About Dr Fatou Wurie

I am a social scientist and founder whose life has moved between countries, cultures, and conversations about gender, care, and community. I was born in Sierra Leone, grew up across the world, and carry both roots and movement in how I think and work.

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ABOUT

ABOUT

My work begins with a simple premise: women’s lived experience is a form of knowledge that systems routinely ignore.

As a social scientist and founder, I work at the intersection of narrative, health systems, policy, and financing, translating lived experience into evidence that shapes decisions, institutions, and investment. This approach is grounded in close listening, rigorous analysis, and systems thinking. It is how I engage with governments, multilaterals, funders, and communities and why my work has taken the form it has.

  • Three women standing together behind a large sign that says 'World Health Summit' in white 3D letters, smiling at a conference.
  • A woman in a white dress receives a certificate from a man in a light-colored shirt at an event with banners for the White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria and Youterus in the background.
  • Woman speaking at Africa Healthcare Summit, seated on stage with a microphone, wearing a red patterned dress and black shoes, with a blue background and summit banners.
  • A woman with long dark hair speaking into a microphone on stage, wearing a black jacket and a patterned dress, with a person sitting in the background.
  • A woman with black hair speaking into a microphone from a wooden podium with the Oxford Union Society logo, inside a room with stained glass windows and red walls.
  • A woman in a white dress stands on stage at a TEDx event, holding notes, with a black and white themed backdrop featuring various words and icons related to climate change and social activism, including a large red TEDx sign.
  • A woman in a pink traditional dress speaking at a podium with a microphone during a formal event.
  • A woman dressed in traditional African attire, wearing a headwrap, speaking at a podium with the logo of a health organization, likely delivering a speech or presentation in a conference setting.
  • A woman in a black blouse speaking into a microphone on stage, with colorful neon lights in the background.
  • A group of eight women wearing colorful traditional African dresses and accessories, posing together with a table and plants in the background.

I am also someone who has lived with fibroids and heavy bleeding.

This experience strengthened what I had already witnessed across my work: women often articulate the truth of their health long before systems catch up.

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WHAT GUIDES ME

  • Women carry knowledge.

  • Clarity supports care.

  • Dignity shapes strong choices.

  • Africa is a source of wisdom and possibility.

  • Leadership begins with attention.

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From UNICEF to the WHO Foundation, from community-centred work to global spaces.

I have been shaped by the people, places, and stories that reveal both the gaps and the wisdom in our approaches to care. In every setting, women are the ones who name what is missing — and they do so with remarkable clarity.

A woman in white dress receiving a certificate from a man in a light-colored shirt at a formal event in Nigeria.

Youterus Health

Founding Youterus Health was a natural step. It created a place where uterine and menstrual health are taken seriously, and where narrative is understood as a form of knowledge.

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Today, I work with leaders and institutions navigating complex questions in women’s health, policy, and systems change.

My work brings together lived experience, research, and long professional practice, using narrative as a strategic input to support clearer judgment, grounded strategy, and decisions that reflect how women actually live.

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