Bio

Prof. Dr Tammary Chepkoech Rotich has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences and MSc in Human Sexuality studies from the University of Leuven, Belgium. She is the current Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic and Student Affairs at the Amref International University, Nairobi, Kenya. She is a global leader in public health, sexual reproductive health rights (SRHR), research, programming, policy and advocacy, capacity building, and resource mobilization to promote women’s and girl’s education, sexual and reproductive health and gender equality through programmes to end sexual and gender-based violence, female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage among other harmful practices.Her expanding focus is in the area of the impacts of humanitarian emergencies and climate change on women and girl’s health as it worsens their existing vulnerabilities. Her research in SRHR has contributed immensely to global policy guidelines by WHO and UNFPA. She is a Secretary General and member of the Africa Society for Sexual Medicine, member International Society of Sexual Medicine, technical reviewer and editor with the Sexual Health Collection in the African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine.