Doris Kwesiga

Biographic Data

ID7751840
NAMEDoris Kwesiga
GIVEN NAMESDoris
FAMILY NAMEKwesiga
SIGNATUREKWESIGA D
AFFILIATIONSMakerere University
ORCID0000-0002-6811-5643
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Examining gender as an issue of policy priority

    Open AccessHenry Owoko Odero, Doris Kwesiga et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Despite global and national commitments to gender equity, including Sustainable Development Goal 5, health policy processes often fail to adequately integrate gender considerations. This study explores how gender is prioritized in the development and implementation of four Kenyan Health Policy Implementation Strategies (HPIS), offering insight into the role of institutional actors, policy framing, and contextual factors. Methods: A qu…

  • Unwrapping the Global Financing Facility

    Open AccessMary V Kinney, Doris Kwesiga et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    The Global Financing Facility (GFF), launched in 2015, aims to catalyse funding for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, and nutrition. Few independent assessments have evaluated its processes and impact. We conducted a multi-layered policy analysis of GFF documents - the Investment Cases (ICs) and the GFF-linked World Bank Project Appraisal Documents (PADs) - examining the content of GFF documents for 28 countries, comp…

  • Policy analysis of the Global Financing Facility in Uganda

    Open AccessPhillip Wanduru, Doris Kwesiga et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: In 2015, Uganda joined the Global Financing Facility (GFF), a Global Health Initiative for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH). Similar initiatives have been found to be powerful entities influencing national policy and priorities in Uganda, but few independent studies have assessed the GFF. OBJECTIVE: To understand the policy process and contextual factors in Uganda that influenced the content of th…

  • Psychosocial effects of adverse pregnancy outcomes and their influence on reporting pregnancy loss during surveys and surveillance

    Open AccessDoris Kwesiga, Phillip Wanduru et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Psychosocial effects of APOs may influence respondents' interest and ability to effectively engage in an interview. Findings suggest that a multi-pronged approach, including interviewer training in identifying and dealing responsively with grieving respondents, and meeting needs for health information and professional counselling could improve reporting of APOs in surveys and surveillance settings. More so, participants need to understand the pur…

  • “Every Newborn-INDEPTH” (EN-INDEPTH) study protocol for a randomised comparison of household survey modules for measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in five Health and Demographic Surveillance si…

    Open AccessAngela Baschieri, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: may underestimate mortality rates particularly for stillbirths. METHODS: and FPH to measure pregnancy outcomes in a household survey in five selected INDEPTH Network sites in Africa and South Asia (Bandim in urban and rural Guinea-Bissau; Dabat in Ethiopia; IgangaMayuge in Uganda; Kintampo in Ghana; Matlab in Bangladesh). The survey will reach >68 000 pregnancies to assess if there is ≥15% difference in stillbirth rates. Additional qu…

  • Prenatal hepatitis B screening and associated factors in a high prevalence district of Lira, northern Uganda

    Open AccessPaul Semakula Katamba, David Mukunya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    The level of HBV screening among pregnant women in Lira was low and is mainly associated with perceived risk, age, access to HBV screening services and spousal education level. More effort is needed in creating mass awareness on the need and importance of HBV screening most especially among pregnant women

  • Prevalence and factors associated with utilization of rehabilitation services among people with physical disabilities in Kampala, Uganda. A descriptive cross sectional study

    Open AccessSwaibu Zziwa, Harriet M Babikako et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    The study revealed a prevalence of 26.4% of the utilization rehabilitation services among people with physical disabilities in Kawempe division, Uganda. Factors that were significantly associated with utilization of rehabilitation services included; age, socioeconomic status, education level and awareness of the participants about the services. Therefore, the government and other relevant stake holders should increase sensitization and awareness …