Head of HAT* Diagnostics Programme
Dr. Joseph
Ndung’u |
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*HAT – human
African trypanosomiasis (Sleeping sickness)
Dr. Ndung’u joined
FIND in May 2006 from his employment with the Kenya
Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), where he was
Chief Research Officer. Before he joined KARI, Dr.
Ndung’u worked with the Kenya Trypanosomiasis
Research Institute (KETRI) which he first joined in
1985 as an assistant research officer. Over the
ensuing years, he rose through the ranks to become
Director of KETRI.
During the course of
his work, Dr. Ndung’u became involved in mobilization
of research funding from government and other
donors, and implementation of projects and
programmes involving the adoption, adaptation and
transfer of technologies for the control of tsetse
and African trypanosomiasis. This necessitated
working with affected communities, and stakeholders
in research, industry, academia, and in the health
and agricultural sectors. As a result of his
dedication, KETRI became renowned both nationally
and internationally, and in 2003, was awarded a
certificate of recognition by the African Union for
its contribution to research and training.
Dr. Ndung’u’s area of
specialization is in immunopathology. He has
published widely on human and animal health in local
and international journals, and has contributed
several book chapters in his field. Dr. Ndung’u has
been a visiting professor at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison (USA) and the University of
Glasgow (UK), and is a member of a number of
international consortia and committees, including
the FAO and WHO. In 1998, he was a founding member
of the Eastern Africa Network for Trypanosomiasis (EANETT),
which collaboratively links trypanosomiasis research
institutes in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Malawi
and the Swiss Tropical Institute (Basel), and was
the chairman of EANETT from 1998 to 2005.
Contact:
joseph.ndungu@finddiagnostics.org
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