University of Washington Global Health E-Learning

Shillah lives and works in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. She is passionate about bringing change in the environment she works in and firm believer in investing in people by giving them the necessary skill sets needed to deliver high quality health services, in the chronic care continuum.
Motivations
She has undertaken most of the courses offered by the university and recognizing the life changing impact this courses have had on her, led her to start starehe sub county site, to empower her colleagues and fellow healthcare workers within and beyond Nairobi city by ensuring they are well trained to offer high-quality services to their clients at every level.
The amazing transformation in leadership and service delivery that is exhibited by the alumni of the courses has been the constant motivation fueling her to continue hosting the courses.
Education
She is currently doing her PhD studies in clinical developmental psychology at the Vrije University –Amsterdam, and a collaborators on 2 National Institute of Health Funded studies
1. SUMMIT STUDY Kenya and Lebanon, as a interpersonal therapy supervisor
2. .mHealth Toolkit for Screening & Empowering Lives of Youth (M-SELY) study –Kenya,
3. FEMMONIT STUDY –Kenya and Malawi, as the principal investigator.
She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from University of Nairobi, a diploma in clinical medicine from Kenya medical training college and a member of the Clinical Psychologists Association of Kenya.
Current role
She works as senior HIV programme manager working with Nairobi City County with vast experience of over 18 years in programme implementation, clinical service delivery, and capacity building.
She is passionate about mental health implementation research with focus on interpersonal therapy interventional delivery for perinatal depression. She is also, a work place mental health consultant, clinical therapist specializing in adolescent’s mental health.
Working with eDGH has been a wonderful way to capacity build the teams and grow together. Starehe sub county site is hosted within a government facility and hosts participants from Nairobi County and beyond working both in public and private sector