Anne-Beatrice Kihara

Anne-Beatrice Kihara is a Kenyan physician and professor who is President of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. She has dedicated her career to improving the physical health of women across Africa.

Early life and education Kihara grew up in Kenya. She became interested in medicine whilst helping her father, Dickson Kihara Nyaga, who was a public health officer. She was a medical student at the University of Nairobi, where she had an unplanned pregnancy. She worked to empower local young women by providing them access to work. She was their first president from Sub-Saharan Africa. She worked to promote women's leadership and involvement in policymaking as well as how to improve access to contraception and health information. She has said that she will focus on transforming the experiences of young women who suffer from child marriages and female genital mutilation.

Selected publications