Stella Muthuri

NextGen Scholar

Chief Executive Officer for the Baobab Research Programme Consortium and an Associate at the Population Council Inc

Dr Stella Muthuri is the Chief Executive Officer for the Baobab Research Programme Consortium and an Associate at the Population Council Inc.

Baobab is a UK Government funded programme that’s bringing robust and representative Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights surveys to humanitarian settings in the East and Horn of Africa for the first time. Baobab is investigating violence against children and adolescents, unsafe abortion, and unintended pregnancies, while also testing interventions alongside implementation partners, to identify solutions to some of the more pressing concerns arising from these surveys in refugee settlements.

Stella is also supporting yet another UK government-funded programme, a Population Council-led FGM data hub that’s providing technical guidance to consortium partners to ensure that evidence informs the design, implementation, adaptation, and scaling of effective strategies to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Previously, Stella worked as a Researcher for several years at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), a pioneering Pan-African research institution, before moving on to join then UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), now the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) as a Research and Innovation Specialist, where she eventually headed up their East Africa Research and Innovation Hub. Stella also serves as an Associate Editor for the Child Protection and Practice journal, and as a Trustee for the Turing Trust.