Boniface Oyugi

Biographic Data

ID9001268
NAMEBoniface Oyugi
GIVEN NAMESBoniface
FAMILY NAMEOyugi
SIGNATUREOYUGI B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kent
ORCID0000-0002-9550-9138
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The Ethiopian emergency medical team

    Open AccessBoniface Oyugi, Nahom Tadelle et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Ethiopia faces climate shocks, conflict, food insecurity, and limited livelihoods, creating urgent humanitarian needs and a critical demand for emergency medical response. A well-coordinated national emergency medical team (N-EMT) is essential to address these crises effectively. Objective: This study documents the progress of the country's emergency response mechanisms and N-EMT development, highlights lessons learned for other count…

  • The regional training centre for the emergency medical teams initiative in the WHO African region

    Open AccessBoniface Oyugi, Lazaro Gilberto Martinez-Monterrey et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: A coherent and systematic approach to education and training of the workforce under the EMT initiative has been identified as an imperative step to improve the quality and professionalism of emergency response teams. On April 14 2021, the WHO and the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH) jointly launched a training centre to enhance the delivery of emergency medical and health services in the continent when faced with humanitarian and ot…

  • Assessing the utility of the Covid-19 epidemic Situations of Concern classification system in guiding operational responses to the pandemic in the WHO African region

    Open AccessOpeayo Ogundiran, Jessica L Abbate et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    During a public health emergency, early implementation of response activities is crucial for saving lives and protecting livelihoods. The COVID-19 pandemic, declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, posed a global public health crisis that required timely decision-making despite limited data and capacity. In this context, WHO’s Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) developed the Situations of Concern (SOC) classification syst…

  • Physical activity levels and its associated factors among adults in Vihiga county, Kenya

    Open AccessMiriam Bosire, Doreen Mitaru et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Sedentary lifestyle is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) which account for 8% of Kenya’s non-communicable disease (NCD) burden. Prevalence of physical inactivity remains high globally. There is paucity of data on physical activity levels in rural Sub-Saharan Africa to inform effective interventions. This study sought to establish levels and factors associated with physical activity in a rural population in Kenya. This was a c…

  • The emergency medical teams initiative in the WHO African region

    Open AccessThierno Balde, Boniface Oyugi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: The WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Initiative coordinates the deployment of qualified medical teams who promptly respond to public health emergencies (PHEs) and provide quality service during emergencies whilst strengthening capacity. Globally, 40 EMTs have been classified between 2016 and the present (as of the writing of this article in December 2023) and are from across all the WHO regions except the WHO Africa Region (AFRO). Ho…

  • Policy formulation and actor roles in the expanded Kenyan free maternity policy (Linda Mama)

    Open AccessBoniface Oyugi, Zilper Audi-Poquillon et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    In 2013, Kenya implemented free maternity services, later expanded in 2016 into the ‘Linda Mama’ policy to provide essential health services for pregnant women. This study explored the policy formulation background, processes, content, and actors’ roles in formulation and implementation. Using a convergent parallel mixed-methods case study design, we reviewed documents and conducted in-depth interviews with national stakeholders, county officials…

  • A step towards reinvigorating the Covid-19 response

    Open AccessThierno Balde, Boniface Oyugi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    The WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) COVID-19 Incident Management Support Team (IMST) was first established on 21 January 2020 to coordinate the response to the pandemic in line with the Emergency Response Framework and has undergone three modifications based on intra-action reviews (IAR). An IAR of the WHO AFRO COVID-19 IMST was conducted to document best practices, challenges, lessons learnt and areas for improvement from the start of 2021…

  • Transitioning the Covid-19 response in the WHO African region

    Open AccessThierno Balde, Boniface Oyugi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The onset of the pandemic revealed the health system inequities and inadequate preparedness, especially in the African continent. Over the past months, African countries have ensured optimum pandemic response. However, there is still a need to build further resilient health systems that enhance response and transition from the acute phase of the pandemic to the recovery interpandemic/preparedness phase. Guided by the lessons learnt in the respons…

  • Framing the future of the Covid-19 response operations in 2022 in the WHO African region

    Open AccessThierno Balde, Boniface Oyugi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: With the evolving epidemiological parameters of COVID-19 in Africa, the response actions and lessons learnt during the pandemic's past two years, SARS-COV 2 will certainly continue to circulate in African countries in 2022 and beyond. As countries in the African continent need to be more prepared and plan to 'live with the virus' for the upcoming two years and after and at the same time mitigate risks by protecting the future most vul…