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16122
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Sir Rickard Christophers Medal, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • 2008 - Chalmers Medal, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Overview

Mike English is affiliated with the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom and has a broad research portfolio primarily focused on medicine and health professions. Their work spans multiple subfields including pediatrics, perinatology and child health, general health professions, emergency medicine, economics and econometrics, and emergency medical services.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to global maternal and child health, emergency and acute care studies, family and patient care in intensive care units, infant development and preterm care, healthcare policy and management, primary care and health outcomes, and global health workforce issues.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mike English include:

  • David Gathara
  • Michuki Maina
  • Jacob McKnight
  • Jalemba Aluvaala
  • Sassy Molyneux

Mike English's recent publications cover various aspects of health data, nursing care, digital health systems, neonatal mortality, and global newborn health priorities. Notable papers include:

  • A call for standardised age-disaggregated health data (2021), published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Missed nursing care in acute care hospital settings in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review (2023), published in Human Resources for Health
  • Digital health Systems in Kenyan Public Hospitals: a mixed-methods survey (2020), published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
  • Neonatal mortality in Kenyan hospitals: a multisite, retrospective, cohort study (2021), published in BMJ Global Health
  • Setting research priorities to improve global newborn health and prevent stillbirths by 2025 (2020), published by UNC Libraries

The scientist's frequent publication venues demonstrate a consistent presence in well-regarded journals and platforms, including:

  • Wellcome Open Research
  • PLOS Global Public Health
  • BMJ Global Health
  • BMJ Open
  • Harvard Dataverse

Throughout the career, Mike English has received recognition from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene through the Sir Rickard Christophers Medal awarded in 2012 and the Chalmers Medal awarded in 2008.

Best Publications

  • High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution

    Margaret E. Kruk;Anna D. Gage;Catherine Arsenault;Keely Jordan

  • Bacteremia among Children Admitted to a Rural Hospital in Kenya

    James A Berkley;Brett S Lowe;Isaiah Mwangi;Thomas Williams

  • Neonatal resuscitation in low-resource settings: What, who, and how to overcome challenges to scale up?

    Stephen N. Wall;Anne C. C. Lee;Anne C. C. Lee;Susan Niermeyer;Mike English

  • Assessment of inpatient paediatric care in first referral level hospitals in 13 districts in Kenya

    Mike English;Fabian Esamai;Aggrey Wasunna;Fred Were

  • Access to emergency hospital care provided by the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015: a geocoded inventory and spatial analysis

    Paul O Ouma;Joseph Maina;Pamela N Thuranira;Peter M Macharia

  • Assessment of severe malnutrition among hospitalized children in rural Kenya : Comparison of weight for height and mid upper arm circumference

    James Berkley;Isaiah Mwangi;Karen Griffiths;Ismail Ahmed

  • Children with severe malnutrition: can those at highest risk of death be identified with the WHO protocol?

    Kathryn Maitland;James A Berkley;James A Berkley;Mohammed Shebbe;Norbert Peshu

  • Microscopy and outpatient malaria case management among older children and adults in Kenya

    D. Zurovac;B. Midia;S. A. Ochola;M. English;M. English

  • Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas: a multicountry discrete choice experiment

    D Blaauw;E Erasmus;N Pagaiya;V Tangcharoensathein

  • Effectiveness of Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine introduction into routine childhood immunization in Kenya

    Karen D. Cowgill;Moses Ndiritu;Joyce Nyiro;Mary P. E. Slack

  • Blood transfusion for severe anaemia in children in a Kenyan hospital.

    Mike English;Mike English;Maimuna Ahmed;Clement Ngando;James Berkley;James Berkley

  • Intracranial hypertension in Africans with cerebral malaria

    C R J C Newton;J Crawley;A Sowumni;C Waruiru

  • Contextual influences on health worker motivation in district hospitals in Kenya

    Patrick Mbindyo;Lucy Gilson;Lucy Gilson;Duane Blaauw;Mike English;Mike English

  • HIV Infection, Malnutrition, and Invasive Bacterial Infection among Children with Severe Malaria

    James A. Berkley;Philip Bejon;Philip Bejon;Tabitha Mwangi;Samson Gwer

  • Use of clinical syndromes to target antibiotic prescribing in seriously ill children in malaria endemic area: observational study

    James A. Berkley;Kathryn Maitland;Isaiah Mwangi;Caroline Ngetsa

  • Randomized Trial of Volume Expansion with Albumin or Saline in Children with Severe Malaria: Preliminary Evidence of Albumin Benefit

    Kathryn Maitland;Kathryn Maitland;Allan Pamba;Michael English;Norbert Peshu

  • Clinical overlap between malaria and severe pneumonia in African children in hospital

    Michael English;Michael English;Jeanine Punt;Isaiah Mwangi;Kieran McHugh

  • Challenges to improving case management of childhood pneumonia at health facilities in resource-limited settings

    Stephen M Graham;Mike English;Tabish Hazir;Penny Enarson

  • Respiratory syncytial virus infection and disease in infants and young children observed from birth in Kilifi district Kenya.

    D J Nokes;E A Okiro;M Ngama;R Ochola

  • A multifaceted intervention to implement guidelines and improve admission paediatric care in Kenyan district hospitals: A cluster randomised trial

    Philip Ayieko;Stephen Ntoburi;John Wagai;Charles Opondo

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Marsh
Kevin Marsh University of Oxford
Charles R. Newton
Charles R. Newton University of Oxford
James A. Berkley
James A. Berkley University of Oxford
Robert W. Snow
Robert W. Snow Kenya Medical Research Institute
Edwine Barasa
Edwine Barasa KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
J. Anthony G. Scott
J. Anthony G. Scott University of London
Jim Todd
Jim Todd London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Brett Lowe
Brett Lowe London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sassy Molyneux
Sassy Molyneux University of Oxford
Constance Schultsz
Constance Schultsz University of Amsterdam

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