David Osogo
Research Officer
David Osogo is a Research Officer working under the Maternal and Child Wellbeing Unit. He is an ardent believer in the right to food for all as contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Kenyan Constitution (2010). He is passionate about the food systems approach to solving food insecurity challenges sustainably towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 on Zero Hunger by 2030. He is part of a team of visionaries at APHRC whose vision to transform Nairobi to a place of cool waters, where communities live in peace and harmony and everyone has access to adequate, safe and nutritious food, won the 2020 Rockefeller Foundation’s Food System Vision Prize.
David is currently coordinating APHRC’s European Union Horizon2020 funded Healthy Food Africa project that is piloting a Food System Lab in Nairobi, COVID-19 Human Rights project and also supports the public engagement on the Right to Food project. He is very passionate about work that advances food and nutrition security for all.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science and Nutrition (2014) from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. He has three years of experience in food and nutrition security related research work.
David is driven by the desire to make the world a happy, peaceful and harmonious place, where hunger and all its forms no longer exist.