Waqo Boru at Johns Hopkins University

Mr. Waqo Boru, BSc, MSc is an Epidemiologist with the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program at the Ministry of Health in Kenya. When asked what piqued his interest in cholera, Waqo rattles off a list of questions he hoped his research would be able to answer: “Why is this outbreak (that began in 2014) different from others? Where is cholera coming from, and what makes it unique? Are there environmental factors that contribute to its transmission? Is there a genetic mutation, or several, contributing to the current outbreak?”