
Senior Programme Manager
Keira Lowther is a Senior Programme Manager with the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand team at Centre for Public Impact.
She joined CPI in 2022.
Keira was awarded a BSc Nursing Science at University of Hull. She also holds a Master’s in Public Health Nutrition at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a PhD in Palliative Care from King’s College London.
Keira has practice experience in both acute and public health, as well as academia. Driven to help others adopt evaluation approaches that are in service to their learning and impact objectives, she has worked across social research and service improvement in the public and not-for-profit sectors.
Her current facilitation and training efforts have helped groups across the public sector to surface and challenge assumptions around validity and rigour in complex social spaces. Keira brings a power-literacy and equity lens to her facilitation and, as a certified coach, she gently holds groups in grappling with the deeper challenges underlying improving services and transforming systems.
Some of her work includes:
- Lowther . Caring for young people with eating disorders in the acute medical setting. Paediatr Nurs. 2005 Feb;17(1):26-9. doi: 10.7748/paed2005.02.17.1.26.c962. PMID: 15751444.
- Lowther, K., Higginson, I. J., Simms, V., Gikaara, N., Ahmed, A., Ali, Z., … & Harding, R. (2014). A randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a nurse-led palliative care intervention for HIV positive patients on antiretroviral therapy: recruitment, refusal, randomisation and missing data. BMC Research Notes, 7, 1-10.
- Lowther, K., Selman, L., Harding, R., & Higginson, I. J. (2014). Experience of persistent psychological symptoms and perceived stigma among people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART): a systematic review. International journal of nursing studies, 51(8), 1171-1189.
- Lowther, K., Selman, L., Simms, V., Gikaara, N., Ahmed, A., Ali, Z., … & Harding, R. (2015). Nurse-led palliative care for HIV-positive patients taking antiretroviral therapy in Kenya: a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet HIV, 2(8), e328-e334.
- Lowther, K., Harding, R., Ahmed, A., Gikaara, N., Ali, Z., Kariuki, H., … & Selman, L. (2016). Conducting experimental research in marginalised populations: clinical and methodological implications from a mixed-methods randomised controlled trial in Kenya. AIDS care, 28(sup1), 60-63.
- Public Health England (2018) Rapid review on safeguarding to inform the Healthy Child Programme 5 to 19