Chadwick Henry

Supervisors

Prof. Faith Osier

Prof. Faith Osier

Chair, Bio-sciences Department, KEMRI - Wellcome, Kenya

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Affiliations:

KEMRI – Wellcome Trust

Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University

UniversitatsKilinikum Heildeberg

Faith trained as a clinician at the University of Nairobi, Kenya and obtained her MBChB degree in 1996. She immediately took up her Medical Internship at Coast General Provincial Hospital, in Kenya where she also worked as a Medical Officer in the department of Medicine until March 1998. Thereafter she took up a post as a Medical Officer/Research Officer at KEMRI-Kilifi, working in the Paediatrics Department of Kilifi District Hospital. It was here that she began to develop a career in research, engaging in clinical research studies and actively taking part in institutional academic meetings including weekly journal clubs and seminars. She subsequently specialized in Paediatrics, training both in Kenya and the United Kingdom, becoming a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK in 2003 and a Consultant Paediatrician in Kenya in 2009. In 2004 she undertook a Masters in Human Immunity at the University of Liverpool, UK where she graduated with distinction, and was awarded a prize for being the best student of the year in the Department of Immunology. She has a PhD from the Open University, UK and currently works as a Clinical Research Fellow and Group Leader at the KEMRI-CGMR-C in Kilifi. She holds an Intermediate Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine from the Wellcome Trust, UK, and the prestigious MRC/DfID African Research Leader Award. In 2014 she was awarded the Young African Scientist Award by EVIMalaR, won the Merle A Sande Health Leadership Award and the Royal Society Pfizer Award. She is actively involved in capacity building for African Scientists and is building up a dynamic research group in Kilifi. Faith has been recently appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford

Dr. James Tuju

Dr. James Tuju

Postdoctoral Researcher, KEMRI - Wellcome, Kenya

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Chadwick is a holder of a Second Class Upper Honours degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Nairobi and currently a CPA(IV). He joined Alliance High School in 2007 and sat his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination in 2010 emerging 69^th in Central Province. He is a founder member and long term-serving director of Life Transformers – UON, a Nairobi youth community-based organisation that does provide life skills training, mentorship, leadership and entrepreneurship incubators for youth and children from Nairobi slums and other underprivileged areas around Nairobi. He was also a founding member of Mukuru Life Transformers Secondary School, a tuition-free school in Nairobi’s second-largest slum. He participated in the 2014 Nairobi International Trade Fair under the University of Nairobi students’ stand and his team emerged 2^nd in the category of National Cohesion and Integration. He is a member of Student Consortium for Human Rights Advocacy, a youth organisation that advances human rights education and youth advocacy. In 2016, he was part of the 5-member team that emerged champions in the 2016 Intervarsities Economics Debate held in Laikipia University. Prior to becoming an IDeAL PGD fellow, he has interned as a Finance assistant at University of Nairobi’s Enterprise Services (UNES) and as a Market Analyst with Tullow Oil Kenya B.V. He was amongst the 25 fellows who were selected as the 2^nd PGD cohort for IDeAL, 2017. His project is on determining malaria threshold case definitions across different transmission settings in Africa under the supervision of Prof. Faith Osier and Dr. James Tuju. He hopes to secure an opportunity to further his education to a Masters in Economic Health Policy Formulation and attain a CPA(K) certification.