Daniel Mwai

Biographic Data

ID1971701
NAMEDaniel Mwai
GIVEN NAMESDaniel
FAMILY NAMEMwai
SIGNATUREMWAI D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nairobi
ORCID0000-0002-6750-9480
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • A snapshot of how U.S. funding cuts impacted HIV care in one county of Kenya

    Open AccessErica Sedlander, Kyla Lawson et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction In January 2025, the United States government froze most foreign assistance and issued a 90-day stop-work order affecting many global health, education, and nutrition programs. Methods Using a qualitative case study approach, we examined perceptions about experiences around how this abrupt funding disruption affected HIV care in one county in Kenya through in-depth interviews with women and men living with HIV and with healthcare pro…

  • Productivity benefits of treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in Kenya

    Open AccessDaniel Mwai, Susan M Meffert et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) significantly contribute to the global disease burden, adversely affecting health, medical costs and economic productivity. The SMART-DAPPER project in western Kenya approached this challenge by deploying trained non-specialists to administer proven depression and PTSD treatments. METHODS: Participants were public sector primary care outpatients at Kiumu County Hospital with major…

  • The effect of indoor air pollution on under-five child health in South Sudan

    Open AccessEmmanuel Pitia Zacharia Lado, Japheth Osotsi Awiti et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Cooking elsewhere inside houses but not in the kitchens while using biomass for cooking has been dangerous for the health of children under the age of five. To save lives, especially those of children, cooking should be done either in a kitchen or outside of houses in the interim while moving towards clean energy for cooking

  • Assessing readiness for implementation of psychedelic-assisted mental health therapy, in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessKevin Lam, Caroline Griffin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychedelic Studies2025References: 21

    Mental health disorders (MHD) rank among the top 10 global causes of disease burden, with significant economic and social costs. Current treatments often have limited efficacy or tolerability, and there has been little recent innovation in treatments. In the past decade, clinical research on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies (PAT) for treating MHD has increased in high-income countries, while most MHD burdens are in low and middle-income countries. …

  • Defining a screening tool for post-traumatic stress disorder in East Africa

    Open AccessSusan M Meffert, Muthoni Mathai et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: Scalable PTSD screening strategies must be brief, accurate and capable of administration by a non-specialized workforce. Methods: We used PTSD as determined by the structured clinical interview as our gold standard and considered predictors sets of (a) Posttraumatic Stress Checklist-5 (PCL-5), (b) Primary Care PTSD Screen for the DSM-5 (PC-PTSD) and, (c) PCL-5 and PC-PTSD questions to identify the optimal items for PTSD screening for …

  • Estimating the economic impact of Covid-19 disruption on access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Eastern and Southern Africa

    Open AccessHillary Kipruto, Hillary Kipchumba Kipruto et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) resulted in the disruption of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) services in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. To date, studies estimating the impact of COVID-19 disruptions have mainly focused on SRHR services without estimating the economic implication. Method: We used national service coverage data on the effectiveness of interventions from the lives saved tool (LiST), a mathe…

  • Prevalence, patterns, and factors associated with tobacco use among patients with priority tobacco related illnesses at four Kenyan national referral hospitals, 2022

    Open AccessValerian Mwenda, Lazarus Odeny et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Tobacco use is a risk factor for many chronic health conditions. Quantifying burden of tobacco use among people with tobacco-related illnesses (TRI) can strengthen cessation programs. This study estimated prevalence, patterns and correlates of tobacco use among patients with TRI at four national referral hospitals in Kenya. We conducted a cross-sectional study among patients with five TRI (cancer, cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular disease,…

  • Research for Actionable Policies

    Open AccessSujha Subramanian, Joseph Kibachio et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2017

    ow-to middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately affected by the rise in prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). According to the World Health Organization, four groups of diseases-cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and diabetes -comprise 82% of NCD deaths worldwide and three-quarters of the deaths related to NCD occur in LMIC In Sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank estimates that nearly 46% of all deaths will b…

  • Expectations about future health and longevity in Kenyan and Ugandan communities receiving a universal test-and-treat intervention in the SEARCH trial

    Open AccessHarsha Thirumurthy, Aleksandra Jakubowski et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2016

    Expectations about future health and longevity are important determinants of individuals' decisions to invest in physical and human capital. Few population-level studies have measured subjective expectations and examined how they are affected by scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART). We assessed these expectations in communities receiving annual HIV testing and universal ART. Longitudinal data on expectations were collected at baseline and one…