Patricia Kiprono

Training

Patricia completed her BSc. Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics at Egerton University, Kenya in 2015 and obtained her MSc Nutrition from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI) in 2020. Additionally, she pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health from The University of Manchester (2017-2019) and prior to that was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Humanitarian Operations Programs from Oxford Brookes University and Save the Children International (2017). She is currently undertaking her PhD research at DITSL, Germany, and CRDD, Kenya.

Career

Patricia has experience in humanitarian, research, and development programs. She started her career as a humanitarian trainee at Save the Children hosted by Trocaire, Sudan where she worked on projects in health, nutrition, education, WASH, and women empowerment. She also supported other country programs during drought response among the ASAL areas. Towards completion of her MSc, she joined One Acre Fund, Kenya as a Nutrition Program Specialist where she led and coordinated the implementation of two multi-site longitudinal nutrition research studies that assessed an integrated nutrition and agriculture intervention. She also designed a Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) project concentrating on nutrition and gender dynamics where multiple strategies were adopted including digitized communication channels. Patricia has also worked as a research assistant and volunteer in different health & nutrition projects and organizations/institutes. She is currently a doctoral researcher with NaviNut project at DITSL and CRDD focusing on the identification of local women innovations in child feeding practices in Africa drylands applying transdisciplinary research approaches.

Research Interests

Her research interests are in maternal and child nutrition, food security, local knowledge, and innovations among the marginalized and vulnerable populations.