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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Low Haemoglobin Levels are Associated with Reduced Psychomotor and Language Abilities in Young Ugandan Children
Preprint
Nampijja M. et al, (2022)
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Measurement characteristics and correlates of HIV-related stigma among adults living with HIV: a cross-sectional study from coastal Kenya.
Journal article
Wanjala SW. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12
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Mental Health during COVID-19 Pandemic among Caregivers of Young Children in Kenya's Urban Informal Settlements. A Cross-Sectional Telephone Survey.
Journal article
Angwenyi V. et al, (2021), Int J Environ Res Public Health, 18
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Correlates of Health-related Quality of Life in Primary Caregivers of HIV Infected and HIV Exposed Uninfected Adolescents at the Kenyan Coast
Preprint
Mwangala PN. et al, (2021)
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Validity and reliability of the Neurodevelopmental Screening Tool (NDST) in screening for neurodevelopmental disorders in children living in rural Kenyan coast
Journal article
Bitta MA. et al, (2021), Wellcome Open Research, 6, 137 - 137