Professor Salome Bukachi

Salome Bukachi is an Associate professor at the University of Nairobi’s Institute of Anthropology, Gender, and African Studies. Previously she worked for six years at the former Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute as a Research Officer in the Socio-economics Department. 

She holds a PhD in Anthropology, specializing in Medical Anthropology. Author of over 45 publications and supervisor of over 50 graduate students. She has carried out extensive research on the social and behavioral aspects of African Trypanosomiasis besides research in other infectious diseases. Her research areas of practice have been focused on community participation, gender, health systems and the socio-economic and cultural/behavioural aspects of mainly zoonotic infectious diseases.  She also undertakes research on Water security, Food safety and security, agriculture, and general development issues. She works with various stakeholders both local and international in undertaking research and development on anthropological issues. Her main disease focus has been on infectious zoonotic diseases – African trypanosomiasis, Rift Valley fever, and brucellosis among others. 

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, among others. Dr. 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.