Phyllis Kyomuhendo is a passionate Ugandan social entrepreneur and innovator with seven years of experience in the social-innovations sector. Phyllis has a master´s degree in Public Health, and is a medical radiographer by profession. She is also the director and co-founder at the Ugandan startup, MSCAN.
Through MSCAN, she and her team develop low-cost mobile ultrasound devices to combat maternal and neonatal mortality in low resource settings. MSCAN has so far scanned over 10,000 pregnant women and detected over 1300 life threatening complications in pregnant women across East Africa. For this work, Phyllis has been profiled by CNN, BBC, Google, Meaningful Businesses 100, to mention but a few.
In 2018, Phyllis received an award as the overall young Achiever of the year in Uganda. The award was handed over by the current President of The Republic of Kenya, H.E Willian Samoei Auto. Phyllis is a 2019 Mandela Washington Fellow, a 2019 One Young World Summit Ugandan delegate, and a 2023 Global Good Fund Fellow. She was also awarded the Women in Tech Award at The GITEX Africa conference in 2023. She also mentors young girls under the STEM Queens program in Uganda.