Stephen Kennedy

Dr Stephen B. Kennedy is a Senior Researcher at the University of Liberia-Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation (UL-PIRE) Africa Center, an infectious disease research centre based at the University of Liberia. Dr Stephen B. Kennedy is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford, as part of the Africa Oxford Initiative’s Senior Visiting Fellowship Programme.

Dr Stephen B Kennedy is trained in general medicine and public health in infectious disease epidemiology, emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) research, international health and biomedical research, and research ethics in Liberia, the United States, and Zambia. Dr Kennedy has over 15 years of experience as a public health practitioner, infectious disease researcher, and medical doctor.

Previously, Dr Kennedy served as Commissioner for Programs & Policy at the National AIDS Commission of Liberia; Secretary-General of the Liberia College of Physicians & Surgeons, the country’s flagship postgraduate medical residency training programme; and Co-ordinator for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Research at Liberia’s Incident Management System during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Dr Kennedy also served as Liberia’s Co-Principal Investigator on the EVD Vaccine Clinical Trial for the Liberia-US Joint Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccines in Liberia and for a four-country (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Mali) three-sponsors (NIH, INSERM, LSHTM) EVD Vaccines Clinical Trial Consortium.

While at the Merton College, University of Oxford, Dr Kennedy will be working on “strengthening research ethics committees in Liberia for genomic studies”. Dr Kennedy will also interact with our Fellows, staff and students, bringing his wealth of experience in global health and infectious disease and broadening the perspective of our community.