Jepchirchir Kiplagat

Dr. Jepchirchir Kiplagat is a Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at Moi University School of Public Health and serves as Director of Research at the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH). She holds a PhD in Public Health from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), a Master of Public Health, and a Bachelor’s in Environmental Health from Moi University (Kenya). Dr. Kiplagat has been both a postdoctoral and PhD person with the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) and completed a NIH-Fogarty Scholarship (2021–2022) with the Northern Pacific Global Health Program. Dr. Kiplagat specializes in health systems research and epidemiology, with a focus on using implementation science to enhance care delivery for older authors living with HIV. Her research has been supported by early career development awards from the US National Institutes of Health – Fogarty International Center (K43) and the Gilead Sciences Global Public Health Awards Program. As Director of Research at AMPATH, she provides administrative and technical oversight for research projects at Moi University, promotes collaborative research, builds research capacity, and maintains key infrastructure supporting research at AMPATH. Dr. Kiplagat actively supports the scientific community through peer review for journals such as The Lancet HIV, BMC, PLOS ONE, and PLOS Global Health, and serves as an academic editor for PLOS Global Public Health, BMC Geriatrics, and Frontiers in Public Health. She is a core member of the Lancet Commission on HIV and Aging, and at Moi University, she is a reviewer and member of the Institutional Scientific and Ethics Review Committee, as well as Chair of the Monitoring and Evaluation sub-committee. Her publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/kiplagat.jechirchir.1/bibliography/public/