After Newton graduated from Kakamega School (1965–1968), and Kenyatta College (1969–1970), he joined the University of Nairobi from where he graduated with a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1977.He joined the Ministry of Health where he served as a Senior Medical Officer of Health in Kisumu, Kwale, Lamu and Kisii Districts.
He later held a master's degree in Public Health from Loma Linda University in Southern California, United States.
He becomes a past chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Health, Housing, Labour and Social Welfare (1998–2003) and organizing a health conference for Members of Parliament when President Daniel Moi declared HIV/Aids a national disaster.
Dr. Kulundu will be remembered for his verbal exchange with a foreign diplomat in a public forum (directed against US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger) on 24 October 2007 while launching a report entitled "Trafficking in Persons from a Labour Perspective, the Kenyan experience".
[1] Newton Kulundu died on March 7, 2010, after battling pancreatic cancer for a short while.