Stephen Mutiso
Dr. Stephen Mutiso, a Kenyan obstetrician-gynecologist, has built his career on the conviction that every pregnancy deserves evidence-based care, regardless of a woman’s postcode. Trained at Moi University and the University of Nairobi, he now splits his week between high-acuity theatres at Kenyatta National Hospital, where he manages complex deliveries and gynecologic cancers, and an eponymous Nairobi clinic that offers end-to-end reproductive services from pre-conception counselling to postnatal follow-ups. His adoption of minimally invasive hysteroscopic procedures has trimmed patient recovery times, while a rapid-screen protocol for cervical and breast cancers has caught dozens of cases at stage 1.
Mutiso’s influence extends beyond city limits. As an honorary lecturer at the University of Nairobi’s medical school, he mentors residents on labour-ward triage and respectful maternity care, then dispatches with them on monthly outreach drives that bring ultrasound scans, family-planning implants and HPV vaccines to underserved counties. Data from these camps already show a 20 percent uptick in antenatal attendance within target districts. Next, he is piloting a tele-obstetrics platform to beam specialist advice into rural clinics and lobbying for a national prenatal nutritional supplement. For Mutiso, safer motherhood is not a slogan; it is a measurable outcome he intends to deliver, one mother and one classroom at a time.