Eleanor Ochondo-Opondo
leads the Evidence for Health Research Group at the Centre for Global Health Research at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and is an Associate Professor Extraordinary of Clinical Epidemiology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Prof. Eleanor Ochodo-Opondo leads the Evidence for Health Research Group at the Centre for Global Health Research at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and is an Associate Professor Extraordinary of Clinical Epidemiology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research revolves around evidence-informed health care. She is an academic editor with the Cochrane collaboration (infectious diseases group) and is on the editorial boards of journals, PLOS One and PLOS Global Health. She has served as a methodologist/ systematic reviewer to the World Health Organization (WHO) informing guidance on Covid-19 and diagnostic testing for TB and HIV. She was awarded the prestigious 2019 UK MRC/DFID African Research Leader award and 2020 UK NIHR developmental award to advance the science of evidence-informed health care in Kenya in collaboration with Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She has previously been recognized as a promising young researcher by the National Research Foundation of South Africa and also by the African Academy of Sciences.