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Dr. William Nyabola Okedi, PhD

Dean School of Health Science

Biography

A self-motivated PhD level leader and specialist in public health development and operations research with international experience and well-developed people, organizational, strategy and financial management skills. Fluent in Microsoft office applications. Accomplished in the following areas:- planning, design, coordination and management of projects; networking, partnership and human capacity development; Disease control; operations research and baseline studies; expert knowledge of health systems; Primary health care; excellent skills in the administration of partnerships including donor reporting. William Joined Alupe University in 2017 as a lecturer and is currently the Dean of the SHS and COD Public Health, Nutrition and Behavioral sciences. William has also served as Chief Executive Officer, National Authority for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse (NACADA) (2012-2017); Field Research Director Africa, HIV/AIDS Monitor research program of the Centre for Global Development, Washington-DC (2007-2011); Program Officer, – Human Development and Reproductive Health Southern Africa Region, the Ford Foundation (2000-2006); Country Director, South Africa and Mozambique- African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) (1994-2000). William also worked as District Health Officer in various districts including Kisumu, Siaya, Turkana and West Pokot while employed by the Ministry of Health. William is actively involved in community development activities, to his credit is the construction of St. James Kwang’amor Secondary school and the establishment of St. Theresa of Avilla Kwang’amor Parish where he donated four acres and three acres of land respectively. On matters of Governance, He has been Chair of various school Boards of Management including St. Paul’s Amukura high school where the School recorded the best performance to date. William Is a member of the Association of Public Health Officers and Public Health Technicians Council (K) and a member of the International Union for Health Promotion.

Education

  • PhD Public Health Policy; 2011, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK. “Does Decentralization deliver on its promises? Issues, challenges and constraints to Policy implementation in Rural Kenya.
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine, 2011, University of London
  • Masters in Development Studies-MDS: 2002, University of the Free State, South Africa. “Developing Leadership for Primary Health Care in Mpumalanga Province”.
  • Master of Public Health – MPH, 1993, Glasgow University, Scotland, UK. Community Participation in Planning and Management of Health Promotion Programmes.
  • Post Graduate Diploma In Public Health Education – 1986, College of Health Professions, Nairobi. Family Planning Practice in Amukura Division, Busia (K)
  • Diploma in Environmental Health Sciences, 1980, University of Nairobi.

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Other relevant links

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