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Assistant Professor
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Dr. Kimani is not accepting graduate students at this time.
Research Interests
- HIV Prevention
- HIV treatment and cure
- HIV Vaccines
- HPV therapeutic vaccines development
- Clinical trials
Biography
Dr. Kimani is a clinical epidemiologist with a Medical Degree from the University of Nairobi and a Masters of Public Health (Epidemiology) from the University of Washington, Seattle. He is currently the Clinical Research Director at the University of Manitoba/ University of Nairobi field office in Kenya (Partners for Health and Development in Africa- PHDA), implementing HIV programming/ research activities in collaboration with researchers from the University of Nairobi and elsewhere.
Dr. Kimani is also the program Co-Director/ Manager, of the CDC funded “Increasing Access to Quality Comprehensive HIV Prevention Services for key Populations (KPs) in Nairobi County, Kenya”. He currently leads the Program/Research team responsible for mobilization, demand creation, patient care and treatment for 30000 SW and 6000 MSM at the SWOP clinical facilities. He currently has a wealth of clinical, program management, community engagement experience with epidemiological studies and other study designs.
His research interests include the epidemiology and immunobiology of assorted STIs among sex workers (SW) and Gay Bisexual Men who have sex with men (GBMSM), mechanisms of HIV resistance, reproductive health, novel HIV prevention strategies (e.g. treatment as prevention and PrEP, Research ethics, Benefits sharing and global health.
Education
MB ChB; University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya (1990)
MPH (Epidemiology); University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Diploma (International Health); University of Washington, Seattle, USA