Meet KEMRI-Wellcome alumn and CCRG Research Fellow, Dr Nchafatso Obonyo
Dr Obonyo joined CCRG almost a decade ago and leads our research into sepsis.
Prior to CCRG, Dr Obonyo studied with the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, examining septic shock treatment guidelines and the management of sepsis in critically ill children.
This work led to him being awarded a prestigious Global Health Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust’s Centre for Global Health Research at the Imperial College London.
International collaborations improving outcomes for patients with sepsis.
From Kenya to the UK, the Critical Care Research Group has partnered with colleagues from around the world to further our understanding of sepsis treatment pathways. Learn more about some of our multidisciplinary research collaborations below.
ABOVE: Associate Professor Kristen Gibbons (left) and CCRG collaborator Dr Sainath Raman, Child Health Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland.
Meet CCRG collaborator, Dr Sainath Raman
Dr Raman is a Senior Medical Officer, Paediatric Intensive Care at Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane. He and CCRG Research Fellow Dr Nchafatso Obonyo as guests editors for the paediatric sepsis topic in Frontiers of Paediatrics Journal and collaborate on our sepsis research studies.
We spoke with Dr Raman for World Sepsis Day to learn more about his research.
What led you to study sepsis and intensive care more broadly?
Sepsis is difficult to recognise and can be fulminant. Unfortunately, it results in significant mortality and morbidity. Many of the interventions we use in paediatric sepsis lack evidence.
The potential benefit of reviewing septic shock treatments
With an estimated incidence of 49 million cases annually of sepsis and a 20% death rate in the developed world, sepsis research has enormous implications for the health outcomes of millions of people. The continuation of this important research would not be possible without the support of The Common Good and their donors. When you support The Common Good, you are backing incredible, talented researchers like Dr Obonyo and Dr Raman whose work will hopefully inform changes to how septic shock is treated, which could quite literally save millions of lives worldwide.