Dr Jalemba Aluvaala
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Jalemba Aluvaala
Jalemba Aluvaala is a post-doctoral researcher with an interest in perinatal-neonatal clinical and health services research. After training in Paediatrics and Epidemiology, he completed a DPhil at the Nuffield Department of Medicine. He developed prognostic models using routine data to predict in-hospital mortality in the neonatal unit.
He leads the neonatal component of the Clinical Information Network (CIN-N) at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust in Nairobi. The CIN is a collaboration with the Kenyan Ministry of Health, Kenya Paediatric association and county hospitals to support improvement in collection and analysis of hospital inpatient information to support audit, service evaluation, and quality improvement. He also holds a research track post as a Research Fellow/Lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, University of Nairobi.
Recent publications
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Implementing change for facility-based peripartum care in low-income and middle-income countries.
Aluvaala J. and English M., (2020), The Lancet. Global health, 8, e980 - e981
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Methodological rigor of prognostic models for predicting in-hospital paediatric mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol.
Ogero M. et al, (2020), Wellcome open research, 5
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Competing risk survival analysis of time to in-hospital death or discharge in a large urban neonatal unit in Kenya
Aluvaala J. et al, (2019)
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Competing risk survival analysis of time to in-hospital death or discharge in a large urban neonatal unit in Kenya.
Aluvaala J. et al, (2019), Wellcome open research, 4
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Using a common data platform to facilitate audit and feedback on the quality of hospital care provided to sick newborns in Kenya
Maina M. et al, (2018), BMJ Global Health, 3, e001027 - e001027