{"id":14809,"date":"2024-06-07T15:58:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/?page_id=14809"},"modified":"2024-07-24T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T11:15:48","slug":"harris-onywera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/harris-onywera\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Harris Onywera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1662363337337{margin-top: 36px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;14811&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_circle_2&#8243; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Dr. Harris Onywera<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]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 \u2013 Spain), US Army Medical Research Unit\/Walter Reed Project (USAMRU, WRP \u2013 Kenya), Kenya Medical Research Institute\/Centers for Disease Control &amp; Prevention (KEMRI\/CDC \u2013 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 &amp; Computational Molecular Biology) and BSc (Biochemistry: Molecular Biology &amp; Biotechnology concentration, First Class Honours) degrees from Rhodes University (South Africa) and the University of Nairobi (Kenya), respectively.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Related Speakers<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_basic_grid post_type=&#8221;page&#8221; max_items=&#8221;-1&#8243; element_width=&#8221;3&#8243; item=&#8221;basicGrid_TextFirst&#8221; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1721819727776-7b6f79d6e4b1e0e284b5c6b5801f3fcc-10&#8243; taxonomies=&#8221;215&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14811,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-14809","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-african-microbiome-day-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14959,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14809\/revisions\/14959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}