Health and community
The Team conversations
Trusted medical voices, lived experience and practical answers to questions communities are already asking.
Kenya-based · Doctor-led · Digital health
Laughing Labcoat:
Laughing Labcoat:
healthcare ideas, built to move.
The Laughing Labcoat is an AI-powered digital health solutions platform helping healthcare teams attract and support patients, communicate clearly and build useful digital services.
We bring together patient acquisition, healthcare marketing and media, web and AI solutions—with community health, content and events extending how the work reaches people.
Live from our community · This Sunday · 50 spaces
Fungua Roho
Fungua Roho
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Media, community health and public conversation
Trusted voices. Useful conversations. A community that shows up.
Our doctors, producers and community voices make health, governance and culture easier to understand and act on.
Meet the team
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For healthcare teams and partners
From expertise
From expertise
to engagement.
We help hospitals, clinics, health professionals and health-focused organisations turn expertise into clearer patient journeys, stronger digital presence, useful systems and trusted communication.
What we bring together
Clinical fluency, digital delivery and cultural insight.
One team across strategy, media and technology.
Patient acquisition · marketing · media · websites · AI solutions
Fresh from the channel
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Latest episodes
The newest Laughing Labcoat uploads, updated automatically from YouTube.
Community before content
We don’t only speak.
We don’t only speak.
We show up.
Laughing Labcoat exists where health, public life and youth culture meet. Our work starts with people, moves through trusted information, and becomes action.
Emergency response
Showing up when the city needed care
During the maandamano, the team provided emergency medical care at Jamia Mosque — putting trusted clinical support close to people in a tense moment.
Mosque health camps
Health education where community gathers
We have taken medical camps and practical public-health education into multiple mosques across Nairobi, meeting people in spaces they already trust.
Public health
Making useful information easier to act on
Clinicians and community voices turn complex health questions into conversations that families, young people and working communities can use.
Governance
Making room for civic education
Through Fungua Roho and wider public conversations, we help young people ask better questions about governance, power and participation.
One community · many rooms
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The shows
Different subjects, different energy, one shared belief: young people deserve conversations that respect their intelligence and reflect their lives.
Health · life · real stories
The Team
The original Laughing Labcoat conversations: trusted medical voices, lived experience and the questions communities are already asking.
With The Laughing Labcoat team
Enter this roomPolitics · governance · public life
Fungua Roho
A room for opening up difficult conversations about politics, governance and the choices shaping young people’s lives.
With Dr. Ilyas Mohamed, Raniya Abdi & Maliks Yusuf
Enter this roomFootball · culture · banter
No Var Podcast
Football conversations for people who care about the game, the culture around it and the argument after the final whistle.
With Maryan Siyad
Enter this roomHealth is public life. Football is culture. Politics is personal.
We make room for the whole conversation.
Work with consequence
From the studio
From the studio
to the street.
Our media work and community work strengthen each other. Clinical knowledge survives the edit, and the finished story reaches people who can use it.
Medical camps across Nairobi mosques
Clinical outreach, health checks and public-health conversations delivered in spaces that already hold community trust.
Ongoing
Jamia Mosque emergency response
Emergency medical support delivered by the team during a period of public unrest.
Maandamano
Public health and governance education
Accessible conversations that help people understand their health, their institutions and their power to participate.
Ongoing
“People do not lack hospitals — they lack trusted health information and relatable medical voices.”
The Laughing Labcoat
“We talk about what matters. We show up when it matters.”
Community principle
People, not a logo
Meet the community builders
Clinicians, hosts, producers, strategists and organisers building one platform together.
Dr. Ilyas Mohamed
Founder · Programme lead · Medical oversight
Clinician and founder responsible for the platform’s direction, clinical accuracy and public-interest work.
Dr. Fridah Nduati
Chief operating officer
Keeps the people, partnerships and operations moving so the work can reach communities properly.
Wilson Mwangi
Lead producer
Leads production on the ground, from crew and camera positions to live broadcast and delivery.
Raniya Abdi
Podcast host · Content lead
Brings clarity, warmth and a sharp editorial eye to the conversations we make for the community.
Dr. Muhyidin Mohamed
Medical podcast host
Dr Mo hosts clear, useful medical conversations for the Laughing Labcoat community.
Maryan Siyad
Journalist & communications officer
Coordinates people, stories and day-to-day communication that makes community work possible.
Dr. Dimbil Hussein
Profile details coming soon
Dr. Dimbil’s profile details will be added when available.
Maliks Yusuf
Co-host
Co-host bringing honest, relatable conversation to Fungua Roho.
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