Research and Publications
Reimagining Wearable-Based Digital Contact Tracing: Insights from Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire
This study explores how wearable digital contact tracing technologies can be adapted for African contexts, emphasizing the importance of community-centered and culturally responsive digital health solutions.
Healthcare provider and parent perceptions of newborn care and referral pathways in three hospitals in western Kenya.
This study examines challenges in newborn care and referral systems in Western Kenya, highlighting gaps in equipment, thermal care, and timely referrals for small and sick newborns.
Simulating the blood transfusion system in Kenya: Modelling methods and exploratory analyses
This study uses discrete event simulation to model Kenya’s blood transfusion system and assess how changes in collection, demand, and distribution affect blood availability for patients.
Feasibility, performance and acceptability of an innovative vital signs monitor for sick newborns in Western Kenya: A mixed-methods study
This study assesses a low-cost wearable device for monitoring sick newborns in Kenya, highlighting its potential to support continuous care in low-resource settings and key implementation challenges.
Protocol: identifying policy, system, and environment change interventions to enhance availability of blood for transfusion in Kenya, a mixed-methods study
This study examines health system barriers and enablers to implementing integrated care in Kenya, highlighting key challenges in coordination, resources, and service delivery.
A Comprehensive Approach to Medical Oxygen Ecosystem Building: An Implementation Case Study in Kenya, Rwanda, and Ethiopia
This study examines health system barriers and enablers to implementing integrated care in Kenya, highlighting key challenges in coordination, resources, and service delivery.
Virtual Faculty Development in Simulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Training for Pediatricians in Kisumu, Kenya
This study examines neonatal care in low-resource settings, highlighting gaps in managing small and sick newborns and the need for stronger clinical support and systems.
Building the future of access to safe blood in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study examines challenges in blood transfusion systems in low-resource settings, highlighting gaps in access, safety, and coordination, and the need for system-level improvements to ensure timely blood availability for patients.
How Industrial Engineers work with Trauma Surgeons, Public Health Researchers, Pathologists, and OB/GYNs to solve Wicked Health Systems Challenges: Takeaways from a Multi-Disciplinary Team
This study uses engineering and clinical collaboration to improve blood transfusion systems in low-resource settings. By mapping and simulating the “vein-to-vein” process, it identifies inefficiencies and proposes ways to improve access to safe, timely blood.
A feasibility study evaluating a reservoir storage system for continuous oxygen delivery for children with hypoxemia in Kenya
This study tested a new oxygen device (MPR) designed to maintain continuous oxygen supply during power outages in low-resource hospitals. It performed reliably in both simulated and clinical settings in rural Kenya and was well received by healthcare workers, showing promise for improving pediatric care.
Assessing the global burden of hemorrhage: The global blood supply, deficits, and potential solutions
This study explores gaps in the blood transfusion system in low- and middle-income countries, highlighting how inefficiencies across the supply chain limit access to safe, timely blood. It calls for system-level improvements to reduce preventable deaths from conditions like trauma and obstetric hemorrhage.
Improving Hospital Oxygen Systems for COVID-19 in Low-Resource Settings: Lessons From the Field
This article discusses lessons for strengthening hospital oxygen systems in low- and middle-income countries, highlighting gaps such as unreliable supply, weak infrastructure, and limited clinical use of oxygen therapy. It emphasizes practical interventions like improved pulse oximetry, better maintenance, and stronger oxygen delivery systems to improve patient outcomes.
Oxygen insecurity and mortality in resource-constrained healthcare facilities in rural Kenya
This study examines oxygen insecurity in rural Kenyan health facilities and its contribution to preventable child mortality. It highlights gaps in oxygen availability, equipment, and reliable power supply, showing how these system failures affect the management of severe respiratory illness in children.
Effective training-of-trainers model for the introduction of continuous positive airway pressure for neonatal and paediatric patients in Kenya
This study examines oxygen insecurity in rural Kenyan health facilities and its contribution to preventable child mortality. It highlights gaps in oxygen availability, equipment, and reliable power supply, showing how these system failures affect the management of severe respiratory illness in children.