Samwel Mgunga

Biographic Data

ID4218320
NAMESamwel Mgunga
GIVEN NAMESSamwel
FAMILY NAMEMgunga
SIGNATUREMGUNGA S
AFFILIATIONSNational Institute for Medical Research
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Cost-Effectiveness of a Digital Parenting Intervention for Reducing Violence and Related Health Burden Among Adolescents in Tanzania

    Open AccessAbigail Ornellas, Jonathan Menno Klapwijk et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • Acceptability and cultural appropriateness of a parenting programme to reduce violence against adolescents in Tanzania delivered at scale

    Open AccessJoyce Wamoyi, Mackenzie Martin et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    Although parenting programmes may be effective at reducing violence against children (VAC), there is a limited understanding on how acceptable and appropriate such programmes are among parents/caregivers ('caregivers') when delivered at scale. This paper explores the acceptability and cultural appropriateness of a parenting programme for caregivers and their adolescent girls, Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens (PLH-Teens), which was delivere…

  • Reducing family and school-based violence at scale

    Open AccessJ M Lachman, Joyce Wamoyi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Parenting programmes, including those delivered in the Global South, are effective strategies to reduce violence against children (VAC). However, there is limited evidence of their impact when implemented at scale within routine delivery systems. This study aimed to address this gap by evaluating the real-world delivery of Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens in Tanzania. METHODS: Participating parents/caregivers and their adolesce…

  • A win-win scenario? Employers’ responses to HIV in Tanzania

    Open AccessKevin Deane, Joyce Wamoyi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Workplaces have been increasingly promoted as key sites for HIV interventions, with cost-benefit analyses employed to demonstrate the financial benefits to employers for implementing workplace HIV programmes. In these analyses, the potential costs of having HIV positive employees are weighed against the costs of the workplace programmes. Despite evidence that shows some firms have saved significant sums of money through these interventions, the g…

  • HIV testing attitudes and practices amongst 'wealthy men'

    Open AccessKevin Deane, Joyce Wamoyi et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2022

    Evidence from nationally representative surveys conducted in sub-Saharan Africa shows that significant proportions of men in the wealthiest quintile report never having tested for HIV. Despite high prevalence rates in this quintile, no research has been conducted on the HIV testing attitudes and practices of wealthier men. This article reports findings from qualitative research conducted with 23 wealthy men in Tanzania. Whilst wealthy men reporte…

  • Why Me? Challenges Associated With Recruiting Participants for a Study Focusing on 'Wealthy Men

    Open AccessKevin Deane, Joyce Wamoyi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019Cited by: 1References: 35

    It is well-known that conducting research with elite groups presents a range of unique methodological challenges including gaining access to and recruiting a demographic group that is underrepresented if not entirely absent from most research. This issue is particularly pronounced when the research topic is sensitive or potentially politicized and conducted in low-income settings in which large wealth inequalities are apparent. Drawing on recent …