Judith Mangeni

Judith is a Senior Lecturer at Moi University in the College of Health Sciences, where she teaches research methods to postgraduate students and contributes to training in public health research. She holds a PhD in Public Health from the University of Nairobi (2017), with earlier training in Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Although her initial training was in nursing, her academic career has been fully focused on public health. Her main research area is malaria epidemiology, with a focus on transmission dynamics, fine-scale spatial heterogeneity, and the uptake and use of prevention interventions such as long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and behaviour change communication. Her PhD examined risk factors for fine-scale malaria variation in Western Kenya, and she has published from this work. She is currently a co-investigator on a funded study examining spatial scales of Plasmodium falciparum transmission and their implications for malaria elimination, and she continues to pursue additional grants in this area. Earlier in her career, she conducted research on HIV testing uptake in health facility settings. She also has additional interests in maternal and child health and disaster risk reduction. As a researcher, her goal is to establish a strong niche in malaria research and generate evidence to support malaria elimination efforts in endemic regions of Kenya.