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Prof Lukoye is expected to lead the university’s Covid-19 research given his experience and credentials in research.

Lukoye is the former Dean of the Moi University School of Medicine. He currently leads and participates in mental health research locally and globally.

He is a member of the WHO World Mental Health Surveys Consortium, which is the leading collaborative project in psychiatric epidemiology globally.

He was also the global technical director for the citiesRISE initiative. The initiative works with young people in these cities to increase connectedness, improving their coping ability by working to build resilience and hopefulness and linking those in need to care.

He has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Moi University, and a Master of Medicine in Psychiatry from the University of Nairobi as well as a PhD from the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Professor Lukoye is also a visiting scientist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and an honorary associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town.

He is currently the Kenya Medical Association vice president and holds positions with the African Association of Psychiatrists and the World Psychiatric Association.