Global InformationBlasio Vincent Ndale Esau Oriedo information
Dr. Blasio Vincent Oriedo | |
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 Oriedo c. 1962 | |
| Born | 15 September 1931 Ebwali Village, Bunyore, Kenya Colony |
| Died | 26 January 1966 (aged 34) Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya |
| Education | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Doctor of Public Health (DPH) |
| Occupation(s) | Epidemiologist, parasitologist, physician, author, hygienist, medical research |
| Years active | 1948–1966 |
| Known for | Contribution to tropical medicine and public health; fighting disease epidemics in Africa; for medical research in the epidemiology of East African leishmaniasis. |
| Relatives | Esau Khamati Oriedo (father) |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Epidemiologist, parasitologist, physician, author, hygienist, medical researcher |
| Field | Tropical medicine, public health, vector-borne epidemiological disease |
| Institutions | Ministry of Health and Housing, Kenya Medical Research Division of Insect-Borne Diseases, Kenya Colony Colonial Medical Services Medical Department of Kenya Colony East African High Commission's Bureau of Research in Medicine and Hygiene |
| Sub-specialties | Leishmaniasis (kala-azar) |
| Research | Tropical diseases |
| Notable works | Tropical diseases: Studies in Epidemiology of East African (Leishmaniasis) Campaign Against Disease Epidemics: 1952 Kala-azar (black fever) or visceral leishmaniasis epidemic; 1954 enteric/typhoid fever epidemic; 1960 Kwashiorkor epidemic; and 1950s/1960s plasmodium falciparum malaria epidemics |
| Awards | Tripartite laureate fellow; NIH Extramural (Medical) Researcher; Special Achievement and Contribution to Public Health—The East African Bureau of Research in Medicine and Hygiene;The Dutch Royal Institute fellow; Bukusu Omukasa |
Dr. Blasio Vincent Oriedo, in full Dr. Blasio Vincent Ndale Esau Oriedo (born 15 September 1931, Ebwali Village in Bunyore, Kenya Colony—died 26 January 1966, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya) was an African epidemiologist and a parasitological scientist known for his contributions to tropical medicine and work to stem disease epidemics in colonial and postcolonial Kenya, the countries of East and Central Africa, and the Sudan.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] He is credited for saving thousands of native African lives from infectious disease. Dr. Oriedo was a recipient of the Extramural Medical Research Grant presented by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Oriedo was a patron of academic, healthcare, and socioeconomic development in East and Central Africa. He developed an interdisciplinary approach that connected the struggle for political freedom in Kenya with fully integrated healthcare, intellectual, socioeconomic, and civil infrastructures especially in the rural regions that bore the brunt of disease epidemics and their socioeconomic and sociocultural consequences. He embraced a revolutionary epidemiological perspective towards the economic and intellectual consequences of disease or public health strategy across the East and Central African region. He served as a member of Tom Mboya's interdisciplinary economic development advisory team from 1965 until his death in January 1966.[8][9][10][11]
Oriedo was one of the forces behind the late 1950s–early 1960s US academic scholarship programme for East African students— The Kennedy Airlift.[12][13]
- ^ Southgate, B.A.; Oriedo, B.V.E. (January 1962). "Studies in the epidemiology of East African leishmaniasis☆ 1. The circumstantial epidemiology of kala-azar in the Kitui District of Kenya". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 56 (1): 30–47. doi:10.1016/0035-9203(62)90087-1. PMID 13915463. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ Southgate, B.A. (September 1964). "Studies in the Epidemiology of East African Leishmaniasis 2. The Human Distribution and its Determinants". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 58 (5): 377–390. doi:10.1016/0035-9203(64)90082-3. PMID 14206691. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ Southgate, B.A. (February 1967). "Studies in the epidemiology of East African leishmaniasis. 5. Leishmania adleri and natural immunity". J Trop Med Hyg. 70 (2): 33–36. PMID 4225002. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Southgate, B.A.; Oriedo, B.V. (January 1967). "Studies in the epidemiology of East African leishmaniasis. 3. Immunity as a determinant of geographical distribution". J Trop Med Hyg. 70 (1): 1–4. PMID 6016816. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Ngure, Peter K., et al. "A review of leishmaniasis in Eastern Africa." Journal of Nanjing Medical University 23.2 (2009): 79-86.
- ^ World Health Organization. "Report of a meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Control of Leishmaniases, Geneva 22–26 March 2010."
- ^ Heyneman, D. "Immunology of leishmaniasis." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 44.4 (1971): 499.
- ^ The Government of Kenya, Colonial and Postcolonial, Microfilm Collection; Kenya National Archives: Correspondence and Reports 1930– 1970.
- ^ Ho, Clement. "LibGuides: Microform Collection at American University Library: Country Development Plans & Statistics". subjectguides.library.american.edu. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
- ^ Kenya National Assembly Official Record: "The official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya." 1964 (Hansard)
- ^ Mboya, Tom. A development strategy for Africa: problems and proposals. Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, 1967.
- ^ Shachtman, Tom (2009). Airlift to America: How Barack Obama Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours. St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0-312-57075-0. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ "JFK and the Student Airlift". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved 28 February 2021.