Dr.Josephine Ngunjiri Publications

1. Bhattacharjee N.V., Schaeffer L.E. ,Hay S.I. and GBD Exclusive Breastfeeding Collaborators ,2021. Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018. Nature Human Behavior. ht https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01108-6

2. Ngunjiri J GBD Local Burden of Disease Collaborators , 2021.Subnational mapping of HIV incidence and mortality among individuals aged 15-49 years in sub- Saharan Africa ,2000-18:a modelling study . Lancet HIV;8:e363-75

3. Ngunjiri J GBD 2019 Demographics Collaborators , 2020. Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140- 6736(20)30977-6.

4. Ngunjiri J GBD 2019 Risk Factors Collaborators, 2020 .Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet Vol 396

Conferences and Workshop presentations

Conference Presentations

1. 2022 - Equitable access to health session: Commonwealth Science Conference (CSC) Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) follow-on meeting for early career researchers (ECRs). The Royal Society and the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2. 2021- Pre- Covid -19 Health Disparities, Outcomes and Risk Factors in Kenya – a systematic analysis of Global Burden of Disease Study (1990-2019), 2021 virtual Commonwealth Science Conference

3. 2018-Global health poster presentation, Yale University, New Haven.

4. 2017–Oral presentation; Impact of Tungiasis on school age Children in Murang’a County, Kenya. International Conference on Parasitology, Infectious Diseases, STDs and STIs September 21-22, 2017 | San Antonio, Texas, USA.

5. 2017- Poster presentation; Quantifying burden of disease caused by Tungiasis using disability adjusted life years metric among the children aged 5- 14 years in Murang’a County, Kenya. GBD 20th Anniversary Symposium at Seattle, USA.

Seminar Talks

1. 2022- keynote speaker- Postgraduate workshop at University of Embu

2. 2022-Opening remarks -Advanced Laboratory Based Practical Training on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology workshop for Interuniversity Program Molecular Biology at Institute of Primates Research (IPR)

Ongoing Research Projects:

Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), injuries and Risk factors and Neglected Tropical Disease -Tungiasis and Schistosomiasis