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Martha Ndungu, PharmD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Global Health and Health Equity
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. Ndung'u is originally from Kenya and a love for helping others and science led her to pursue a career in pharmacy. She is especially passionate about public health and closing health disparity gaps in under-served communities.
She earned her doctorate of pharmacy with an emphasis in global health from the University of Pittsburgh. While getting her doctorate, she also completed a public health fellowship focusing on providing health education at the Allegheny County Jail. She then completed a PGY-1 primary care residency at Touro University in Partnership with the FQHC Lifelong Medical Care.
Her research ranges from global health, looking at the Namibian health care system and the self-care approach of patients with diabetes in Honduras, to local, assessing public healthcare perceptions among sub-Saharan African immigrants and medication access in minority populations in the United States. During the pandemic she also did scholarly work in the scholarship of teaching and learning earning her the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ New Practitioner Achievement Award.
Dr. Ndung'u is currently an Assistant Professor of Global Health and Health Equity for the Grace Lamsam Program for the Underserved in the Department of Pharmacy & Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She is the co-director of pharmacy operations at the Birmingham Free clinic where she works with several other disciplines incluidng those in rehabilitation medicine.

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