Jeanette Dawa (MBChB, MSc, PhD) is a public health specialist/epidemiologist with a background in medicine, public health and infectious disease modelling. She joins CEMA as the scientific manager tasked with growing the international profile of CEMA as a center of excellence in providing timely and quality insights from data that support decision making in health and lead to more fruitful engagement between academia, policy makers and the public.
Jeanette joins CEMA from Washington State University (WSU) where she served as Center Director for the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases – East and Central Africa (CREID-ECA), which is part of a NIH funded global network of research centers.
Jeanette has supported the Ministry of Health, Kenya in identifying top priority infectious diseases. She has also served as an external resource person for the Kenya National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (KENITAG), where she supported the systematic collection, assessment and review of available data to support evidence-based decision making in the field of vaccination. She served as a member of the modelling committee advising the Kenyan government on appropriate public health measures during the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020. Jeanette’s interests lie in the use of analytic methods to enhance the utility of surveillance data in decision making, and conducting research that leads to direct changes in practice and health policy.
Jeanette joins CEMA from Washington State University (WSU) where she served as Center Director for the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases – East and Central Africa (CREID-ECA), which is part of a NIH funded global network of research centers.
Jeanette has supported the Ministry of Health, Kenya in identifying top priority infectious diseases. She has also served as an external resource person for the Kenya National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (KENITAG), where she supported the systematic collection, assessment and review of available data to support evidence-based decision making in the field of vaccination. She served as a member of the modelling committee advising the Kenyan government on appropriate public health measures during the emergence of COVID-19 in 2020. Jeanette’s interests lie in the use of analytic methods to enhance the utility of surveillance data in decision making, and conducting research that leads to direct changes in practice and health policy.
Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis Phase 2 Incubation
COVID 19| Influenza |