Philip Kimosop

Dedicated Public Health Officer with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health and practical experience supporting disease surveillance, environmental health, health promotion, infection prevention and control, and community-based public health interventions. Currently serving as a Volunteer Public Health Officer at Eldama Ravine Sub-County, working with multidisciplinary teams to strengthen disease prevention, outbreak preparedness, sanitation, and community engagement. Skilled in surveillance, WASH, health education, data collection, reporting, and stakeholder collaboration.

Passionate about humanitarian action and committed to supporting emergency preparedness and response initiatives through community-centered approaches.

Volunteer Public Health Officer at Eldama Ravine Sub-County Public Health Office (2023-01 – Present)

• Participate in disease surveillance activities and timely reporting of priority diseases.
• Support outbreak preparedness, response, and public health emergency interventions.
• Conduct environmental health inspections in households, markets, schools, food premises, and public institutions.
• Participate in water quality surveillance and sanitation improvement activities.
• Conduct household visits to promote hygiene, disease prevention, and healthy practices.
• Support infection prevention and control activities in health facilities and communities.
• Deliver health education sessions on cholera prevention, hand hygiene, safe water handling, sanitation, food safety, and communicable disease prevention.
• Support community mobilization during immunization campaigns and other public health outreach programmes.
• Collect, compile, analyze, and submit routine public health reports.
• Collaborate with Community Health Promoters, health facility staff, and local administration during community health interventions.
• Participate in emergency preparedness meetings and rapid response activities when required.
• Support monitoring and follow-up of public health interventions within the sub-county.

Public Health Attachment at Igegenia Level 4 Hospital (2017-01 – 2017-12)

• Assisted disease surveillance and reporting.
• Conducted sanitation and environmental health inspections.
• Participated in food safety inspections.
• Supported outbreak investigations and health education.
• Conducted water sampling and sanitation assessments.
• Prepared public health reports and inspection records.

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health – Mount Kenya University (2018-12)