Eunice Mueni Williams

Eunice M. Williams is a Knowledge Translation Officer at the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) in Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to this, Eunice worked for the Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust (KEMRI-WT) Research Initiative where she was part of the team that synthesized evidence which informed the revision of the Ministry of Health’s guidelines for neonatal and child care. Her research interests include understanding the fertility dynamics in African countries and how it relates to economic development, youth and their contribution to development, and reproductive health in general.  Eunice has extensive experience in appraising quality of evidence of primary research studies, which she has applied in several systematic reviews she has conducted. She also has a wealth of experience in fieldwork and policy analysis  on maternal and child health, family planning and population dynamics. She is part of the team at AFIDEP that is working with multiple countries in sub Saharan Africa to conduct studies to estimate the potential of harnessing the demographic dividend in these countries, and to develop policy options that can help countries reach their targets. So far, this studies have been conducted in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi, and Senegal. Eunice holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, Master in Public Health, and a Master of Arts in Population Studies. She also has training in Monitoring and Evaluation of Population and Health programmes.

She is a Southern Voices Network Scholar at the Wilson Center.