Senior Field Epidemiologist

 Coordinated Public Health Emergency operations Center activities including implementation of International Health Regulations IHR 2005.  Conducted capacity building on Community Event Based Surveillance-CEBS, Event Based Surveillance -EBS, Facility Event based surveillance-FEBS and Public Health Emergency response-PHEM among healthcare workers in Counties and Ministry of Health.  Programs Design, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation & Operational Research at Department of Diseases Surveillance and Response and PHEOC.  Developed protocols for outbreak investigation and operational research for MoH.  Conducted transborder surveillance at Points of entry-POE  Coordinated Emergency Response, Disaster Management, One Health, Disease outbreak investigations and supported epidemiological response efforts for diseases and Public Health events.  Provided Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Health & County Governments under CDC’s Enhancing Global Health Security Project & support to implementation of GF-Fight against Aids, TB & Malaria including the COVID-19 Response mechanism  Conducted statistical analysis using SPSS& Power BI, contributing to the development of health policy recommendations.  Collected and processed demographic and health data, ensuring accuracy and integrity of datasets.  Developed a digital emergency data collection tool for Counties to report to the National using ODK in cases of outbreaks and disasters/Public Health events.  Reviewed and revised Public Health Emergency Operation Centre (PHEOC) SOP’s and presented to the MoH for utilization.  Technical Assistance in grant applications and contributed to the development of project proposals for funding especially pandemic fund.  Technical Assistance in the creation of health education materials and dissemination of findings to communities and public health professionals.  Mentored MSc. Fellows of Epidemiology& Bio-statistics of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology on Strengthening Capacity for Epidemics Preparedness and Response in sub-Saharan Africa Project (SCEPRESSA) project drawn from seven sub-Saharan African countries: Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda and MoH/Moi University MSc. Field epidemiology and Lab Training Program(FELTP) students attached at DDSR and PHEOC on matters Epidemiology, Diseases Control, IDSR and Public Health Practice.

MSc in Project Management