Publications

Navigating socio-ecological and institutional barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence: qualitative insights among young men and women from Nairobi’s informal settlements

O. Muhenje, C. O. Olungah, O. O mia, R. O. Ondondo , P. Waswa, A. Lusambili

Front. Public Health, 25 September 2025

Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention

Awareness of neonatal heat illness: a fatal outcome in a late preterm infant

Britt Nakstad, Mbali Mogomotsi-Pilane, Anne Lee Solevåg, Adelaide Lusambili

BMJ Case Reports Oct 2025, 18 (10) e265923; DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2025-265923

Climate seasonality and the health and well-being of older adults in rural Busia and Kilifi Counties, Kenya: SENIORS study – protocol for a qualitative study

Constance S Shumba, Aprill Z Dawson, Wei Xu, Kizito Muchanga, Adelaide Lusambili

BMJ Open Oct 2025, 15 (10) e103956; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-103956

Reducing extreme heat impacts on health in pregnant women and infants: a community based intervention in Kilifi, Kenya

Adelaide Lusambili, Fiona Scorgie, Martha Oguna, Matthew Chersich, Stanley Luchters, Giorgia Gon, Veronique Filippi, Sari Kovats, Kevin McCawley, Jeremy Hess, Britt Nakstad

Published: 22 May 2025

Health Policy and Planning, Volume 40, Issue 9, October 2025, Pages 943–954,

Towards youth-inclusive strategies for research on climate change and health in sub-saharan Africa

Adelaide M Lusambili, Kizito L Muchanga, Laurie Maria Vusolo, Constance S Shumba

The Journal of Climate Change and Health Volume 22, March–April 2025, 100418

10 New Insights in Climate Science

Produced by: Future Earth, The Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme

Views on climate change and health

Wenjia Cai, Jessica Fanzo, Jason Glaser, Rachel Lowe, Adelaide M. Lusambili & Elizabeth Marks

Published: 10 May 2024

Nature Climate Change volume 14, pages419–423 (2024)

“Mothers get really exhausted!” The lived experience of pregnancy in extreme heat: Qualitative findings from Kilifi, Kenya

F. Scorgie, A. Lusambili, S. Luchters, P. Khaemba, V. Filippi, B. Nakstad, J. Hess, C. Birch, S. Kovats, M.F. Chersich

Social Science & Medicine Volume 335, October 2023, 116223

Too hot to thrive: a qualitative inquiry of community perspectives on the effect of high ambient temperature on postpartum women and neonates in Kilifi, Kenya

Adelaide Lusambili, Sari Kovats, Britt Nakstad, Veronique Filippi, Peter Khaemba, Nathalie Roos, Cherie Part, Stanley Luchters, Matthew Chersich, Jeremy Hess, Kadidiatou Kadio & Fiona Scorgie

Published: 13 January 2024

BMC Pediatrics 24 Article number: 36 (2024)

Awareness and interventions to reduce dehydration in pregnant, postpartum women, and newborns in rural Kenya

Adelaide Lusambili, Britt Nakstad

Published: 15 May 2023

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine | Vol 15, No 1

Process and outputs from a community codesign workshop on reducing impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Kilifi, Kenya

Adelaide Lusambili, Peter Khaemba, Felix Agoi, Martha Oguna, Britt Nakstad, Fiona Scorgie, Veronique Filippi, Jeremy Hess, Nathalie Roos, Mathew Chersich, Sari Kovats, Stanley Luchters

Published: 31 August 2023

Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion Volume 11 – 2023

How Climate Change May Threaten Progress in Neonatal Health in the African Region

Britt Nakstad, Veronique Filippi, Adelaide Lusambili, Nathalie Roos, Fiona Scorgie, Matthew F. Chersich, Stanley Luchters, Sari Kovats

Published Online: 18 July 2022

Neonatology (2022) 119 (5): 644–651

How do high ambient temperatures affect infant feeding practices? A prospective cohort study of postpartum women in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Chérie Part, Véronique Filippi, Jenny A Cresswell, Rasmané Ganaba, Shakoor Hajat, Britt Nakstad, Nathalie Roos, Kadidiatou Kadio, Matthew Chersich, Adelaide Lusambili, Seni Kouanda, Sari Kovats

BMJ Open. 5;12(10):e061297. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061297.

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