MANUSCRIPT WRITING WORKSHOP

Description

Manuscript writing workshop

Objectives

Presenters

1. Prof. Kenneth Ngure
   Prof. Kenneth Ngure, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Global Health and the immediate former Dean School of Public Health - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor of the Department of Global Health, University of Washington. His research mainly focuses on novel biomedical HIV prevention methods especially PrEP. Prof. Ngure is also a member of the Expert Committee on Clinical Trials of the Kenyan Pharmacy and Poisons Board and also a member of the PrEP Technical Working Group of the Ministry of Health, Kenya. He is the current President of the International AIDS Society.
   Department of Global Health, University of Washington


2. Dr. Victor Omollo
   Dr. Victor Omollo is a clinical research scientist with a background in medicine and public health. He has worked at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI; Kisumu, Kenya) for nine years. He has a keen interest in developing and testing interventions that will reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. He is currently leading the pharmacy delivered PrEP services projects in Western Kenya.
   KEMRI


3. Dr. Rose Bosire
   Dr. Rose Bosire, MPH, MBChB, joined the University of Nairobi in 1990 to pursue a six-year degree program in medicine, completing it in 1997. She had nursed dreams of becoming a doctor since primary school. In high school when she chose HIV as her subject matter for competition in the science congress and went all the way to the national level, she made the decision that she would focus on HIV research for her career. She joined the HIV research field 6 months after completing her internship. Between 2002 and 2004, she undertook her MPH training at the University of Washington, on scholarship from the International AIDS Research and Training program. Two years later, she successfully applied for the Global Research Initiative Program (GRIP) for new foreign investigators. Her research interests include HIV/AIDS immunology, maternal and child health (especially PMTCT, reduction of mortality and morbidity, prevention of malnutrition), and social determinants of health. She has a strong interest in capacity building and is therefore involved in various training programs in Kenya. She is currently undertaking PhD studies at Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
   KEMRI


4. Dr. Patrick Mbindyo
   Dr. Patrick Mbindyo serves as Registrar in the Research, Production and Extension Division at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and an affiliate faculty member at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). His research work has largely focused on human resources for health. Dr. Mbindyo has a social science background with training in survey research. He is currently supporting work that explores support given to community health committees to link households to the Kenyan health system at the primary level
   JKUAT, KEMRI