Alfred Osoro

ALFRED AMENYA OSORO
Faculty:  Health Sciences School:   Health Sciences Department:  Nursing Current Designation:  H.O.D Office eMail:  a.osoro@gluk.ac.ke Office Telephone:  (+254) 733 921 530 Consultation Hours: 8 a.m -5 p.m Mon – Fri

EDUCATION
Qualification	Area of Specialization	Institution	Year
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)	Public Health	Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology	Ongoing
Bachelors of Science (BSc.N)	Nursing	American World University	2009
Post Graduate Master’s (MPHE)	Public Health and Epidemiology	Kenyatta University	2006
Higher Diploma	Psychological Counselling	Kenya Institute of Professional Counselling	2002
Higher Diploma (KRCHN)	Registered Public Health Nursing	Kenya Medical Training College- Nairobi	2000
Diploma(KRM)	Registered Midwifery including Neonatal Care	Mater Misericordiae Hospital’s School of Midwifery – Nairobi	1989
Diploma(KRN)	Registered Nursing	College of Health Professions- Nairobi	1985
Certificate(ECHN)	Community Health Nursing	St Joseph’s Nyabondo Mission Hospital	1977

WORK EXPERIENCE
Period	Position	Institution
2009 – Present	Lecturer – School of Nursing and Midwifery	Great Lakes University of Kisumu
1997 – 2009	Deputy Head of Nursing/Lecturer	Kenya Medical Training College – Kisii
1991-1996	Family Planning trainer for the Post Basic Student at the Decentralised Training  Centre – Kisii.  In –charge-operating theatre and maternity unit	Ministry of Health – Kisii District Hospital
1990 – 1990	Deputy Midwife in Charge of Maternity Unity / Clinical Instructor of Student Nurses	Ortum Mission Hospital – West Pokot
1986-1988	Nursing Officer in Charge of Male Surgical Ward / Nursing Officer in Charge of Operating Theatre	Kisii District Hospital
1980-1982	Nurse in Charge – Paediatric Unit Charge Nurse in Mobile MCH/FP     Assisting District Public Health Nurse in Service delivery	Ministry of health – Homa-Bay District Hospital
1978-1980	Enrolled Community Health Nurse Responsible for Outpatient services, Maternity Care and both static & Mobile MCH/FP services	St Joseph’s Nyabondo Mission Hospital

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Osoro A.A, Ng’ang’a Z, Mutugi M, and Wanzala P. (2013). Determinants of maternal mortality among women of reproductive age attending Kisii General Hospital, Kisii, Central District, Kenya. In the East African Medical Journal Vol. 90 No. 11 November, 2013.

Osoro A.A, Ng’ang’a Z, Mutugi M, and Wanzala P. (2014). Maternal mortality among women seeking health care services in Kisii Level-5 Hospital, Kisii, Kenya. In the American Journal of Public Health Research, 2014, Vol.2 No. 5, 182-187.

Osoro A.A, Ng’ang’a Z, Mutugi M, and Wanzala P. (2014). Predictors of maternal mortality among women of reproductive age seeking health care services at Kisii Level 5 Hospital, Kisii, Kenya. In the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of East and Central Africa 2014; 26 (1): 13-16.

Osoro A.A, Ng’ang’a Z, Yitambe A. (2015). An analysis of the incidence and causes of road traffic accidents in Kisii Central District, Kenya. In the IOSR Journal of Pharmacy, Vol. 5, Issue 9 (2015), PP. 41-49.

Osoro A.A. (1981). ‘Life and Death in different Cultures, the African Context’. Under the auspices of Christian Medical Commission; Ecumenical Institute, Bossey – Geneva, Switzerland, summer, 1981.

Osoro A.A. (2009). Presented a Paper on ‘Sexual violence among women in post election period-2007’ In the conference on Sexual Violence Among Vulnerable Women in time of Crisis’. Under the auspices of Medical Research Council of South Africa, July 2009.

Osoro A.A et al. (2014). Presented a paper on Maternal mortality among women of reproductive age attending Kisii General Hospital, Kisii Central District, Kenya. In 2nd Global Health Research, in collaboration with WHO and the University of Peking, in Beijing, China. 2014.

Osoro A.A. Ng’ang’a Z, Yitambe A. (2015). Presented a paper on “An analysis of the incidence and causes of raod traffic accidents in Kisii Central District, Kenya. In the ‘International Conference on Global Public Health 2015. Held on 10 – 11 December, 2015 at Taj Samura Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Osoro A.A and Ouma J. (2015). Maternal mortality: dearth of human resource or equipments. Paper presented to the ‘6Th Annual General meeting and WHO/ Joint Annual Scientific Health Conference of Schools of Public Health in Africa (ASPHA) in conjunction with UNACOH/ Makerere College of Health Sciences; held from 23rd to 25th September, 2015 in Kampala, Uganda

Human Anatomy Unit: 1 eLearning Module for BSc.N Programme, under the auspices of AMREF, Commonwealth of Leaning (COL) and University of Nairobi.

Medical Microbiology and Parasitology Unit: 11 eLearning Module for BSc. Programme, under the auspices of AMREF, Commonwealth of Leaning (COL) and University of Nairobi.

Research Methodology Unit: 1 eLearning Module for BSc.N Programme, under the auspices of AMREF, Commonwealth of Leaning (COL) and University of Nairobi.

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