Dr. Fred Were
National Chairman
Kenya Paediatric Association
Dr. Fred Were is a pediatrician and specialist in neonatal medicine. Dr. Were became the National Chairman of the Kenya Pediatric Association (KPA), an affiliate of the International Pediatric Association, in 2003 and holds the position to date. He has overseen the transformation of KPA into a public health-focused group. The association is currently involved in the national pediatric HIV/AIDS care project and interventions for improving newborn survival at the community level. He is also Associate Professor of newborn medicine at the University of Nairobi and Aga Khan University (Nairobi). He joined the
University of Nairobi in 1994, where he still serves as a senior lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics.
Dr. Were was the principal investigator of a PneumoADIP small grants project aimed at enhancing health worker and health administrator awareness of pneumococcal disease and vaccination in Kenya. Dr. Were is a recognized expert in pediatrics and has written extensively on newborn health.
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