Nick Mawani joins World Public Health Nutrition Association

I was born in Fort Hall, Kenya in 1962. My dad worked in the government of Kenya, so I had the pleasure of travelling with him to a significant number of villages and towns where he brought electricity to them by fixing their diesel power generators. It was meeting the tribal chiefs as a very young child that I developed keen interest in the health of the people. Chiefs of Kikuyu, Luo, Kamba, Chaga, Kalenjin, Masai, among others always fed me healthy, natural non-chemicalized foods that embedded the concept of healthy nutrition in my psyche. As I progressed in my education from nursery school to primary and high school, my interest in healthy living grew in parallel. When I climbed Mount Kenya to Point Lenana at 17,053 feet, at age 17, I was pondering upon my future education and landed up in University of Ottawa, Canada. Here I successfully completed my bachelor of science in biological sciences in 1985. I had to take 2 years off to work as a manager so that I could go back to school to study respiratory therapy. I graduated with honors and was the top student in the Province of Alberta, Canada.

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