Kenneth Ngure

Kenneth Ngure, MPH, PGDSTI, MSc, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Global Health at the School of Public Health, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya, where he was previously Dean. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. Ngure is an internationally recognized public health researcher and implementation scientist with nearly 30 years of leadership and research experience in the biomedical prevention, diagnosis, treatment and service delivery of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in central, eastern, southern and western Africa. He serves on the Expert Committee on Clinical Trials of the Kenyan Pharmacy and Poisons Board, and on both the Behavioral Research Group of the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT) and the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination Cross-Network Behavioral Science Consultative Group. He co-chairs the Implementation Science Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), and has served as an investigator on multiple STI studies.

Ngure was a site investigator in the Partners PrEP Study, followed by the Partners PrEP Demonstration Project and the Partners Scale-Up Project. He is a member of the Kenya Ministry of Health’s PrEP Technical Working Group. He co-chaired MTN-034, a multi-country study evaluating the safety, adherence and acceptability of the dapivirine vaginal ring and oral emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate among African adolescent girls and young women. In addition, he has co-led several NIH-funded studies, including the randomized trial evaluating HIV self-testing to support PrEP delivery among men and women in Kenya, and currently leads multinational implementation studies aimed at simplifying and expanding access to HIV and STI prevention through differentiated service delivery models.

Ngure has extensive experience in public health leadership and policy. He has served as Program Director for the Kenyan Chapter of the Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS and provided technical expertise to WHO, governments and global health partners on HIV and STI prevention policy and implementation. Ngure was recently appointed to the WHO Technical Advisory Group on STIs.

Ngure has made substantial contributions to HIV and STI prevention research, implementation science and mentorship. He has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 250 conference abstracts and has supervised 49 postgraduate students to completion. n recognition of his contributions to global HIV prevention research and mentorship, he received the Senior Researcher Award at the 2023 International Conference on HIV Treatment, Prevention, and Adherence and was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2024.