June Madete

June Madete is an enthusiastic and dynamic engineer, researcher and senior lecturer, with over 16years of experience in biomedical engineering training and research. Dr. Madete's specialty isbiomechanics, looking at the body as a machine. She received her PhD in Medical engineeringspecializing in Biomechanics, motion capture, imaging studies and patient data collection and seeks to develop biomedical engineering in Africa through knowledge and skill transfer. 

Dr. Madete in the current Head of Department and the Coordinator of Biomedical Engineering at the School of Engineering and Architecture, Kenyatta university, where she lectures Biomechanics,Biomaterials, Biomedical device Design, quality management. She supervises projects at Kenyattauniversity, JKUAT, AMREF university and partner universities such as TU-Delft in the Netherlands andDKUT in Nyeri. In her 16 years in the field, Dr. Madete has trained students, teachers, lecturers,engineers, and medical professionals at atanford university, Rice university, Cardiff University in theUnited Kingdom, Villgro Africa, Egerton and Kenyatta Universities in Kenya, and Addis Ababa Institute of Technology in Ethiopia. She has mentored students in Engineering across the region and continues to do so through the Chandaria Business and Incubation Centre, Kijenzi and the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (ABEC).

As a qualified biomedical engineer, Dr. Madete’s passion lies in innovation and capacity building. Assuch, she is involved in several project including the invention education project with Rice 360, theUniversity Based Open Biomedical Engineering Platform (UBORA) and the African BiomedicalEngineering Mobility (ABEM) project, that aims to capacity build students and staff on biomedicalengineering across Africa. Dr. Madete has collaborated with various universities to carry out curriculum development, organise various design workshops and schools, and bring together BME universities for networking though the BMEIdea Meetings. As a complex and exciting field, BME holds great potential for research and innovation, and June aims to be at the forefront of its exploration, armed with the theoretical knowledge gained from her doctoral studies, and her 16-year experience in practice. 

As a consultant, June has combined the theory with the strong analytical and observational skills tocontribute to ongoing efforts to develop curriculums for Muranga University, Technical University ofMombasa, Kenya Medical Training college in Nairobi and reviewed the Kenyatta University curriculum. In addition, she has worked as a mentor and a judge at for Total Kenya, American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ISHOW), Makerspace hackathon, a mentor at Villgro Africa, and a Technical advisor to the NEST360 project, and through these opportunities, Dr. Madete has expanded her network and knowledge of the BME ecosystem in the region.