Jeanette Dawa

Jeanette Dawa is a PhD student at the KAVI Institute of Clinical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a Master's degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. Her doctoral research describes the burden of influenza-associated respiratory illness in Kenya and modelling the potential impact of including the influenza vaccine in the national immunization program. Prior to commencing her PhD studies, Jeanette worked in the Department of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics at the School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya, managing CDC-funded grants awarded to support health care worker training in Kenya, and a National Institutes of Health planning grant to support the establishment of a physician-scientist research training program at the University of Nairobi. Jeanette also provides consultancy services to the recently established Kenya National Immunization Technical Advisory Group. Jeanette is a 2015 Mandela Washington Person under the United States government's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), which seeks to empower young authors through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking. She is also a recipient of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in-country scholarship, as well as a recipient of the Tropical Diseases Modelling Network Seed Funding Programme (2016), which was awarded in support of her doctoral research.