Elected: 2014
Country (Nationality)
Kenya
Discipline
Medical & Health Sciences
Bio
Over the course of her career, Prof Sang has secured funding of about US $ 10M (WHO/TDR, GEIS, USDA, CNHR, Google.org, SIDA, IDRC, Biovision, NIH) and published important findings on Arbovirus ecology, epidemiology, surveillance, discovery and Outbreak Investigations. 2002 – 2014.
She is and has been a member of the World Health Organization expert committees covering the International Health Regulation (IHR) Roster of experts, in Rift Valley Fever 2013-2016; Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, 2002 - 2014; WHO scientific working group to review dengue knowledge, set priorities for future research, 2006; Advisory group of independent experts (AGIES) Review smallpox Research & make recommendations to WHA 2010-2013.
She has also supervised 15 masters and 13 PhD, students and four postdoctoral fellows.
Recognitions: membership in national and other academies, prizes, awards
- Exemplary contribution in Rift Valley Fever outbreak investigations in Kenya 2006/07, Centre
- For Disease Control (CDC), 2008.
- Contribution to Chikungunya outbreak investigations, East Africa 2005, United States Army
- Medical Research Unit.
- Contribution to significant improvement in Identification, prevention and control of emerging
- Infectious diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases Conference, March 2012, Atlanta, GA, USA.