Serah Joy Malaba (BSc, GeMBA, MPH, PDH (c))

co-CEO, Tiko

Serah Joy Malaba: Tiko’s co-CEO, with over 15 years of public health experience across Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya, where she is based in Nairobi. She has held leadership roles at Living Goods, Population Services International, and at the Kenya National AIDS and STIs Control Program.

She advised governments in Africa: Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda on community health digitalization, where she shaped Kenya’s roadmap for adoption of the electronic community health system and efforts for government co-financing for Isiolo and Kisumu counties besides establishing Living Goods government- technical assistance approach.

At PSI she led the CIFF funded HIV Self Testing in the Private Sector project, successfully piloting the roll out and uptake of HIV self testing in the private sector in Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya.

At the Kenya National AIDS and STIs Control Program, she worked as the head of Kenya’s Key Populations Technical Support Unit – a Gates Foundation funded initiative that supported the institution of policies, service delivery mechanisms and national reporting for HIV prevention and treatment services for sex workers, people who inject drugs and men who have sex with men.

Having lost both parents to AIDS at age 24, Serah’s lived experience fuels her commitment to health access for girls.