Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Health; Co-founder and Co-director, Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA), University of Nairobi
Youtube Interview link: Interview with Prof. Thumbi Mwangi
Thumbi Mwangi is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Washington State University’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, and Co-founder and Co-director of the Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA) at the University of Nairobi. Based in Kenya, he leads a research team using applied epidemiological and economic modelling to inform public health policies and control/elimination programs of epidemic and endemic diseases in Africa.
He holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, an MSc in Genetics and Animal Breeding from the University of Nairobi, and a Ph.D. in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the University of Edinburgh. He has previously served as the Chair of the Kenya COVID-19 Technical Committee on Modelling, the Co-chair of the WHO/FAO/WOAH United Against Rabies Working Group, a Lancet Commissioner on strengthening the use of epidemiological modelling of emerging and pandemic infectious diseases, and is currently an Affiliate Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.