Angela Kairu

Dados Biográficos

ID9065539
NOMEAngela Kairu
PRENOMESAngela
SOBRENOMEKairu
ASSINATURAKAIRU A
AFILIAÇÕESKenya Medical Research Institute
ORCID0000-0002-0965-4460
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Examining epidemiological models and economic analyses of typhoid conjugate vaccine

    Open AccessPrashant Mandaliya, Stacey Orangi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    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…

  • Economic evaluation of caregiver interventions for children with developmental disabilities

    Open AccessAngela Kairu, Edwin Dzoro et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Globally, families with children with developmental disabilities (DDs) experience challenges, including social isolation, stigma, and poverty, especially in low-income settings in Africa. Most children with DDs in Africa remain unidentified and receive no formal support. Caregiver interventions focusing on education and training for the carers/parents have been shown to be adaptable and low intensity in implementation, although the economic evide…

  • Using knowledge translation to support the use of evaluation findings

    Open AccessFatuma Hassan Guleid, Stacey Orangi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Using program evaluation findings is crucial in improving health programs and realising the program’s benefits. In this article, we report on how a knowledge translation (KT) approach supported the use of evaluation findings to improve the Linda Mama free maternity program in Kenya. We used a case study design employing qualitative approaches to describe our KT strategy and its impact on evaluation use. Data were collected through semi-structured…

  • The impact of Covid-19 on health financing in Kenya

    Open AccessAngela Kairu, Stacey Orangi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Sudden shocks to health systems, such as the COVID-19 pandemic may disrupt health system functions. Health system functions may also influence the health system’s ability to deliver in the face of sudden shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined the impact of COVID-19 on the health financing function in Kenya, and how specific health financing arrangements influenced the health systems capacity to deliver services during the COVID-19 pand…

  • Epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness analysis of Covid-19 vaccination in Kenya

    Open AccessStacey Orangi, John Ojal et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: A few studies have assessed the epidemiological impact and the cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in settings where most of the population had been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 infection. METHODS: We conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis of COVID-19 vaccine in Kenya from a societal perspective over a 1.5-year time frame. An age-structured transmission model assumed at least 80% of the population to have prior natural immunity when an …

  • The autonomy of public health facilities in decentralised contexts

    Open AccessEdwine Barasa, Lizah Nyawira et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The financing of public health facilities influences their performance. A key feature that defines health facility financing is the degree of financial autonomy. Understanding the factors that influence public health facility financial autonomy is pertinent to developing strategies to addressing challenges that arise from constrained autonomy. In this paper, we apply a complexity lens to draw on a body of research that we have conducted in Kenya …

  • Impact of free maternity policies in Kenya

    Open AccessStacey Orangi, Angela Kairu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: User fees have been reported to limit access to services and increase inequities. As a result, Kenya introduced a free maternity policy in all public facilities in 2013. Subsequently in 2017, the policy was revised to the Linda Mama programme to expand access to private sector, expand the benefit package and change its management. METHODS: An interrupted time-series analysis on facility deliveries, antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal c…

  • Modelling the cost-effectiveness of essential and advanced critical care for Covid-19 patients in Kenya

    Open AccessAngela Kairu, Vincent Were et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Case management of symptomatic COVID-19 patients is a key health system intervention. The Kenyan government embarked to fill capacity gaps in essential and advanced critical care (ACC) needed for the management of severe and critical COVID-19. However, given scarce resources, gaps in both essential and ACC persist. This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of investments in essential and ACC to inform the prioritisation of investment…

  • Stark choices

    Open AccessSergio Torres‐rueda, Stuart Sweeney et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    OBJECTIVES: COVID-19 has altered health sector capacity in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Cost data to inform evidence-based priority setting are urgently needed. Consequently, in this paper, we calculate the full economic health sector costs of COVID-19 clinical management in 79 LMICs under different epidemiological scenarios. METHODS: We used country-specific epidemiological projections from a dynamic transmission model to dete…

  • Examining unit costs for Covid-19 case management in Kenya

    Open AccessEdwine Barasa, Angela Kairu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: We estimated unit costs for COVID-19 case management for patients with asymptomatic, mild-to-moderate, severe and critical COVID-19 disease in Kenya. METHODS: We estimated per-day unit costs of COVID-19 case management for patients. We used a bottom-up approach to estimate full economic costs and adopted a health system perspective and patient episode of care as our time horizon. We obtained data on inputs and their quantities from …