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Miriam Were

Kenyan public health advocate, academic, novelist

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Born: 1940-04-12
Works: 1

Top works

Stories from East Africa - the Eighth Wife

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5 total works indexed

A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,326x
Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification
· 2010 · cited 11,427x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x

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1940 births 20th-century Kenyan women writers 20th-century Kenyan writers 21st-century Kenyan women writers 21st-century Kenyan writers Academic staff of Moi University Elders of the Order of the Burning Spear Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni Kenyan public health doctors Kenyan Quakers Living people University of Nairobi alumni

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Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

· 2012 · cited 10,737x

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Key dates

Born: 12 April 1940

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Instance of: human
Given name: Miriam
Gender: female
Citizenship: Kenya
Place of birth: Kenya
Occupation: writer
Educated at: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Employer: University of Nairobi
Languages spoken: English language
Field of work: children's and young adult literature
Image: DrMiriamKWere,2022-04-09,during a talk at AFSC Corporation meeting on Zoom.jpg

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