Griffins Manguro
Dr. Griffins Manguro is a Kenyan physician, public-health researcher, and chief executive who champions evidence-driven sexual and reproductive health services across East Africa. After earning his MBChB from the University of Nairobi, he completed district rotations in Homa Bay before securing a Fogarty Fellowship that funded his master’s in Global Health at the University of Washington. He later joined FHI 360 as Senior Technical Advisor for the USAID-funded LINKAGES project, designing HIV-prevention and treatment cascades for key populations in six counties and informing Kenya’s differentiated-service-delivery guidelines.
Since 2020 Manguro has served as Country Director and CEO of the International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya (ICRHK). He oversees a 200-person multidisciplinary team and a US $28 million research portfolio spanning HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, long-acting reversible contraception, gender-based-violence response, and HPV self-sampling. Under his stewardship ICRHK has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, piloted Kenya’s first injectable PrEP demonstration study, and provided technical input to the 2023 National Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan.
A frequent advisor to the Ministry of Health and WHO AFRO, Manguro co-chairs the Kenya Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Consortium and mentors junior investigators through the EDCTP Career Development programme. Committed to building local capacity, he spearheaded the ICRHK Data Academy, which has trained 400 county-level officers in implementation science, advancing his mission to translate frontline research into equitable, lifesaving care for all Kenyans.