Publication: 11th Graduation Booklet
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2016-12-09
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Mount Kenya University
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Prof. Victoria Wells Wulsin is an American physician whospecializes in epidemiology. She has a special interest inAIDS research among women in Africa.In 2006 and 2008, she ran as the Democratic Partycandidate in the Second District of Ohio, USA. She is a resident of Indian Hill, Cincinnati. Prof. Wulsin was born in Elyria, Ohio, the daughter of a teacher and a social worker. She attended high school in Ohio, and earned a B.A at Harvard University. After college, she returned to Ohio and earned a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (1980). She earned a master in Public Health (1982) and a Doctorate in Epidemiology (1985), both from the Harvard University School of Public Health. Wulsin has obtained medical licenses in Massachusetts (1981) and Ohio (1989). She is married to Dr. Lawson Wulsin, a psychiatrist at the faculty of the University of Cincinnati. They have four sons: Wells, Reed, Stuart and John. From 1989 -1995, Wulsin was Director of Epidemiology in the City of Cincinnati’s Health Department. From 1986 - 2001, she worked in various capacities for US Centre’s for Disease Control and Prevention. In April 2003, Wulsin founded SOTENI International, a non-profit organization to fight AIDS in Africa. It has its headquarters in Cincinnati and an office in Kenya. SOTENI assists those women and orphans who have been most affected by AIDS pandemic. SOTENI is a Swahili word which translate as “all of us”. On 26 January, 2011 during the award of a Charter to Mount Kenya University, Prof.Wulsin was installed as the first Chancellor.