A current MSc (International Health & Tropical Medicine) at Oxford and a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Kapil Narain is a youth leader, Rhodes Scholar, One Young World ambassador, and Pan-African activist from Durban, South Africa.

 

Kapil's passion for servant leadership has driven his involvement in various movements such as being a member of the African Youth Front on Coronavirus, an initiative by African Union and Africa CDC (2020) – a high-level policy and advocacy framework for young people to co-lead Africa's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chairperson of the COVID-19 technical working group at Federation of African Medical Students Associations (2020) and also was on the organising committee for African Healthcare Students Summit (AHESS) in 2019 (this event, freely available, had over 700 participants from 30+ countries.) He also serves as the vice president for Welfare on Graduate common room for Green Templeton College.

 

Kapil was also an Advisory Board Member, AfroPHC (2022 - 2023) an NGO that advocates for Primary Health Care and Universal Health Coverage and has membership of 635 healthcare workers form 64 countries and was co-chair at a side event for Conference in Public Health in Africa (CPHIA).