Sheila Ogoma
Dr. Sheila Ogoma is a Kenyan entomologist and malaria-control strategist whose work is reshaping how countries fight vector-borne disease in the face of insecticide resistance and climate change. Trained at Egerton University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, she joined the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in 2018 and now serves as Technical Advisor for Malaria, guiding national programmes in 14 African and five Asian countries on data-driven vector control and surveillance. She co-developed the standard operating procedures that the World Health Organization adopted in 2022 for evaluating spatial repellents an innovation already protecting millions of people in forested, peri-urban and refugee settings.
As co-chair of the Roll Back Malaria working group on “Expanding the Vector Control Toolbox,” she forges public-private partnerships that fast-track next-generation bed nets, endectocides and outdoor bait technologies from lab to community. In 2025 she led CHAI’s launch of an open-source entomology dashboard that streams sentinel-site data to health ministries in real time, enabling targeted indoor-residual-spraying campaigns that have cut vector density by 35 per cent in pilot districts. Her peer-reviewed studies on mosquito ecology, resistance mechanisms and human behaviour have been cited widely and inform the WHO’s Global Malaria Reports.
At home, Ogoma mentors young scientists through the Kenya Medical Research Institute graduate scheme and runs a STEM-for-girls outreach in Kisumu County. Her goal remains clear: equip frontline health teams with the science, tools and policies required to end malaria within our lifetime.