Dr Nkhoma has a background in nursing education and practice and health services research. He joined the Cicely Saunders Institute in 2016 as a Research Fellow (Florence Nightingale training fellowship). His fellowship focused on self-management interventions for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Dr Nkhoma works on a number of global health research projects to develop his expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods as applied to palliative care: such as ASSET: heAlth Systems StrEngThening in sub-Saharan Africa, Digi-Pall: Digital technology in palliative care, PRISM: Pain Relief Interventions using Self-Management, MAPS: Modelling an appropriate pain self-management intervention for adolescents with HIV/AIDS in Malawi, REaCH: Remote consulting in primary care, person centred care for patients with serious illness, and MAP-care: MAP-care: Multimorbid Ageing Primary Palliative Care.

Research interests:

• widening access to palliative care
• palliative care integration in primary care (in low-and-middle-income countries)
• pain and symptom self-management
• improving care for adolescents and adults living with HIV
• improving care, outcomes and services for people living with and ageing with HIV
• designing, testing, and evaluating complex interventions
• improving care, outcomes and services for Informal caregivers

 

Research profile