Doreen Alice Maloba Othero (born 05 October 1962) is a public health specialist, a registered nurse, academic, and research and policy analyst in Kenya.
She is a senior lecturer at Maseno University and has been involved with the Lake Victoria Basin Commission of the East African Community conducting research and advising on policy since 2008.
From 2004,[3] she was coordinating Maseno University's response to the HIV/AIDs crisis in Africa, which included preparing a baseline study, distribution of medication and condoms, and training for educators, care providers, and policy makers, on transmission and availability of support systems.
[4] Othero became a project manager for the East African Community's Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) in 2008 and was responsible for overseeing research conducted at eighteen universities in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to evaluate students' HIV/AIDS status.
[10] By drawing upon the expertise of government agencies, civil society, media outlets, non-governmental organisations, and academia, the goal was to create strategic plan for sustainable development with monitoring and evaluation controls to form best practices for using resources and protecting the well-being of the population in East Africa.
[13] Othero worked with lawmakers of the East African Legislative Assembly such as Christophe Bazivamo and Valerie Nyirahabineza (Rwanda) and Daniel Kidega (Uganda) to develop a bill in 2017 which would regulate importation, manufacture, and sale of polythene bags throughout the region.
To combat the environmental issue, but provide both a continuity of livelihood and well-being for the population, Othero and other members of the commission introduced other cash crops, like sugarcane and potatoes, to local farmers.
Beekeeping is also less labour intensive than growing maize, allows farmers to use traditional wood and dung hives which are inexpensive to make, and typically offers a more stable income source.