Prof. Kenneth Ngure MPH, MSc, PhD is a Behavioral Scientist and Associate Professor of Global Health and the Chair Department of Community Health of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor of the Department of Global Health, University of Washington. Prof. Ngure is a member of the Expert Committee on Clinical Trials of the Kenyan Pharmacy and Poisons Board. Prof. Ngure is a member of the Behavioral Research Group of the Microbicides Trials Network (MTN), the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT); and the Socio-Behavioral and Structural Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN). Prof. Ngure is also a HIV prevention expert having been a site investigator in the landmark Partners PrEP trial, which was followed by the Partners (PrEP) Demonstration Project and more recently the Partners Scale-UP Project. He also a member of the PrEP Technical Working Group of the Ministry of Health, Kenya. Currently, Kenneth co-chairing a protocol (MTN-034) to evaluate the safety of and adherence to a vaginal matrix ring containing dapivirine and oral emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in an African adolescent female population and co-leading a randomized trial that tests how HIV self-testing might support PrEP delivery among men and women in Kenya.
