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Dr. Elizabeth Irungu

Dr. Elizabeth Irungu

Regional Technical Advisor for HIV

Elizabeth Irungu, MBChB, MPH, PhD, serves as the Regional Technical Advisor for Implementation Science at Jhpiego. Her work focuses on the introduction and scale-up of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Dr. Irungu leads and supports implementation research studies aimed at identifying effective models for PrEP delivery in Kenya and across sub-Saharan Africa.

She is a member of the International AIDS Society (IAS) Governing Council and serves on the PrEP Technical Working Group of Kenya’s National AIDS and STI Control Programme (NASCOP). In addition, she has contributed to several PrEP-related technical working groups convened by the World Health Organization (WHO).