Dr Jacinta Nzinga
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Jacinta Nzinga
Social scientist
Jacinta Nzinga is a post-doctoral social scientist with the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Nairobi. She has a PHD in Health and Social Studies (University of Warwick) and a masters degree in global health (Oxford University). Jacinta is adjunct faculty with the institute of health care management at Strathmore Business School, Kenya and visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford, UK and Pwani University in Kenya.
Her research work and interests are mainly in the areas of management of human resources for health, health policy analysis and the interpretive analysis of their implementation, organizational change and implementation of innovation, organizational behavior and clinical leadership and health system governance.
Jacinta co-leads the ethnographic element of the Health Services that Deliver for Newborns (HSD-N) study. She recently won an HSRI development grant as a co-applicant to develop health workforce research on the role of nursing in the delivery of quality of care, focusing on nurse identity and nurse leadership.
Key publications
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Exploring the space for task shifting to support nursing on neonatal wards in Kenyan public hospitals
Nzinga J. et al, (2019), Human Resources for Health, 17
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Hybrid clinical-managers in Kenyan hospitals.
Nzinga J. et al, (2019), Journal of health organization and management, 33, 173 - 187
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Examining clinical leadership in Kenyan public hospitals through the distributed leadership lens
Nzinga J. et al, (2018), Health Policy and Planning, 33, ii27 - ii34
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Documenting the experiences of health workers expected to implement guidelines during an intervention study in Kenyan hospitals
Nzinga J. et al, (2009), Implementation Science, 4
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Implementation experience during an eighteen month intervention to improve paediatric and newborn care in Kenyan district hospitals
Nzinga J. et al, (2009), Implementation Science, 4
Recent publications
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Improving case detection of tuberculosis in hospitalised Kenyan children-employing the behaviour change wheel to aid intervention design and implementation.
Oliwa JN. et al, (2020), Implementation science : IS, 15
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A scoping review of breastfeeding peer support models applied in hospital settings.
Chepkirui D. et al, (2020), International breastfeeding journal, 15
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Programme theory and linked intervention strategy for large-scale change to improve hospital care in a low and middle-income country - A Study Pre-Protocol
English M. et al, (2020)
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Are health care assistants part of the long-term solution to the nursing workforce deficit in Kenya?
Fitzgerald L. et al, (2020), Human resources for health, 18
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Tracking health sector priority setting processes and outcomes for human resources for health, five-years after political devolution: a county-level case study in Kenya.
Munywoki J. et al, (2020), International journal for equity in health, 19