Infectious Disease Epidemiologist
Thumbi Mwangi is an infectious disease epidemiologist using applied epidemiological modelling and data science to improve the speed and quality of policy decision making in human and animal health. He trained as veterinarian at the University of Nairobi (2005) and received a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the University of Edinburgh (2012).
His current research focuses on implementing research for the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies, syndromic surveillance for early detection of zoonotic spillover, understanding transmission and control of zoonoses, livestock interventions for improvement of human nutritional status, and more recently transmission dynamics and control of SARS-CoV2 in Kenya.
Based in Nairobi, Thumbi holds the positions of Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Associate Professor at the Washington State University Paul G Allen School for Global Animal Health, and the Chancellor’s Fellow in Global Health at the University of Edinburgh. He is an Affiliate Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, and the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis. He is the Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Animal Health – focused on vaccines, diagnostics and animal health innovations that improve household economics and human nutrition, and co-directs the Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Nairobi that uses data-driven approaches to control infectious diseases and improve health in Kenya and the region.
His research has resulted in invitations to serve in advisory committees locally and internationally. Nationally, he serves as the Chair of the National COVID-19 Technical Committee on Modelling advising the Kenya government on responses to the pandemic, member of Kenya’s Zoonotic Technical Working Group, and as a member of the National Rabies Elimination Coordination Committee charged with oversight of the implementation of the rabies elimination strategy for Kenya. Internationally, he is a member of the Technical Review Committee of the African Union Africa Risk Capacity – epidemics and outbreaks program, Chair of the United Against Rabies Working Group on effective use of vaccines, medicines, tools, and technologies. He has served as a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) rabies modelling consortium, and a member of WHO Rabies Expert Group.
Infectious Disease Epidemiologist
Thumbi Mwangi is an infectious disease epidemiologist using applied epidemiological modelling and data science to improve the speed and quality of policy decision making in human and animal health. He trained as veterinarian at the University of Nairobi (2005) and received a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the University of Edinburgh (2012).
His current research focuses on implementing research for the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies, syndromic surveillance for early detection of zoonotic spillover, understanding transmission and control of zoonoses, livestock interventions for improvement of human nutritional status, and more recently transmission dynamics and control of SARS-CoV2 in Kenya.
Based in Nairobi, Thumbi holds the positions of Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Associate Professor at the Washington State University Paul G Allen School for Global Animal Health, and the Chancellor’s Fellow in Global Health at the University of Edinburgh. He is an Affiliate Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, and the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis. He is the Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Animal Health – focused on vaccines, diagnostics and animal health innovations that improve household economics and human nutrition, and co-directs the Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Nairobi that uses data-driven approaches to control infectious diseases and improve health in Kenya and the region.
His research has resulted in invitations to serve in advisory committees locally and internationally. Nationally, he serves as the Chair of the National COVID-19 Technical Committee on Modelling advising the Kenya government on responses to the pandemic, member of Kenya’s Zoonotic Technical Working Group, and as a member of the National Rabies Elimination Coordination Committee charged with oversight of the implementation of the rabies elimination strategy for Kenya. Internationally, he is a member of the Technical Review Committee of the African Union Africa Risk Capacity – epidemics and outbreaks program, Chair of the United Against Rabies Working Group on effective use of vaccines, medicines, tools, and technologies. He has served as a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) rabies modelling consortium, and a member of WHO Rabies Expert Group.