AfOx Fellow
2019
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies
University of Nairobi
Kenya

Research interests

  • Medical Anthropology
  • Social and behavioural aspects of zoonotic infectious diseases
  • Nutritional Anthropology
  • Gender

Awards/ Prizes

  • 2021 May-July: Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform Fellowship

Prof Salome Bukachi

Research

I am a social/medical anthropologist with over 20 years’ experience working on infectious diseases with a focus on community knowledge and practices in relation to livestock and zoonotic diseases, gender issues, nutrition anthropology. My research includes cultural aspects of food ways, food behavior, food safety and food security, health systems, socio-economic and cultural/behavioural aspects of infectious diseases and development.  

I apply my anthropological knowledge and skills to help bring a wholistic understanding of  people's cultures and the wider context in which they occur and how these impact on various facets of people's lives and daily phenomenon. 

I am also a member of the One Health High Level Expert Panel.

AfOx Fellowship

Salome was an AfOx-Collaborative Fellow in 2019.

During her 8 week AfOx fellowship in 2019, Salome was hosted by the School of Geography & the Environment and Brasenose College

Key publications

  • Bukachi SA, Wandibba S, Nyamongo IK (2017). The socio-economic burden of human African trypanosomiasis and the coping strategies of households in the South Western Kenya foci. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(10): e0006002. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006002
  • Bukachi SA, Mumbo AA, Alak ACD, Sebit W, Rumunu J, Biéler S, et al. (2018) Knowledge, attitudes and practices about human African trypanosomiasis and their implications in designing intervention strategies for Yei county, South Sudan. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 12(10): e0006826. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006826
  • Caroline M. Ng’ang’a, Salome A. Bukachi and Bernard K. Bett (2016). Lay perceptions of risk factors for Rift valley fever in a pastoral community in northeastern Kenya. BMC Public Health (2016) 16:32 (DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-2707-8)
  • Bukachi SA, Onyango-Ouma W, Siso J, Nyamongo IK, Mutai JK, Hurtig AK, Olsen ØE, Byskov J (2013).  A gap analysis using the accountability for reasonableness framework conditions applied to health care priority setting in Kenya. International Journal of Health planning and management.DOI:10.1002/hpm.2197 
  • Bukachi SA., Wandibba S. and Nyamongo IK. (2009). The treatment pathways followed by cases of human African trypanosomiasis in western Kenya and eastern Uganda.  Annals of tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 103(3) 211-220.DOI.org/10.1179/136485909X398230