Current Work
Prof. Etyang is the current head of the Department of Epidemiology and Demography.
His main areas of interest are:
• Hypertension: accuracy of blood pressure measurement; risk stratification for cardiovascular disease; links between malaria and hypertension; IHCoR Africa-Improving Hypertension Control in Rural sub-Saharan Africa
• Clinical Trials- REALITY (Reduction of Early Mortality in HIV-infected adults and children starting antiretroviral therapy); SONIA (Steroids for pneuomonia in adults in Kenya); COPCOV (Hydroxychloroquine for prevention of COVID-19); COVID-19 vaccine trials
• Serosurveillance for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in Health Care Workers in Kenya and COVID-19 effectiveness studies
Other Roles;
Advisory/technical working groups; Kilifi NCD Working Group, Lancet Commission on Hypertension, NIHR SPARC awards selection committee
Reviewer roles: Lancet Global Health, Eclinical Medicine, Heart, European Heart Journal, F1000, PLOS, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
Collaborations
Ministry of Health, Kenya
Kenya Cardiac Society
MRC Unit, the Gambia
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
University of Oxford