Ms. Francinah Mapuroma

Francinah Mapuroma is a public health researcher whose work focuses on infectious disease prevention, sexual and reproductive health, and health systems in Southern Africa. Her scholarship engages population-level data and community-based research to inform policy and programmatic responses, particularly in Zambia and South Africa. She has contributed to peer-reviewed journals addressing malaria control, healthcare utilization, and comprehensive sexuality education.

Her research on insecticide-treated bed net use among pregnant women in Zambia highlights socio-demographic and structural determinants influencing malaria prevention. By applying advanced epidemiological methods to national survey data, she identifies barriers to effective intervention uptake and offers evidence-based recommendations to strengthen malaria programming and maternal health strategies.

Additional work examines healthcare-seeking behaviour for infectious syndromes in urban South Africa and the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education across Southern African countries. These studies demonstrate strengths in cross-sectional survey design and policy analysis, emphasizing health system access and socio-cultural influences. This profile is based on a limited set of publicly available publications.