ABOUT
Patrick Opiyo Owili
Patrick is an accomplished Research Scientist, Epidemiologist, Biostatistician, and Program Manager with over a decade of experience in public and global health, environmental health, and maternal, newborn, and child health, with a particular emphasis on Africa’s Research and Development (R&D) landscape.
He currently serves as a Program Manager within the Research and Related Capacity Strengthening Division, where he leads several high-impact programs funded by prominent international partners, including the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), European Union (EU), European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, UK International Development, and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). His overarching mission is to empower individuals and institutions to strengthen evidence-informed policymaking and foster a culture of research excellence across Africa.
Patrick holds two doctoral degrees from the School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University (Taipei, Taiwan): a PhD in Public Health (Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Global Health) and a PhD in Environmental Science and Technology (Environmental, Climate Change, and Health Sciences). He also holds two master’s degrees—an MSc in International Public Health from Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom) and an MBA from Taipei Medical University (Taiwan).
Additionally, Patrick is an Implementation Research Scientist (University of Washington, USA) and a Digital Health – National Systems Planning Expert. He contributed to the World Health Organization’s Competency Framework Working Group on Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, and was trained under the Inaugural Canadian SORT IT programme (University of Toronto, Canada), aimed at enhancing vaccine accessibility and uptake. He also serves as a reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Before joining APHRC, Patrick was a Senior Lecturer and Graduate Program Coordinator for the MSc in Global Health and MPH programs at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton (Kenya). He has also served as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Diaconia University of Applied Sciences and Arcada University of Applied Sciences (Helsinki, Finland), Adventist University of Africa, and Kabarak University (Kenya). Over the course of his academic career, he has supervised and mentored more than 50 graduate and undergraduate students across diverse disciplines.
He is a licensed Lead Expert in Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Audit with the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), Kenya, and currently serves as the Vice President of the Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association–Africa (AHSRA-Africa).