Dr. Patience Kiyuka is the coordinator of the malaria work package of the East Africa Consortium for Clinical Research (EACCR), which is an EDCTP funded project. She is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya. Her research interests include epidemiology, immunology, and host-pathogen interactions. Dr. Kiyuka is deeply passionate about public engagement and is always intrigued by how to make science accessible and understandable by the general public. Her current project involves using virtual reality technology to give high school students a virtual tour of their research center, aiming to spark students' interest in science. Kiyuka uses innovative tools such as virtual reality technology to improve science literacy in high school students.

Patience trained as a biochemist at Kenyatta University and completed her undergraduate studies in 2010. She was first introduced to research through an internship project at USA Medical Research Unit (USAMRU) in Nairobi. At USAMRU, she was attached to the Center for Virus Research, where she joined other senior researchers in molecular studies of arboviruses in Kenya. Subsequently, she secured another internship opportunity at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP).

After successfully completing the six-month project, she was recruited as a Research Assistant with the Virus Epidemiology Group. Here, she was involved in various studies that sought to understand the transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses within the population. During that period, she was competitively awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship, which enabled her to undertake a distance-learning master's degree in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, completing her studies in 2015. Towards the end of the same year, she was once again competitively awarded a grant from the Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders (IDeAL) for her doctoral studies on immunity to Malaria.