Milkah Wanjohi

BSc, MSc

Pronouns: She/her
  • Research Associate in Behavioural interventions (Sub-Saharan Africa)

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Milkah Wanjohi

Milka gained her master’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Kenyatta University, Kenya, in 2019, and is currently a PhD fellow at the Utrecht University, Netherlands. She worked at the African Population and Health Research Centre for more than 10 years, where she coordinated research on maternal, child and adolescent nutrition; diet related non-communicable diseases and food systems in Kenya and East Africa. In 2025, she joined Loughborough University as a research associate in behavioural interventions (Sub-Saharan Africa), working with Professor Paula Griffiths and Professor Lauren Sherar.

Milka’s current research project (Generation H) focuses on the implementation of evidence-based and theory-driven interventions to reduce unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, and their social determinants among adolescents and youth (10-19 years old) in diverse urban communities across two Sub-Saharan African countries (Ghana & Kenya). Milka is also passionate about the use of participatory research methods to engage adolescents and young people in nutrition and health-related research. In 2022, she won a public engagement grant (Utrecht University) to explore the experiences and perspectives of adolescents in urban slums (Kenya) on the double burden of malnutrition, using participatory research methods (Nutrition and malnutrition through the eyes of an adolescent).

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