Carol Abidha
Supervisors
Prof. James Nokes
Prof. James Nokes
Email : JNokes@kemri-wellcome.org James Nokes is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick. Since 2001 he has been based full time at the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Kilifi coastal Kenya. James trained in Zoology (BSc) followed by a PhD in virus epidemiology. His principle interests are the transmission dynamics and control of human viral pathogens, including respiratory syncytial virus and rotavirus. The focus of his WT Senior Investigator Award is the integration of epidemiological and genomic data to infer transmission pathways at different scales of interest from the household to countrywide. His research group is inter-disciplinary using molecular, phylogenetic, immunological, mathematical, statistical and field approaches to address key questions relating to respiratory and enteric virus persistence, transmission, and intervention.
Carol Akinyi Abidha is a molecular epidemiologist with a keen interest in respiratory viruses. She is a Masters in Public Health student at Pwani University and currently undertaking her MPH project with Virus Epidemiology and Control Group.
Her project is on exploring origins and spread of human coronaviruses in the kilifi community, rural coastal kenya, by integrated analysis of epidemiological and molecular sequence data, 2015-2016. Carol hopes that this study will improve the understanding of the transmission patterns of endemic human coronaviruses and the overall preparedness in case of an emergent human coronavirus with pandemic potential. Additionally, her study will provide a novel method for amplification and sequencing of HCoV-OC43.
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