Caroline Gitonga BSc MSc
- KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme
- KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme
- Nairobi
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I completed my undergraduate degree in Nursing at the University of Nairobi in 2004. I later joined the Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group (MPHEG) at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Nairobi, and worked on various projects including; assessing the access and use of insecticide treated nets (ITNs), and antimalarials in children under the age of five years in four districts in Kenya.
In 2008, I completed an MSc in Global Health Science at the University of Oxford with my research project focusing on the health seeking behaviour in febrile children under the age of five years in Kenya.
I started my PhD in September 2009 with support from a Commonwealth scholarship.
Affiliation
Research
I am currently looking at the potential of school-based malaria surveillance as complementary tool to the existing malaria surveillance systems. My research work is primarily based in Kenya.
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Selected publications
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Implementing school malaria surveys in Kenya: towards a national surveillance system
Gitonga, C.W.; Karanja, P.N.; Kihara, J.; Mwanje, M.; Juma, E.; Snow, R.W.; Noor, A.M.; Brooker, S.
Malar J, 2010; 9(1):306
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The use of schools for malaria surveillance and programme evaluation in Africa.
Brooker, S.; Kolaczinski, J.H.; Gitonga, C.W.; Noor, A.M.; Snow, R.W.;
Malar J, 2009; 8:231
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The use of artemether-lumefantrine by febrile children following national implementation of a revised drug policy in Kenya
Gitonga, C.W.; Amin, A.A.; Ajanga, A.; Kangwana, B.B.; Noor, A.M.; Snow, R.W.
Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2008; 13(4):487-94
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Access and barriers to measures targeted to prevent malaria in pregnancy in rural Kenya
Gikandi, P.W.; Noor, A.M.; Gitonga, C.W.; Ajanga, A.A.; Snow, R.W.
Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2008; 13(2):208-17
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