Benjamin W. Wachira is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Aga Khan University, Nairobi and the current president of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine, an international association aimed at supporting emergency care development across Africa. He is also the Founding Director of the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation, an organisation dedicated to ensuring timely, accessible and quality lifesaving emergency care in Kenya.

Dr Wachira has published several journal articles which reflect his research interests in the development of evidence-based universal emergency care in Kenya and also serves as an associate editor for the African Journal of Emergency Medicine