Dr. Zipporah N. Bukania

Dr. Zipporah Bukania is Ag Director Scientific Programmes, Partnerships and Grants Management and a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), based in Nairobi, Kenya. With over 25 years of distinguished experience in clinical nutrition and public health research, she has built a career defined by the generation and translation of scientific evidence into meaningful nutrition programming at national and continental scales. Her professional philosophy Changing Lives Through Generation of Evidence for Nutrition Programming reflects her enduring commitment to bridging the gap between research findings and real-world policy impact.. Throughout her career, Dr. Bukania has designed and led national, multi-institutional studies and surveys requiring exceptional coordination across diverse communities and cultural contexts. She has led nationally and internationally funded research projects, with funders including the IDRC, Gates Foundation, USAID, UNICEF, and IFPRI, FAO, GAIN, Government of Kenya. She has contributed to key national and regional policy frameworks, including the Kenya Nutrition Action Plans and the East Africa Community Food and Nutrition Strategy. On the regional front she co-chaired the micronutrient technical Working Group of the Learning Network on Nutrition Surveillance. She is a Founding Steering Committee Member of the global Micronutrient Data Innovation Alliance. She played a central role in the Kenya National Micronutrient Survey (2011) and the Presurvey activities Kenya National Food Consumption Survey, findings being used by the Ministry of Health to design Kenya Food Based Guidelines, both landmark studies informing the country's nutrition policy landscape. Zipporah’s research interests are primarily on dietary and food consumption studies and effect of micronutrients on women and children and School feeding programmes.