ABOUT
Phylis Jepkorir Busienei
Phylis is an early-career, public health scientist with an interest in Water, Hygiene, and Sanitation (WASH) issues. As a Research Officer in the Urbanization and Wellbeing Unit, Phylis currently supports the implementation of research activities for a project on statistical and agent-based modeling of complex microbial systems that seek to understand enteric disease transmission among children in urban neighborhoods of Nairobi and Kisumu counties in Kenya (The ‘PATHOME’ study). She also coordinates research activities on the scale-up of water supplies projects in Kibera, which is supported by the Manitou Fund in Kenya. Her roles in the two projects include coordinating and working with the project teams to develop, review and translate project protocol, research tools, and training manuals; coordinating community mobilization; supervising and coordinating fieldwork and laboratory activities; and handling data collection logistics.