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Salome Bukachi, PhD

Associate Professor
University of Nairobi, Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies
Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Prof Salome A. Bukachi holds a PhD in Anthropology of the University of Nairobi’s Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, specializing in Medical Anthropology. Author of over 45 publications and supervisor of over 50 graduate students. She is a member of several regional and global initiatives including the Africa One Health Network, One Health High Level Expert Panel, LANCET- PPATS Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover at Source, Members of Africa One Health Network Steering Committee, a Board member of the International Association of Ecology and Health, Member of the Global Advisory Panel (GAP) for the REACH Programme – Improving Water Security for the Poor, Ad-hoc Committee member for the TDR and WaSH/WHO to support activities to control water-related infectious diseases with a special focus on vector-borne diseases. Salome has also served as Temporary Adviser to the WHO on Gender and intersectionality on infectious diseases of poverty, She is currently a member of the Anthropological Association of Kenya, American Anthropological Association, Society of Medical Anthropologists and the International Water Resource Association. She has won several research grants and fellowships from organisations/Institutions such as the Government of Kenya, EU, IDRC, BMGF, Universities of Oxford & Cambridge, Netherlands Fellowship Program. She is currently a fellow in the inaugural Fellowship Programme in the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform and an alumni fellow (2019) of the African Oxford Initiative. Prof Bukachi serves in the Editorial and Review boards of many PUBMED cited journals. Salome has mentored many African Anthropologists and has created a niche for herself in the emerging field of Anthropology of infectious diseases and Nutritional Anthropology.

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