Apollo Maima

Background

About Apollo Maima

Dr. Maima’s major research interest is to help improve the effectiveness of infectious disease prevention and treatment in East Africa by engaging in innovative systems for proper nutrition, socio-economic development and timely public health interventions. His approach is to work in a multi-disciplinary environment that encourages initiative, creativity, inquiry and knowledge sharing, and evaluation of progress through use of implementation research techniques. Dr. Maima is currently an Associate Professor of Pharmacy and the Dean, School of Pharmacy, Maseno University. He is a former Dean and Program Leader of the School of Pharmacy & Health Sciences at the United States International University (USIU)-Africa. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA) based at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). He represented the Kenyan Academia at the first International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Global Conference on Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Education held on 7-9 November 2016 in Nanjing, People’s Republic of China. He is also a Trained PhD Supervisor. He is a Pharmaceutical Analyst; Public Health Specialist & Epidemiologist; Implementation Research Scientist; Registered Pharmacist in Kenya & Good Standing Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya; and Registered and contracted Assessor /Expert with the Kenya Accreditation Service (KENAS). He is also a member of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP); and a holder of the United States FPGEE (Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination) Certificate. He has been a member of the Experts /Specialization Committee of the Pharmacy & Poisons Board of Kenya since 2018. Before then he had been a member of the Training and Assessment Technical Committee of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya from 2012 to 2018. He is also the current Editor-in-Chief of the Pharmaceutical Journal of Kenya. He served as the Chief Pharmacist (and Lecturer) at the University of Nairobi for 15 years and also taught Pharmacy and Alternative Medicine students at Kenyatta University between 2008 and 2009.