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Faith Hope Among’in Osier is an award-winning African immunologist, paediatrician and educator.

Education

Faith Osier was born in Kenya in 1972.[1] trained the University of Nairobi, where she obtained her MBChB degree in 1996. She worked in the Coast General Provincial Hospital for two years, before joining Kilifi District Hospital. She completed a Masters in Human Immunity at the University of Liverpool, where she was awarded a prize for being the best student of the year.[2] In 2008 she earned a PhD from the Open University.[2] Her thesis was entitled Immune responses to polymorphic antigens and protection against severe malaria in Kenyan children and was supervised by Kevin Marsh.[3]

Career

Before moving to the UK, Osier worked as a Medical Officer at Kenya Medical Research Institute in Kilifil. She decided to specialise in paediatric medicine, moved to the UK and became a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK.[2]

Osier is interested in how people develop a natural immunity to malaria.[4] She works with the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Burnet Institute.[4] She believes the antibody-based malaria vaccine could be effective.[5] She holds a Wellcome Trust fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine.[6] In 2014 she won the African Research Leader Award from the Medical Research Council and Department for International Development.[4] She was also awarded the Young African Scientist Award from the European Virtual Institute for Malaria Research. She also won the Merle A Sande Health Leadership Award.[7] She was awarded the Royal Society Pfizer Award in 2014.[8][9][10] In 2016 she won the Sofia Kovalevskaya prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and moved to Universitat Heidelberg to continue her malaria research.[11] Ultimately, Osier looks to "eliminate malaria for the health and economic empowerment of Africa".[12]

Osier is interested in improving the prospects of African Scientists, and has her own research group in the Kilifi County District Hospital.[10] She is concerned about the brain drain out of African universities.[13] She is a mentor with Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders.[14] Osier is a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, where she works in the Infection Immunology and Translational Medicine group.[15] She is on the Council of the Federation of African Immunological Societies.[16] She is Vice President of the International Union of Immunological Societies.[5] She was named a TED Fellow in 2018.[17] Faith is the leader of the [https://www.smartpartnership.net/ SMART (South-south Malaria Antigen Research ParTnership)] network which enhances research capacity by aiding the sharing of samples and resources from longitudinal Malaria cohorts.

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/meldungen/2016/m20160801_kenyan-scientist-to-do-malaria-research-in-heidelberg.html|title=Kenyan Scientist to Do Malaria Research in Heidelberg - Communications and Marketing - Heidelberg University|last=Albers|first=Jürgen|website=www.uni-heidelberg.de|language=en|access-date=2018-03-27}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-faith-osier/1353588|title=Prof. Faith Osier - AcademiaNet|website=www.academia-net.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-27}}
3. ^{{Cite journal|last=Among'in|first=Osier, Faith Hope|date=2008|title=Immune responses to polymorphic antigens and protection against severe malaria in Kenyan children.|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.489913}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/kenyan-scientist-wins-top-scientific-prize|title=Kenyan Scientist Wins Top Scientific Prize - Nuffield Department of Medicine|website=www.ndm.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-03-27}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.immunopaedia.org.za/interviews/immunologist-of-the-month-2017/faith-osier-interview/|title=Faith Osier Interview {{!}} Immunopaedia|website=www.immunopaedia.org.za|language=en|access-date=2018-03-27}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://kemri-wellcome.org/author/faith/#home|title=Prof. Faith Osier {{!}} Kemri {{!}} Wellcome Trust|website=kemri-wellcome.org|access-date=2018-03-27}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.insight.mrc.ac.uk/2014/08/06/faith-and-hope-leading-malaria-research-in-africa/|title=Faith and hope: leading malaria research in Africa - insight|date=2014-08-06|work=insight|access-date=2018-03-27|language=en-US}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=http://healthkenya.co.ke/2014-royal-society-pfizer-award-winner/|title=The 2014 Royal Society Pfizer award winner: Health kenya/ health care kenya/ nutrition kenya|date=2015-01-12|work=Health Kenya|access-date=2018-03-27|language=en-US}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2014/10/pfizer-prize-seminar/|title=2014 Royal Society Pfizer Prize Seminar|website=royalsociety.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-03-27}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/dr-faith-osier-and-dr-abdisalan-noor-awarded-visiting-professorship-at-oxford|title=Dr. Faith Osier and Dr. Abdisalan Noor awarded visiting professorship at Oxford - Nuffield Department of Medicine|website=www.ndm.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-03-27}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/meldungen/2016/m20160801_kenyan-scientist-to-do-malaria-research-in-heidelberg.html|title=Kenyan Scientist to Do Malaria Research in Heidelberg - Communications and Marketing - Heidelberg University|last=Albers|first=Jürgen|website=www.uni-heidelberg.de|language=en|access-date=2018-03-27}}
12. ^{{Cite news|url=https://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2014/08/26/researcher-spotlight-dr-faith-osier/|title=Researcher Spotlight: Dr Faith Osier|date=2014-08-26|work=Wellcome Trust Blog|access-date=2018-03-27|language=en-US}}
13. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/%E2%80%98shun-mediocrity%E2%80%99-stem-african-brain-drain-universities-told|title=‘Shun mediocrity’ to stem African brain drain, universities told|date=2015-08-05|work=Times Higher Education (THE)|access-date=2018-03-27|language=en}}
14. ^{{Cite news|url=http://ideal.kemri-wellcome.org/team/prof-faith-osier/|title=Prof. Faith Osier - Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders, IDeAL|work=Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders, IDeAL|access-date=2018-03-27|language=en-US}}
15. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/graduateschool/supervisors/fosier|title=Faith Osier — University of Oxford, Medical Sciences Division|website=www.medsci.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-03-27}}
16. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.faisafrica.com/en/16/governance.html|title=FAIS Africa|website=www.faisafrica.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-27}}
17. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.okayafrica.com/african-innovators-named-2018-ted-fellows/|title=Meet the 5 African Innovators Who've Been Named TED2018 Fellows|date=2018-01-15|work=OkayAfrica|access-date=2018-03-28|language=en}}
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