Sustainable Development for HIV Health Seminar 2022
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.
Equitable Global Health Partnerships
Dec 15, 2022
LaMisha Hill, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She was recently appointed as the department’s Vice Chair for Equity, Inclusion, and Structural Change. Dr. Hill is a licensed Counseling Psychologist her professional interest include diversity, equity, and inclusion training, facilitation, and healing.
Ms. Purba Chatterjee, MSc is the Associate Director for Global Health Equity at UCSF’s Department of OB/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center. Purba has almost two decades of HIV program and research operations experience for projects in the US, Uganda, Kenya, and India.
Study Design
Dec 1, 2022
Dr. Pamela Murnane is an Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics. She is currently working on implementing a risk score to facilitate enhanced adherence support for pregnant and postpartum women at risk of HIV viremia.
Shamba Maisha Study Findings
Nov 17, 2022
Dr. Craig Cohen is a Professor in the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, an Attending Physician at San Francisco General Hospital and co-Director of the University of California Global Health Institute. Drs. Weiser, Cohen, and Bukusi led Shamba Maisha study.
Mentor/Mentee Relationships
October 6, 2022
Zachary Kwena, PhD is a Social Scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).
Infertility in Developing Countries – Scope, Burden and Solutions
Sept 22, 2022
Dr. Anke Hemmerling 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.
Preventing Sexual Violence, Workplace Harassment and Gender-Based Violence: A Mixed Methods Study at Maseno University in Kenya
August 9, 2022
Dr. Karen Nyangara is Lecturer, Researcher, and Gender Advisor at Maseno University and Commonwealth of Learning. Her research interests include gender and development; using technology for gender equality and transformative development; policy and programming in gender. She is focused on advocacy to end on campus and workplace sexual harassment through raising young people to recognize and end gender-based violation of their human rights.
Jennifer A. Wagman, PhD, MHS is an Associate Professor at the Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of California (UC) Los Angeles. She also serves as Director of Violence Prevention Research for the Center for Gender and Health Justice which is part of the UC Global Health Institute. Dr. Wagman conducts both qualitative and quantitative research on gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and alcohol and substance use. With the FIC Sexual Harassment Project at Maseno University, Dr. Wagman services at the PI at UCLA.
Rhoda Musungu is PhD candidate at Maseno University with research interest in Public Health Nutrition with a special focus on adolescent nutrition. She is involved in nutrition education, health promotion, HIV/AIDS and research geared towards changing the perceptions and attitudes towards food, nutrition and diet. She is also passionate about women empowerment, Feminism and Leadership Mentorship for women and girls.
Understanding the needs of key populations, specifically Men who have sex with men (MSM) and female sex workers (FSW)
July 14, 2022
Dr. Eduard Sanders is a Professor of Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford, and is based in Kilifi, Kenya. He is the principal investigator of several observational studies involving mostly men who have sex with men (MSM) and female sex workers (FSW) in Kilifi, and co-recipient of the SANTHE grant. His interest in diagnosing acute HIV infections was inspired by the many MSM who sought health care prior to seroconversion in coastal Kenya, and the opportunity this presents for reducing onward HIV-1 transmission. He currently leads ongoing studies on the utility of clinical algorithms to identify and diagnose young adults with acute HIV infection at various health facilities in Kenya, enabling early treatment, counselling interventions, and assisted partner notification.
Emerging Tools For HIV prevention & treatment; m-Health experiences from the field
June 30, 2022
Dr. Eliud Akama holds an MPH from the UW and is currently a doctoral student at the same University. For past 13 years, He has been a research manager and co-investigator for multiple National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded public health research projects, and a coordinator and technical adviser for a large President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funded HIV treatment and prevention program in western Kenya.
Sex, Drugs, and Stigma: Key and Vulnerable Populations in the HIV Pandemic
June 2, 2022
Dr. Susan M. Graham, MD MPH PhD, is an Associate Professor in Global Health and Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Epidemiology. Dr. Graham is also the Associate Chair for Academic Programs in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.
Vaginal microbiome and metabolome profile in asymptomatic reproductive tract infections and HIV: Potential for new therapies
May 19, 2022
Dr. Obimbo Moses, an associate professor is a clinician-scientist with enthusiasm for promotion of learning, research, teaching and clinical practice. He holds a Postdoc and a Ph.D. in Reproductive Sciences and is a practicing Obstetrician and Gynecologist. He has studied and mentored students on placenta microenvironment, HIV and structural biology. He is also applying novel molecular techniques such as laser capture microdissection, RNA sequencing, -omics (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics), and advanced bioinformatics in aspects of science in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Ethics of community engagement – Research and Collaboration on Mfangano Island
May 5, 2022
Dr. Chas Salmen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and serves as the Director of the UMN-OHR Mfangano Community Health Field Station in Western Kenya. Dr. Salmen brings extensive experience in medical anthropology and community-based research, particularly within HIV hyperendemic fishing communities of Lake Victoria, Kenya.Through a 2007 Rhodes Scholarship to the Oxford University Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Dr. Salmen conducted 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork on Mfangano Island exploring the relationship between the Nile Perch Fishing industry and HIV epidemiology in the region.
Interrupted Time Series (ITS) Analysis
April 21, 2022
Dr. Pamela Murnane is an mplementing a risk score to facilitate enhanced adherence support for pregnant and postpartum women at risk of HIV viremia.
Human Mobility and the HIV Pandemic: Challenges, Questions, Solutions
April 7, 2022
Dr. Carol Camlin is a behavioral scientist and social demographer at UCSF. Her research program crosses the disciplines of behavioral sciences, population studies, and sociology, and has focused on the study of complex and dynamic forms of population mobility in sub-Saharan Africa, and links between gender, mobility and HIV prevention and care outcomes. She also contributes expertise in applying qualitative and mixed methods approaches and behavioral and social theory to clinical and pragmatic trials and implementation studies.
Integrating Aquaculture into the Planetary Health and Wealth Creation Program
March 24, 2022
Dr. Erick Ogello is a scholar and research scientist working as in the Department of Animal and Fisheries Sciences, Maseno University, Kenya. Dr. Ogello holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Fisheries Science from Nagasaki University Japan. He obtained Master of Science Degree in Aquaculture (Great Distinction) at Ghent University, Belgium, and Bachelor of Science Degree in Fisheries (First Class Honors) at Moi University, Kenya. Dr. Ogello is running three projects funded by different agencies, namely 1) Climate Smart Fish Culture Systems Project funded by the Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project (KCSAP), 2) Artemia production for sustainable coastal aquaculture (funded by Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA), 3) Blue-cycling: Integrated aquaculture and agriculture for resource efficient food production funded by Food systems and climate (FOSC) – Horizon-2020.
Research Ethics
March 10, 2022
Dr. Elizabeth Bukus is 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.
Advocacy and scale-up of oral PrEP in Kenya
Feb 11, 2022
Dr. Elizabeth Irungu has a PhD in Global Health Implementation Science at the UW School of Public Health. She also gained skills in academic leadership with the knowledge and competence to address HIV and other health problems of significance in Kenya. Dr. Irungu plays an active role in HIV prevention programming and policy with the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. Dr. Irungu serves in an important public health role as Country Director for a large project that is taking PrEP to scale for HIV sero-discordant couples in Kenya.
Funding priorities at NIMH
Jan 27, 2022
Susannah Allison, PhD, Training Director and Program Officer in the Division of AIDS Research at National Institute of Mental Health.
Climate Change: Implications for Africa, A mental Health View
Jan 13, 2022
Robin Cooper, MD, is a San Francisco psychiatrist who has had a private practice for nearly 40 years and is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of California San Francisco where she has worn many different hats over her career both as educator and supervisor with psychiatric residents and medical students. She is to co-founder and President of Climate Psychiatry Alliance, a group dedicated to understanding, education and advocacy about the specific impacts of climate change on mental health. In addition, she is active member of a number of organizations addressing the interface of climate and health both at the University of California San Francisco medical center, locally in her community and nationally.