Allen G.K. Maina

Advisory board member

Chief of Public Health Section at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Dr. Allen G.K. Maina is the Chief of Public Health Section at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has close to two decades of work experience, including as a government clinician in a refugee camp in northern Kenya in the early years and subsequently joining international organizations working across different portfolios. He has coordinated public health responses in various complex emergencies primarily in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East and has contributed to various publications, some of which have informed key policy and operational reforms in public health.