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Benjamin Tsofa
Affiliation : Kenya Medical Research Institute · KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
- 84Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
Research profile
Benjamin Tsofa has 84 indexed publications (2008–2026). Their work appears mainly in “Wellcome Open Research”, “Health Policy and Planning” and “PLOS Global Public Health”. Their most cited article, “Phase 1 Trials of rVSV Ebola Vaccine in Africa and Europe” (2015), has been cited 415 times. 6 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in United Kingdom, Germany, Ghana, Gabon.
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- Advancing health policy and systems research and analysis: new frontiers, renewed relevance
- Implementing community-based interventions for the management of chronic conditions in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of qualitative evidence
- Access to hypertension services and health-seeking experiences in rural Coastal Kenya: A qualitative study
- Understanding mental health among university students in Kenya: what role do family support and age play?
- Management capacity of primary healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review
- How does Public Financial Management (PFM) influence health system efficiency: A scoping review
- Political economy analysis of subnational health management in Kenya, Malawi and Uganda
- Examining the influence of health sector coordination on the efficiency of county health systems in Kenya
- Non-O ABO blood group genotypes differ in their associations with Plasmodium falciparum rosetting and severe malaria
- Political economy analysis of sub-national health sector planning and budgeting: A case study of three counties in Kenya
- Impact of COVID-19 on mortality in coastal Kenya: a longitudinal open cohort study
- Budget monitoring, accountability practices and their influence on the efficiency of county health systems in Kenya
- Symptom prevalence and secondary attack rate of SARS‐CoV‐2 in rural Kenyan households: A prospective cohort study
- Safety and immunogenicity of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine in adults in Kenya: a phase 1/2 single-blind, randomised controlled trial
- The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance
- Analysing the Efficiency of Health Systems: A Systematic Review of the Literature
- On the resilience of health systems: A methodological exploration across countries in the WHO African Region
- Management of human resources for health: implications for health systems efficiency in Kenya
- SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in three Kenyan health and demographic surveillance sites, December 2020-May 2021
- Examining the influence of budget execution processes on the efficiency of county health systems in Kenya
- Sero-surveillance for IgG to SARS-CoV-2 at antenatal care clinics in three Kenyan referral hospitals: Repeated cross-sectional surveys 2020–21
- Transmission networks of SARS-CoV-2 in Coastal Kenya during the first two waves: A retrospective genomic study
- Revealing the extent of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya based on serological and PCR-test data
- The autonomy of public health facilities in decentralised contexts: insights from applying a complexity lens in Kenya
- Epidemiology of COVID-19 infections on routine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and serology testing in Coastal Kenya
- Service delivery reform for maternal and newborn health in Kakamega County, Kenya: study protocol for a prospective impact evaluation and implementation science study
- Experience of Kenyan researchers and policy-makers with knowledge translation during COVID-19: a qualitative interview study
- How does power shape district health management team responsiveness to public feedback in low- and middle-income countries: an interpretive synthesis
- COVID-19 transmission dynamics underlying epidemic waves in Kenya
- Health system responsiveness: a systematic evidence mapping review of the global literature
- Temporal trends of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence during the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in Kenya
- An innovative leadership development initiative to support building everyday resilience in health systems
- Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies From a National Serosurveillance of Kenyan Blood Donors, January-March 2021
- Seroprevalence of Antibodies to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Among Healthcare Workers in Kenya
- Collective sensemaking for action: researchers and decision makers working collaboratively to strengthen health systems
- Tracking the introduction and spread of SARS-CoV-2 in coastal Kenya
- Level and determinants of county health system technical efficiency in Kenya: two stage data envelopment analysis
- Improving statistical power in severe malaria genetic association studies by augmenting phenotypic precision
- Anti-Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Immunoglobulin G Antibody Seroprevalence Among Truck Drivers and Assistants in Kenya
- Examining health sector stakeholder perceptions on the efficiency of county health systems in Kenya
- Revealing the extent of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya based on serological and PCR-test data
- Examining health sector application and utility of program‐based budgeting: County level experiences in Kenya
- Pooled testing conserves SARS-CoV-2 laboratory resources and improves test turn-around time: experience on the Kenyan Coast
- Detection of SARS-CoV-2 variant 501Y.V2 in Comoros Islands in January 2021
- Seroprevalence of anti–SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in Kenyan blood donors
- Prolonged health worker strikes in Kenya- perspectives and experiences of frontline health managers and local communities in Kilifi County
- Shocks, stress and everyday health system resilience: experiences from the Kenyan coast
- A scoping review of breastfeeding peer support models applied in hospital settings
- Tracking health sector priority setting processes and outcomes for human resources for health, five-years after political devolution: a county-level case study in Kenya
- An optimisation of four SARS-CoV-2 qRT-PCR assays in a Kenyan laboratory to support the national COVID-19 rapid response teams
- Systems and implementation science should be part of the COVID-19 response in low resource settings
- Pooled testing conserves SARS-CoV-2 laboratory resources and improves test turn-around time: experience on the Kenyan Coast
- The epidemiology of sickle cell disease in children recruited in infancy in Kilifi, Kenya: a prospective cohort study
- Observational study: 27 years of severe malaria surveillance in Kilifi, Kenya
- Effect of strikes by health workers on mortality between 2010 and 2016 in Kilifi, Kenya: a population-based cohort analysis
- The indirect health effects of malaria estimated from health advantages of the sickle cell trait
- Human candidate gene polymorphisms and risk of severe malaria in children in Kilifi, Kenya: a case-control association study
- Tackling health professionals’ strikes: an essential part of health system strengthening in Kenya
- Accountability mechanisms and the value of relationships: experiences of front-line managers at subnational level in Kenya and South Africa
- Describing and evaluating healthcare priority setting practices at the county level in Kenya
- Knowledge of, and attitudes to giving expressed breastmilk to infants in rural coastal Kenya; focus group discussions of first time mothers and their advisers
- Evaluating healthcare priority setting at the meso level: A thematic review of empirical literature
- Everyday resilience in district health systems: emerging insights from the front lines in Kenya and South Africa
- How does decentralisation affect health sector planning and financial management? a case study of early effects of devolution in Kilifi County, Kenya
- Devolution and its effects on health workforce and commodities management – early implementation experiences in Kilifi County, Kenya
- Recentralization within decentralization: County hospital autonomy under devolution in Kenya
- Examining the Implementation of the Free Maternity Services Policy in Kenya: A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation
- The clinical epidemiology of sickle cell anemia In A frica
- “We are toothless and hanging, but optimistic”: sub county managers’ experiences of rapid devolution in coastal Kenya
- Trends in bednet ownership and usage, and the effect of bednets on malaria hospitalization in the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS): 2008–2015
- Maternal colonization with Streptococcus agalactiae and associated stillbirth and neonatal disease in coastal Kenya
- “When you give birth you will not be without your mother” A mixed methods study of advice on breastfeeding for first-time mothers in rural coastal Kenya
- Phase 1 Trials of rVSV Ebola Vaccine in Africa and Europe
- Crises and Resilience at the Frontline—Public Health Facility Managers under Devolution in a Sub-County on the Kenyan Coast
- Health sector operational planning and budgeting processes in Kenya—“never the twain shall meet”
- Tracking implementation and (un)intended consequences: a process evaluation of an innovative peripheral health facility financing mechanism in Kenya
- Burden of disease in adults admitted to hospital in a rural region of coastal Kenya: an analysis of data from linked clinical and demographic surveillance systems
- Causes of death among persons of all ages within the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Kenya, determined from verbal autopsies interpreted using the InterVA-4 model
- Profile: The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS)
- Declining Responsiveness of Plasmodium falciparum Infections to Artemisinin-Based Combination Treatments on the Kenyan Coast
- Excess child mortality after discharge from hospital in Kilifi, Kenya: a retrospective cohort analysis
- Validating physician-certified verbal autopsy and probabilistic modeling (InterVA) approaches to verbal autopsy interpretation using hospital causes of adult deaths
- Community and facility-level engagement in planning and budgeting for the government health sector – A district perspective from Kenya
- The impact of primary health care on malaria morbidity – defining access by disease burden
Publication venues
- Wellcome Open Research × 10
- Health Policy and Planning × 7
- PLOS Global Public Health × 7
- International Journal for Equity in Health × 6
- PLoS ONE × 5
- Nature Communications × 4
Publications per year
- 20261
- 20254
- 20241
- 20238
- 202214
- 202116
- 20208
- 20194
- 20186
- 20178
Collaborations
Partner institutions : University of Oxford · Ministry of Health · Government of Kenya · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · Wellcome Trust
Co-authors’ countries : United Kingdom · Germany · Ghana · Gabon
Co-authors
- Edwine Barasa
- Sassy C. Molyneux
- Philip Bejon
- J. Anthony G. Scott
- Lynette Isabella Ochola‐Oyier
- Charles N. Agoti
- Sophie M. Uyoga
- Ambrose Agweyu
- George M. Warimwe
- Anthony Oliwa Etyang
- Kadondi Kasera
- Thomas Neil Williams
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