Nchafatso Obonyo

Research Fellow at the Critical Care Research Group, Brisbane, Australia

Dr Obonyo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Critical Care Research Group – The University of Queensland, Visiting Academic Fellow at the Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation-Queensland University of Technology and alumnus of the Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders (IDeAL). His PhD was awarded in 2020 for his thesis on myocardial and microvascular dysfunction in septic shock supervised by Professor Kathryn Maitland (Imperial College London) and Professor John Fraser (University of Queensland).

He attained his Medical Degree in 2009 from the University of Nairobi, and an internship at the Kijabe Mission Hospital in Kenya. In 2011, he joined the KEMRI – Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya as a Clinical Research and Training Fellow doing research on cardiac function and fluid resuscitation in severely malnourished children (CAPMAL and AFRIM studies) supervised by Professor Kathryn Maitland and Dr. Bernadette Brent. In 2013 he was awarded the prestigious Global Health Research Fellowship at Imperial College London under the Wellcome Trust’s Institutional Strategic Support Fund for his work on the management of shock in children (MAPS study) and in 2016, he completed post-graduate studies in Epidemiology at the University of London/LSHTM.

Lectures by Nchafatso Obonyo

Cardiac function and fluid resuscitation in severe acute malnutrition and paediatric critical illness

A review of the literature

Critical Care Medicine / Mother & Child

Cardiac function and fluid resuscitation in severe acute malnutrition and paediatric critical illness

A review of the literature

Rural Healthcare Clinic / Paediatrics