Tabitha started her higher education at the University of Nairobi, earning a Bachelor’s in veterinary medicine and MSc in veterinary epidemiology. She worked as a research scientist for 10 years at the Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Program in Kilifi, where she completed her PhD in malaria epidemiology.
Tabitha is actively involved in communicating science for public consumption. She has published feature articles on health research for national newspapers in Kenya, Msafiri (Kenya Airways flight magazine) and The Conversation.