Dr Dorothy Oluoch
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Dorothy Oluoch
Research Fellow
Dorothy is an Early Career Research Fellow at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. Her background is in Anthropology, and she holds an MSc in Medical Anthropology from Brunel University, UK. She has recently completed a PhD in Public Health from the open university, UK. Her doctoral project was trying to understand the experiences of mothers of hospitalised sick newborns in Nairobi using ethnographic approaches.
She has a keen interest in Maternal, neonatal and Child Health, health systems, health care access and delivery as well as patient experiences research. Dorothy is currently developing a study that is focussed on exploring the potential for using mothers’ experiences narratives and digital stories of pre-term birth in Kenya as educational tools to improve people-centred care in LMICs.
Recent publications
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Women’s autonomy and maternal health decision making in Kenya: implications for service delivery reform - a qualitative study
Olwanda E. et al, (2024), BMC Women's Health, 24
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"I Am Now Five Steps Ahead": How Co-design Platforms Sustain Kenyan Community Health Volunteer Engagement
Renner HJ. et al, (2023), Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 17
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Not just surveys and indicators: narratives capture what really matters for health system strengthening.
Oluoch D. et al, (2023), The Lancet. Global health, 11, e1459 - e1463
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Mothers' involvement in providing care for their hospitalised sick newborns in Kenya: a focused ethnographic account.
Oluoch D. et al, (2023), BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 23
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The hidden emotional labour behind ensuring the social value of research: Experiences of frontline health policy and systems researchers based in Kenya during COVID-19.
Nzinga J. et al, (2023), PLOS global public health, 3