A PhD student with Stellenbosch University (SU) recently received the 2022 Centre for Global Health Partnership (External Group) award by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This accolade was bestowed on Dr Caroline Osoro of SU's Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics for excellence in partnering to ensure high-quality malaria research to identify novel interventions for malaria control. It was awarded by the Director the CDC's Centre for Global Health. 

Osoro is based at the Centre for Global Health Research of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), and is enrolled for her PhD in Epidemiology at SU under the supervision of Professor Taryn Young, Extraordinary Associate Professor Eleanor Ochodo, and Professor Feiko ter Kuile of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) in the United Kingdom.

Her PhD focuses on strengthening evidence to policy pathways to improve the management of malaria in pregnancy. Osoro has been involved in several projects, including systematic reviews with individual participant data and aggregated data meta-analyses, a scoping review, and a mixed-methods study.

She received the 2022 Centre for Global Health Partnership award in recognition of excellence in collaboration with the CDC on the mixed-methods study that determined healthcare provider and drug dispenser knowledge and adherence to guidelines for the case management of malaria in pregnancy.