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Programme Manager, Cambridge-Africa, University of Cambridge
Tabitha Wanja Mwangi joined the Cambridge-Africa team as Programme Manager in January 2021. From October 2022, she started a one year secondment (80%) with the MasterCard Foundation Program as the Interim Academic lead.
Prior to that she was senior lecturer in Public Health at Anglia Ruskin University, UK (2017 – 2020) and Pwani University in Kilifi, Kenya (2013-2015) were she taught both undergraduate and post-graduate students.
Tabitha started her higher education at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, earning a Bachelor’s in Veterinary Medicine and MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology. She worked as a research scientist for 10 years at the Kenya Medical Research Institute -Wellcome Trust Research Program in Kilifi where she completed her PhD in malaria epidemiology and published in several peer-reviewed academic journals (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=RBoptDMAAAAJ&hl=en).
Tabitha is actively involved in communicating science for public consumption. She has published feature articles on health research for national newspapers in Kenya, Msafiri (Kenya Airways flight magazine) and The Conversation. She has a health blog (http://healthkenya.co.ke/) and is a regular guest on the BBC World Service HealthCheck program discussing research from the African continent.