Violet Naanyu

Violet Naanyu is an Associate Professor at Moi University, Kesses, Kenya, and a Visiting Scholar at Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya. She is trained in sociology (USA), medical anthropology (Holland), and global bioethics (Mexico).

Violet is an elected Fellow at the African Academy of Sciences and a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Sciences for Better Health. She is the Behavioural and Social Science Lead at the AMPATH Research Network in Eldoret and the Founder of the AMPATH Qualitative Research Core.

She is a Co-Founder of the Focus Projects and Research Organization, Eldoret, Kenya; Board member of the International Centre for Reproductive Health; a Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Irsay Institute; a facilitator of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa; and the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Populations Special Interest Group, Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases. She is a member of the National Scientific and Ethics Committee, Kenya; a Committee Member of the Bioethics Society of Kenya; and a member of two research ethics committees in Kenya.

Violet has served as a bioethicist on six global research projects. She has extensively used qualitative approaches, community-engaged research, and human-centred designs and has been involved in research activities in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Gambia, Zambia, Canada, and South Africa. She has over 125 peer-reviewed publications.