Dr. Elizabeth Kiilu

Dr. Elizabeth Kiilu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, Public Health and Healthcare Leadership. She is a module leader in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Public Health. She supervises postgraduate students and is involved with various research groups across the faculty.    

Dr. Elizabeth Kiilu is a Health Systems consultant and Public Health specialist with over 10 years of experience in Health Systems Strengthening and Public Health interventions.   

She holds a Ph.D. in Public Health from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), a Master of Science in Public Health (MPH) from University of South Wales (UK), and a Master of Science in Health Systems Management from Kenya Methodist University (KEMU). 

Prior to joining the University of Bradford, Dr. Kiilu was a Lecturer at JKUAT, in the School of Public Health where she taught and supervised masters and PhD students in their thesis dissertations. 

Currently, Dr. Kiilu is a Principal Investigator in a UKRI/MRC £150,000 grant to help reduce vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minority women and their young children. She is leading a team of researchers from the University of Bradford, the University of Leeds, Bradford Council, and the Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR), to co-create and co-produce a digital animation tool to that will help in reducing vaccine hesitancy. She is also a Co-investigator in an ongoing 2-year research EUR 741,851grant that is funded by European Union and CDC to train epidemiology and biostatistics to public health fellows selected from 8 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The research grant aims to ensure capacity development for disease outbreaks and epidemic responses in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Dr. Kiilu is experienced in project development and implementation, curriculum development, and monitoring and evaluation of programs in a variety of highly competitive industries and fast-paced environments in the private, public, and NGO sectors such as U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), European Union, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Ministry of Health Kenya, and World Bank.