Dr. Lydia Okutoyi is a clinician and obstetrician-gynaecologist with extensive experience in public sector healthcare and a strong focus on quality improvement and patient safety. She currently serves as the Director of Health Care Quality at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, where she leads system-level initiatives to improve safe, effective, and patient-centred care. She supports systems thinking and the standardisation of care processes within complex hospital settings, linking patient safety, IPC, and AMS activities. Dr. Okutoyi is the founding President of the Society for Quality Health Care in Kenya (SQHK) and a founding director of ACQUIRE Africa, supporting frontline healthcare workers to embed quality improvement and antimicrobial stewardship into routine practice. Nationally, she contributes to the Ministry of Health technical working groups on quality and patient safety, IPC and AMR. Her leadership has been recognised through the Patient Safety Africa Award, induction into the ISQua International Academy of Quality and Safety, and a Presidential commendation (OGW).
