Francis Gĩthae Murĩithi. MBChB,MMed,MSc,MRCOG,PhD. 🇬🇧 / 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 /🇰🇪

🎉 Today is a special day! ✨

I’m thrilled to share a major personal career milestone:
✅ Completion of my RCOG Accredited Sub-Specialist Training Fellowship in Urogynaecology.

Today is International Urogynecology Awareness Day! We shine a light on this important area of women’s health & recognize the professionals dedicated to improving women’s pelvic health, dignity, & quality of life worldwide. #InternationalUrogynecologyAwarenessDay
@iugaoffice

Virtual learning: Bridging distances to share knowledge and build capacity...

A privilege facilitating a session on Minimally Invasive Surgery in Urogynaecology in Kenya during a surgical camp in Kirinyaga County - My home County.
#3rdParkMIGSSchool

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Please read more here: www.glowm.com/welfare-of-w...

Deeply grateful to the colleagues we collaborated with to make this happen.🙏🏾

Obstetric fistula YouTube video by GLOWM

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Delighted to share our new educational video & info pack on obstetric fistula, launched this week on the Global Library of Women’s Medicine.
We break down obstetric fistula for public understanding.
#ObstetricFistula
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGvc...

Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
30.12.2025

Fact: Wollaton Hall was built between 1580–1588 by Sir Francis Willoughby (1546–1596) an English industrialist and coalowner. His biography is here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsa...

I’m happy to share that I’ve been appointed as a Member of the Scientific Committee of the
International Urogynecological Association (IUGA) for a three-year term starting January 2026.
Grateful 🙏🏼 - I will serve with dedication.✨
www.iuga.org

Grateful.. 😊🙌🏼🙏🏼

#uobgraduation
The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Monday 8.12.2025

In Africa?
Interested in Evidence-Based Healthcare?
Look at this -
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/ebhc-a...

Does anyone know what the two colours over the landmass of Kenya represent?

Also, should we prioritize planting more trees or clearing the remaining ones? 😆😃
🌍🌱 Source: Google Maps
#OurClimate

Grateful... 😊🙌🏼🙏🏼🙌🏼✨💪🏽

Dear friends and colleagues,
✨ Save the Date – Saturday, 18th October, in Swansea! ✨
Join us for Race Matters in Maternity in honour of Mr Franz Majoko.
Honoured to speak on Drivers of Maternal Health Disparities.
🎟️ Tickets: www.racemattersmaternity.co.uk

Dear friends and colleagues,
I’m delighted to share our latest publication.
Maternal death review reports hold many hidden lessons for improving care.
You can read the full article here: doi.org/10.1111/1471...

An exploratory review of maternity and neonatal services — HSSIB <p data-block-key="rnhp2">This report is a summary of information HSSIB collected during an exploratory review of maternity and neonatal services in spring 2025. This exploratory review involved meetings with 17 stakeholders and a review of 35 safety concerns submitted to HSSIB and one report published in 2021 by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), the precursor organisation to HSSIB. Although we consider this information to be limited in its breadth and depth compared to a full HSSIB investigation, the exploratory exercise did provide evidence to support the direction any future investigations might take.</p><p data-block-key="7gabf">On 23 June 2025, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced a national investigation into maternity and neonatal services. The intention is that this investigation will be rapid, system wide and report in December 2025. In light of this announcement, we paused our intention to progress investigations into maternity and neonatal services, recognising that it would be prudent to wait for the outcome of the national investigation. However, we considered that the information we collected during the exploratory review was important and could assist the national investigation. Therefore, we decided to publish this summary report.</p>

www.hssib.org.uk/patient-safe...

Working in UK maternity services and/or passionate about improving maternal health outcomes in the UK and beyond ?
Okay then -
This commentary by @adweeks.bsky.social et al. is a must-read:
obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Delighted - I passed my PhD. viva today with minor corrections! ✅😊
Grateful to God, my amazing wife, our kids, family, supervisors, examiners & friends who walked this journey with me.
Thank you. Blessings to you all! 🙌🏼🙏🏼

Empowering women during childbirth - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Busy but thorougly rewarding couple of weeks at Conferences - The International Urogynecology Conference (IUGA) in Barcelona, Spain and the RCOG World Congress in London,UK, respectively.
😊🙏🏼✨

Dear all,
Please read, co-sign, and share the
*IUGA Global Call to Action - Addressing Chronic Maternal Pelvic Morbidity*

- Pelvic Health is Maternal Health.
Link
form.jotform.com/251592279806...

✨ Looking forward to the next few days at the joint International Urogynecology Association (IUGA) and European Urogynaecology Association (EUGA) meeting in beautiful Barcelona!

#IUGA2025 #EUGA2025 #Urogynaecology #PelvicHealth #GlobalWomensHealth

The Global North is increasingly unsafe for global health meetings American civil rights activist Maya Angelou once wrote, “prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”.1 At a time of unprecedented national...

This is a piece that I wished @shashikalb.bsky.social , Nhial Deng, and I did not have to write

The Global North is increasingly unsafe for global health meetings

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.bsky.social

Important study -
One is LESS LIKELY TO DIE at or after surgery performed at faith-based (mission) hospitals compared to public or private hospitals in E,C & S Africa - Why?

Hospital Ownership and Surgical Outcomes in East, Central, and Southern Africa jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Delighted to join the Univ of Limpopo’s O&G Friday Academic Meeting today to discuss Stress Urinary Incontinence - Common but underdiagnosed & undertreated especially in Africa, yet with major negative impact on women’s quality of life. Grateful for the invite 😊🙏🏽

Researcher collaboration and prioritisation by funders and policymakers critical to address the gaps in Science and Data in women’s health @rcogs.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @mrcepid.bsky.social @who.int

I’m excited to be part of this unique programme, with over 90 hours of content across three days, including my talk on Defining Global Women's Health: What it is and what it isn't. 2/2

Find out more here: www.rcog.org.uk/congress2025

I’m pleased to share that I am speaking at the RCOG World Congress 2025 in London this June! #RCOG2025 theme for this year is ‘Equity in care, innovation in action’, focussing on the future of women’s healthcare globally. 1/2

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

www.froglife.org/what-we-do/t...

I’m pleased to share our latest preprint publication (currently under peer review by a journal).
You can access it here: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
More details in the figures.
Feedback is welcome to help improve the final version (I will share it in due course).