Emelda Aluoch Okiro

Emelda graduated with a BSc in Chemistry and Biochemistry from Egerton University, Kenya in 2001 and joined KEMRI-Wellcome Trust-Kilifi Unit the same year as a research assistant involved in a large field epidemiological project studying various aspects of RSV infection. Emelda completed her PhD in 2007 from the Open University, UK, and the University of Warwick on infectious disease epidemiology examining the transmission dynamics of RSV infection, in particular the characterization of patterns of infection of this virus and associated disease within the community. Emelda joined the MPHEG in 2007 with a specific interest in developing research questions related to measuring the spatial and temporal heterogeneity in P. falciparum risk and how this relates to global malaria disease burdens. In 2008 she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Training fellowship to study the changing clinical epidemiology of malaria in East Africa. She is an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford.