{"id":10682,"date":"2022-05-19T23:32:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/?page_id=10682"},"modified":"2024-02-28T03:57:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:57:44","slug":"david-bukusi-mbchb-mmed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/about\/who-we-are\/knh\/david-bukusi-mbchb-mmed\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bukusi, MBChB, MMed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senior Medical Specialist, Kenyatta National Hospital<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Dr. David<\/span>\u00a0Bukusi<\/a>, MBChB, MMed, is a senior medical specialist at the Kenyatta National Hospital with a co-appointment as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi Department of Psychiatry. He provides direct psychiatric care at the Kenyatta National Hospital: Mental Health Department, Mathari Hospital, and at the national referral hospital Kenyatta National Hospital, and he teaches at the University of Nairobi\u2019s Department of Psychiatry. He is a co-Investigator for SMART-DAPPER. Dr. Bukusi has worked extensively with the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, and other stakeholders to edit the current Kenya Mental Health Policy 2015-2030. He is also head of Kenyatta National Hospital HIV prevention services in the PEPFAR-funded Centre Of Excellence HIV Medicine (CoEHM) program as well as head of the KNH Youth Centre, which provides mental health and sexual and reproductive health care to youth and adolescents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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  1. Smith-Sreen, J, Timothy, B, Ngila, B, Maina, JW, Pirirei, S, Kinuthia, J et al.<\/i>. Acceptability and use determinants of digital health technologies for HIV services: a qualitative study of emergency care patients in Nairobi, Kenya. Front Digit Health. 2025;7 :1697814. doi: 10.3389\/fdgth.2025.1697814<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41657956<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12876169<\/a>.<\/li>
  2. Mugambi, C, Mbogo, L, Sinkele, W, Gitau, E, Temu, T, Farquhar, C et al.<\/i>. HIV risk and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Nairobi: a cross-sectional study. BMC Infect Dis. 2026;26 (1):269. doi: 10.1186\/s12879-025-12490-1<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41492124<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12874915<\/a>.<\/li>
  3. Mwai, D, Meffert, SM, Olwanda, EE, Mathai, MA, Ongeri, L, Burger, RL et al.<\/i>. Productivity benefits of treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in Kenya. BMJ Glob Health. 2025;10 (11):. doi: 10.1136\/bmjgh-2024-018204<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41184028<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12584567<\/a>.<\/li>
  4. Burger, RL, Meffert, SM meffert, Ongeri, L, Wangia, J, Wambura, R, Ajore, P et al.<\/i>. Factors associated with fluoxetine adherence among outpatients with common mental disorders in Western Kenya. BMJ Glob Health. 2025;10 (8):. doi: 10.1136\/bmjgh-2024-017929<\/a>. PubMed PMID:40854809<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12382546<\/a>.<\/li>
  5. Olwanda, E, Mwai, D, Mathai, M, Burger, R, Ongeri, L, Bukusi, D et al.<\/i>. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Interpersonal Therapy and Fluoxetine for Treating Depression and PTSD in Primary Care Settings in Kenya. Res Sq. 2025; :. doi: 10.21203\/rs.3.rs-6977800\/v1<\/a>. PubMed PMID:40766223<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12324569<\/a>.<\/ol>Search PubMed<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Senior Medical Specialist, Kenyatta National Hospital Dr. David\u00a0Bukusi, MBChB, MMed, is a senior medical specialist at the Kenyatta National Hospital with a co-appointment as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi Department of Psychiatry. He provides direct psychiatric care at the Kenyatta National Hospital: Mental Health Department, Mathari Hospital, and at the national referral hospital… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":10627,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_no-sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11444,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10682\/revisions\/11444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}