Margaret (Waru) Gichane, PhD, MSPH

Margaret (Waru) Gichane, PhD, MSPH, is an Assistant Professor and social and behavioral scientist at ANSIRH. Her research is dedicated to identifying and addressing the structural and social factors that produce disparities in sexual and reproductive health outcomes in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa. In her work, she utilizes a variety of participatory and applied qualitative methods to explore quality of sexual and reproductive health services, adolescent sexual behavior, and HIV prevention and treatment interventions. Dr. Gichane holds a B.S. in Human Development from Cornell University and an MSPH and PhD in Health Behavior from Gillings School of Global Public Health from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Citations

Ndirangu J, Gichane MW, Browne FA, Bonner CP, Zule WA, Cox EN, Howard B, Kline TL, Wechsberg WM. ‘Those sessions open[ed] our eyes and our minds’: participant acceptability and satisfaction with a gender-focused HIV and substance use risk-reduction intervention on alcohol use, HIV treatment, and sexual behaviour among women in South Africa. Health Education Research. April 2025; https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyaf011.
Gichane MW, Velloza J, Hosek S, Beauchamp G, Anderson P, Delany-Moretlwe S, Celum C, The HPTN 082 Study Team. Hoping to Adhere? Examining the Relationship Between Hope and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Willingness, Adherence, and Persistence Among Young Women in South Africa and Zimbabwe (HPTN 082). AIDS and Behavior. October 2024; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-024-04536-3.
Gichane MW, Griesemer I, Cubanski L, Egbuogu B, McInnes DK, Garvin LA. Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Health and Health Services Research Workforce: A Systematic Scoping Review. Journal of General Internal Medicine. September 2024; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-09041-w.
Gichane MW, Asiodu I, Chambers BD, Clary C, Cooper N, Erhahon H, Negrete G, Jeffers KS, Young J, McLemore MR. Virtual Research Prioritization: Innovations for Research Agenda Development With Impacted Communities. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. May 2024; https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241256550.
Biggs MA, Schroeder R, Casebolt TM, Laureano BI, Wilson-Beattie RL, Ralph LJ, Kaller S, Adler A, Gichane MW. Access to Reproductive Health Services Among People With Disabilities. Jama Network Open. November 2023; https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.44877.
Gichane MW, Camlin CS, Monica Getahun, MPH, PMP, Emenyonu NI, Woolf-King SE, Sanya N, Katusiime A, Fatch R, Muyindike WR, Hahn JA. Understanding Patients' Experiences with a Brief Alcohol Reduction Intervention among People Living with HIV in Uganda: A Qualitative Study. Substance Use & Misuse. August 2023; https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2023.2244066.
Browne FA, Gichane MW, Shangase N, Ndirangu J, Bonner CP, Wechsberg WM. Social Determinants of Alcohol and Other Drug Misuse Among Women Living with HIV in Economically Underserved Communities in Cape Town, South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Study. AIDS and Behavior. November 2022; DOI: 10.1007/s10461-022-03869-1.
Gichane MW, Wallace DD. Dismantling and reimagining global health education. Global Health Action. October 2022; DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2022.2131967.
Ndirangu J, Gichane MW, Browne FA, Bonner CP, Zule WA, Cox EN, Smith KM, Carney T, Wechsberg WM. 'We have goals but [it is difficult]'. Barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence among women using alcohol and other drugs living with HIV in South Africa. DOI: 10.1111/hex.13422. September 2022.
Bonner CP, Fisher C, Carney T, Browne FA, Gichane MW, Howard B, Turner L, Wechsberg WM. "Because all mothers is not the same": The development and implementation of an in loco parentis informed consent procedure to enroll adolescent girls and young women to participate in HIV research. Journal of Adolescence. December 2021; 93:234-244. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.11.001.
Bhushan N, Phanga T, B Maseko, Vansia D, Kamtsendero L, Gichane MW, Maman S, Pettifor A, Rosenberg NE. Contraceptive Conversations among Adolescent Girls and Young Women and Their Partners, Peers, and Older Female Family Members in Lilongwe, Malawi: A QualitativeAnalysis. Studies in Family Planning. September 2021; DOI: 10.1111/sifp.12174.
Gichane MW, Wechsberg WM, Ndirangu J, Howard B, Bonner CP, Browne FA, Zule WA. Sustainability of a gender-focused HIV and alcohol risk-reduction intervention in usual care settings in South Africa: a mixed methods analysis. AIDS Care. September 2021; doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1966694.
Gichane MW, Rosenberg NE, Zimmer C. Individual and Relationship-Level Correlates of Transactional Sex Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Malawi: A Multilevel Analysis. AIDS and Behavior. August 2021; doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03442-2.
Gichane MW, AWK Katz, Ngure K, Scheckter R, Woeber K, Reddy K, Tauya T, Zimba C, Etima J, Mangxilana N, Palanee-Phillips T, van der Straten A. Impact of Women’s Home Environment on Use of the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring for HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS and Behavior. May 2021; 25, 3847–3857. DOI: 10.1007/s10461-021-03311-y.