Sherry Priscilla Ng’ang’a
Kenyan pediatrician and neonatal-care advocate Dr. Sherry Priscilla Ng’ang’a has turned a career of textbook excellence into a crusade for healthier first breaths. After graduating top of her class at the University of Nairobi’s School of Medicine, she sharpened her NICU skills at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton, where exposure to cutting-edge ventilation protocols confirmed her conviction that newborn survival should not depend on geography. Returning home, she became one of the country’s youngest consultant pediatricians and quickly championed a bundle of low-cost interventions—early kangaroo care, point-of-care bilirubin testing, and nurse-led infection audits—that cut neonatal morbidity rates in participating county hospitals by double digits.
Today Dr. Ng’ang’a splits her week between rounds, data crunching, and the lecture hall. Her current multi-site study tracks how community health workers can extend neonatal follow-up beyond discharge, evidence the Ministry of Health is already using to draft new newborn-care guidelines. She also mentors residents through peer-coaching boot camps, insisting that every baby’s chart is a chance to refine policy. With a pipeline proposal for tele-NICU consults awaiting regulator greenlight, Ng’ang’a is set on proving that even the most fragile Kenyans deserve a fighting start and that smarter systems, not bigger budgets, will deliver it.