Catherine Kyobutungi

Biographic Data

ID3562576
NAMECatherine Kyobutungi
GIVEN NAMESCatherine
FAMILY NAMEKyobutungi
SIGNATUREKYOBUTUNGI C
AFFILIATIONSAfrican Population and Health Research Center
ORCID0000-0002-5344-5631
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS81
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT76
EDITOR COUNT5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Water against stone

    Open AccessJulia Robinson, Manuela De Allegri et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

  • Visa restrictions

    Open AccessLuchuo Engelbert Bain, Samuel Akombeng Ojong et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

  • Trends in demographic and health survey publications based on a bibliometric analysis

    Open AccessEvans Omondi, Symon M Kariuki et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    Background The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, launched in 1984, provides high-quality population health data that underpins a vast body of global health research. However, the scale and growth patterns of DHS-based publications remain underexplored, particularly as donor funding uncertainties threaten program sustainability.Objective We examine temporal trends in DHS-based research output from 1984 to 2025, quantifying growth patte…

  • Recovery and long-term health outcomes of Sars-CoV-2 infection in a prospective cohort in an urban setting, Kenya

    Open AccessIsaac Kisiangani, Ângela Jornada Ben et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    Background Evidence on long COVID remains limited in sub-Saharan countries.Objective This study explored the occurrence of COVID-19-related symptoms and factors affecting recovery and long COVID severity in Nairobi, Kenya.Methods A prospective cohort of individuals testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 between February 2022 and February 2023 was followed until June 2023. COVID-19-related symptoms were assessed every three months. Time to recovery was a…

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • Navigating time equity

    Open AccessSharifah Sekalala, Shajoe Lake et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been a surge in calls for equity to protect the world from future crises. Calls have emphasized equitable distribution of vaccines, a fair access and benefit sharing (ABS) system, and health systems strengthening, all leading to negotiation of a Pandemic Treaty

  • Strengthening diagnostic capacity in Africa as a key pillar of public health and pandemic preparedness

    Open AccessKenji O Mfuh, Ngu Njei Abanda et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

  • All hands on deck

    Open AccessKolawole Maxwell, Elisabeth G Chestnutt et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Between 2000 and 2015, great progress was made to drive down malaria, with incidence and mortality rates from the disease falling by 27% and 50% respectively [1]. This was a result of effective programming and the increased global attention and funding for the disease. However, since 2015 the mortality rate has fallen by less than 2% and the funding gap has continued to widen from US$ 2.6 billion in 2019 to US$ 3.8 billion in 2021 [1]. The COVID-…

  • 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…

  • Editors as allies

    Open AccessJulia Robinson, Catherine Kyobutungi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The mission of PLOS Global Public Health is to address deeply entrenched inequities in global health and make impactful research visible and accessible to health professionals, policymakers, and local communities. We are committed to amplifying the voices of underrepresented and historically excluded communities and are deliberate and intentional about equity, diversity, and inclusion at all levels-editors, editorial boards, peer reviewers and au…

  • Global health and the elite capture of decolonization

    Open AccessDaniel W Krugman, Catherine KyobutungiARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Global Health is experiencing a moment of reckoning over the field’s legacy and current structuring in a world facing multiple, intersecting challenges to health. While “decolonization” has emerged as the dominant frame to imagine change in the field, what the concept refers to and entails has become increasingly unclear. Despite warnings, the concept is now being used by elite Global North institutions and organization to imagine their reformati…

  • How we classify countries and people—and why it matters

    Open AccessThemrise Khan, Seye Abimbola et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Telling our own story in global health–experience from Nigeria

    Open AccessChikwe Ihekweazu, Ifedayo Adetifa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019

    Open AccessBin Zhou, Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

    BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…

  • Analysis of OpenStreetMap Data Quality at Different Stages of a Participatory Mapping Process

    Open AccessGodwin Yeboah, João Porto De Albuquerque et al.ARTICLEISPRS International Journal of…2021

    This paper examines OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process in seven slums in Africa and Asia. Data were drawn from an OpenStreetMap-based participatory mapping process developed as part of a research project focusing on understanding inequalities in healthcare access of slum residents in the Global South. Descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis were employed to examine the following research ques…

  • PLOS Global Public Health, charting a new path towards equity, diversity and inclusion in global health

    Open AccessCatherine Kyobutungi, Julia Robinson et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2021

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories

    Open AccessAndrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea Rodriguez‐Martinez et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …

  • Impact of the societal response to Covid-19 on access to healthcare for non-Covid-19 health issues in slum communities of Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan

    Open AccessSyed Ahsanuddin Ahmed, Motunrayo Ajisola et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: With COVID-19, there is urgency for policymakers to understand and respond to the health needs of slum communities. Lockdowns for pandemic control have health, social and economic consequences. We consider access to healthcare before and during COVID-19 with those working and living in slum communities. METHODS: In seven slums in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan, we explored stakeholder perspectives and experiences of healthc…

  • Measurement and accountability for maternal, newborn and child health

    Open AccessTanya Marchant, Ties Boerma et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    At the onset of the Sustainable Development Goals, in 2015, a group of global health experts delivered a call to action for an improved measurement system for women's and children's health. Five principles were defined, including having a focused set of core indicators, making data relevant to countries, investing in innovations, embedding equity measures and supportive global leadership. Five years later, in 2020, a second meeting reviewed progr…

  • Enhancing science preparedness for health emergencies in Africa through research capacity building

    Open AccessSamson Kinyanjui, Sharon Fonn et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

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  • Need for an Integrated Deprived Area "Slum" Mapping System (Ideamaps) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)

    Open AccessDana R Thomson, Monika Kuffer et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2020Cited by: 13References: 34

    Ninety percent of the people added to the planet over the next 30 years will live in African and Asian cities, and a large portion of these populations will reside in deprived neighborhoods defined by slum conditions, informal settlement, or inadequate housing. The four current approaches to neighborhood deprivation mapping are largely siloed, and each fall short of producing accurate, timely, and comparable maps that reflect local contexts. The …

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Open AccessNCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Honor Bixby et al.ARTICLENature2019

    Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…

  • Magnitude and predictors of normal-weight central obesity– the AWI-Gen study findings

    Open AccessShukri F Mohamed, Tilahun Haregu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Background: Normal-weight central obesity is associated with higher mortality than general obesity as defined by body mass index, particularly in the absence of central fat distribution.Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the magnitude and predictors of normal-weight central obesity in an urban informal settlement setting in Kenya.Methods: We used data from the AWI-Gen study, a cross-sectional survey targeting randomly selected consen…

  • 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…

  • A comparison of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by household socioeconomic status across seven INDEPTH network health and demographic surveillance systems in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessMatthew M Coates, Mamusu Kamanda et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    BACKGROUND: Understanding socioeconomic disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality can help inform prevention and treatment strategies. OBJECTIVES: To quantify cause-specific mortality rates by socioeconomic status across seven health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) in five countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Nigeria) in the INDEPTH Network in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: We linked demographic residence data…