Mercy Chelangat Yego is lawyer who is passionate about improving equitable access to healthcare across Africa. Her commitment to public health law stems from a lived experience. This lived reality drives her work to ensure that essential medicines and healthcare services are not a privilege for the few, but a right accessible to all. She brings over four years of experience at the intersection of law, health, and social justice. Mercy has supported legal and policy research in areas including youth reproductive health rights, ethical use of AI in Education, the prevention of gender-based violence and harmful practices such as FGM and child marriage. Mercy has worked with organizations such as UNFPA and Nyansapo AI, where she advised on data governance, legal frameworks for emerging technologies in education, and designed advocacy strategies for advancing rights of women and girls. She has also served as the East and Southern Africa Representative for the Global Youth Consortium Against FGM, coordinating youth-led campaigns and advocacy across 6 countries (Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe)
She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of South Wales, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Uganda Christian University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.