Edwin Were MD, PhD

Dr Were is a Professor, Department of Reproductive Health, Moi University School of Medicine. He is a senior reproductive health specialist with over 20 years of experience in the provision of obstetrics and gynecological care in the context of a university teaching hospital. 

Edwin have been involved with AMPATH since its inception, as I contributed to the initial project write-up (for the HIV program) around 2000. The project document was essentially based on the background of the development of the inter-university collaborations with Indiana University. However, my contribution to the collaborative network that eventually developed AMPATH began in 1991 when I joined Moi University, Faculty of Medicine.

When AMPATH was conceived around 2000, I worked with AMPATH as part of the clinician and university lecturers involved in HIV management. When we received the initial AMPATH HIV grants I was in the Department of Reproductive Health, and my concerns then were how to manage HIV to reduce Mother-to-Child Transmission among women living with HIV. This is an aspect that I worked on for quite a while. Later, between 2012 and 2015, I worked with AMPATH as the Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP), leading the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT). However, after 2015 I veered off the mainstream AMPATH, though I still work on aspects of the AMPATH program and research.

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