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Eliya M. Zulu is affiliated with Shelter Insurance in the United States and has a research portfolio primarily positioned within the field of Medicine. Their work spans diverse subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Economics and Econometrics; General Health Professions; Epidemiology; and Safety Research.

The scientist's research focuses on a range of topics with an emphasis on global health and development issues, particularly:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

Recent publications reflect an interest in health policy, reproductive health, and chronic disease management in low- and middle-income countries. Notable works include:

  • The health policy response to COVID-19 in Malawi, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • Interventions to prevent unintended pregnancies among adolescents: a rapid overview of systematic reviews, 2023, Systematic Reviews
  • Management of chronic lung diseases in Sudan and Tanzania: how ready are the country health systems?, 2021, BMC Health Services Research
  • "So let me give you money, you give me what I want": decision-making priorities around contraceptive method and source choice among young women in Kenya, 2023, Reproductive Health
  • Contraceptive method use trajectories among young women in Kenya: A qualitative study, 2022, Frontiers in Global Women's Health

Frequent collaborators in their research include S. Bertel Squire, Lisa M. Calhoun, Bernard Onyango, Erick Waga, and Thomas van den Akker. This network indicates interdisciplinary efforts and focuses on reproductive health and health systems research in African contexts.

Eliya M. Zulu's publications are dispersed across journals that address global health issues, systematic reviews, health services research, reproductive health, and women's health, illustrating a research focus that intersects clinical, policy, and population health dimensions.

Best Publications

  • Sexual Behavior, Knowledge and Information Sources of Very Young Adolescents In Four Sub-Saharan African Countries

    Akinrinola Bankole;Ann Biddlecom;Georges Guiella;Susheela Singh

  • Family planning in sub-Saharan Africa: progress or stagnation?

    John G Cleland;Robert P Ndugwa;Eliya M Zulu

  • Sexual risk-taking in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, 1993-98

    Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu;F. Nii Amoo Dodoo;Alex Chika-Ezeh

  • Monitoring of Health and Demographic Outcomes in Poor Urban Settlements: Evidence from the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System

    Jacques Emina;Donatien Beguy;Eliya M. Zulu;Alex C. Ezeh

  • Prevalence and meanings of exchange of money or gifts for sex in unmarried adolescent sexual relationships in sub-Saharan Africa

    Ann M. Moore;Ann E. Biddlecom;Eliya M. Zulu

  • Is Poverty a Driver for Risky Sexual Behaviour? Evidence from National Surveys of Adolescents in four African Countries

    Nyovani Madise;Eliya Zulu;James Ciera

  • Urban-rural differences in the socioeconomic deprivation--sexual behavior link in Kenya.

    F. Nii Amoo Dodoo;Eliya M. Zulu;Alex C. Ezeh

  • Overview of migration, poverty and health dynamics in Nairobi City's slum settlements.

    Eliya M. Zulu;Donatien Beguy;Alex C. Ezeh;Philippe Bocquier

  • Are slum dwellers at heightened risk of HIV infection than other urban residents? Evidence from population-based HIV prevalence surveys in Kenya.

    Nyovani J. Madise;Abdhalah K. Ziraba;Joseph Inungu;Samoel A. Khamadi

  • Circular migration patterns and determinants in Nairobi slum settlements.

    Donatien Beguy;Philippe Bocquier;Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu

  • Emotional and Psychosocial Aspects of Menstrual Poverty in Resource-Poor Settings: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Adolescent Girls in an Informal Settlement in Nairobi

    Joanna Crichton;Jerry Okal;Caroline W. Kabiru;Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu

  • Is There an Urban Advantage in Child Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence From 18 Countries in the 1990s

    Philippe Bocquier;Nyovani Janet Madise;Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu

  • The inequality of maternal health care in urban sub‐Saharan Africa in the 1990s

    Monica Akinyi Magadi;Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu;Martin Brockerhoff

  • The Timing and role of Initiation Rites in Preparing Young People for Adolescence and Responsible Sexual and Reproductive Behaviour in Malawi

    Alister C. Munthali;Eliya M. Zulu

  • Child growth in urban deprived settings: Does household poverty status matter? At which stage of child development?

    Jean Christophe Fotso;Nyovani Madise;Angela Baschieri;John Cleland

  • HIV/AIDS among youth in urban informal (slum) settlements in Kenya: what are the correlates of and motivations for HIV testing?

    Caroline W Kabiru;Donatien Beguy;Joanna Crichton;Eliya M Zulu

  • Menstrual Pattern Sexual Behaviors and Contraceptive Use among Postpartum Women in Nairobi Urban Slums.

    Robert P. Ndugwa;John Cleland;Nyovani J. Madise;Jean-Christophe Fotso

  • Husband-wife survey responses in Malawi.

    Kate Miller;Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu;Susan Cotts Watkins

  • Transition into first sex among adolescents in slum and non-slum communities in Nairobi, Kenya.

    Caroline W. Kabiru;Donatien Beguy;Chi-Chi Undie;Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu

  • Sexual risk-taking in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya,

    Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu;F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo;Alex Chika-Ezeh

Frequent Co-Authors

Donatien Beguy
Donatien Beguy United Nations
Caroline W. Kabiru
Caroline W. Kabiru African Population and Health Research Center
Nyovani Madise
Nyovani Madise University of Southampton
Alex Ezeh
Alex Ezeh Drexel University
John Cleland
John Cleland London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Susan Cotts Watkins
Susan Cotts Watkins University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Jessor
Richard Jessor University of Colorado Boulder
Catherine Kyobutungi
Catherine Kyobutungi Heidelberg University
Hans-Peter Kohler
Hans-Peter Kohler University of Pennsylvania
Jane Falkingham
Jane Falkingham University of Southampton

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