The CSEM Advisory Group

Susan Wambui is the Co-Founder and Advocacy Lead of the Community Advocacy Initiative Kenya (CAIK), a community-led organization based in Nairobi, and serves as the Women’s Representative and a Steering Committee Member of the Kenya Network of People Who Use Drugs (KeNPUD). In these roles, she leads advocacy and capacity-strengthening initiatives that advance harm reduction, gender equality, and access to health and justice for people who use drugs (PWUD), particularly women.

A harm reduction expert with lived experience and a long-time beneficiary of harm reduction interventions in Kenya, Susan brings over ten years of experience in community development, legal empowerment, and health advocacy. She began her career at Support for Addictions Prevention and Treatment in Africa (SAPTA) under the Kenya Red Cross, through a Global Fund–supported HIV prevention and harm reduction program, where she served as a peer educator, outreach worker, and later as a community paralegal. Through this work, she gained hands-on experience in HIV advocacy, harm reduction service delivery, and drug policy reform. She is also a nationally recognized harm reduction trainer under Kenya’s National AIDS and STIs Control Programme (NASCOP).

Susan has contributed to multiple community-led research and policy initiatives, including collaborations with AMREF and  NEXTGEN Lawyers kenya, which have strengthened inclusion and equity for key populations in health and human rights programming. She holds a Diploma in Addiction  Counselling  and certifications in paralegal practice, research ethics, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

As a member of the CSEM Advisory Group, Susan brings her lived experience, technical expertise, and unwavering commitment to advancing UHC through inclusive, rights-based, and people-centered approaches that leave no one behind.