Grace Mwashigadi

Datos Biográficos

ID7732771
NOMBREGrace Mwashigadi
NOMBRESGrace
APELLIDOMwashigadi
FIRMAMWASHIGADI G
AFILIACIONESAga Khan University Nairobi
ORCID0000-0002-6321-3287
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2018
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • “Now that the baby is out, I can be vaccinated”

    Open AccessAngela Koech, Onesmus Wanje et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective in pregnancy, but vaccine hesitancy limits uptake and effectiveness. This study explored COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy in Kilifi, coastal Kenya, to elicit reasons for vaccine hesitancy and acceptance, and to compile misconceptions around vaccination in pregnancy. Twenty-three in-depth interviews were conducted with pregnant women, mothers who had given birth in the previous 2 years and health wor…

  • Community engagement approaches and lessons learned

    Open AccessOnesmus Wanje, Angela Koech et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Community engagement (CE) has been recommended as an important ethical consideration for health research to enhance informed consent and exchange knowledge between researchers and community members. The purpose of this paper is to describe how CE was developed and delivered for the PRECISE prospective pregnancy cohort study in Kenya. PRECISE enrolled pregnant women in antenatal care, followed them up to the postpartum period, and collected data a…

  • Community perspectives on maternal dietary diversity in rural Kenya, Mozambique and The Gambia

    Open AccessMai‐lei Woo Kinshella, Shilla Dama et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Pregnant and lactating women in sub-Saharan Africa are vulnerable to micronutrient inadequacies, with risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Adequate intakes of diverse foods are associated with better micronutrient status and recommended by the World Health Organization as part of healthy eating counselling during antenatal care. However, our understanding of community knowledge of dietary diversity within the context of maternal diets is limited. …

  • Postpartum recovery after severe maternal morbidity in Kilifi, Kenya

    Open AccessUrsula Gazeley, Marvine Caren Ochieng et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: The burden of severe maternal morbidity is highest in sub-Saharan Africa, and its relative contribution to maternal (ill) health may increase as maternal mortality continues to fall. Women's perspective of their long-term recovery following severe morbidity beyond the standard 42-day postpartum period remains largely unexplored. METHODS: This woman-centred, grounded theory study was nested within the Pregnancy Care Integrating Trans…

  • Sars-CoV-2 seroprevalence in pregnant women in Kilifi, Kenya from March 2020 to March 2022

    Open AccessAngela Koech, Geoffrey Omuse et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Seroprevalence studies are an alternative approach to estimating the extent of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the evolution of the pandemic in different geographical settings. We aimed to determine the SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence from March 2020 to March 2022 in a rural and urban setting in Kilifi County, Kenya. Methods: We obtained representative random samples of stored serum from a pregnancy cohort study for the period March 2020 to …

  • An Empiric Risk Score to Guide PrEP Targeting Among MSM in Coastal Kenya

    Open AccessElizabeth Wahome, Alexander N Thiong’o et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2018

    Men who have sex with men (MSM), who have heterogeneous HIV-acquisition risks are not specifically targeted in Kenyan pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) guidelines. We used data from an open cohort, which followed 753 initially HIV-negative MSM participants for more than 1378.5 person-years, to develop an empiric risk score for targeting PrEP delivery. Independent predictors of incident HIV-1 infection in this cohort were an age of 18-24 years, havi…