Irene Inwani, MBChB, MMed, MPH

Senior Director, Kenyatta National Referral and Teaching Hospital

Irene Inwani, MBChB, MMed, MPH, is a consultant pediatrician at the Kenyatta National referral hospital and a member of the Nairobi HIV research group. She earned her MPH in Epidemiology at the University of Washington in 2006. Her area of interest is prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and treatment of HIV-infected children. She has been involved in 2 studies:  “Optimizing Pediatric HIV Therapy” looking at early treatment of HIV infected children under the leadership of Grace-John Stewart and “ Reproductive Health Decisions and HIV infection Risk” a community based cohort study in Western Kenya.

 

 

 

 

Publications

  1. Chuchu, VM, Ita, T, Inwani, I, Oyugi, J, Thumbi, SM, Omulo, S et al.. Diagnostic Underuse and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns Among Hospitalized Children in a National Referral Hospital in Kenya: A Five-Year Retrospective Study. Antibiotics (Basel). 2025;14 (9):. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics14090872. PubMed PMID:41009851 PubMed Central PMC12466545.
  2. Zika Virus Individual Participant Data Consortium. Adverse fetal and perinatal outcomes associated with Zika virus infection during pregnancy: an individual participant data meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine. 2025;83 :103231. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103231. PubMed PMID:40630619 PubMed Central PMC12235389.
  3. Kohler, P, Jiang, W, Badia, J, Kibugi, J, Dyer, J, Kadima, J et al.. Data-informed Stepped Care (DiSC) to improve adolescent and young adult HIV care outcomes in Kenya: a cluster randomized trial. J Int AIDS Soc. 2025;28 Suppl 3 (Suppl 3):e26501. doi: 10.1002/jia2.26501. PubMed PMID:40622356 PubMed Central PMC12232485.
  4. Ochillo, M, Bosire, R, Okeyo, N, Onyango, J, Agot, K, Chhun, N et al.. Health promotion messaging reduces HIV risk behaviours and improves repeat testing among adolescent girls and young women in Kenya. Afr J AIDS Res. 2025;24 (1-2):81-86. doi: 10.2989/16085906.2025.2474751. PubMed PMID:40259692 .
  5. Njuguna, I, Moraa, H, Mbwayo, A, Nyapara, F, Aballa, C, Mugo, C et al.. "You are the tutor, you are the counselor, you are the school nurse, you are everything": Secondary school staff experience with youth living with HIV. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2025; :. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000003659. PubMed PMID:40064634 .
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