Prof. Moses Obimbo Madadi

Prof. Moses Obimbo Madadi is a Kenyan clinician-scientist and women’s health advocate. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Anatomy and Medical Physiology at the University of Nairobi, practises as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Kenyatta National Hospital, and serves as Honorary Secretary of the Kenya Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for Eastern and Central Africa. He holds a PhD in Human Anatomy from the University of Nairobi and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2021 he became one of fourteen African scientists awarded the Gates Foundation-funded Calestous Juma Science Leadership Fellowship, which supports his research on the vaginal microbiome and pregnancy outcomes.

He leads the End Postpartum Haemorrhage Initiative and its “Run for Her” campaign, which began in October 2024 with more than 1,500 participants. By its third edition on 27 September 2026, it had grown to about 50,000 runners in Nairobi and 25 other counties, with participants from about 19 countries, and it collected 3,350 units of blood at its finish lines.

He was a keynote speaker at the 2025 FIGO World Congress, and in 2024 New African Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential Africans. His other honours include the University of Nairobi’s 2019 award for outstanding research, supervision and scholarly record among preclinical departments, an honourable mention for the John J. Sciarra IJGO Prize Paper Award in 2010, and an International Mentored Scientist Award in HIV/AIDS from UCSF. He has published more than 90 journal articles and mentors master’s and doctoral researchers.