Judy Omumbo
Judy Omumbo | |
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| Occupation | Epidemologist |
| Awards | Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (2012) |
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| Thesis | Developing a risk map of malaria transmission for East Africa (2005) |
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| Discipline | Epidemiology |
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Judith Atieno Omumbo[1] is a Kenyan epidemiologist who studies the relationship between climate change and infectious diseases. A long-time worker at the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Malaria Public Health Department, she is a 2012 Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
Biography
[edit]Omumbo obtained her BDS at the University of Nairobi School of Medicine and her MPH at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine.[2] She joined the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme in 1995.[3] She studied at Green College, Oxford[4] on a Wellcome Trust scholarship, obtaining a PhD in epidemiology in 2005;[5][3] her doctoral dissertation Developing a risk map of malaria transmission for East Africa was supervised by Simon I. Hay, David Rogers, and Bob Snow.[4]
Omumbo worked at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society as an Africa programme associate researcher until 2011.[3] She later joined KEMRI/Wellcome Trust's Malaria Public Health Department,[6] where she became head of their policy impact unit.[3]
Omumbo is an epidemiologist who specializes in the relationship between climate change and infectious diseases, particularly the use of climate information to make African healthcare responsive to said diseases.[7][5] Her work includes the use of geographic information systems for malaria epidemiology in the Horn of Africa and Kenya.[5]
Omumbo co-chaired the World Meteorological Organization's COVID-19 Research Task Team and Climate Research for Development's Scientific Advisory Committee.[5][7] She has also worked as the manager of a pan-African postdoctoral fellowship programme.[7] She has also worked as a scientific/technical advisor at the World Health Organization's Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, AvecNet Project, and the World-Wide Anti-Malarial Resistance Network, and has also been part of the WMO Research Board and the HealthStrat Kenya board of directors.[5][7]
Omumbo was elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2012.[1]
As of 2013, Omumbo lived in Palisades, New York.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Omumbo Judith Atieno". African Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ^ "Judy Omumbo (0000-0002-9475-9346)". ORCID. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ^ a b c d e "People | 10964 - the Palisades Newsletter".
- ^ a b Omumbo, Judith A. (2004). Developing a risk map of malaria transmission for East Africa (PhD thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 60461596.
- ^ a b c d e "Health | COVID-19 Research Task Team | Team Members". World Meteorological Organization. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ^ Omumbo, Judy A.; Noor, Abdisalan M.; Fall, Ibrahima S.; Snow, Robert W. (2013). "How well are malaria maps used to design and finance malaria control in Africa?". PLOS ONE. 8 (1): e53198. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...853198O. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053198. PMC 3543450. PMID 23326398.
- ^ a b c d "Judy Omumbo". INASP. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
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