies.
Environmental Change, Fish, and Food Security: A social-ecological approach to health
November 18, 2021
Katie Fiorella, PhD, MPH. Her research interactions among environmental change and livelihood, food, and nutrition security. Our work is focused on global fisheries and the households that are reliant on the environment to access food and income. To understand health-environment dynamics, we draw from interdisciplinary methods and training in ecology, public health, economics and sociology.
Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision from Research to Policy and Scale-up
November 4, 2021
Agot Kawango, PhD and MPH. She is the Director at Impact Research and Development Organization (IRDO). Dr. Kawango has implemented multiple HIV prevention programs with adolescents and young people (AYP) since 2004, including Tuungane Youth, DREAMS, VMMC, HIV Testing and Counseling, and young key populations. Additionally, she has conducted several research studies on: PrEP, HIV self-testing, and multi-purpose technologies, among others.
Translating Evidence to Policy
October 21, 2021
Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MPH, is a Professor of Health Policy in the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. She holds a joint appointment in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. Dr. Schmidt is also Co-Director of the Community Engagement and Health Policy Program for UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.
Participatory Action Research and Soil and Gut Microbiome
October 7, 2021
Kate Scow, PhD, MS, is the Director of the Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility and a Distinguished Professor at University of California Davis. She focuses her work with smallholder farmers in Uganda using participatory research and extension approaches on vegetable production, soil management and irrigation.
Mariah Coley a PhD candidate in Geography in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at the University of California, Davis. She studies the metagenomic linkages between the soil microbiome and human health.
Searching and Managing the Literature
September 23, 2021
Peggy Tahir, MLIS, Education & Copyright Librarian at UCSF
Josephine Tan, MLIS, Education and Research Librarian at UCSF
Leadership
September 9, 2021
Elizabeth Bukusi, MBChB, M.Med (ObGyn), MPH, PhD, PGD (Research Ethics). MBE (Research Ethics), CIP, Senior Principal Clinical Research Scientist at KEMRI and Co-Director Research Care Training Program. In addition to her experience conducting socio-behavioral and biomedical research and providing leadership and support for HIV care, she has a strong interest in research and clinical ethics. Dr. Bukusi also focuses on mentoring and training health care and research personnel to enhance local and international capacity.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
August 26, 2021
James Kahn, MD, MPH, is a Professor in the Institute for Health Policy Studies in the School of Medicine at UCSF. He has 30 years’ experience in the empirical and modeled assessment of the cost, effects, and cost-effectiveness of global health interventions, programs, and policies.
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security
August 12, 2021
Harun Okello Ogindo, PhD, MSc, is an Associate Professor in the School of Agriculture & Food Security and Chair of Applied Plant Science Department at Maseno University. He specialized in a wide-ranging area of research, teaching and consultancy from Agronomy, Food Systems, Climate Smart Agriculture, Cropping Systems, and Agroecology.
Biodiversity and Human Health
July 29, 2021
Kate Scow, PhD, MS, is the Director of the Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility and a Distinguished Professor at University of California Davis. She focuses her work with smallholder farmers in Uganda using participatory research and extension approaches on vegetable production, soil management and irrigation.
Nutrition and HIV
July 15, 2021
Agatha Christine Onyango, PhD, MSc, is a lecturer and chairperson in the Department of Nutrition and Health at Maseno University. She conduct community research in food security and HIV and AIDS and maternal and child nutrition.
Rose Amondi Okelo, is a Clinical Nutritionist at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching & Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) with a focus on pediatric nutrition.
Climate Change and Health
June 17, 2021
Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, MA, is a Professor of Medicine and internist at UCSF’s Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on the impact of food insecurity and other social and structural factors on treatment outcomes for HIV and other chronic diseases. Dr. Weiser also evaluates sustainable food insecurity interventions as a way to improve health outcomes in domestic and international settings.
One Health
May 20, 2021
M. Kariuki Njenga, DVM, PhD, is a Virologist and Head of the One Health Program at KEMRI and a Professor of Virology and Global Health and Washington State University and a leader in the effort to address emerging zoonotic diseases.
Gender Transformative Interventions
April 22, 2021
Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH, is an Academic Coordinator in Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and Co-Chair, Education Committee at the UC Global Health Institute Center of Expertise in Women’s Health & Empowerment.
Denise Dunning, PhD, MPA is the Founder & Executive Director - Rise Up, which advances gender equity, health, education, and economic justice globally through training, funding, and network building.
Food Supplementation
April 8, 2021
Martin Mwangi, PhD, MSc, Senior Research Fellow and Team Leader at the Training and Research Unit of Excellence, College of Medicine, Malawi and a graduate from Maseno University.
Measurement of Women’s Health and Empowerment
March 25, 2021
Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH Associate Professor, Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Science at UCSF with a focus on the effects of women's empowerment and gender equity on reproductive health.
Women’s Health and Empowerment – part 2
March 11, 2021
Karen Nyangara, PhD, Director of the Institute for Genders Studies and a Senior Lecturer at Maseno University with a focus on gender mainstreaming and youth mentorship.
Louisa Ndunyu, PhD, M.A, is a lecturer at the Maseno University Department of Public Health. Dr. Ndunyu teaches population health and development and sexuality and reproductive health. Her background in research includes reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, women’s health, and maternal morbidity and mortality.
Women’s Heath and Empowerment – part 1
February 25, 2021
Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH, is an Academic Coordinator in Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and Co-Chair, Education Committee at the UC Global Health Institute Center of Expertise in Women’s Health & Empowerment.
Food security and HIV
February 11, 2021
Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, MA, is a Professor of Medicine and internist at UCSF’s Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on the impact of food insecurity and other social and structural factors on treatment outcomes for HIV and other chronic diseases. Dr. Weiser also evaluates sustainable food insecurity interventions as a way to improve health outcomes in domestic and international settings.
Food security and pediatrics, adolescents and chronic diseases
January 28, 2021
Phelgona Otieno, MBChB, MPH, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist with long standing experience in conducting research in maternal health, HIV PMTCT, child health programs, as well as mentorship of health professionals at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
Jason Nagata, M.D., M.Sc. is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at UCSF and affiliated faculty with the Institute for Global Health Sciences.
Shamba Maisha case study – part 2
January 14, 2021
Elly Weke, MSc, Study Coordinator of Shamba Maisha
Craig Cohen, MD, MPH, is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF. Drs. Cohen, Weiser, and Bukusi led Shamba Maisha study.