NEW CHANCELLOR AT LAST.

Many had speculated that H.E Uhuru Kenyatta would be the new chancellor of Moi University. These speculations however, never come to a reality as a new able female chancellor was unveiled yesterday in Moi University’s 29^th graduation ceremony. Prof. Miriam K. Were who was born in 1940 is the new chancellor of Moi University. Prof. Were takes up the office from the former chancellor prof. Bethwel Ogot.

Prof Miriam Were holds a degreein Natural Sciences fromWilliam Penn College, IOWAUSA, postgraduate Diploma in Education from Makerere University, MPH and Doctor of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University in the USA. She also qualified as a medical doctor from theUniversity of Nairobi in 1973.

Achievements

• She recently received the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize for medical services for her efforts of bringing basic medical services and health rights to women and children in East African villages.  
• She was cited as the overall best-graduating student in 1973 when she qualified as a medical doctor from the University of Nairobi.
• She was awarded the George P. Tolbert Health Award for outstanding contribution to InternationalHealth during her PhD studies in Johns Hopkins University in the USA.
• She initiated a Community-Based Health Care project in Kakamega where she was the Director between1976 and 1982. The project won the UNICEF Maurice Pate Award in 1978 becoming the first African institution to win the award.
• She became the Chief Health and Nutrition/Senior PHC Adviser, UNICEF Ethiopia in 1985
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  In 1990 she was appointed the Representative and Chief of Mission, World Health Organization to Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.
• In 1993 she was elevated to the post of the Director, United Nations Population Fund
  Country Support Team Addis Ababa (UNFPA/ CSTAA),
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  She has served inseveral local boards and international organizations such as UZIMA
  Foundation, AMREF, Kenya Anticorruption Commission (KACC), National AIDS Control Council (NACC), MAP International, Help – International, Global Health Workforce Alliance, and Action Africa, among others.
• Prof. Were comes to Moi University with a lot of experience in the academic sector which is expected to benefit the University a great deal in achieving its academic goals.