KAVI-ICR Boardroom, 3rd Floor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi
Bridging Research and Practice Advancing Implementation Science at Pwani Research Centre, Mombasa
KAVI-ICR Boardroom, 3rd Floor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi
Join us for a special lecture on Bridging Research and Practice: Advancing Implementation Science at Pwani Research Centre, Mombasa.
McKenna Eastment, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and Global Health. She is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Nairobi. She completed her medical degree at the University of Chicago prior to moving to Seattle. She then completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship here at the University of Washington. During her ID fellowship, she also completed a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology.
Her research interests include global women’s health, cervical cancer screening, HIV treatment and prevention, and implementation science. She is the PI on a career development award testing an implementation strategy to increase cervical cancer screening in Mombasa County, Kenya and an R01 scaling up an implementation strategy to increase integration of HIV treatment and prevention into family planning clinics in Mombasa County, Kenya. She also attends on the Infectious Diseases consult service at the Seattle Puget Sound VA.
