Celebrating the Women of AMPATH
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Even as I lead the project, I must confess that it has been a learning experience for me, and an opportunity to continue honing my own leadership skills.
Beyond the skills and knowledge, WIL has given me something even more powerful—a community of allies.
This journey has taught me that leadership is not a solo act—it is a collective movement.
The WomenLift Health Leadership Journey was not just a program—it was a call to step into my power, to lead with authenticity, and to uplift others as I rise.
Through our interactions, I came to appreciate that knowledge is vast and multidimensional, and no one has a monopoly on wisdom.
AMPATH’s Women in Leadership Program is determined to bridge the leadership gap for women in healthcare.
Evelyn (Eve)) Too is a clinician and administrator of the AMPATH HIV Clinic at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH). She recently spent two weeks at Indiana University focused on learning more about the care of people living with HIV as they age and shared thoughts
Over two decades, Tecla Chepkoech Kirwa’s involvement and support for AMPATH have grown to include many roles.
Elizabeth Kabuthi is a medical social worker and Certified Child Life Specialist working in Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Shoe for Africa Children’s Hospital, as the program coordinator of the vibrant Sally Test Child Life Program in partnership with AMPATH.
In the heart of Kondele slums in Kisumu County, Michel Maria Omondi’s story speaks volumes about resilience, empowerment, and the transformative potential of inclusion.
Sarah Ellen Mamlin is a beloved member of the AMPATH family. For more than three decades, she has helped AMPATH people and programs grow.
Ever since she was a little girl, Dr. Brenda Chepkoech seemed destined to come to Indiana for medical training. This summer she completed rotations in nephrology, pulmonology and in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and now hopes to be part of the team that is slated to set up a PICU in Eldoret in the near future.
Alexandra (A.J.) Mata, MD, just arrived in Eldoret to serve as the reproductive health team leader. Her role as AMPATH’s team leader is the final component of a two-year Global Women's Health and Equity Fellowship with the University of Toronto.
Dinah Chelagat, PhD, dean of the Moi University School of Nursing and Midwifery, reflects on the impact of nurses, the challenges they face and the AMPATH partnership.
In the heart of Kisumu, Kenya, lives a young woman named Yvonne Ogolla who has always had a passion for helping her community. Yvonne grew up in an informal settlement in Kisumu City where poverty, lack of education and teenage pregnancy are prevalent.
Dr. Edith Apondi is the Deputy Chief of Party for USAID Dumisha Afya. She began working with people living with HIV after completing her internship in 2003 and previously served as a technical advisor for pediatric and adolescent care programs for USAID AMPATHPlus. She is a consultant pediatrician working with MTRH.
Although Kenyan surgical registrar (resident) Dr. Beryl Munda often found herself completely lost in the Indianapolis campus hospitals, her AMPATH educational exchange experience convinced her she was in exactly the right place professionally.
A former beneficiary of the PEPFAR/USAID-funded Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) program for adolescent girls and young women joins the public service as an assistant chief.
The AMPATH Qualitative Research Core (AQRC) offers investigators a resource for qualitative and mixed method research. Violet Naanyu, PhD, is the founder and director of the AQRC which started in 2018 as a resource for investigators.
As Jepchirchir (Chiri) Kiplagat comes to the official end of her Fogarty Fellowship, she looks back on a year of tremendous professional growth highlighted by being first author on a publication in The Lancet HIV about improving care for people aging with HIV.
Dr. Jaguga received a prestigious Fogarty Global Health Fellowship through the Northern/Pacific Global Health (NPGH) Research Training Consortium. Her year-long research project trains peer counselors to deliver a brief substance use intervention for youth living with HIV and then assesses how feasible and acceptable the intervention is.
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Dr. Edith Kwobah, head of the department of mental health at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), shared her inspiration and passion for expanding mental health services throughout western Kenya.
Margaret Chepkirui is a peer educator at AMPATH Plus. She helps people living with HIV by using her own experience. Peers are very important people because they empower, through peer education, disclosure and health talks at the pharmacy and modules. They act as a support system, provide group therapy, psychosocial support groups, one-on-one counselling, and most importantly, they are good role models.