Dorcas Kamuya

Dados Biográficos

ID2297257
NOMEDorcas Kamuya
PRENOMESDorcas
SOBRENOMEKamuya
ASSINATURAKAMUYA D
AFILIAÇÕESKenya Medical Research Institute
ORCID0000-0001-7107-1736
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS14
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES35
TOTAL COMO AUTOR14
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2008
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H3

  • Ethical preparedness of data monitoring committees (DMCs) to oversee international clinical trials

    Open AccessAlex Hinga, Akram Ibrahim et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: A data monitoring committee (DMC) is an independent group of experts who assess the ongoing scientific and ethical integrity of a study through periodic analyses of study data. The objective of this study was to explore the extent to which the structure, membership and deliberations of DMCs enable them to address ethical issues. METHODS: We conducted qualitative individual interviews (n=22) with DMC members from countries across Afr…

  • Community engagement and the centrality of ‘working relationships’ in health research

    Open AccessRobin Vincent, Dorcas Kamuya et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Community engagement (CE) is widely accepted as a critical aspect of health research because of its potential to make research more ethical, relevant and well implemented. Although CE activities linked to international health research involving Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs; see author note) have proliferated and are increasingly described in published literature, there is a lack of conceptual clarity around how engagement is understood …

  • The hidden emotional labour behind ensuring the social value of research

    Open AccessJacinta Nzinga, Jacquie Narotso Oliwa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is a multi-disciplinary, largely applied field of research aimed at understanding and strengthening the performance of health systems, often with an emphasis on power, policy and equity. The value of embedded and participatory HPSR specifically in facilitating the collection of rich data that is relevant to addressing real-world challenges is increasingly recognised. However, the potential contributions a…

  • Undertaking Community Engagement for a Controlled Human Malaria Infection Study in Kenya

    Open AccessNoni Mumba, Patricia Njuguna et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Human infection studies (HIS) involve deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with disease-causing pathogens under controlled conditions. These studies are “controlled” by way of using specific types of pathogens, including dose, and the availability of emergency medical facilities to research volunteers. Most HIS involve diseases whose treatment is known and are done to accelerate the development of novel therapeutics such as vaccines, to addr…

  • Justice

    Open AccessBoriana Pratt, Verina Wild et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is increasingly being funded and conducted worldwide. There are currently no specific guidelines or criteria for the ethical review and conduct of HPSR. Academic debates on HPSR ethics in the scholarly literature can inform the development of guidelines. Yet there is a deficiency of academic bioethics work relating to justice in HPSR. This gap is especially problematic for a field like HPSR, which can ent…

  • Deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with malaria parasites

    Open AccessIrene Jao, Vicki Marsh et al.ARTICLEBioethics2020

    Controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) studies involve the deliberate infection of healthy volunteers with malaria parasites under controlled conditions to study immune responses and/or test drug or vaccine efficacy. An empirical ethics study was embedded in a CHMI study at a Kenyan research programme to explore stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences of deliberate infection and moral implications of these. Data for this qualitative study we…

  • Involving Research Stakeholders in Developing Policy on Sharing Public Health Research Data in Kenya

    Open AccessIrene Jao, Francis Kombe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2015Citada por: 5Referências: 3

    Increased global sharing of public health research data has potential to advance scientific progress but may present challenges to the interests of research stakeholders, particularly in low-to-middle income countries. Policies for data sharing should be responsive to public views, but there is little evidence of the systematic study of these from low-income countries. This qualitative study explored views on fair data-sharing processes among 60 …

  • Feedback of Research Findings for Vaccine Trials

    Open AccessCaroline Gikonyo, Dorcas Kamuya et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2013

    Internationally, calls for feedback of findings to be made an ‘ethical imperative’ or mandatory have been met with both strong support and opposition. Challenges include differences in issues by type of study and context, disentangling between aggregate and individual study results, and inadequate empirical evidence on which to draw. In this paper we present data from observations and interviews with key stakeholders involved in feeding back aggr…

  • Working with C ommunity H ealth W orkers as ‘ V olunteers’ in a Vaccine Trial

    Open AccessVibian Angwenyi, Dorcas Kamuya et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2013

    C ommunity engagement is increasingly emphasized in biomedical research, as a right in itself, and to strengthen ethical practice. We draw on interviews and observations to consider the practical and ethical implications of involving C ommunity H ealth W orkers ( CHWs ) as part of a community engagement strategy for a vaccine trial on the K enyan C oast. CHWs were initially engaged as an important network to be informed about the trial. However o…

  • Field Workers at the Interface

    Open AccessSassy Molyneux, Dorcas Kamuya et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2013

    This issue of Developing World Bioethics includes a collection of papers on intermediary staff and volunteers working at the interface between research institutions and researchers, and the communities from which research participants are recruited. ‘Field worker’ – a short hand commonly used in many research settings – refers here to those whose main role is face-to-face engagement with participants, who usually speak the participants’ first lan…

  • Engaging Communities to Strengthen Research Ethics in Low‐Income Settings

    Open AccessDorcas Kamuya, Dorcas M Kamuya et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2013

    There is wide agreement that community engagement is important for many research types and settings, often including interaction with ‘representatives’ of communities. There is relatively little published experience of community engagement in international research settings, with available information focusing on Community Advisory Boards or Groups ( CAB / CAGs ), or variants of these, where CAB / G members often advise researchers on behalf of t…

  • Evolving Friendships and Shifting Ethical Dilemmas

    Open AccessDorcas Kamuya, Dorcas M Kamuya et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2013

    Fieldworkers ( FWs ) are community members employed by research teams to support access to participants, address language barriers, and advise on culturally appropriate research conduct. The critical role that FWs play in studies, and the range of practical and ethical dilemmas associated with their involvement, is increasingly recognised. In this paper, we draw on qualitative observation and interview data collected alongside a six month basic s…

  • All her children are born that way’

    Vicki Marsh, Vicki M Marsh et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2011Citada por: 11Referências: 8

    Mothers of children with SCD were particularly vulnerable to stigmatisation within families, with underlying structural influences that suggest these findings may apply to other similar settings in Africa, and have relevance for other genetic conditions. The potential, nature and form of stigmatisation point to the role of effective communication and SCD management in addressing for blame and discriminative effects of having a child with SCD. The…

  • Beginning community engagement at a busy biomedical research programme

    Open AccessVicki Marsh, Dorcas Kamuya et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2008Citada por: 19Referências: 30

    Recent debates have described theoretical approaches to identifying situations where this is most critical and potential mechanisms to achieve it. However, there is relatively little published experience of community engagement in practice. A major component of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Wellcome Trust Research Programme is centred on Kilifi District General Hospital and surrounding community of 240,000 local residents. Document…