2014 Awardee: Dr. Faith Osier
Dr. Faith Osier trained as a clinician at the University of Nairobi in Kenya where she obtained her MBChB in 1996. She followed this immediately with a one year Medical Internship at Coast General Provincial Hospital, in Kenya where she also worked as a Medical Officer in the department of Medicine until March 1998. Thereafter she took up a post as a Medical Officer/Research Officer at KEMRI-Kilifi, working in the Paediatrics Department of Kilifi District Hospital. It was here that she began to develop her career in research, engaging in clinical research studies and actively taking part in institutional academic meetings including weekly journal clubs and seminars. She subsequently specialized in Paediatrics, training both in Kenya and the United Kingdom, becoming a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK in 2003 and became a Consultant Paediatrician in Kenya in 2009. In 2004 she undertook a Masters in Human Immunity at the University of Liverpool, UK where she graduated with distinction, and was awarded a prize for being the best student of the year in the Department of immunology. She has a PhD from the Open University, UK and currently works as a Clinical Research Fellow and Group Leader at the KEMRI-CGMRC in Kilifi. She currently holds an Intermediate Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine from the Wellcome Trust, UK and has recently been awarded the prestigious MRC/DfID African Research Leader fellowship to pursue multi-centre cohort studies in malaria immuno-epidemiology. She is actively involved in capacity building for African Scientists and is building up a dynamic research group in Kilifi.
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