NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF KENYA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO ACTING DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Stephen Ndungu Karau, the new Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Ndungu Karau was the African President of the Collaborative Arrangement for the Prevention and Management of Public Health Events in Civil Aviation (CAPSCA). At the same time, he worked as the Chief Medical Assessor at the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, where he oversaw the work of all the Aviation Medical Examiners in the country. In 2006-2007, Dr. Karau worked as the Director of Military Public Health with the US Army Medical Research unit at the Kenya Medical Research Institute Campus, Nairobi. During his career as a public health physician, Dr. Karau has also served as the Kenya Country Director for AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

Dr. Karau retired from the military in 2002, his last position being the Head of the Air Force Medical Department for six years. Within the ranks of the military, Dr. Karau had started as a Junior Doctor (Captain) and rose to the level of a Senior Consultant (Colonel) in Aviation Medicine and Public Health, conducting clinical and HIV work, and teaching.

Together with his family, Dr. Karau owns and runs Vam Health Services Kenya Ltd, which deals with pharmaceuticals trade and real estate development.

Dr. Karau graduated from the University of Nairobi in 1977 with a Bachelor Degree in Medicine. He did his post-graduate studies at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine in 1982, and received a Masters in Public Health from the University of Leeds in 1987. Dr. Karau is married and has four children.


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