Leadership Team

Professor Faith Osier is the Director of the Kenya Country and AVEC Africa Project Office of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI). She oversees IVI’s operations in Kenya in close partnership with the IVI Africa Regional Office, key Kenyan government authorities, and external partners to support Africa-wide initiatives on end-to-end vaccine research and development. 

Faith is Chair of Immunology and Vaccinology in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London. She was previously Executive Director of the Human Immunology Laboratory at IAVI (formerly the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative). Prior to that, she led research teams in Kenya and Germany pursuing a research vision to “Make Malaria History” through vaccination. 

Faith holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (M.B.Ch.B.) from the University of Nairobi and a master’s degree with distinction (M.Sc.) from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. She trained in pediatrics at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH) and earned her Ph.D. in Life Sciences from the Open University, United Kingdom. 

She is a TED Fellow, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom (FMedSci), the African Academy of Sciences (FAAS), and The World Academy of Sciences (FTWAS).