Beatrice Madeghe, PhD

Dr. Beatrice Madeghe is a Public Health Researcher focusing on mental health, Nutrition, and Non-Communicable diseases. Dr. Madeghe has a Master’s degree in Public Health and a doctoral degree in Applied Human Nutrition, both from the University of Nairobi.  Currently, she is a lead coordinator in a Randomized Controlled Trial NIHR-funded project called SUMMIT- (Supporting Mothers’ Mental Health with Interpersonal Therapy); the project Implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of group interpersonal therapy for postnatal depression in Kenya and Lebanon, to determine the impact of the intervention on depression, child developmental outcomes, and mother-child relationships. For the Ph.D. Dr. Madeghe implemented the Thinking Health program intervention, The WHO-Mental Health Gap Action Programme, combined with nutritional intervention (semi-mental nutritional intervention) for depression care among pregnant women in urban low-income settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. This study targeted perinatal women with food insecurity and low household income so that the nutritional interventions could combine food-related education, opening women to low-cost nutritional food that can be offered to them. Dr. Madeghe is also an educator and has practiced as a Lecturer at Kenya Medical Training College in Nairobi, Kenya, and The Technical University of Kenya. As a public health practitioner, Dr. Madeghe is interested in promoting good health of vulnerable groups of people (maternal, child and adolescent health) by integrating scientific knowledge and implementation science to plan interventions that targets to improve the health and well-being of those who need it the most.