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Country:: Kenya

What do you do?: Reporter, Editor

Organisation: Sterling Media

Fields of interest: science, health, sustainable development, poverty reduction

Email address: smurekio@yahoo.co.uk

Languages: English and French

Please introduce yourself....: I am a Kenyan print journalist currently working as an editor for a health magazine in Nairobi. The magazine is directly targeted to doctors and medical service providers. Our reach so far is Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Mauritius.

I would very much like to make contact with researchers and journalists working on health issues. Looking forward to a mutually beneficial professional interaction with all.

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I am very new in health reporting and i must say i am very much surprised by the level of un-cooperativeness by healthcare workers and bureaucracy especially in public institutions and mostly by censorship. Generally i have quickly discovered you cannot write anything negative about a health institution and no one will comment on negative happenings in the healthcare sector. I thought there censorship was predominantly in political reporting but health reporting is shrouded in a lot of secrecy… Continue

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At 12:21am on 1st February 2008, Gavin Yamey said…: M
Wow, sorry for the hugely long delay in replying--I am terrible at checking in to this site!
Yes, the article was published at:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040303

And then I was asked to discuss it on live national public radio!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15667128

Thanks again for your help,

Gavin

At 12:56pm on 7th September 2007, Dr.Arvind Mishra said…: Thanks a lot Murugi for visiting my page and leaving a pertinent comment!
best wishes,
arvind

At 5:30am on 22nd August 2007, Kimani Chege said…: Hallo, Which part of Ethiopia do you work. I am based in Nairobi.

At 9:39pm on 27th June 2007, Marie Rarieya said…: Hi Murugi,

There are many feminist scholars such as Vadana Shiva and others whose scholarship draws our attention to the role women can play in environmental protection and biodiversity conservation. Shiva in "Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development" highlights the role women play in environmental conservation in India. In Kenya, for example, we have Professor, Wangari Mathia, the 2004 Nobel Peace Price winner whose work is well recognized globally. It is naive to generalize that women "mostly destroy the environment"

At 12:40pm on 15th June 2007, Augustine Abutu Alexander said…: Hi it is great to hear from you, remember though poor your county has great resoruces that will make a difference if all things are equal. send me your phone numbers i would love to call you once in a while.

At 4:19am on 15th June 2007, Marie Rarieya said…: Hi Murugi,
I am interested in gender issues in scientific and technological change from the perspectives of using the unique resources of women. What are some of the resources women can bring to knowledge seeking project in different countries (e.g. Ethiopia,. Kenya etc.)?

At 10:34am on 14th June 2007, Augustine Abutu Alexander said…: I was wondering why the long delay. What do you do? and for whom do you work.

I was in Nairobi last Nov. during the climate change conference. good to hear from you hope we do keep in touch.

At 3:08pm on 31st May 2007, Augustine Abutu Alexander said…: Where you at Melbourne? but that not withstanding i hope we can get to know and assist each other better as we all report and edit what others do and say.

At 1:49pm on 17th May 2007, Liz Nganga said…: No, I don't write for the Standard any more. But I contribute to the EastAfrican and a host of other media. When did you leave Oakland? What are you doing in Ethiopia? Oh, my email is lnganga@icipe.org