[1] She became interested in medicine whilst helping her father, Dickson Kihara Nyaga, who was a public health officer.
[2] At the age of twenty one she was forced to repeat the year, and eventually had to complete her medical degree as a single mother.
[1][3] She worked to prevent maternal and child deaths and to eliminate the parent-to-child transmission of sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis and HIV.
She worked to promote women's leadership and involvement in policymaking as well as how to improve access to contraception and health information.
She has said that she will focus on transforming the experiences of young women who suffer from child marriages and female genital mutilation.