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Elizabeth Merab

(She/Her)
Nairobi
As seen in: Medium, Daily Nation, Nairobi News, AllAfrica, Daily Monitor, The East African, Business Daily Africa, The Citizen (Tanzania), The Daily Graphic, China Africa Project and
Covers:  Medicine science, health research, Sexual & Reproductive Health Rights, Communicable & Non-communicable Diseases, Maternal Child Health.
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Elizabeth Merab’s Biography

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Elizabeth Merab is a decorated Kenyan-based journalist, communications specialist, trainer, and moderator who covers health & science issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine and drugs development.

Through her articles and use of technology, she has consistently called on governments to prioritize health and has had a positive impact on Kenya’s HealthSystem where her articles have instigated significant changes in some health polici…

Elizabeth Merab’s Journalist Portfolio

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Immunisation costs to spike as donors shrink support

Immunisation costs to spike as donors shrink support

The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi), the largest single donor for vaccines used in the c…

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Pesky mosquito gets a taste of its own medicine

Pesky mosquito gets a taste of its own medicine

In what has been hailed as a significant milestone, a team of scientists in Kenya and the UK discovered a bug…

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ELIZABETH MERAB

ELIZABETH MERAB

Elizabeth is an award-winning, bilingual and multimedia health and science journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya…

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Coronavirus & Africa: Why We All Need to Worry About Kenya

Coronavirus & Africa: Why We All Need to Worry About Kenya

While the deadly Novel Coronavirus rips through China devouring hundreds of victims and infecting tens of tho…

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Africa: WHO Tests Preparedness for Disease Outbreak

Africa: WHO Tests Preparedness for Disease Outbreak

If the worst were to happen, and a disease outbreak were to occur on your doorstep, what would it look like? …

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Alarm raised as more Kenyans get hooked on prescription medicines

Alarm raised as more Kenyans get hooked on prescription medicines

Musicians like Michael Jackson and Prince have sung about getting “high” after taking prescription opioids. …

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Articles

Blow as research on sickle cell cure discontinued

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By Elizabeth Merab
| Daily Nation Verified
Communities living with Sickle Cell Disease this month received devastating news after pharmaceutical giants discontinued research toward developing a ‘cure’ for the blood disorder. Three global pharmaceuticals: Novartis, Graphite Bio, and Sangamo-Bioverativ, announced the termination of their clinical trials using a technology known as CRISPR, dimming hopes of whether the treatment (currently done under clinical trials in the US) will ever be accessible to patients living in Africa.
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How emergency response failed Baby Travis at hour of need

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By Angela Oketch, Elizabeth Merab
| Daily Nation Verified
“Mum, please remove this thing from my head. These were baby Travis’s last words to his mother before being wheeled to the theatre room. Using her right hand to hold the fork jembe that was lodged into her son’s head by his elder brother, she held him at her elbow and handed him to the nurses. The two never had the chance to speak and chat again. Baby Travis breathed his last. A two-week fresh grave is now the new resting place for the two-year-old baby, a victim of a broken health care system.
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WHO starts campaign about suicide, mental health crisis in Africa

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By Elizabeth Merab
| Daily Nation Verified
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a campaign to raise awareness and spur action for suicide prevention in the African region, which has been found to have the world’s highest rates of death by suicide. Every year, 703,000 people take their own lives — and there are many more people who attempt suicide. In 2019, death by suicide was the fourth leading cause of death among 15- to 29-year-olds globally. In Africa, about 11 people in every 100,000 die by suicide annually.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Covering campus news for a city newspaper

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No

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Misinformation and fake news travel faster than the Truth and Journalists can easily fall prey to that.
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