Biography

Dr. Henry Njuguna is an Epidemiologist with the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination, Taskforce for Global Health, Atlanta. Henry is currently supporting African countries to build a community of practice to support the introduction and scale up of the hepatitis B birth dose vaccine.

Henry has worked in public health for the for the last 15 years. He led a population based infectious disease surveillance program with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Kenya, he worked with CDC Kenya as a medical epidemiologist, coordinating hospital based routine sentinel surveillance for influenza and worked with CDC Atlanta’s Global Immunization Division, supporting the uptake of hepatitis B birth dose vaccine in African Countries. Prior to joining the Coalition, Henry also worked for the CDC Foundation supporting CDC’s Global Non-Communicable Disease Control in developing training materials and supporting the Field Epidemiology and Training Program’s residents on cardiovascular disease epidemiology.

Henry trained as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer, assigned to the Washington State Department of Health. During his EIS training, he participated in several field investigations for both communicable and non-communicable disease clusters and outbreaks including a large healthcare facility-associated outbreak of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Henry completed his medical (MBChB) and MPH training in Kenya.