Dr. Margaret Mendi Njoroge is a Postdoctoral Fellow responsible for coordinating research activities within the Disease Ecology Group at icipe’s Thomas Odhiambo Campus in Mbita.

Dr. Njoroge holds a Ph.D. in Medical Entomology from Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in the Netherlands.   

Prior to joining icipe, she worked as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Primate Research (IPR) in Nairobi; Research Officer at the Medical Biotech Laboratories (MBL) in Uganda, and as a Project Officer at the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Kenya.

She was a Grand Challenges Exploration (GCE) awardee and received a VLIR-UOS scholarship for her MSc studies.

Her research focus is on One Health approaches for integrated vector management and the evaluation of novel intervention tools and approaches for malaria control.