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Dr Philip Ayieko

Assistant Professor

Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit
P O Box 11936 Mwanza
Tanzania

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

I am involved in teaching on the Distance Learning epidemiology module EPM102 (statistics for epidemiology), and the clinical trial modules CTM202 (Trial designs) and CTM206 (Data management and interim analysis). I am currently a Deputy Module Organizer for CTM 206. In this role I moderate online distance learning forum, undertake supervision of MSc students and marking research projects. I also participate in teaching the short course on introduction to research methods course held in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Research

I am intrested in trials of public health interventions and in particular evaluation of these interventions using cluster randomised trials.

Selected Publications

An adaptive multiarm randomised trial of biomedical and psychosocial interventions to improve convalescence following severe acute malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: Co-SAM trial protocol
Bwakura-Dangarembizi, M; Amadi, B; Singa, BO; Muyemayema, S; Ngosa, D; Mwalekwa, L; Ngao, N; Kazhila, L; Mutasa, B; Mpofu, E; Mudawarima, L; Gonzales, GB; Mudzingwa, S; Mutenda, M; Keter, LK; Mutasa, K; Njunge, JM; Jones, H; Phiri, TN; Mudibo, E; Chulu, N; Majo, FD; Chasekwa, B; Tembo, A; Nyabinda, C; ... Prendergast, AJ.
2025
BMJ Open
Aerobic activity significantly reduces blood pressure among hypertensive adults in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Leeyio, TR; Katto, NP; Juma, FM; Mkassy, FI; Liwa, AC; Matuja, SS; Byamungu, D; AYIEKO, P; Bintabara, D; Konje, ET;
2025
Frontiers in Public Health
A multifaceted menstrual health intervention to improve psychosocial outcomes and menstrual practices among secondary schoolgirls in Northwest Tanzania: a pilot intervention study
AYIEKO, P; Torondel, B; Renju, J; Rubli, J; Mcharo, O; Luwayi, JR; THOMAS, KA; GRECO, G; KAPIGA, S; Okello, ES;
2025
BMC Women's Health
A study protocol to engage religious leaders to reduce blood pressure in Tanzanian communities: A cluster randomized trial.
Kavishe, B; Willkens, M; Mwakisole, AH; Kalokola, F; Okello, E; AYIEKO, P; Kisanga, E; Lee, MH; KAPIGA, S; Downs, JA; Peck, R;
2025
Contemporary clinical trials
"Ashamed of being seen in an HIV clinic": a qualitative analysis of barriers to engaging in HIV care from the perspectives of patients and healthcare workers in the Daraja clinical trial.
Okello, ES; Peck, RN; Issarow, B; KISIGO, G; Abel, K; Malibwa, D; Kabakama, S; Charles, M; Lee, M; Rutachunzibwa, T; Fitzgerald, D; AYIEKO, P; GROSSKURTH, H; Metsch, LR; KAPIGA, S;
2025
BMC public health
Unmet menstrual needs and psychosocial well-being among schoolgirls in Northern Tanzania: baseline results from the PASS MHW study.
Okello, ES; AYIEKO, P; Rubli, J; TORONDEL, B; GRECO, G; Mcharo, O; Luwayi, JR; Keya, SS; THOMAS, K; Renju, J; KAPIGA, S; Tanton, C;
2024
BMC women's health
Healthy lifestyle factors and male perpetration of intimate partner violence: a cross-sectional study in Mwanza, Tanzania.
Jacob, AE; Mshana, G; Mosha, N; Hashim, R; Sichalwe, S; Malibwa, D; KAPIGA, S; AYIEKO, P; Stöckl, H;
2024
Global health action
The MRC funded International Statistics and Epidemiology Partnership
SIMMS, V; Gachie, T; AYIEKO, P;
2024
NIHR Statistics Conference 2024
The Association Between Depression, Suicidal Thoughts and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Young Men in Mwanza, Tanzania
Aloyce, D; Stöckl, H; MOSHA, N; Malibwa, D; Sichalwe, S; Hashim, R; AYIEKO, P; KAPIGA, S; Mshana, G;
2024
Journal of Family Violence
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