Dr.Sylvia Opanga

Sylvia Opanga is Associate Professor and Clinical Pharmacist at the University of Nairobi’s School of Pharmacy. She holds a PhD in Clinical Pharmacy from the University of Nairobi, a Master of Pharmacy in Clinical Pharmacy and a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree all from University of Nairobi. She practices at Kenyatta National Hospital and her main areas of interest are Surgical, Cardiovascular and Infectious disease Pharmacotherapy. She holds a fellowship in Implementation Science in Global Health from the University of Washington, Seattle and has been training doctors and other healthcare workers from all over Africa enrolled in the Afya Bora Global Health Leadership fellowship in Dissemination Research since 2015. She is also interested in evidence -based research and clinical practice, and has worked on several systematic reviews and meta-analyses that have impacted policy, mostly on antibiotic use in Kenya is a member of the Ministry of health antimicrobial stewardship technical working group, and she heads the community pharmacy sector for this group. Sylvia is dedicated to ensuring patient safety through proper medication use and use of big data in improving patient safety in Kenya and Africa as a whole. In this regard, she is the founding East African Lead for the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and the Medicines Research and Utilisation Group in Africa (MURIA). Sylvia is a member of the Kenya Society of Basic and Applied Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya and the Hospital Pharmacists Association of Kenya. Sylvia has won several grants for her work in NCDs and infectious diseases. She has won several local and international awards for her work. She is also a health innovator.