{"id":4572,"date":"2015-06-04T18:39:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/?page_id=4572"},"modified":"2022-09-30T22:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T22:27:42","slug":"irene-inwani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/about\/who-we-are\/knh\/irene-inwani\/","title":{"rendered":"Irene Inwani, MBChB, MMed, MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senior Director, Kenyatta National Referral and Teaching Hospital<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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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:\u00a0 \u201cOptimizing Pediatric HIV Therapy\u201d looking at early treatment of HIV infected children under the leadership of Grace-John Stewart and \u201c Reproductive Health Decisions and HIV infection Risk\u201d a community based cohort study in Western Kenya.<\/p>\n

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  1. Chuchu, V, Sayianka, S, Teresa, I, Inwani, I, Oyugi, J, Thumbi, SM et al.<\/i>. Burden of Antibiotic Resistance in Hospitalized Children in Kenya: Associations with Mortality, Hospital Stay, and Treatment Costs. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2026;114 (2):216-223. doi: 10.4269\/ajtmh.25-0440<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41662743<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12874832<\/a>.<\/li>
  2. Badia, J, Dyer, J, Agot, K, Wilson, K, Jiang, W, Beima-Sofie, K et al.<\/i>. Prevalence and Correlates of Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults Living With HIV in Western Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. ;37 (2):181-191. doi: 10.1097\/JNC.0000000000000607<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41505629<\/a> .<\/li>
  3. Chuchu, VM, Ita, T, Inwani, I, Oyugi, J, Thumbi, SM, Omulo, S et al.<\/i>. 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<\/a>. PubMed PMID:41009851<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12466545<\/a>.<\/li>
  4. 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<\/a>. PubMed PMID:40630619<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12235389<\/a>.<\/li>
  5. Kohler, P, Jiang, W, Badia, J, Kibugi, J, Dyer, J, Kadima, J et al.<\/i>. 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<\/a>. PubMed PMID:40622356<\/a> PubMed Central PMC12232485<\/a>.<\/ol>Search PubMed<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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… 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-4572","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4572","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=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11106,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/kenyares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4572\/revisions\/11106"}],"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=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}