Caroline’s research interests lie in understanding the impact of lack of energy access at local and regional scales. Her research has focused on exposure assessment of indoor air pollution from biomass fuel use, health impacts and interventions for reducing the health risk. She has particular interest in understanding factors that influence uptake of health promoting technologies such as clean cookstoves, how to overcome the barriers for technology adoption and use, and effective delivery models for household energy interventions.
Caroline has a PhD in Public Health and Policy from University of London (School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). Her thesis assessed indoor air pollution, health and fuel use benefits of improved wood stoves in rural Kenya. She also has an MSc. in Public Health and BSc. in Environmental Studies from Kenyatta University.
Prior to joining SEI she was Graduate Teaching Assistant at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and before that Teaching Assistant at Kenyatta University in Nairobi.
Publications authored externally to SEI
- Ochieng, C. A., C. Tonne and S. Vardoulakis. A comparison of fuel use between a low cost, improved wood stove and traditional three-stone stove in rural Kenya. Biomass and Bioenergy. Available online 10 September 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.07.017
- Mechanisms and indicators for assessing the impact of biofuel feedstock production on ecosystem services
- Household air pollution in low and middle income countries
- Household air pollution following replacement of traditional open fire with an improved rocket type cookstove
- Multi-dimensional poverty effects around operational biofuel projects in Malawi, Mozambique and Swaziland
- What’s health got to do with it? Testing marketing messages for clean cookstoves in Cambodia and Kenya
- SEI initiative on behaviour and choice
- Afya Credit Incentive for Improved Maternal and Child Health
- Agricultural investment and rural transformation: a case study on the Makeni bioenergy project in Sierra Leone
- Unraveling biofuel impacts on ecosystem services, human well-being and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Fuel from Waste: Demonstrating the Feasibility of Locally Produced Ethanol for Household Cooking in Addis Ababa