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
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
- ^ 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.