{"id":10690,"date":"2022-05-19T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/?page_id=10690"},"modified":"2024-03-20T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:42:08","slug":"mary-mugambi-mph-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/about\/who-we-are\/krtc-affiliates\/mary-mugambi-mph-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Mugambi, MPH, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Assistant Professor, Global Health<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Melissa Mugambi, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. Prior to this appointment, she served as a Program Officer and Fellow on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\u2019s Diagnostics Team. Her current research and practice interests focus on designing service delivery models to optimize access to health technologies in antenatal care programs and fostering local health product development efforts through entrepreneurship and training.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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  1. Otieno, G, Masyuko, S, Roy Paladhi, U, Kariithi, E, Sharma, M, Kingston, H et al.<\/i>. Improving HIV assisted partner services outcomes by eliciting additional partners after the initial encounter. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2026;6 (2):e0004406. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pgph.0004406<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41632741<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12867224<\/a>.<\/li>
  2. Stegman, P, Forsythe, S, Kioko, U, Kiruki, M, Jeckonia, P, Larson, M et al.<\/i>. Estimating the cost of and willingness to pay for providing the dapivirine ring for HIV prevention in Kenya. BMC Public Health. 2025;25 (1):1095. doi: 10.1186\/s12889-025-22291-5<\/a>. PubMed PMID:40119338<\/a> PubMed Central PMC11929272<\/a>.<\/li>
  3. Owuor, M, Wamuti, B, Katz, DA, Liu, W, Lagat, H, Kariithi, E et al.<\/i>. Factors influencing community demand for assisted partner services for HIV in western Kenya: a multilevel qualitative analysis. BMJ Open. 2025;15 (3):e088436. doi: 10.1136\/bmjopen-2024-088436<\/a>. PubMed PMID:40090685<\/a> PubMed Central PMC11911700<\/a>.<\/li>
  4. Cholette, F, Lazarus, L, Macharia, P, Walimbwa, J, Kuria, S, Bhattacharjee, P et al.<\/i>. HIV phylogenetic clusters point to unmet hiv prevention, testing and treatment needs among men who have sex with men in kenya. BMC Infect Dis. 2024;24 (1):1323. doi: 10.1186\/s12879-024-10052-5<\/a>. PubMed PMID:39567884<\/a> PubMed Central PMC11580190<\/a>.<\/li>
  5. Roy Paladhi, U, Kariithi, E, Otieno, G, Hughes, JP, Lagat, H, Sharma, M et al.<\/i>. Partner Characteristics and HIV Outcomes Among Partners Reached by Phone Versus In-Person for Assisted Partner Services in Western Kenya. Sex Transm Dis. 2025;52 (1):59-63. doi: 10.1097\/OLQ.0000000000002080<\/a>. PubMed PMID:39316154<\/a> PubMed Central PMC11631648<\/a>.<\/ol>Search PubMed<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Assistant Professor, Global Health Melissa Mugambi, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. Prior to this appointment, she served as a Program Officer and Fellow on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\u2019s Diagnostics Team. Her current research and practice interests focus on designing service delivery… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":10633,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_no-sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10690","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10690","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=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11515,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10690\/revisions\/11515"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}