Dr. Estelle Sidze is a maternal and child health specialist building evidence on inequities in access to quality MCH services and maternal well-being in sub-Saharan Africa. She thrives on ensuring that stakeholders and decision makers in sub-Saharan Africa have adequate and quality data to deliver on the SDG commitment of leaving no one behind in the provision of maternal, child and newborn health services, focusing particularly on effective models for healthcare financing for equity.
Estelle has been involved in critical experts discussions on social protection for poor mothers and children and is currently a member of the Joint Countdown to 2030 and Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) Technical Working Group for the Tracking of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Domestic Financing for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (WCAH).
She is also at the forefront of strengthening evidence and research relevant to mental health of mothers in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing particularly on adolescents mothers. She holds a Grand Challenges Explorations grant aiming at assessing vulnerabilities leading to stress and post-partum depression among adolescent mothers living in the slums of Nairobi, and developing innovative intervention packages.
Estelle holds a Master of Sciences (M.Sc.) and PhD in Demography from the University of Montreal, Canada. She joined APHRC in 2011 as a post-doctoral research fellow.
You can access her research work through ORCID at https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1866-3905.
The In Their Hands (ITH) program aims to increase adolescents’ use of high-quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services through targeted interventions in Kenya. The project is implemented by three partners: Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK),...
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This evaluation project focuses on developing the evidence base around “what works” in terms of programmatic approaches for increasing the contraceptive choices of adolescent girls, with regards particularly, to long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs). It is being...
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Country institutional capacity for data analysis is improving but very slowly and not keeping pace with greater data availability. In general, the Ministries of Health and National Statistical Offices in countries in East and Southern...
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Currently, about 90% of women of childbearing age in Africa live in contexts with restrictive abortion laws. The bulk of women requiring abortion in these contexts resort to unsafe methods and procedures resulting in fatalities,...
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By Estelle Sidze, Associate Research Scientist, APHRC via Conversation Africa One of the critical targets for countries that are trying to meet the sustainable development goals is reducing the number of...
By Estelle Sidze, Associate Research Scientist, APHRC via Conversation Africa About 21 pregnant women die every day in Kenya due to complications from childbirth. That’s equivalent to two 10-seater commuter micro minibuses, known...
By Estelle Sidze, APHRC and Melissa Stillman, Guttmacher Institute via Daily Nation Imagine there is something you can give to Kenyan students to help them make healthy informed choices about their...
By Estelle Sidze, Associate Research Scientist, APHRC I am a social scientist, trained as a demographer, who has developed a particular interest in reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa. I crunch numbers,...
During a recent field visit in a remote rural area in Kenya, I had the opportunity to meet and talk with John and Naomi, two amazing and resilient people. John lost...
By Estelle Monique Sidze, Associate Research Scientist and Salome Wawire, Post-doctoral Fellow, APHRC In Kenya, girls in grades 4-8, who have reached puberty, miss on average 6 learning weeks/year due to...
By Estelle Monique Sidze, Associate Research Scientist, APHRC Seeing 100 community health workers (CHWs) in action at their monthly meeting was an eye opening experience for those of us from APHRC...
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