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This Expert's name is Mwenda Nicholas

This Expert's occupation is Health Economist, Pharmacist
This Expert's location is Kenya
This Expert's nationality is Kenyan

Snapshot

Experience

5+ years

Languages

English, French, Swahili

Countries of Work

Kenya, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Health technology assessment
  • Priority-setting
  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Contracting health providers
  • Direct facility financing
  • Domestic resource mobilization
  • Innovative financing
  • Pooling of funds
  • Provider payment
  • Resource allocation
  • Strategic health purchasing
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Knowledge management software
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Equity analysis
  • Fiscal space analysis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • Health management
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Forecasting/quantification
  • Purchasing
  • Risk management
  • Supply chain and commodity costing

Professional Experience

  • Financing Alliance for Health

    May 2020 - Nov 2020
    Financing Alliance for Health
  • ThinkWell Global

    Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
    ThinkWell Global

Education

  • University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Graduated 2020
    MSc. Health Economics, Health Policy
  • MSc. Health Economics, Health Policy

    Graduated 2019
    MBA Healthcare Management

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Health technology assessment
  • Priority-setting
  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Contracting health providers
  • Direct facility financing
  • Domestic resource mobilization
  • Innovative financing
  • Pooling of funds
  • Provider payment
  • Resource allocation
  • Strategic health purchasing
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Knowledge management software
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Equity analysis
  • Fiscal space analysis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • Health management
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Forecasting/quantification
  • Purchasing
  • Risk management
  • Supply chain and commodity costing