Violet Naanyu PhD

Violet is trained in Sociology (USA), Medical Anthropology (Holland), and Global Bioethics (Mexico). She is an elected Fellow at the African Academy of Sciences (AAS, www.aasciences.africa), a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Sciences for Better Health, and a Board Member and Patient Representative, Global Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative.

Violet is also the Behavioural and Social Science Lead at the AMPATH Research Network in Eldoret and the Founder of the AMPATH Qualitative Research Core (ampathkenya.org/research). She is a Co-Founder of the Focus Projects and Research Organization (FOPRO), Eldoret, Kenya; a Scientific advisory board member of The Irsay Institute (https://irsay.iu.edu/); a facilitator of The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa - CARTA (cartafrica.org), and the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Populations Special Interest Group (IPSIG), Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (https://www.gacd.org/).

She is a member of the National Scientific and Ethics Committee, Kenya; a Committee Member of the Bioethics Society of Kenya, and a member of two research ethics committees in Kenya. She has served as a Bioethicist on six global research projects. She has extensively used qualitative approaches, community-engaged research, and human-centred designs. She has been involved in research activities in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Gambia, Zambia, Canada, and South Africa, and has over 125 peer-reviewed publications.

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