Prof. Shem Otoi O. Sam
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| Name: | Prof. Shem Otoi O. Sam |
|---|---|
| Mobile: | 0712505196 |
| E-mail: | ssam@daystar.ac.ke |
| Website: | None |
| Updated: | 08 Dec, 2025 |
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About
Prof. Shem Otoi Odhiambo Sam is an Associate Professor of Research Methods and Statistics and an author at Daystar University, Kenya. He is a research statistician with PhD in Statistics from the University of Nairobi and formerly professor of Statistics at Great Lakes University of Kisumu (GLUK). Prof. Sam is also former lecturer at USIU-Africa. He was appointed the Kenya Country Representative for US-Based CORVUS HEALTH Organization supporting health pedagogy in Low- and Medium-Income Countries (LMICs). Shem was the C.E.O. of Grace Onyango Foundation for Digital Health in Africa (GOFDHA). He was the LREB COVID-19 Advisory Committee Programs Coordinator. He is in the review panel of: East African Medical Journal (EAMJ); invited author and reviewer panelist of London Journal Press; Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research; and editorial board of African Journal of Monitoring and Evaluation (AFRIJME). He is an infectious diseases modelling expert and committed to finding solutions to human challenges. Previously, he created and published three highly cited statistical models for solving youth unemployment in low and medium income countries.
He conducted early research on the spread of COVID-19 and published five internationally refereed papers. Outstanding among his works is the innovation of COVID-19 predictive model: OTOI-NARIMA model which helped Kenya to predict all surges before they occurred. Because of his work on COVID-19 research he was awarded honorary professorship by Sri Sri University in India.
The model has been adopted in Lake Region Economic Bloc and accurately predicted Kenya's seven COVID-19 surges months before they occurred. He instantly became a member in the Kenya National COVID-19 Modelling Committee. He is constant invitee speaker at International Workshop on COVID-19 Vaccines, Conference on Public health in Africa (CPHIA), World Congress on Pharmaceutical Research and Toxicology, International Conference on Infectious Diseases, among others. The Ministry of Health, the National Oxygen Committee, the National Emergency Response Committee, and the Council of Governors -Kenya used OTOI-NARIMA Model predictions to mobilize citizens to be vaccinated and enhance public health protocols.
He has made presentation to the African Union, CDC-Africa, African Society of Laboratory Medicine, International COVID-19 Workshop on COVID-19 Vaccines, the inaugural conference on public health in Africa, CPHIA 2021 and CPHIA 2, ), World Congress on Pharmaceutical Research and Toxicology, International Conference on Infectious Diseases, among others.
His other works involved formulation and development of statistical models for solving youth unemployment in low and medium income countries with bulging youth population. Eamples include: Reparameterization of vector error correction model from auto-regressive distributed lag to analyze the
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I teach Advance Quantitative Techniques, Research Mrthods, Research Design, Epidemiology, Demograghy, Health and Popluation Studies.
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Publications
Books
Defeating COVID-19 In The African Frontline
Published2024
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Defeating-COVID-19-Shem-Otoi-Sam/dp/9914979262
Cointegration analysis of youth unemployment in Kenya
Published2020
Link: https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/63841633/Cointegration_Analysis_of_Youth_Unemployment_in_Kenya20200706-21500-67edsg-libre.pdf?1594035403=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DCointegration_analysis_of_youth_unemploy.pdf&Expires=1754563314&Signature=UkXzyVDzHKS0IP66gSr6f0Y~dja8dbz0TjmJGVdK~IpyYuMSjObxLst4OdhwynbGWvw2gUOXwgpoLrI~B~yeb2ftWF59BRlLXNTZXGmEL1N3rBVd3D4c9SqlNhuiNIEMr-oLQOLhKlkISZUsI6tgcxh20KblQ22Lpir~1fO-2YGnFq7SxQ-fLjw1E-3AGJD3jjrEAU4wpM8os6NumJunOCt5uIebcDFvS-I51ru3esvHZpfrYYRsDtL9dpRGowMZ4~hJ9rcMzNjhq-~ytnxnz9lkKw4z8mX~-vDez8k38II7dCmFPLxVfzepdZTGRpQXVUFu4BPidg9nQfQZwW08Pw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
Journals
A review of two-thirds gender rule in Kenya: Case of women representation
Published2025
Link: DOI: 10.33545/26646021.2025.v7.i12b.780
Mpox after COVID-19 in Africa: Different epidemic, similar challenges
Published2025
Link: https://publichealthinafrica.org/index.php/jphia/article/view/874/1689
A review of predominance of gross national income in human development index during COVID-19 crisis
Published2025
Link: https://www.theeconomicsjournal.com/archives/2025.v8.i2.572
Rural HIV Negative Young Women have Higher Incidence of Early Onset Cancer of the Cervix Compared to their Urban Counterparts in Western Kenya–A Case Study of Jaramogi Oginga
Published2025
Link: https://mcrr.info/index.php/mcrr/article/view/318
Early Onset Cancer of the Cervix Incidence Increasing in Young HIV Negative Women in Western Kenya–A Case Study of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital
Published2025
Link: https://oaskpublishers.com/assets/article-pdf/is-knowledge-gap-on-cancer-of-the-cervix-increasing-the-incidence-of-the-early-onset-cancer-amongst-hiv-negative-young-women-in-western-kenya-a-case-study-of-jaramogi-oginga-odinga-teaching-and-referral-hospital.pdf
Policy on Routine Early Screening of Cancer of the Cervix and Treatment amongst HIV Positive is Decreasing the Cancer Prevalence in Young Women at a Western Kenya Hospital.
Published2025
Link: https://oaskpublishers.com/assets/article-pdf/policy-on-routine-early-screening-of-cancer-of-the-cervix-and-treatment-amongst-hiv-positive-is-decreasing-the-cancer-prevalence-in-young-women-at-a-western-kenya-hospital.pdf
Comparative analysis of emotional biases in investment decisions
Published2025
Link: https://doi.org/10.33545/26179210.2025.v8.i2.612
Determinants of investment decisions by Sacco members: A case of Imarisha Sacco, Kenya
Published2025
Link: https://doi.org/10.33545/26179210.2025.v8.i2.627
Government Engagement Model: Case of Kisumu Medical Education Trust
Published2025
Link: https://www.socialstudiesjournal.com/archives/2025/vol7issue2/PartE/7-2-45-637.pdf
Correlational variations between emotional biases and financial literacy in investment decision-making
Published2025
Link: https://www.allfinancejournal.com/archives/2025.v8.i2.597
Enormity of Africa’s MPOX data: A comparative analysis
Published2024
Link: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/eamj/article/view/283184
Extra-medical knowledge-related factors impacting malaria prevention among pregnant women in the Kirotshe health zone in North Kivu, Eastern DRC
Published2024
Link: https://www.comedjournal.com/archives/2024.v7.i3.c.339
Dynamics of extra-medical attitude-related among pregnant women in the Kirotshe health zone in North Kivu, eastern DRC
Published2024
Link: https://www.comedjournal.com/archives/2024.v7.i3.C.340
Lack of Awareness of HPV Vaccination Contributing to the Low Uptake of the Vaccination amongst Young HIV Negative Women in Western Kenya? – A Case Study of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital
Published2024
Link: https://doi.org/10.63620/MKSSJCR.2024.1009
Are Non-Sexual and Vertical HPV Transmission Increasing the Incidence of Early Onset Cancers in HIV Negative Teenagers in Western Kenya? 芒聙聯 A Case Study of Jaramogi Oginga …
Published2023
Link: https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/are-nonsexual-and-vertical-hpv-transmission-increasing-the-incidence-of-early-onset-cancers-in-hiv-negative-teenagers-in-western-k-127623.html
Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses in Children: Case of Lake Region Economic Bloc-Kenya
Published2023
Link: https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=126717
Early Onset Cancer of the Cervix Incidence Increasing in Young HIV Negative Women in Western Kenya–A Case Study of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital
Published2023
Link: https://www.walshmedicalmedia.com/open-access/early-onset-cancer-of-the-cervix-incidence-increasing-in-young-hiv--negative-women-in-western-kenyaa-case-study-of-jaram.pdf
Operationalisation of model for dynamics of COVID-19 in Kenya: trajectory of omicron wave in Kenya
Published2022
Link: https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=118874
Otoi-NARIMA model for forecast seasonality of COVID-19 waves: case of Kenya
Published2021
Link: https://www.mathsjournal.com/archives/2021/vol6/issue2/PartA/6-2-11
Antecedents of patients Covid-19 management outcomes
Published2021
Link: https://www.mathsjournal.com/pdf/2021/vol6issue5/PartB/6-5-8-649.pdf
Exploring the statistical significance of Africa COVID-19 data
Published2020
Link: https://www.mathsjournal.com/pdf/2020/vol5issue4/PartA/5-3-17-711.pdf
Prediction and forecasting covid-19 cases, fatalities, and morbidity in Kenya
Published2020
Link: https://www.mathsjournal.com/pdf/2020/vol5issue4/PartC/5-4-12-841.pdf
Relationship between health funding and detection of infectious diseases
Published2020
Link: https://www.mathsjournal.com/pdf/2020/vol5issue2/PartA/5-2-3-295.pdf
Reparameterization Of Autoregressive Distributed Lag To Vector Error Correction Model To Study Youth Unemployment In Kenya
Published2019
Link: https://www.mathsjournal.com/pdf/2019/vol4issue1/PartA/3-6-24-689.pdf
Autoregressive distributed lag cointegration analysis of youth unemployment in Kenya
Published2019
Link: https://www.mathsjournal.com/pdf/2019/vol4issue1/PartA/3-6-22-280.pdf
The capacity of diagnostic laboratories in Kenya for detecting infectious diseases
Published2017
Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41182-017-0049-6
Modelling economic determinants of youth unemployment in Kenya
Published2016
Link: https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC187444
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Research Interests
Being a problem solver my research ingteresting lies in finding solution to human problems. My skills in statisical modelling are applicable in:
- Infectious disease modelling.
- Modelling youth unemployment in low and medium income countries (LMICs).
- Climate modelling .
- Macroeconomic.
- Multidisciplinary research and collaboration.
- Predictive analytics.