Short profile of nominated Nairobi health CEC Stellah Bosire

Stellah Bosire, was not a name many Kenyans recognized until this week when Mike Sonko nominated the her to become the health CEC for Nairobi County.
Stellah was born in Gatwekera, Kibera, 34 years ago, and is the second-born in a family of five children. Hers is a rags to riches success story as she worked hard, pulling herself from abject poverty herself from the slums to become the current Kiambu medical superintendent.

Who is she? According to her Linkedin profile, she is a health professional with extensive international and domestic experience with and foreign government agencies, private donors, and other organizations monitoring and appraising public health programs conducting epidemiological and operations research; measuring impact of novel techniques for disease prevention, treatment, and mitigation; and document program outputs, effectiveness, and strategic development.

She says that she is passionate about delivering quality services from the perspective of Human rights, Law, and public health agenda.

Her areas of expertise and interest in the subject; has been involved in conducting policy briefs, documentaries, research, project review and evaluation studies and baseline surveys in the following areas; Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); HIV; TB; Human Rights; Key Population; Public Health; Training and Gender being a crosscutting theme.
She is a senior-level manager with extensive experience implementing programs, day-to-day program operations, performance management plans, and partner and donor relationships. Natural ability for forging and maintaining relationships with colleagues from partner organizations as well as building capacity within local partners and researchers of all levels.

Dr. Stellah is an Aspen 2018 fellow, Future Leaders Connect Fellow and was named in Top 40 Under 40, 2017 by Business Daily as one of the most influential women in Kenya.

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