Dr. Samwel WAKIBI

Wakibi is a lecturer at Population Studies and Research Institute of University of Nairobi (UoN). He holds a PhD. in Epidemiology, MSc. in Population Studies and a BSc. in Statistics and Computer science. Research interest includes social determinants of health and research methodology. He has over 37 years of work experience in University teaching, social research, monitoring and evaluation, and systems and data management. Before joining UoN as a lecturer, he worked for ICF Macro/MEASURE Evaluation as Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor in Kenya, IntraHealth International as a Human Resource for Health Information System Advisor (HRIS) for Eastern and Southern African countries: Kenya, Swaziland, Uganda, Tanzania, Lesotho and Rwanda, and with Centre for Disease Control and prevention(CDC)  as a research officer responsible for Demographic Surveillance System (DSS). Wakibi has also consulted for local and International Organisations including Unicef, UN-Habitat, World Bank, UNFPA, FHOK, and Government of Kenya agencies.

• Most recent national duties:2022KDHS, 2019Population and Housing Census, and technical editing of the Kenya Health Facility Assessment report(2019). Consultancies: Compilation of data reports on demographic, health, socioeconomic and environmental thematic areas for the ten [10] Frontier Counties Development Council (FCDC) (2023/4), Analysis of Multiple Deprivation in Secondary Towns in Sub Saharan Africa (2020), Monitoring and Evaluation review of the Kenya ICT infrastructure project, Multi Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) – UNICEF.

Selected publications: 

• Wakibi, S.N. Socioeconomic inequality and its drivers in unmet needs for family planning in Kenya. BMC Public Health 25, 4167 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-25395-0
• Mose, J., Wakibi, S.; Agwanda, A. Small Area population projections: Suitability of HamiltonPerry model in undertaking population projections by age and sex for selected sub-counties in Nyeri and Vihiga counties in Kenya. Journal of African Population Studies 2023, 18, x. https://doi.org/10.3390/xxxxx. https://uaps2024.popconf.org/uploads/191285
• Wakibi S ,Ngure E. (2021), "An Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Birth and Death Registration in Kilifi County in the Coastal Region in Kenya", BioMed Research International, vol. 2021, Article ID 9963703, 8 pages, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9963703
• Museve KA, Khasakhala AA, Wakibi SN. 2018: Socio-demographic and economic factors influencing adolescent fertility in urban Kenya. International Journal of Academic Research and Development. Vol. 3, Issue 6 (2018).  http://www.academicjournal.in/archives/2018/vol3/issue6/3-5-61
• Wakibi, Samuel; Gichuhi, Wanjiru; Kabira, Wanjiku Mukabi 2015: Food Security Score for Kenya. African Women’s Development Funds. http://awdflibrary.org/handle/123456789/816
• Wakibi SN, Ng'ang'a ZW and Mbugua GG (2011). Factors associated with non-adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy in Nairobi, Kenya.BioMed Central Ltd., 2011 - AIDS research and therapy 2011, 8(43). 
• Githira D, Wakibi S, Njuguna IK, Rae G, Wandera S, Ndirangu J. Analysis of Multiple Deprivations in Secondary Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Marylebone: UN-Habitat and UNICEF (2020).[Google Scholar]