Dr Edna N Bosire is an Assistant Professor in Medical Anthropology and Implementation Science at the
Brain and Mind Institute (BMI), Aga Khan University, Kenya, and the Lead for the BMI’s Living Lab- East Africa. She is also an appointed faculty at the Aga Khan University’s department of Population health in Nairobi, and an honorary research scientist at the
Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously, Edna worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist for the Blantyre Prevention Strategy (BPS) at
Georgetown University’s Centre for Innovation in Global Health (USA) and
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi. Edna holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology and Public Health from the
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and MA in Medical Anthropology from the
University of Nairobi.
Over the past 15 years, she has used various anthropological, public health, and implementation science theories and frameworks to design and implement health research projects in urban poor settings in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and Malawi. She writes a lot about chronic illnesses and patients experiences with comorbidities and multimorbidity. Her other research interests and contributions are in health systems strengthening, Mental and Brain Health, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, climate change and nutrition.
She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) for a Dementia project- funded by the
DAVOS Alzheimer’s Collaborative, that is being implemented at the Aga Khan hospital, Nairobi Kenya; and PI for a Climate change and Mental Health project, funded by
Georgetown University (USA), being implemented in Kilifi County, Kenya. Edna has experience and expertise working collaboratively with marginalized communities, and other stakeholders at community levels using community based participatory research approaches (CBPR) and co-creating interventions to ensure that implementation strategies are contextually designed and are people centered.
email - edna.bosire@aku.edu
