Amina Abubakar
MED, PhD
Associate Professor and Honorary Research Fellow
Developmental and Health Psychology
I am an Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Health at Pwani University, Kenya and a Research Fellow at the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme. I co-lead the Neuroscience research group at KEMRI-WTRP a dynamic multidisciplinary research group interested in child and adolescent well-being. I am also an honorary fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK. I have developed, in collaboration with colleagues, measures of early child development for use in Low and Middle-Income Countries which are currently in use in several African countries. In 2016, I won the Royal Society Pfizer Award in recognition of my pioneering psychological research in East Africa, and for the impact our work has had in the field of neurodevelopmental assessment. My substantive work has focused on the adverse impacts of a range of health conditions on young people’s neurocognition and mental health. In 2016, I was awarded the MRC/DfID, African Research Leaders award to investigate the associations between executive functioning and mental health, medical adherence, risk taking behaviour and scholastic outcomes among adolescents in the context of HIV.
Recent publications
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Strategies for improving mental health and wellbeing used by adults ageing with HIV: a qualitative exploration
Journal article
Mwangala P. et al, (2022), Wellcome Open Research
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Early intervention in autism spectrum disorder: The need for an international approach.
Journal article
Abubakar A. and Kipkemoi P., (2022), Dev Med Child Neurol
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What is next in African neuroscience?
Journal article
Donald KA. et al, (2022), Elife, 11
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HIV virological non-suppression is highly prevalent among 18- to 24-year-old youths on antiretroviral therapy at the Kenyan coast.
Journal article
Nyongesa MK. et al, (2022), BMC Infect Dis, 22
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Neurodevelopmental and growth outcomes after invasive Group B Streptococcus in early infancy: A multi-country matched cohort study in South Africa, Mozambique, India, Kenya, and Argentina.
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Paul P. et al, (2022), EClinicalMedicine, 47