Pauline Irungu, PATH

Pauline Irungu is the Advocacy and Policy Country Lead for PATH in Kenya. She has two decades’ experience engaging with governments in the African region, advocating for stronger policies and investments in women’s and children’s health and global health research and development. In her role she provides technical oversite to PATH Kenya’s advocacy efforts, supports advocacy efforts regionally in collaboration with the African Union Development Agency and builds high-level strategic partnerships with governments, development partners and civil society. Prior to this role, she led PATH’s Global Campaign for Microbicides in East Africa, advocating for an enabling policy environment for research and development of women-initiated HIV prevention options. She also led programmes at the Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO) focused on HIV community communications, policy engagement and community preparedness for HIV vaccine research in Kenya.

Pauline serves as one of three global civil society representatives to the Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Women, Children and Adolescents Investors Group. She is a member of the Africa Medicines Regulatory Harmonization Partnership Platform. She serves on various national technical working groups on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in Kenya, and was appointed to the Kenya Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition Multi-stakeholder Country Platform due to her global and national expertise.