Assistant Professor, Global Health, University of Washington
Dr. Ferdinand Mukumbang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Global Health. He is a Public Health scientist specializing in health policy and systems research with a specific focus on implementation sciences. His research career has evolved around understanding the dynamics and complexities of retention in care and adherence to antiretroviral medication among people living with HIV with a particular focus on adolescents living with HIV. As such, his current research focus is on developing and implementing antiretroviral treatment protocols for transitioning adolescents living with HIV from pediatric/adolescent HIV care to adult HIV care.
Dr. Mukumbang is also interested in the development and implementation of strategies to decolonize global health. His work in this area relates to addressing issues of health inequities in global health. For instance, addressing issues of poor integration and consideration of refugees and migrants during the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic – prevention (information and vaccination, treatment, and care).
Regarding methodological advancements in implementation sciences, he is particularly interested in the development and adoption of realist-informed research methods – critical realist theorizing, realist evaluation, and realist synthesis and reviews – for evidence-based theorizing in health care and global health to unpack implementation outcomes. He has published several methodological papers in this regard.
Publications
- Ncube, NBQ, Chivese, T, Mukumbang, FC, Bradley, HA, Schneider, H, Laing, R et al.. A combined strategies intervention on the World Health Organization prescribing indicators: A quasi-randomised trial. Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. 2024;16 (1):e1-e8. doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v16i1.3943. PubMed PMID:38426778 PubMed Central PMC10913181.
- Klingberg, S, Adhikari, B, Draper, CE, Bosire, E, Nyirenda, D, Tiigah, P et al.. Enhanced or hindered research benefits? A realist review of community engagement and participatory research practices for non-communicable disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries. BMJ Glob Health. 2024;9 (2):. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013712. PubMed PMID:38341191 PubMed Central PMC10862340.
- Mukumbang, FC, Beima-Sofie, K, Neary, J, Li, H, Agot, K, Healy, E et al.. 'I feel that I should decide on my own….': who should be involved in the decision-making process for adolescent involvement in HIV research?. BMJ Glob Health. 2023;8 (11):. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012966. PubMed PMID:37963612 PubMed Central PMC10649498.
- Ojewale, LY, Mukumbang, FC. Access to healthcare services for people with non-communicable diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ibadan, Nigeria: a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023;23 (1):1231. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10278-0. PubMed PMID:37946244 PubMed Central PMC10636991.
- Vaidya, A, Simkhada, P, Lee, A, Jones, S, Mukumbang, FC. Implementing a package of essential non-communicable diseases interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review protocol. BMJ Open. 2023;13 (9):e074336. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074336. PubMed PMID:37775288 PubMed Central PMC10546118.