Dennis Waithaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 6330900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Waithaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Waithaka |
| SIGNATURE | WAITHAKA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenya Medical Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2879-5226 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Examining epidemiological models and economic analyses of typhoid conjugate vaccine
Typhoid remains a public health concern across many low- and middle-income countries. This scoping review summarized and mapped evidence from epidemiological models and economic analyses of typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV). We included studies on the cost of illness of typhoid, the cost of vaccination, cost-effectiveness, and public health impact of TCV. A search was conducted across five databases and followed the Arksey and O’Malley’s methodolog…
An innovative leadership development initiative to support building everyday resilience in health systems
Effective management and leadership are essential for everyday health system resilience, but actors charged with these roles are often underprepared and undersupported to perform them. Particular challenges have been observed in interpersonal and relational aspects of health managers’ work, including communication skills, emotional competence and supportive oversight. Within the Resilient and Responsive Health Systems (RESYST) consortium in Kenya…
Prolonged health worker strikes in Kenya- perspectives and experiences of frontline health managers and local communities in Kilifi County
Strikes cannot be seen in isolation of the prevailing policy and health systems context. The 2017 prolonged strikes highlight the underlying and longer-term frustration amongst public sector health workers in Kenya. The health system exhibited properties of complex adaptive systems that are interdependent and interactive. Reactive responses within the public system and the use of private healthcare led to limited continued activity through the st…
Shocks, stress and everyday health system resilience
Health systems are faced with a wide variety of challenges. As complex adaptive systems, they respond differently and sometimes in unexpected ways to these challenges. We set out to examine the challenges experienced by the health system at a sub-national level in Kenya, a country that has recently undergone rapid devolution, using an ‘everyday resilience’ lens. We focussed on chronic stressors, rather than acute shocks in examining the responses…
Shocks, stress and everyday health system resilience
Health systems are faced with a wide variety of challenges. As complex adaptive systems, they respond differently and sometimes in unexpected ways to these challenges. We set out to examine the challenges experienced by the health system at a sub-national level in Kenya, a country that has recently undergone rapid devolution, using an ‘everyday resilience’ lens. We focussed on chronic stressors, rather than acute shocks in examining the responses…
Prolonged health worker strikes in Kenya- perspectives and experiences of frontline health managers and local communities in Kilifi County
Strikes cannot be seen in isolation of the prevailing policy and health systems context. The 2017 prolonged strikes highlight the underlying and longer-term frustration amongst public sector health workers in Kenya. The health system exhibited properties of complex adaptive systems that are interdependent and interactive. Reactive responses within the public system and the use of private healthcare led to limited continued activity through the st…
Shocks, stress and everyday health system resilience
Health systems are faced with a wide variety of challenges. As complex adaptive systems, they respond differently and sometimes in unexpected ways to these challenges. We set out to examine the challenges experienced by the health system at a sub-national level in Kenya, a country that has recently undergone rapid devolution, using an ‘everyday resilience’ lens. We focussed on chronic stressors, rather than acute shocks in examining the responses…
An innovative leadership development initiative to support building everyday resilience in health systems
Effective management and leadership are essential for everyday health system resilience, but actors charged with these roles are often underprepared and undersupported to perform them. Particular challenges have been observed in interpersonal and relational aspects of health managers’ work, including communication skills, emotional competence and supportive oversight. Within the Resilient and Responsive Health Systems (RESYST) consortium in Kenya…
Examining epidemiological models and economic analyses of typhoid conjugate vaccine
Typhoid remains a public health concern across many low- and middle-income countries. This scoping review summarized and mapped evidence from epidemiological models and economic analyses of typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV). We included studies on the cost of illness of typhoid, the cost of vaccination, cost-effectiveness, and public health impact of TCV. A search was conducted across five databases and followed the Arksey and O’Malley’s methodolog…
Political science (3 works) · Disaster Response and Management (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Psychological resilience (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public health (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)