Estelle Monique Sidze

Estelle Monique Sidze

Research Scientist

ABOUT Estelle Monique Sidze

Dr. Estelle Sidze is a PhD researcher with 15 years of experience conducting research, policy, and community engagement on health, specifically women’s and child health, within the African context. She currently leads the research portfolio on maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and the portfolio on adolescent and maternal mental health at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC).

Over the past few years, Estelle has led critical studies to generate actionable evidence to empower regional action on women’s physical and mental health, including two pioneering studies: 1) The Grand Challenges- funded Sasa Mama Teen Project: Building Strong Minds for Stronger Adolescent Mothers in Nairobi slums which aimed to co-design and test the feasibility of an innovative youth-friendly toolkit with adolescent mothers living in the slums, and 2) the NIH-funded JAMO Project which aims to investigate the linkages between union formalization, kinship support, women’s mental health and children health and development outcomes.

Estelle holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Demography from the University of Montreal, Canada.

Evidence-informed decision-making! Estelle’s purpose is to ensure that high-quality evidence is available and used to improve universal access to maternal and child health services in Africa, including maternal mental health services. She does this through her research and mentoring early-career researchers in the same field.

Estelle is the co-chair of the Union for the African Population Study (UAPS) family planning and sexual and reproductive  – (2023 to date).

You can access her research work through ORCID.

 

COMPLETED PROJECT
Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Free Maternal Care in Kenya
Kenya’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) remained high over the last…
COMPLETED PROJECT
Assessing the Implementation of Sexuality Education Policies and Curricula in Kenya
Making comprehensive sexuality education available for young people is essential…
ONGOING PROJECT
Catalyze – Mental Health: Evidence on catalysts of change for youth mental health in Africa
The Catalyze – Mental Health project will advance a comprehensive…
ONGOING PROJECT
Countdown to 2030
Countdown to 2030 for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (CD2030)…
ONGOING PROJECT
COMPLETED PROJECT
Financial Resource Flows for Family Planning
The objective of the project, known as the FP project,…
COMPLETED PROJECT
Financial Resource Flows for Population Activities
The objective of the Resource Flows project is to monitor…
COMPLETED PROJECT
Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) for the Urban RH Initiative
Family planning is essential to achieving the millennium development goals.…
COMPLETED PROJECT
Public Health System Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Kenya
The purpose of the study is to analyse the public…
COMPLETED PROJECT
Qualitative Study of Social Protection Programs Impact in Kenya
In recent years, Kenya has made very significant progress in…
ONGOING PROJECT
Sasa Mama Teen: Strong Minds for Stronger Adolescent Mothers in Nairobi Slums
Nairobi’s informal settlements are home to nearly six in 10…
COMPLETED PROJECT