Dr. Mercy Atieno, BPharm
Supervisors
Dr. Symon Kariuki
Prof. Charles Newton
Charles Newton qualified from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, with postgraduate training in Paediatrics in Manchester and London, United Kingdom. As a lecturer at University of Oxford, he went to Kilifi Kenya in 1989, to help set up a unit to study severe malaria in African children. Thereafter he spent 2 years as a Post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins, USA; studying mechanisms of brain damage in central nervous system infections. He completed his training in Paediatric Neurology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK. In 1998 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship at University College London, to return to Kilifi, to study CNS infections in children. He conducts research on CNS infections in children; epidemiological studies of epilepsy and neurological impairment; tetanus, jaundice and sepsis in neonates. He is particularly interested in behavioural comorbidity of neurological conditions in children. In 2011 he took up a professorship in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford to conduct studies of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Epilepsy in Africa and Autism in the United Kingdom and Lithuania
Mercy graduated with a Bachelors of Pharmacy from Kenyatta University in 2016. During her campus years she developed a passion for research and joined the Research Writing Group of Kenyatta University. As part of the group, she learnt basic concepts of research. She later undertook a study project as part of her undergraduate course to determine the accuracy of splitting tablets of drugs with a narrow therapeutic window; specifically carbamazepine. The report of the study was published online in the Pharmaceutical Journal of Kenya, sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya in 2017.
As a post-graduate diploma student, she is looking to be part of a study that aims to determine the impact anti-epileptic drug blood levels on seizure frequency and status epilepticus across 5 sites in Africa. She will also examine other epilepsy characteristics such as psychosocial consequences of the disease as well as related co-morbidities of epilepsy.
She hopes to pursue a Masters degree in Health Outcomes and Research in future.
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