Makobu Kimani
Medical Doctor and Final year PhD student
HIV prevention techniques
To be the best I can be. I like to push myself to be better
I have both an undergraduate and Mastersβ degree from the university of Nairobi.
I enjoy physical fitness I run a lot and do marathons just for fun. I love languages and try to learn as many as possible. I currently speak 5 Kenyan and 2 international. I read a lot. I read anything, but prefer African writers . I Dislike any form of bigotry be it racism, sexism, tribalism etc.
All sciences,but was also good at humanities like commerce and Geography.
To excel at public health research while mentoring the next generation of scientists and to prove that research can be African driven.
Using sickle cell trait to proxy malaria exposure, researchers found that an intervention that halves malaria incidence would also reduce iron deficiency by approximately 50% in African children.
Read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01238-4
@JMuthiiMuriuki @Sarah_AtkinsonS
Happy to share our new publication @PLOSONE. We demonstrate missed opportunities for HIV testing at care seeking among adults with an acute infectious illness. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246444 @sanders_eduard @SANTHEafrica @IDeAL_KEMRI_WT @KEMRI_Wellcome