Peninah Munyua

Dados Biográficos

ID7000763
NOMEPeninah Munyua
PRENOMESPeninah
SOBRENOMEMunyua
ASSINATURAMUNYUA P
AFILIAÇÕESCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
ORCID0000-0003-1950-8616
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS13
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR13
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2017
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Early warning and response systems for respiratory disease outbreaks

    Open AccessPhilip Ngere, Radhika Gharpure et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Investigating acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs) is difficult due to non-specific symptoms, varied health-seeking behaviors, and resource limitations; yet early detection is critical to global health security. Kenya's Ministry of Health (MOH) uses the Integrated Disease Surveillance strategy for public health surveillance, incorporating event-based surveillance (EBS) and indicator-based surveillance (IBS) for early warning system. MOH, supported …

  • Underlying conditions associated with adverse Covid-19 treatment outcomes in selected Kenyan hospitals, October 2020 to December 2021

    Open AccessDickens Onyango, Wanjiru Waruiru et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    Background Data are limited on the impact of chronic underlying conditions on COVID-19 treatment outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.Objectives Determine the effect of underlying conditions on COVID-19 severity and treatment outcomes in Kenya.Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using routine medical records from Kenya’s three large COVID-19 treatment centers. We examined two outcomes: mortality and clinical severity. Patients with lower …

  • Risk factors for long Covid among participants of a population-based study in urban and rural Kenya, 2021

    Open AccessGodfrey Bigogo, Allan Audi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    PCC were found in approximately one-fifth to one-third of participants with the presence of underlying medical conditions being a common risk factor in all outcomes. Advocacy for the prioritization of interventions such as vaccination of persons with underlying medical conditions could consequently result in a reduction in the risk of PCC

  • The effect of Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare seeking in an urban informal settlement in Nairobi and a rural setting in western Kenya

    Open AccessGeorge O Agogo, Patrick K Munywoki et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread changes and disruptions to healthcare seeking behavior. There are limited studies on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare seeking patterns in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially in settings with inequitable access to healthcare in rural and urban informal settlements. We investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on reported healthcare seeking at health facilities and chem…

  • Association between low maternal serum aflatoxin B1 exposure and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Mombasa, Kenya, 2017–2019

    Open AccessEric Osoro, Abigael O Awuor et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    We examined the association between serum aflatoxin B1-lysine adduct (AFB1-lys) levels in pregnant women and adverse pregnancy outcomes (low birthweight, miscarriage and stillbirth) through a nested matched case-control study of pregnant women enroled at ≤28 weeks' gestation in Mombasa, Kenya, from 2017 to 2019. Cases comprised women with an adverse birth outcome, defined as either delivery of a singleton infant weighing <2500 g, or a miscarriage…

  • Kenya’s experience implementing event-based surveillance during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessLinus Ndegwa, Philip Ngere et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Event-based surveillance (EBS) can be implemented in most settings for the detection of potential health threats by recognition and immediate reporting of predefined signals. Such a system complements existing case-based and sentinel surveillance systems. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, the Kenya Ministry of Health (MOH) modified and expanded an EBS system in both community and health facility settings for the reporting…

  • Estimating excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic from a population-based infectious disease surveillance in two diverse populations in Kenya, March 2020-December 2021

    Open AccessClifford Oduor, Allan Audi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Robust data on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Africa are relatively scarce. Using data from two well-characterized populations in Kenya we aimed to estimate excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The mortality data arise from an ongoing population-based infectious disease surveillance (PBIDS) platform, which has been operational since 2006 in rural western Kenya (Asembo, Siaya County) and an urban informal sett…

  • A mixed methods assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices related to aflatoxin contamination and exposure among caregivers of children under 5 years in western Kenya

    Open AccessAbigael O Awuor, Gati Wambura et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: Identifying factors that may influence aflatoxin exposure in children under 5 years of age living in farming households in western Kenya. Design: We used a mixed methods design. The quantitative component entailed serial cross-sectional interviews in 250 farming households to examine crop processing and conservation practices, household food storage and consumption and local understandings of aflatoxins. Qualitative data collection inc…

  • First cases of Sars-CoV-2 infection and secondary transmission in Kisumu, Kenya

    Open AccessBeth A Tippett Barr, Amy Herman-Roloff et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    We investigated the first 152 laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases (125 primary and 27 secondary) and their 248 close contacts in Kisumu County, Kenya. Conducted June 10–October 8, 2020, this study included interviews and sample collection at enrolment and 14–21 days later. Median age was 35 years (IQR 28–44); 69.0% reported COVID-19 related symptoms, most commonly cough (60.0%), headache (55.2%), fever (53.3%) and loss of taste or smell (43.8%)…

  • Comparison of knowledge, attitude, and practices of animal and human brucellosis between nomadic pastoralists and non-pastoralists in Kenya

    Open AccessM Kariuki Njenga, Eric Osoro et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Nomadic pastoralists are more likely to engage in risky practices that promote Brucella Infection, probably because of their occupation and culture, despite having significant knowledge of the disease

  • Successes and challenges of the One Health approach in Kenya over the last decade

    Open AccessPeninah Munyua, Peninah M Munyua et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    More than 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin and a transdisciplinary, multi-sectoral One Health approach is a key strategy for their effective prevention and control. In 2004, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention office in Kenya (CDC Kenya) established the Global Disease Detection Division of which one core component was to support, with other partners, the One Health approach to public health science. After catal…

  • Building laboratory capacity to detect and characterize pathogens of public and global health security concern in Kenya

    Open AccessElizabeth Hunsperger, Bonventure Juma et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Since 1979, multiple CDC Kenya programs have supported the development of diagnostic expertise and laboratory capacity in Kenya. In 2004, CDC's Global Disease Detection (GDD) program within the Division of Global Health Protection in Kenya (DGHP-Kenya) initiated close collaboration with Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and developed a laboratory partnership called the Diagnostic and Laboratory Systems Program (DLSP). DLSP built onto previ…

  • Child height gain is associated with consumption of animal-source foods in livestock-owning households in Western Kenya

    Open AccessEmily Mosites, George Aol et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2017

    Objective To clarify the pathways between household livestock and child growth by assessing the relationships between consumption of animal-source foods (ASF) and child growth and evaluating the household livestock correlates of child consumption of ASF. Design We conducted a longitudinal cohort study of anthropometry and 3 d feeding recalls among children Setting An 1800-household surveillance catchment area in Western Kenya within the structure…