Projects
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Current Projects
Previous Projects
TRIAGE 1 PLUS PROJECT, 2007-2015, Norwegian Heart and Lung Foundation
Triage Plus integrates adaptable combinations of disease recognition, health communication, treatment, and referral, implemented by community providers like grocery shops and health facilities. The project pilots this innovative approach, evaluating its potential to effectively address essential health service provision inequities for TB and HIV. It also included the health communication project.
TRIAGE 2 PLUS PROJECT (2013-2018)
Triage 2 Plus utilized a cluster randomized controlled open trial to assess the PAL strategy's effectiveness, involving community health volunteers. Implemented in Dowa and Ntchisi districts from 2014-2018, the PAL strategy improved TB and chronic airways disease management, addressing rural healthcare challenges. Spirometry clinics were established through collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Malawi, with financial support from LHL International, Norway.
The REACHOUT Program (2014-2017)
This is an ambitious international research project helping to understand and develop the role of close-to-community providers of health care in preventing, diagnosing, and treating major illnesses and health conditions in rural and urban areas in Africa and Asia.
REACHOUT will use research to develop and share expertise to support community health workers and policymakers as they work together to improve health care services.
PERFORM 2 SCALE PROJECT (2018-2022).
The study used action research to develop a sustainable district-level management strengthening intervention (MSI) in three districts. The goal was to empower DHMTs to analyze issues, create customized workplans, and enhance the health workforce and service delivery. Positive outcomes included improved information systems, increased reporting and supervision, enhanced staff performance, and heightened job satisfaction and confidence.
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Our Portfolio
Some Outstanding Publications
- Bulthuis, S., Kok, M., Onvlee, O., O’Byrne, T., Amon, S., Namakula, J., Chikaphupha, K., Gerold, J., Mansour, W., Raven, J. and Broerse, J.E., (2023). How to scale-up: a comparative case study of scaling up a district health management strengthening intervention in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1), pp.1-13.
- Kingsley Rex Chikaphupha, Thomasena O'Byrne, Linda Nyondo-Mipando, Isabel Kazanga Chiumia, Mairead Finn and Frédérique Vallières (2022). Systems Thinking in the Context of Decentralisation and Human Resources for Health: Lessons from Malawi. Appearing as a chapter in a book: Systems Thinking for Global Health - How can systems-thinking contribute to solving key challenges in Global Health? Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780198799498
- Yakubu K, Musoke D, Chikaphupha K, Chase-Vilchez A, Maulik PK, Joshi R. (2022). An intervention package for supporting the mental well-being of community health workers in low, and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Compr Psychiatry. 2022 May; 115:152300. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2022.152300. Epub 2022 Feb 26. PMID: 35276492; PMCID: PMC8881902.
- Huff, Stephanie; Aryaija-Karemani, Adelaine; Agyemang, Samuel Agyei; Chikaphupha, Kingsley; Namakula, Justine; Amon, Samuel; et al. (2022): Facilitators and Barriers of ‘Doing Reflection’ in Action Research: Lessons Learned from the PERFORM2Scale Health Systems Research Project in Ghana, Uganda, and Malawi. Advance. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.19383227.v1
- Regeru Njoroge Regeru, Kingsley Chikaphupha, Meghan Bruce Kumar, Lilian Otiso, Miriam Taegtmeyer (2020). ‘Do you trust those data?’—a mixed-methods study assessing the quality of data reported by community health workers in Kenya and Malawi. Health Policy and Planning, czz163, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz163
- Chikaphupha KR, Kok MC, Nyirenda L, Namakhoma I, Theobald S (2016), Motivation of health surveillance assistants in Malawi: A qualitative study, Malawi Medical Journal 28 (2):37-42, DOI 10.4314/mmj.v28i2.2. www.mmj.medcol.mw
- Kok M, Namakhoma I, Nyirenda L, Chikaphupha K, Broerse J, Dieleman M, Taegtmeyer M, Theobald S (2016). Health Surveillance Assistants as intermediates between the community and health system in Malawi: Exploring how trust and relationships influence performance. BMC Health Service Research (2016) 16:164 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1402-x.
- R Mataya, D Mathanga, J Chinkhumba, A Chibwana, K Chikaphupha, J. Cardiello (2013). A qualitative study exploring attitudes and perceptions of HIV positive women who stopped breastfeeding at six months to prevent transmission of HIV to their children. Paper published in the Malawi Medical Journal. ... Malawi Medical Journal - Vol 25, No 1 (2013) www.mmj.medcol.mw
- Pamela Fergusson, Kingsley Chikaphupha, Grace Bongololo, Ireen Makwiza, Lot Nyirenda, Jobiba Chinkhumba, Anisa Aslam, Sally Theobald (2010). Quality of care in nutritional rehabilitation in HIV-endemic Malawi: caregiver perspectives. Matern Child Nutr 2010 Jan;6(1):89-100
- K. Chikaphupha, P. Nkhonjera, I. Namakhoma, R. Loewenson (2009): Access to HIV treatment and care amongst commercial sex workers in Malawi Published August, 2009 on www.equinetafrica.org also appearing as a chapter in a book: Action Research: Models, Methods, and Examples. Applied Research in Education and the Social Sciences; Information Age Publishing Incorporation series
- Makaula P, Bloch P, Banda HM, Bongololo Mbera G, Mangani C, de Sousa A, Nkhono E, Jemu S, Muula AS. Primary health care in rural Malawi - a qualitative assessment exploring the relevance of the community-directed interventions approach. BMC Health Serv Res. 2012 Sep 20;12(1):328. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 22995125.
- Sodhi S, Banda H, Kathyola D, Burciul B, Thompson S, Joshua M, Bateman E, Fairall L, Martiniuk A, Cornick R, Faris G, Draper B, Mondiwa M, Katengeza E, Sanudi L, Zwarenstein M, Schull MJ. Evaluating a streamlined clinical tool and educational outreach intervention for health care workers in Malawi: the PALM PLUS case study. BMC Int Health Hum Rights. 2011 Nov 8;11 Suppl 2:S11. PubMed PMID: 22166125; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3247831.