Evelyn Gitau

Datos Biográficos

ID6893038
NOMBREEvelyn Gitau
NOMBRESEvelyn
APELLIDOGitau
FIRMAGITAU E
AFILIACIONESAfrican Population and Health Research Center
ORCID0000-0002-5270-7492
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Accelerating achievement for Africa’s adolescents

    Open AccessLorraine Sherr, Lucie D Cluver et al.ARTICLEContemporary Social Science2025Referencias: 6

    By 2050, one in four people in the world will live in Africa. The region’s adolescents are our present and future but need effective services to support their holistic health and wellbeing, advance their education, allow them to flourish, and protect them from adversity. This paper reviews evidence for a new concept of ‘development accelerators’: interventions that can help achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals simultaneously. Across 26 …

  • Mentorship in health research institutions in Africa

    Open AccessMaurine Ng’oda, Peter Muriuki Gatheru et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Background In Africa, where the burden of diseases is disproportionately high, significant challenges arise from a shortage of skilled researchers, lack of research funding, and limited mentorship opportunities. The continent faces a substantial gap in research output largely attributed to the dearth of mentorship opportunities for early career researchers. Objective To explore existing mentorship approaches, identify challenges, gaps, successes,…

  • Embedding research capacity strengthening in multi-country studies in low-and middle-income countries

    Open AccessAnne M Khisa, Hesborn Wao et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Research capacity strengthening (RCS) can empower individuals, institutions, networks, or countries to define and prioritize problems systematically; develop and scientifically evaluate appropriate solutions; and reinforce or improve capacities to translate knowledge into policy and practice. However, how to embed RCS into multi-country studies focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is largely undocumented. We used findings …

  • From vaccine to visa apartheid, how anti-Blackness persists in global health

    Open AccessCatherine Kyobutungi, Arlene L Gardner et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    What do history and fighting with your brother or sister have in common? Conflict. Looking at the history of national interactions over the centuries, we see a recurrence of conflicts frequently leading to wars that cost dearly in terms of lives, property, the environment, and the well-being of society. Although conflicts are an unavoidable part of personal and national life, we can learn how to deal with them constructively and non-violently. Th…

  • Alcohol use among people who inject drugs living with HIV in Kenya is associated with needle sharing, more new sex partners, and lower engagement in HIV care

    Open AccessNicholas R DesLauriers, N DesLauriers et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2023

  • Sars-CoV-2 seroprevalence in three Kenyan health and demographic surveillance sites, December 2020-May 2021

    Open AccessAnthony Etyang, Ifedayo Adetifa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Background Most of the studies that have informed the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya have relied on samples that are not representative of the general population. We conducted population-based serosurveys at three Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSSs) to determine the cumulative incidence of infection with SARS-CoV-2. Methods We selected random age-stratified population-based samples at HDSSs in Kisumu, Nai…

  • Cognitive testing of a survey instrument to assess sexual practices, behaviours, and health outcomes

    Open AccessLianne Gonsalves, Erin C Hunter et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Population level data on sexual practices, behaviours and health-related outcomes can ensure that responsive, relevant health services are available for all people of all ages. However, while billions of dollars have been invested in attempting to improve sexual and reproductive health (including HIV) outcomes, far less is understood about associated sexual practices and behaviours. Therefore, the World Health Organization embarked on…

  • Effective supervision of doctoral students in public and population health in Africa

    Open AccessJude Igumbor, E N Bosire et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020

    The quality and success of postgraduate education largely rely on effective supervision. Since its inception in 2008, the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) has been at the forefront of providing training to both students and supervisors in the field of public and population health. However, there are few studies on supervisors' perceptions on effective doctoral supervision. We used a mostly descriptive study design to re…

  • Gender responsive multidisciplinary doctoral training program

    Open AccessAnne M Khisa, Peter Ngure et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Doctoral training has increasingly become the requirement for faculty in institutions of higher learning in Africa. Africa, however, still lacks sufficient capacity to conduct research, with just 1.4% of all published research authored by African researchers. Similarly, women in Sub-Saharan Africa only constitute 30% of the continent's researchers, and correspondingly publish little research. Challenging these gendered inequities requires a gende…