Elizabeth Kimani-Murage
Senior Research Scientist
Elizabeth, a Public Health Nutrition Specialist and a Senior Research Scientist, leads the Nutrition and Food Systems Unit and the Health and Wellbeing Theme at APHRC.
She is a dynamic and impact-oriented African research scientist and leader. She transforms lives in Africa and promotes human rights through research, public engagement, policy influence, and capacity-building. She champions research on maternal and child nutrition and zero hunger in Africa. Her current work focuses on food systems transformation and the interlinkages between climate change, food systems, nutrition, and health. She is leading a large, Wellcome-funded project on the interlinkages between climate change and health in Eastern Africa to catalyze policy and practice action at scale.
She holds a PhD in Public Health (2010), focusing on the double burden of malnutrition in South Africa, from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and a Master of Public Health degree (2004) and a BSc. in Environmental Health (1999) both from Moi University, Kenya. She is also an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with a special interest in human rights law, holding a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree from the University of Nairobi and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.
She first joined APHRC in 2003 as a Research Trainee, completed her PhD studies in 2007, and rejoined the Center in 2010 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Elizabeth’s contribution to science has mainly been in public health, describing the status of child nutrition among vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan Africa, especially those living in urban poor and rural settings, and testing interventions to promote optimal nutrition among children in these populations.
You can access her research work through her ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5272-616X