Safaa Garelnabi is a public health leader and social entrepreneur with over a decade of experience advancing adolescent health in Uganda. As Co-founder and CEO of Hope Springs Health Foundation, she leads the design and implementation of innovative sexual and reproductive health programs in underserved communities, focusing on reducing teenage pregnancy, improving school retention, and promoting youth-friendly health services. Her broader career spans SRHR program coordination, family planning initiatives, stakeholder engagement, team supervision, and health systems strengthening across government and non-government institutions in Uganda.
Safaa holds an MSc in Nutrition for Global Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a BSc in Food Science and Technology from Monash University Malaysia. She received a D-Prize grant (2023) and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Monash University Malaysia (2025).
She believes women’s leadership strengthens health systems by bringing lived experience and deep contextual understanding to issues that disproportionately affect women, girls, and marginalized communities.
Fun fact: For the past nine years, Safaa has tutored English and English Literature to students in the United Kingdom , what started as a short-term opportunity quietly became a lasting passion.