Dorcus Omoga is a Ph.D. scholar at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and the University of Pretoria pursuing Medical Virology. She is working on understanding the transmission dynamics of bunyaviruses (arboviruses and roboviruses) in human, livestock, and peri-domestic rodent hosts under the "one-health" concept, as well as the surveillance and characterization of other pathogenic and novel viruses in these hosts.