Paul Gwakisa
Professor of Immunology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, United Republic of Tanzania
Biography
Paul Simon Gwakisa, PhD, is Professor of Immunology at Sokoine University of Agriculture, the United Republic of Tanzania. He leads a research group in the Genome Science Centre, whose interest is on vector-borne diseases.
His 33+ years of academic research experience have contributed significant attributes of the relationships between people, livestock, disease and rural livelihoods within human-livestock-wildlife interface ecosystems.
He is passionate about building the capacity of the next generation of African scientists and has supervised over 50 postgraduate (MSc and PhD) students.
With a record of over 90 peer-reviewed publications, Dr Gwakisa has served as principal investigator for numerous internationally won competitive grants including the WHO/IDRC/TDR project (2013-2018) titled ‘Reducing vulnerabilities to vector-borne diseases in Maasai communities in the Maasai steppe: an eco-health approach.’
Currently, he is one of the principal investigators of a collaborative effort of four African research groups, leading a project under the TDR research initiative on ‘Operationalizing One Health for Vector-Borne Diseases in the Context of Climate Change in Africa.’
Resources
Pastoralists' Vulnerability to Trypanosomiasis in Maasai Steppe
Data and tools to integrate climate and environmental information into public health