Joab Wako

Creative | Blogger | Engineer | Philosopher | Transplant Recipient | Heroic Donor @nerimaW | Founder of @transplantedke

[Nerima Wako @NerimaW]

Kenya’s youth are no longer just users of digital spaces, we are organizers, creators, workers, and civic actors shaping what democracy looks like online. From access and safety to digital labour and free expression, the future of our digital world must be inclusive, accountable, and youth-driven.

Read more here: https://t.co/KYSWIgV2ZG

#DigitalRights #YouthVoices #InclusiveInternet #KenyaYouth #CivicTech

[PxP @PxPHub]

At #PxP25, we hosted three unique sessions that weren’t recorded for our YouTube channel to create a safe space for open dialogue. Check out the anonymized illustrations from these sessions here, along with other artwork from this year’s conference:
https://t.co/HXtNIOHQR5

[PxP @PxPHub]

What are some unique challenges and opportunities for patient engagement in research in different parts of the world?

👀Watch back this session from day 1 of #PxP25

https://t.co/zZ26hDBPM9

[PxP @PxPHub]

💜Thank you so much to Kwanele Asante for guiding our second day of PxP 2025 as the conference host, and to the incredible speakers for today’s sessions. 👏. Thank you for everything you shared – for your wisdom, honesty and practical examples for doing better research.

[PxP @PxPHub]

“Trust is important. When you build that trust, you get to the point of being a partner.” - Joab Wako #PxP25

[PxP @PxPHub]

💜A big shout out to @JoabWako for hosting our first day of the 2025 conference and to all the speakers who made today possible 👏. Thank you for giving your time, energy and passion - we have learnt so much from you.

[IBD India @ibd_india]

Quotes from Day 1 of @PxPHub Global 2025 -

"Engagement moves at the speed of trust."
"We don't need to be at the table. We ARE the table."
"Be comfortable with feeling uncomfortable."
"Patients are becoming architects of the ecosystem itself".

Register : https://t.co/UT4ULOFqVt

[PxP @PxPHub]

Day 1 of #PxP25 is about what's happening and what's possible in patient engagement in #healthresearch. Excited to learn from this fantastic line-up of speakers today 💜
@JoabWako @nikhil_jayswal_ @JBBC @SimonRStones @joelvsarthritis @breastlessAfrik @patientispard

[Marie Ennis-O'Connor @JBBC]

Over 800 registrants from 43 countries are signed up for #PxP25 (Sept 9–12).

There’s still time to join us. Register at:
https://t.co/ga7nr60VYj
#PatientExperience

[PxP @PxPHub]

🤩Meet the #PxP25 hosts! Joab Wako, Kwanele Asante and Letisha Living are members of the steering committee this year and we are delighted that they will be leading the conference. Read their biographies and learn about other speakers here: https://t.co/vyYNZKhq59

[North American Pain School @NAPainSchool]

🎉 The #PxP25 (For Patients, By Patients) virtual conference is back! A free event on patient engagement in health research, designed to meet patient needs and supported by an international committee of patient partners.
🎟️ https://t.co/BsE4siYw2d
Event supported by @CIHR_IMHA

[PxP @PxPHub]

📢We are very excited to announce that the speakers for PxP Africa will be Action Amos, Mbali Ngobese, and Rosebud Ombura. We are looking forward to connecting with everybody on August 13th!

There is still time to register here: https://t.co/avVzaeRnMH

#PxP25 #PxPAfrica

[PxP @PxPHub]

📢Introducing PxP Australia!- a regional PxP webinar, led by Janelle Bowden and Letisha Living (2025 PXP Steering Cttee members). Learn about “working well together" with Janelle, Letisha and Dr. Joan Carlini - https://t.co/MC9KTlCjfS
#ForPatientsByPatients #PxP25 #PPI

[Kwanele Asante, BA Liberal Arts, LLB, MSc Med🇵🇸 @breastlessAfrik]

African Patient Dialogue🌍🌍🌍

New Paradigm: From research participants, to research partners

@JoabWako and I thrilled to host PxP Africa on 13 August 2025.

We developed the content, identified African patient partner (lived experience) speakers, set the session format & time - and the branding!

We are grateful to the Canadian Institutes for Health Research for the administrative, research knowledge, technical and financial resources provided to enable us to share our vision of what African patient-inclusion in research ought to look like.

(Africans as leaders in African health)

[Nerima Wako @NerimaW]

It's 4:47pm: We’ve raised nearly KSh 420,000 so far 🙌🏾 enough to bring several of our brothers & sisters home.
Frankline is now free after days behind bars KSH bail of Ksh 50,000 (and 2 others)
Yasmin is still in remand, facing an outrageous bail of Ksh 300,000. We are processing more 🙏🏾
Your generosity is changing lives, but stories are still pouring in from across the country. We will keep updating as we verify each case.
Thank you, Kenyans, for standing in solidarity. 🇰🇪❤️
Let’s keep going until no one is left behind.
BAIL FUND:
💳 Till No: 6658137
Stories can be shared @KumbiTrace

#WeAreNotTerrorists #BringThemHome #WeArePatriots

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

[Kwanele Asante, BA Liberal Arts, LLB, MSc Med🇵🇸 @breastlessAfrik]

New British Medical Journal Opinion @bmj_latest - Free Access🌍🇿🇦

Decolonisation of global health must include civil society organisations

https://t.co/1ulkITBvC5

Authors: Kwanele Asante, Francis Chinegwundoh, Rachel Hammonds

I am grateful to Profs @frankthedoc1 and Rachel for their mentorship and support.👨🏽‍🎓👩🏽‍🎓🫶🏾

Key message: Global health CSOs must practice substantive lived experience inclusion and just solidarity with African and global south CSOs.

I am grateful to Dr Guy Fones and Ms Maia Olsen @WHO (Geneva) for consistently leading the way in establishing global normative standards for meaningful lived experience inclusion.

#PatientPartners #PxP #LivedExperience #UNHLM2025 #NCDs #MentalHealth

[Nerima Wako @NerimaW]

For weeks, the gafment has labelled young people and activists as anarchists, yet today’s front-page headline exposes the real architects of chaos: government officials themselves.
Shame on you!

Thank you to @StandardKenya @KTNNewsKE for exposing the true anarchists hiding behind power.

Behold! It was never rogue “commercial activists" or "directionless gen z" We knew it. Now the country does too.

And now? Silence from those in leadership. Also, since the use of goons has been exposed.... what tactic next? A terror scare?
#Justice4OurMashujaa #NeverForget

[Nerima Wako @NerimaW]

The proceedings in the Senate today are not new to us. We witnessed the same performance last year following the events of June 25th—a spectacle that, despite its gravity, yielded no justice and no accountability.

The conduct of the National Police Service in this case is deeply troubling. From issuing false statements about the murder of Albert Ojwang to tampering with CCTV footage at Central Police Station, all signs point to a deliberate cover-up to shield those responsible.

We do not need more hollow assurances. The truth is already evident in the autopsy report.

As investigations continue, we make one clear and uncompromising demand:
Deputy Inspector General Eliud Lagat must resign, be arrested, and charged with murder.

We will not allow Albert Ojwang to become another forgotten statistic. We will not move on. #Justice4OurMashujaa #FagiaWote

[Kwanele Asante, BA Liberal Arts, LLB, MSc Med🇵🇸 @breastlessAfrik]

I AM an access activist 🇿🇦💊💉🩺

And I thrive on *global knowledge gathering and sharing*

Honoured to be a member of the 2025 @PxP Steering Committee with my African colleague @JoabWako.

He is a smart, thoughtful & a visionary African youth leader. And WHO Meaning Engagement colleague. A qualified engineer & health equity advocate from Kenya 🇰🇪 .🌍👨🏽‍🎓❤️

What is PxP? 🇨🇦

More attached. Per additional info provide on the high English platform.

*Redistribution of knowledge resources* - as always my global village🌹

We can write more there, for free.😊

(Africa please support Joab & I to *serve* you)

#PatientPartners #Research #LivedExperience #YouthMonth #AfricanHealthJustice #NCDs #MentalHealth