Professor Nangami is a distinguished researcher, trainer and curriculum expert with over 30 years of extensive experience in teaching and research work. She is currently an Associate Professor in Health Policy and Health Systems Management and Dean of the School of Public Health. She is a member of the AFROHUN leadership summit and vice-chair of the Africa One Health Workforce Academy. She was also recently appointed to the Executive steering committee of the MasterCard Foundation Higher Education Collaborative in Africa. As a trainer, she has consulted for the Ministry of Health-Kenya on the Leadership and Management support program; designed curriculum and manuals on Monitoring and Evaluation of Pillar 1 (HIV & AIDS) and middle level managers and policy makers in health systems management under the Collaborative project between AMREF & MU. She has consulted for the Institute of Health Policy Management and Research on operations research under the Integrated Quality Management System for improving Service Delivery in Reproductive Health.
She has been involved in undertaking situation analyses of Human Resources for Health training Institutions and their networks in Eastern and Southern Africa focusing on Health Systems Management activities and conducted evaluation of community health programs for Amref Health Africa, and the Kenya Red Cross among others. She has been a PI and Co-PI on several grants and published research on HIV & AIDS, maternal and child health the areas with policy and health system focus as well as curriculum development in various areas of public health. She is currently working as Co-PI with Prof. Constance Tenge on building capacity of select counties to prevent Sickle cell disease towards building a national registry and collaborating with U of T to set up a centre of Excellence in health systems strengthening through primary health care approach towards achieving Universal Health Coverage for devolved health units in Kenya.
Mabel has a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and postdoctoral training in health systems research and development. She has over 25 peer reviewed publications and several manuals.