Samuel M. Mbugua, PhD, MPH, BScN

Samuel Mungai Mbugua, BScN, MPH, PhD (Public Health) is a lecturer and Head, Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, and a Research Fellow at Mount Kenya University, Thika, Kenya. He is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (Ampath) partnership, based at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya, working on the Chamas Women Rise project aimed at reducing gender and social inequalities. He has experience in implementation research and health systems research, focusing on the development and evaluation of contextually appropriate public health interventions.

Dr Mbugua’s research interests include maternal and newborn health, non-communicable diseases, and infectious diseases of poverty. Specifically, he has worked on institutionalizing the World Health Organization, 2015 Guidelines on management of sick young infants with possible serious bacterial infections where referral is not feasible into Kenya’s National Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illnesses Guidelines. He has also assessed the feasibility, adoption, field effectiveness, and fidelity in utilization of several other interventions, including COVID-19 point of care tests in Kiambu and Nairobi Counties, Kenya. During this research work, he will leverage implementation research approaches to generate evidence on the utilization of malaria ceiling nets in community-driven malaria vector control in the Lake Victoria basin.