Dr Wasunna joined DNDi in 2003 and is the Director of the DNDi Africa regional Office. She has been supervising and leading DNDi’s activities in Eastern Africa since 2003. She is a founding member and former Chair of the Leishmaniasis East Africa Platform (LEAP), promoting clinical research for leishmaniasis and capacity building in the region.
Dr Wasunna is a physician and an infectious disease and tropical medicine specialist. She holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Nairobi. Her postgraduate training in medicine was sponsored by WHO-TDR at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, where she obtained an MSc and a PhD in medicine and a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Royal College of Physicians of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a member of the Kenya Medical Association and Kenya Association of Physicians.
Friday, 29 January 2021, 5:47 am
Wednesday, 27 January, 2021 (Geneva, Switzerland) Researchers, advocates and policy makers
advancing global efforts to end HIV/AIDS will be honoured
with awards at HIVR4P // Virtual – the HIV
Research for Prevention
Conference, to be held 27 & 28 January and 3 & 4
February 2021. Organized by IAS – the International
AIDS Society – HIVR4P is the only global scientific
conference dedicated exclusively to biomedical HIV
prevention research.
“The awards programme at HIVR4P
// Virtual recognizes outstanding HIV prevention research,
compelling advocacy to curtail the epidemic, and exceptional
commitments to safeguarding the human rights of people
impacted by HIV,” said IAS President Adeeba Kamarulzaman
of the University of Malaya. “This conference, and these