Derick Kimathi
Clinical Researcher and PhD Fellow
Evaluating the use of vaccines; safety, immunogenicity and policies to control and eliminate epidemics and outbreaks. Currently, my work involves assessing the use of fractional dosing as a strategy to respond to Yellow Fever disease outbreaks when there is vaccine shortage.
I find motivation in seeing the output of my work being used to inform policies that help to control disease and promote health in the general population.
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)
Biking, Local tourism, Animal lover and leisure travelling
Biology, Music and Chemistry
To be a lead regional and global advisor on vaccine utilization for disease control and help in eliminating vaccine preventable disease epidemics
Newly published
Malaria hospitalisation in East Africa: age, phenotype and transmission intensity
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-02224-w#article-info
We’re looking for a postdoc to join our team in our efforts to examine decolonization and health research in Africa.
Closing date: 2nd Feb 2022
Details can be found here:
https://jobs.kemri-wellcome.org/job-advert/early-post-doctoral-researcher-1
@SassyMolyneux @KuiMuraya @DKamuya @seyeabimbola @Lucy_Gilson @atuire @o_rutazibwa
1/ Findings from @alice_w_kamau https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-02224-w
This builds on work here: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj0089 that used data from 6.5k hospital admissions to compare severe malaria types and rates with the community prevalence of infection.
JOB ALERT 📢: Director of Global Health @UniofOxford We are looking for an inspirational leader to work with us across disciplines to develop our strategy for global health research and impact. Read about our aims at https://www.wittkieffer.com/position/36818-director-of-global-health/
#ScienceReadForSunday: Read new paper in @PLOSGPH by researchers @KEMRI_Wellcome ‘Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence in East Africa: Updating data for #malaria stratification’
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0000014
