Josephine Wairimu Kagunda

Josephine Wairimu Kagunda is a Kenyan applied mathematician and epidemiologist. She works on developing deterministic models of infectious diseases to support the planning of effective public health interventions. She is a member, president and the chair of the African Women in Mathematics Association (AWMA) and a prominent member of the Kenya Women in Mathematical Sciences Association (KWIMSA). Quotes My dad provided my fees when he hardly could, did fundraising when I got university admission to do mathematics. I owe my old man all my success. I develop models for infectious diseases. I work on malaria for example, using equations to describe population, disease transmission, with parameters representing the various rates if changes and use the equations to predict outcomes when population or rates change in the model. External links