Patrick Omwanda Amoth

Dr. Patrick Amoth is the Director General for Health in the Ministry of Health, Kenya as well as the immediate former Chair of the World Health Organization’s Executive Board.

A consultant obstetrician and gynecologist of immense repute, Dr. Amoth previously headed the Directorate of Public Health at the Ministry, where he spearheaded strategy development for effective delivery of health services in all the 47 counties in Kenya and was centrally involved in the inception and alignment of Universal Health Coverage for the country. Dr. Amoth headed the technical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, serving as a member of the Multi-Agency National Emergency and Response Committee on Coronavirus pandemic in Kenya as well as co-chairing the Ministry of Health COVID-19 Management Taskforce. He currently chairs the Kenya’s National Taskforce on the response to Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

Dr. Amoth’s has had expansive experience in Kenya’s Civil Service having risen from a Medical Officer Intern at a Provincial Hospital before becoming the Medical Superintendent in the Country Referral Hospital. Dr. Amoth is credited with having had excellent managerial skills as well as robust and successful resource mobilization skills that he put in use while working as the District Medical Officer for Health, initiating various programs, and revolutionizing infrastructural improvement of most hospitals that were under his area of management.

Dr. Patrick Amoth is a graduate of the University of Nairobi’s Medical School and has a Masters in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the same university. He also holds a Diploma in Health Systems Management form Galilee College in Israel.