Dr. Harris Onywera

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Harris Onywera is a Bioinformatics Data Scientist at the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). His research interests include molecular biology and epidemiology of human infectious diseases, pathogen genomics, microbial drug resistance, microbiome in health and disease, molecular diagnostics, biomarker detection, and global health policies. He has previously worked at the following institutes: University of Cape Town (South Africa), Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG – Spain), US Army Medical Research Unit/Walter Reed Project (USAMRU, WRP – Kenya), Kenya Medical Research Institute/Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (KEMRI/CDC – Kenya), and the Kisumu National Polytechnic (Kenya). Harris earned his PhD (Medical Virology) degree from the University of Cape Town. He also holds MSc (Bioinformatics & Computational Molecular Biology) and BSc (Biochemistry: Molecular Biology & Biotechnology concentration, First Class Honours) degrees from Rhodes University (South Africa) and the University of Nairobi (Kenya), respectively.