Anne Majuma Khisa

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Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences

Anne Khisa, PhD is a gender and development expert; and researcher utilizing qualitative research and mixed methods research to answer public and population health questions. Her most recent research posting was at the African Population and Health Research Center where she worked for 6 years. She is a multidisciplinary health professional with 17 years’ experience working at the intersection of gender equity and inclusion, capacity development, and research for health and development in Africa.   She was a co-investigator on a gender equality study – titled ‘participation and quality of experiences of women in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in postgraduate training programs and careers in East Africa’. She successfully led the qualitative research, and co-creation of a draft framework to guide supervision and mentorship of postgraduate students to attain gender equality in STEM training in East Africa. She also an online surveys to gather opinion and perceptions of stakeholders on the gender equality in STEM question in East Africa. This ongoing work is set to culminate in several manuscripts. Her role also included curriculum development, and training and facilitation for two projects – a) specializing in gender transformative programming for the UN SPOTLIGHT initiative project, and (b) the IDRC health policy and research organization for Women RISE project. She trained courses in qualitative research; and scientific writing at the APHRC’s training unit. She previously managed and coordinated a science capacity development program for early-career researchers in adolescence research and policy advocacy, the UKRI-GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa’s Adolescent’s Hub project (2020-2021). Her research portfolio in qualitative gender research included (i) Examination of the gender responsiveness of the CARTA doctoral program; (ii) Participation and quality of experiences of women in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in postgraduate training programs and careers in East Africa. Two other projects where she led qualitative work included (iii) Framework and indicators for evaluating research capacity strengthening (iv) Evaluation of embedded capacity strengthening the GLOSS+ project. Prior to joining the APHRC, her PhD dissertation utilized grounded theory- a qualitative research methodology to investigate women’s reproductive health and wellbeing. Her dissertation titled ‘A grounded theory of regaining normalcy: Health seeking behaviour and reintegration of patients with obstetric fistula in Kenya’ involved research on obstetric fistula, a neglected maternal health condition. It resulted in 6 peer-reviewed publications. One paper has been cited more than 53 times, with more than 2115 views/ reads (CrossRef). A summary of the metrics of her research and innovation work is accessible at ResearcherID ABC-7252-2020 and Google Scholar and ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6110-0118 Dr Khisa has conducted numerous consultancies on qualitative and mixed method health research, as well as gender and development consultancies as detailed in later sections of this resume.

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