Snapshot
Experience
15+ years
Languages
English, Swahili
Countries of Work
Iraq, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda
Professional Experience
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Ministry of health/GIZ-Sierra Leone
Jan 2016 - Present• Assessed the existing nutrition status and gaps of the nutrition aspect of Agriculture, Education and Health sectors and recommended improvements in the sectors
• Supported the development of framework and capacity for nutrition expenditure tracking with the support of Ministry of Finance
• Supported the development of results framework for the Ministries of Agriculture, Education and Health, which assisted the development of data collection and contributed to nutrition multi-sectoral reporting system
• Contributed to the improvement of the National Plan of Action on Nutrition (NPAN) M&E framework with SMART indicators that provided routine data for monitoring purposes -
Somaliland Development Fund/MoH
Jan 2014 - Oct 2015• Reviewed the activity packages developed under the Food for All with the support of Universal Health for All- with the priority interventions identified in the National Nutrition Strategy
• Identified for the coherence with the local context, the potential for the promotion of products with specific nutritional characteristics to answer identified deficiencies (e.g. Aquatics resources, insects, other deficiencies through non timber forest products)
• Proposed mechanisms to promote crop management techniques targeting diversified and nutritious foods with low production costs, and resilient production systems -
World Food Program-Myanmar
Mar 2012 - Nov 2013• Ensured efficient and integrated approaches to emergency and crisis management: humanitarian policy coordination, crisis assessment, crisis response and capacity development, planning and programming and resource mobilization, communication and information, monitoring and reporting.
• Co-leadership of the country Food Security Cluster and the country Logistics Cluster. Country resource mobilization preparation of corporate appeals, and submissions for donor macro grants.
• Coordination of food and nutrition security analysis and assessments. Participation in WFP emergency needs assessment activities and missions.
Education
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University of Groningen
Graduated 2003PhD in Public Health (Health Economics and Financing) -
University of Nairobi
Graduated 1996Masters in Public Health
Areas of Expertise
- General
- Social accountability and community advocacy for health
- Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
- Contracting health providers
- Direct facility financing
- Domestic resource mobilization
- Earmarked taxes
- Financing for PHC and community health (preventive, promotive, and curative care
- Health coverage schemes
- Innovative financing
- Pay for performance
- Pooling of funds
- Provider payment
- Resource allocation
- Strategic health purchasing
- Change management
- Decentralization
- Health management, policy and planning
- Institutional strengthening
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Private sector engagement
- Regulation and enforcement
- Stakeholder engagement
- Strategic planning
- Strategy development
- Civil registration and vital statistics
- Claims management systems
- Data reporting and analysis
- Disease registries
- Disease-specific surveillance
- Health management information systems
- Health-related surveys
- Interoperability of information systems
- Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
- Human resources planning, management, training and development
- Staff motivation and retention
- Policy analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
- Community health services
- Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
- Health management
- Licensing and accreditation
- Medical audit
- Pharmaceutical management
- PHC
- Quality and quality assurance
- Service delivery networks
- Specialty care
- Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
- Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
- Purchasing
Affiliated Institutions
Other Affiliations
Full Member, Kenya Institute of Management, Kenya-2002, Full Member, International Health Economics Association, USA-2011,Member, International Association of Health Planning Professionals, USA-2011, Full Member, Association of Public Health Professionals, USA-2010, Member, Public Health Association of Kenya-2010, Member, Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Public Health Association, South Africa-2009, Member, Health Economics Study Group, Britain -2008, Member, Association of African Health Economists, USA-2007, Member, World Federation of Public Health Association, USA-2005, Member, Community Health Association of Uganda-2003, Member, Community Health Association of Kenya-2003,