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Kenya Research Project

Winner: Mwanamvua Boga, Nurse manager and Trainer at KEMRI - Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Profession: Nurse manager, trainer of communication and emotional competence skills

Education: Registered nurse (RN), Higher Diploma in Critical Care Nursing, Kenya vMaster’s degree in clinical Trials, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

Present employer: Kenya Medical Research Institute - Wellcome Trust Research Programme

International award: “Heroines of Health” 2017, sponsored by Women in Global Health.

Since 2009, Boga has trained as a communication and emotional competence practitioner and trainer, using the care-Haaland model (https://connect.tghn.org/training/icare-haaland-model/). She has been the lead trainer and TOT since 2012 to train health professionals, researchers, and managers to communicate with emotional competence, using reflective practice, experience-based learning approaches, and patients’ experiences. The training aims at strengthening respectful care and professional well-being among health professionals. She has trained over 500 frontline health professionals across Kenyan hospitals and at the Medical Research Council (MRC) in The Gambia and has presented her work at several national and international conferences.
Boga has also implemented the training to Sub-County health managers in Kilifi, and new-born unit nurse managers across 12 County hospitals in Kenya, aiming at strengthening relational leadership among health managers.
In 2022, Boga incorporated the experiences of mothers hospitalized with low-birth-weight babies in public hospitals in Kenya into the training modules and trained newborn unit nurses from the Kenyatta National Referral Hospital and Pumwani Maternity Hospital.
In February 2023 she completed a training of trainers’ programme for newborn nurse managers as part of scale-up plans and currently exploring opportunities to introduce the training in undergraduate nursing programs in Kenya.

Project: A participatory online training process to strengthen nurse well-being and improve respectful care in newborn units in Kenya.

This research project aims to develop and implement an online training program for neonatal nurses in Kenyan newborn units, with a focus on enhancing communication skills and emotional competence. The initiative builds on a successful in-person emotional competence course and seeks to adapt its basic modules for online delivery. The specific objectives include adapting modules, delivering online training as part of nurses' continuing professional development, evaluating the feasibility and potential impact, and, if successful, developing a plan for wider dissemination. The project addresses the unique challenges faced by neonatal nurses, who operate in stressful environments with high mortality rates. The training aims to equip nurses with skills to manage their own and patients' emotions effectively, contributing to improved patient care and the goal of reducing neonatal mortality (Sustainable Development Goal 3).