He wants to revolutionize global health, entrepreneurship, and leadership. His career in healthcare has garnered numerous prestigious awards.
Kenyan entrepreneur Stephen Ogweno is the co-founder and CEO of Lifesten Health, a digital health startup based in Rwanda. Lifesten Health enables users to set specific health goals, track their vital signs, and receive rewards for their progress.
Founded by Ogweno and Peace Ndoli, Lifesten Health focuses on medical technologies and aims to educate and raise awareness about lifestyle-related diseases while promoting healthier living habits through technological advancements. Their digital health platform offers web and mobile solutions to help users better manage their nutrition, well-being, health, and mindfulness. By leveraging artificial intelligence and behavioral learning, the platform helps users understand their health status and receive expert advice to improve it, with a special emphasis on mental well-being.
Ogweno is also the founder and CEO of the Stowelink Foundation, an organization established in 2015 that develops innovative community health projects focused on people, prioritizing non-communicable diseases, health technologies, research, and advocacy. Additionally, he serves as the director of the World Obesity Foundation, an organization dedicated to combating obesity, and is a member of the Board of Governors for NCD Child, a multi-stakeholder coalition advocating for the rights and needs of children, adolescents, and young people affected by non-communicable diseases.
Ogweno holds a bachelor's degree in population health from Kenyatta University in Kenya, obtained in 2019, and a master's degree in public health from the University of Manchester in England, earned in 2023. His commitment to digital health innovation and public health has been recognized multiple times. In 2020, he was named one of Africa's 100 most influential young leaders, and in 2021, he was honored as one of Kenya's Youth of the Year as part of the Top 35 Under 35 National Awards. In 2022, he was awarded the Kenyan Quality Health Care Award for Health Innovation of the Year.
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