2023 Leadership Journey Project: Empowering Career-Progress Pursuits of Women in Medicine through a Career Boost Hub
Dr. Koiti Emmily Nasungba modi is an unconventional medical doctor who is also an intentional peacebuilder and human rights activist. She has over five years of medical practice experience gained from work and training combined. She is experienced in executive leadership, rights advocacy, gender analysis and related advocacy, community mobilisation, youth representation, negotiation and mediation and policy analysis. This experience has been garnered over 10 years through her work with different non-profits in South Sudan.
Dr. Koiti has worked in different voluntary roles including co-founding and serving as Executive Director of South Sudanese Women in Medicine (SSWIM); a non- profit that mobilizes and engages female South Sudanese medical, dental and pharmacy practitioners to save lives and address challenges unique to their career progression while influencing the delivery of healthcare in South Sudan.
Previously, she has consulted for UN Women on gendered-review of the South Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission act and the National Election Act of South Sudan. She has also served as Youth Representative to the Joint Monitoring of the evaluation commission, the IGAD High Level Revitalization Forum (HLRF) that culminated into the Revitalized Agreement on the resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) to which she is also signatory for the youth.
Her medical practice experience spans South Sudan and Kenya where she has trained at Juba Teaching Hospital (JTH), Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and Isiolo county Teaching and Referral Hospitals (ICTRH). She has worked as a doctor for St. Paul’s AVI Mater care maternity Hospital in Isiolo as well as Equity Afia Medical Center in Meru. She currently works for Medecins Sans Frontieres – Belgium in South Sudan.
Dr. Koiti Emmily attended Women Changing the Face of Leadership Program at Simmons College in Boston Massachusetts, USA under the United States Department Study of the United Institutes (SUSI) exchange program. She is also a former fellow of the Skoll World Forum 2018 and the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s International Leaders Program; 2019. Dr. Koiti has a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MBBS) from the University of Juba in South Sudan.
Fun Fact: Dr. Koiti enjoys discussions around current affairs, crocheting, reading, keeping tidy living spaces, traveling and educating women and youth on issues related to their wellbeing
