Bio
Wambui Moraa Onsando is a PhD student at The Dartmouth Institute and prior research assistant at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health. Born in Kenya, Moraa graduated with an MD from St. George’s University in Grenada before attaining her MPH from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Her masters culminated in a project exploring the widespread implications of medical tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa and an internship that examined the obstacles faced by women in the peripartum period suffering from opioid addiction. As a former Health Equity Research Fellow, she worked with PIs in the Health Equity and Advocacy lab to explore housing, food insecurity and discrimination as social determinants of health. She is passionate about understanding how barriers to an optimal provider-patient relationship, and the applications of patient centered communication in an ever-changing healthcare delivery landscape, can help bridge health equity gaps. Moraa enjoys music and unwinds by playing guitar and ukelele. She has 2 dogs and a craft obsession for every season.
Published Research
Racial Inequality in Receipt of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Barnett ML, Meara E, Lewinson T, Hardy B, Chyn D, Onsando M, Huskamp HA, Mehrotra A, Morden NE. Racial Inequality in Receipt of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder. N Engl J Med. 2023 May 11;388(19):1779-1789. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa2212412. PMID: 37163624.
High Rates of Multimorbidity Reported Among People of Color Despite Healthy Weight
Jackson, C. T., Young, J., & Onsando, W. M. (2022). High Rates of Multimorbidity Reported Among People of Color Despite Healthy Weight. Health Equity, 6(1), 662–668. https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2022.0074
Natural language processing for automated annotation of medication mentions in primary care visit conversations
Craig H Ganoe, Weiyi Wu, Paul J Barr, William Haslett, Michelle D Dannenberg, Kyra L Bonasia, James C Finora, Jesse A Schoonmaker, Wambui M Onsando, James Ryan, Glyn Elwyn, Martha L Bruce, Amar K Das, Saeed Hassanpour, Natural language processing for automated annotation of medication mentions in primary care visit conversations, JAMIA Open, Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2021, ooab071, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooab071
An Audio Personal Health Library of Clinic Visit Recordings for Patients and Their Caregivers (HealthPAL): User-Centered Design Approach
Barr PJ, Haslett W, Dannenberg MD, Oh L,Elwyn G, Hassanpour S, Bonasia KL,Finora JC, Schoonmaker JA, Onsando WM, Ryan J, Bruce ML, Das AK, Arend R,Piper S, Ganoe CH. An Audio Personal Health Library of Clinic Visit Recordings for Patients and Their Caregivers (HealthPAL): User-Centered Design Approach J Med Internet Res 2021;23(10):e25512 doi: 10.2196/25512PMID: 34677131