H.E Hon. Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o

Founder & Chairman

H.E Hon. Prof. Anyang’ Nyong’o is the Governor for Kisumu County, having previously served as Minister for Medical Services in the Government of Kenya and Minister for Planning and National Development from 2003-2005. A political scientist by profession, with a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has taken keen interest in cancer matters having been diagnosed with prostate cancer and treated at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center by Dr. Mack Roach in early 2011.

His main mission is to make people aware of the importance of having regular medical check-ups so as to know their health status and receive early care to avoid unnecessary morbidity and mortality. In this regard he works hard to make government avail affordable healthcare to all without regard to social status. He has been a strong champion of social health insurance and programmes of social protection for the poor in Africa.

He is the author of many books and articles on politics and the political economy of development in Africa, and is currently working on a book on “The Political Economy of Health Delivery Systems in Kenya.”