Jane Wamae is a Research and Learning Manager at Lwala, she spearheads the design and implementation of rigorous mixed methods studies, ensuring research fidelity and translating evidence into actionable insights for policy and practice. Jane has over 15 years of work experience in public health research and management across East Africa. Prior to joining Lwala, Jane led initiatives on maternal health, nutrition, cervical cancer prevention, and neglected tropical diseases, working with organizations such as Jhpiego, Women4Cancer,The End Fund, APHRC and Bloodlink Foundation. Jane’s core strengths are tenacity and galvanizing as she pushes projects to completion, ensuring that the desired results are achieved while inspiring teams to take action around bold ideas. Jane takes great joy in capacity building and mentoring researchers and is very passionate about the meaningful engagement of communities in research and leads the advancing community research in rural communities project.


