Juliet Obanda Makanga

Juliet Obanda Makanga (née Juliet Obanda; born 19 February 1985) is a Kenyan pharmacologist, neuroscientist and medical researcher, who works as a Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, at the School of Pharmacy of Kenyatta University, in Kahawa, Nairobi.

Background and education Juliet Obanda was born in Vihiga County in the south-western part of Kenya, on 19 February 1985. She attended Alliance Girls High School in the town of Kikuyu, in Kiambu County, in the central part of Kenya, where she obtained her High School Diploma, in 2002.

In 2003, she was awarded the Japanese Government Monbukagakusho Scholarship (MEXT Scholarship), to study pharmacy in Japan. She spent her first year in Japan at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, where she obtained a certificate of proficiency in the Japanese language.

Career While pursuing her doctorate in Japan, between 2010 and 2015, she worked as a teaching assistant and research associate at the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ritsumeikan University, at the Biwako-Kusatsu Campus, in the town of Kusatsu, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

Other considerations In 2018, Business Daily Africa, a Kenyan daily English newspaper named Makanga, one of the Top 40 Under 40 Kenyan Women for the year 2018. Makanga is a married mother with one daughter, born .