About MHN
Madini Health Network brings public health, occupational hygiene, mine safety, engineering, environmental health and local knowledge together to reduce preventable harm in artisanal and small-scale mining.
MHN is a Kenyan nonprofit organisation established in response to a persistent gap: serious hazards are visible at artisanal mining sites, yet miners and cooperatives often lack access to the technical support, practical controls and decision-ready evidence needed to address them.
We work alongside miners rather than designing solutions at a distance. Our role is to help identify priority risks, connect cooperatives with relevant expertise, support locally workable controls and translate field learning into stronger programmes and policy.
Our Mission
To work with miners, cooperatives, technical specialists and public institutions to identify mining risks, implement practical controls and build local capacity for safer and healthier artisanal mining.
Our Vision
Artisanal mining in which every worker can earn a livelihood without preventable injury, disease or death.
How we operate
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Where we work
MHN is beginning its programme development in Migori County, Kenya, where artisanal and small-scale gold mining supports many livelihoods and presents important occupational-health, safety and environmental-health challenges.
Our aim is not to impose a single model on every site. We are developing methods that account for differences in geology, mine design, production processes, cooperative capacity and available resources, while creating learning that can inform wider county and national action.
Governance
MHN is governed by its founding body, which provides oversight of strategy, finance, risk, safeguarding and organisational accountability. Day-to-day programmes are led by the executive team with support from appropriately qualified technical advisers and implementation partners.
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Leadership
Founder and Director
Dr Odamoh is a medical doctor and public-health practitioner leading MHN's development of cooperative-centred occupational-health and mine-safety programmes. His work focuses on translating site-level risk evidence into practical prevention, local capacity and scalable institutional action.
Board members and technical advisers will be listed after confirming titles, biographies, consent and photographs.
Commitments
Responsible financial management and documented use of restricted funds
Ethical review and informed consent where activities constitute human-participant research
Data minimisation, secure handling and compliance with applicable Kenyan data-protection requirements
Safeguarding of children and adults at risk
Respectful engagement without discrimination, exploitation or retaliation
Disclosure and management of actual or potential conflicts of interest
Accessible channels for feedback and complaints
