Miriam Karinja

Science for Africa Foundation

Njoki Miriam, serves as a Senior Program Officer – Clinical Research and Trial Community at Science for Africa Foundation. She is a passionate Clinical Epidemiologist with over 10 years’ experience collaborating with public-private partnerships to design, implement and evaluate health interventions in low- and middle-income countries, and has extensive work experience in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya. Njoki has significantly been involved in clinical trials for novel treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in Cape Town South Africa. She has also served in a humanitarian emergency context as a Mission Epidemiologist for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF-Holland) providing epidemiological expertise in outbreak investigation, public health surveillance and operational research activities across four states in Nigeria (Abuja, Zamfara, Benue, and Sokoto). Before joining SFA, she was a Data, Analytics, and Research Consultant at the World Food Program in Rome, Italy before relocating back home. She holds a PhD degree in Epidemiology from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute/ University of Basel, Switzerland and a master’s degree in clinical Epidemiology from Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

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