{"id":1580,"date":"2024-10-05T17:32:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T17:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-champs-new.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1580"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:30:53","slug":"dr-victor-akelo","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/person\/dr-victor-akelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Victor Akelo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Victor Akelo is a public health expert with over 15 years of experience in clinical and public health practice in infectious disease and maternal and child health. He has a wide range of experience in designing, planning and implementation of disease outbreak, surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation of global health programs \u2013 both implementation and clinical trials programs. He has served previously as a Principal Research Officer and Chief of HIV Research Branch with Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kisumu leading various NIH clinical trials. As a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Senior Public Health Advisor, he supports population-based surveillance work such as Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS), mortality and pregnancy surveillance in western Kenya. He previously served as a CDC COVID-19 response lead in western Kenya \u2013 specifically working with a team of CDC scientists to provide technical support to counties in western Kenya and remains a member of Kenya CDC COVID-19 Response team. Dr. Victor is a U.S. CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Fellow, and Emory Global Health Foege Fellow. He holds a Master\u2019s in Public Health and medical degree from Emory University and Nairobi University respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Victor Akelo is a public health expert with over 15 years of experience in clinical and public health practice in infectious disease and maternal and child health. He has a wide range of experience in designing, planning and implementation of disease outbreak, surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation of global health programs \u2013 both implementation and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/person\/dr-victor-akelo\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Dr. Victor Akelo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1613,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"office":[3],"section":[21],"class_list":["post-1580","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","office-champs-program-office","section-science-site-strategy-and-implementation-s3i"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1580\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"office","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/office?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champshealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}