{"id":4508,"date":"2015-06-03T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/?page_id=4508"},"modified":"2024-02-28T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T17:04:14","slug":"dalton-wamalwa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/about\/who-we-are\/uon\/dalton-wamalwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Wamalwa, MBChB, MMed, MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chair, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Nairobi<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Dr. Dalton Wamalwa, MBChB, MMED, MPH, is a lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nairobi.\u00a0 He participated in the International AIDS Research and Training Program at the University of Washington, where he received his MPH in Epidemiology in 2005.\u00a0 His MPH thesis was called, \"The effect of medication diaries on adherence to HAART among HIV-1 infected Kenyan children.\"\u00a0 His current project looks at the long term efficacy of pediatric HAART over a 5 year period. Dr. Wamalwa<\/span> was a co-Investigator on the <\/span>Optimizing Pediatric HIV-1 Therapy (OPH)<\/span> project and the <\/span>EDCTP Pediatric Vaccine\u00a0<\/span>study.\u00a0 He is currently working on the MEPI Linked project and the PUSH study<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Publications<\/h3>\n
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  1. Moraa, H, Mutahi, J, Atieno, W, John-Stewart, G, Kinuthia, J, Kumar, M et al.<\/i>. Correction: \"When a man is stressed, it replicates in the house\": Kenyan women's perspectives on the influence of male partners on perinatal mental health among women affected by HIV. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2026;6 (5):e0006451. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pgph.0006451<\/a>. PubMed PMID:42101972<\/a> PubMed Central PMC13155598<\/a>.<\/li>
  2. Oja, D, Kundu, C, Onyango, A, Mugo, C, Njuguna, I, Morra, H et al.<\/i>. Navigating viral load information flow and provider decision-making for adolescent clients at HIV clinics in Kenya. HIV Res Clin Pract. 2026;27 (1):2650034. doi: 10.1080\/25787489.2026.2650034<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41923269<\/a> .<\/li>
  3. Ombajo, LA, Nkuranga, J, Penner, J, Kamau, EW, Ismael, N, Munseri, P et al.<\/i>. The dolutegravir failure cohort: A multi-country longitudinal cohort with a randomised clinical trial of continued dolutegravir versus switch to darunavir in people with viraemia while on dolutegravir in Sub-Saharan Africa (The Ndovu Study) protocol. PLoS One. 2026;21 (3):e0330792. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0330792<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41824511<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12987441<\/a>.<\/li>
  4. Moraa, H, Mutahi, J, Atieno, W, John-Stewart, G, Kinuthia, J, Kumar, M et al.<\/i>. \"When a man is stressed, it replicates in the house\": Kenyan women's perspectives on the influence of male partners on perinatal mental health among women affected by HIV. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2026;6 (3):e0006047. doi: 10.1371\/journal.pgph.0006047<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41779726<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12959676<\/a>.<\/li>
  5. Begnel, ER, Maqsood, R, Holland, LA, Ojee, E, Owiti, P, Adhiambo, J et al.<\/i>. Comparison of gut virome in Kenyan infants born to women with and without HIV. iScience. 2026;29 (3):114900. doi: 10.1016\/j.isci.2026.114900<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41736871<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12927066<\/a>.<\/ol>Search PubMed<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Chair, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Nairobi Dr. Dalton Wamalwa, MBChB, MMED, MPH, is a lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nairobi.\u00a0 He participated in the International AIDS Research and Training Program at the University of Washington, where he received his MPH in Epidemiology in 2005.\u00a0 His MPH… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":10631,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_no-sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4508","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=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11484,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4508\/revisions\/11484"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}