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Dr Anne Gatuguta

Dr Anne Gatuguta (MBChB, MPH, PhD)

Senior Lecturer in Global Health
E: A.Gatuguta@bsms.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1273 872788
Location: Ground Floor, BSMS Medical Research Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PX

Area of expertise: Gender violence, research methods, epidemiology

Research areas: Gender-based violence; violence in children; barriers to healthcare; prevention interventions; HIV/AIDS; patients’ experiences with healthcare services; and, social determinants of health particularly as they relate to access to healthcare, adherence to treatment and uptake of health interventions.

Other roles: MSc Global Health course leader; Global Assessor, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Biography

Anne is a Senior Lecturer in Global Health Sciences in the Department of Global Health and Infection in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). She is currently the course leader for the MSc Global Health. Prior to joining BSMS, Anne was completing a PhD in Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Anne has a background in clinical medicine and worked in the private and public health sectors in Kenya for over ten years. Her experience treating and interacting with patients, many of whom were suffering from easily preventable conditions and also presented late with complications, led to an interest in prevention and public health. Consequently, Anne underwent a two-year clinical research training through the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholarship/Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, USA and also obtained a master’s degree in public health (MPH) from the University of Nairobi.

Research

Anne is a mixed methods researcher whose work is largely focused on understanding barriers to healthcare access, adherence to treatment and uptake of preventive health interventions such as screening and interventions delivered by lay health workers. Anne’s doctoral research combined qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the pathways and barriers to healthcare for survivors of sexual violence, and, the role of community health workers in providing support healthcare services to survivors. This research was in line with her core interest in understanding barriers particularly for vulnerable groups and finding innovative solutions and interventions to address these barriers.

Her current research is on women and children’s health with interests in both gender-based violence and menstrual health. Her research in gender-based violence focuses on improving access to, and quality of care provided to survivors of violence and understanding the socio-cultural aspects of violence including stigma and the use of language in perpetuating violence against women and children. Her menstrual health research focuses on adolescents’ menstrual health investigating the intersections between menstrual health, human rights and environmental sustainability.

Anne’s previous research include investigating adherence to ARTs in children and adolescents, HIV transmission among discordant couples, transmission of HIV during breastfeeding, and, issues of stigma among HIV-infected individuals.

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Teaching

Anne is the course lead for MSc Global Health at BSMS, University of Sussex.
She teaches various topics on the MSc Global Health and MSc Public Health programmes including violence as a determinant of health, research methods, infectious diseases, epidemiology and global health. She also supervises research projects for MSc Global Health and MSc Public Health dissertation; Individual Research Project (IRP) for undergraduate medical students and Junior Research Associate (JRA) projects.

She is the module leader and teaches on several modules:

Global Burden and Management of Disease, MDM102
Infectious Emerging and Neglected Diseases, GH710
MSc Global Health Dissertation, MDM103

Previously, she has also led and taught on:

Research Practice in Global Contexts, MDM174
Conflict Violence and Health, MDM175

She also teaches on:

Epidemiology (MDM12)Academic Skills (MDM102)

Selected publications

Tomsett, Bella; Álvarez-Rodríguez, Johanna; Sheriff, Nigel; Edelman, Natalie; Gatuguta, Anne (2024). Tools for the identification of victims of domestic abuse and modern slavery in remote services: a systematic review. University of Sussex. Journal contribution. https://hdl.handle.net/10779/uos.25872151.v1

Turner E, Kelly SA, Eldred E, Bouzanis K, Gatuguta A, Balliet M, Lees S, Devries K. What do we know about how children and adolescents conceptualise violence? A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies from sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS One. 2024 Jul 5;19(7):e0304240. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304240. PMID: 38968312; PMCID: PMC11226035.

Duran MC, Bosire R, Beima-Sofie KM, Igonya EK, Aluisio AR, Gatuguta A, Mbori-Ngacha D, Farquhar C, Stewart GJ, Roxby AC. Women's Autonomy in Infant Feeding Decision-Making: A Qualitative Study in Nairobi, Kenya. Matern Child Health J. 2021 May;25(5):724-730. doi: 10.1007/s10995-021-03119-1. Epub 2021 Feb 5. PMID: 33544286; PMCID: PMC8062297. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10995-021-03119-1

Gatuguta A, Colombini M, Seeley J, Soremekun S, Devries K. Supporting children and adolescents who have experienced sexual abuse to access services: Community health workers' experiences in Kenya. Child Abuse Negl. 2021 Jun;116(Pt 1):104244. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104244. Epub 2019 Dec 25. PMID: 31882066. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213419304211?via%3Dihub

Gatuguta, A., Merrill, K.G., Colombini, M. et al. Missed treatment opportunities and barriers to comprehensive treatment for sexual violence survivors in Kenya: a mixed methods study. BMC Public Health 18, 769 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5681-5

Anne Gatuguta, Barbra Katusiime, Janet Seeley, Manuela Colombini, Isaac Mwanzo, Karen Devries. Should community health workers offer support healthcare services to survivors of sexual violence? A systematic review. BMC International Health and Human Rights (2017) 17:28 DOI 10.1186/s12914-017-0137-z

A.R. Aluisio, R. Bosire, B. Betz, A. Gatuguta, J. N. Kiarie, R. Nduati, G. John-Stewart, and C. Farquhar. Male Partner Participation in Antenatal Clinic Services is Associated with Improved HIV-free survival Among Infants in Nairobi, Kenya: A Prospective Cohort Study.J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2016 Oct 1;73(2):169-76.

Odeny Beryne Mikal, Pfeiffer James, Farquhar Carey, Igonya Emmy Kageha, Gatuguta Anne, Kagwaini Florence, Nduati Ruth, Kiarie James, Bosire Rose. Stigma and Exclusive Breastfeeding among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Women in Nairobi, KenyaBreastfeed Med. 2016 Jun; 11:252-8.

Newman LP, Njoroge A, Ben-Youssef L, Merkel M, Gatuguta A, Ton Q, Obimbo EM, Wamalwa D, Lohman-Payne B, Richardson BA, Nduati R, Farquhar C. Measles seropositivity in HIV-infected Kenyan children on antiretroviral therapy.Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2014 Aug; 33(8):843-5. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000332.

Soh J, Rositch AF, Koutsky L, Guthrie BL, Choi RY, Bosire RK, Gatuguta A, Smith JS, Kiarie J, Lohman-Payne B, Farquhar C. Individual and partner risk factors associated with abnormal cervical cytology among women in HIV-discordant relationships. Int J STD AIDS. 2014 Apr; 25(5):315-24. doi: 10.1177/0956462413504554. Epub 2013 Sep 18.

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