Elizabeth Tamara Nyirenda
University Of Zambia
elizabethnyirenda2012@gmail.com
Elizabeth is a Population Scientist, Researcher, Evaluator and Special Research Fellow at the University of Zambia. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand under the Department of Demography and Population Studies.
She contributes to teaching, research, writing, resource mobilisation and community service. She has expertise in M&E, research, data science and project implementation and management. She possesses excellent writing and analytical skills, in addition to experience with both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
She supports efforts to strengthen capacity to address current and emerging population issues as well as integrating population issues into the development agenda.
Her focus areas of research and evaluation include Maternal, new-born, child and adolescent health and nutrition, HIV, fertility and well-being, migration and mobility, population and environment, education and empowerment of women and girls. She contributes to writing through reports, books, and technical papers on population issues and peer-reviews papers for scientific publications.
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Articles
Mwewa E. Kasonde1, Bwalya Bupe Bwalya, Elizabeth T. Nyirenda, Chabila Christopher Mapoma, Milika Sikaluzwe, Kafiswe Chimpinde and Gloria I. Songolo. Association between sexual violence and unintended pregnancy among married women in Zambia. BMC Public Health (2022) 22:1491. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13881-8
Andrew Banda., Elizabeth T. Nyirenda., Chabila C., Mapoma, Bwalya B. Bwalya., Nkuye Moyo. (2022). Influence of Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices on Stunting in Children aged 6 – 23 months in Zambia. Adv Nutr Food Sci, 7(1), 117-127. ISSN: 2572-5971
Book Chapter
Mapoma C, Phiri M and Nyirenda E. (2018). Female education and Fertility in Zambia. In Education in Zambia at Fifty Years of Independence and Beyond edited by Gift Masaiti. UNZA Press, Lusaka. ISBN: 978-9982-03-103-5
Course Reader
Ministry of General Education (2018). Monitoring and Evaluation in the Education Sector: A course reader produced as a joint MOGE –UNZA capacity building programme.