Snapshot
Experience
Languages
Countries of Work
Professional Experience
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Various: Special Assignments and Consultancies
Jan 2011 - Present• February to December 2020 – Development Team Member of the 2016-8 National Health Accounts (MOH, USAID/HP+, WHO)
• March 2015 – December 2020 (Various dates) – Short term trainer at Kenya School of Government (KSG) and Counties on Performance Based Budgeting (PBB) (Options Consultancies, USAID/HP+, JICA, GIZ, KSG)
• December 2019 – March 2020 – Coordination team member for the Public Expenditure Tracking (PET) Survey 2019 (WHO)
• March to December 2019 – Joint Secretariat to the Experts Taskforce on Reform of the NHIF in Kenya (HEFREP) (MOH, Various Partners) -
Ministry of Health – Division of Economic Policy and Planning :: Senior Economist/ Statistician
Sep 2010 - Present>>. Capacity Building
o Trainer on System of Health Accounts (SHA) in National and County Governments
o Member of support team for Mid-Term Expenditure Framework in counties
o Trainer of Devolved units on budget making and planning
>> Health Policy development and review
o Member of the Universal Health Coverage Technical Working Group
o Team member for the development of the 2nd Medium Term Plan for Vision 2030
>> Costing and Cost Estimation
o Costing of the Essential Package for Health using the Dynamic costing Model
>>Development and implementation of Health Sector Surveys - National Health Account Survey, Household Health Expenditures etc -
Ministry of Health – Output Based Approach (OBA) Programme :: Programme Manager
Jan 2011 - Dec 2017OBA was a pilot programme being undertaken by the Government of Kenya and Federal Republic of Germany to provide vouchers to the indigents in 4 Counties and 2 urban slums which they use to access reproductive health services for free at accredited health facilities.
Specific tasks include;
• Managing the Programme Management Unit (PMU) of 7 staff members and over 200 contracted staff
• Contracting and Contract Management of engaged private companies
• Development and evaluation of work-plans for the project
• Supervision of Programme implementation
• Supervision of the contracted agents
• Contributing towards related policy development
• Maintaining linkages with stakeholders
Education
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University of Nairobi
Graduated 2019Masters of Science –Health Economics and Policy -
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Graduated 2009Bachelor of Science –Mathematics and Computer Science (Statistics Major)
Areas of Expertise
- General
- Priority-setting
- Coaching
- Process facilitation
- Training
- Civil society engagement
- 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
- Data reporting and analysis
- Health-related surveys
- Behavior and health literacy
- Health promotion
- Health protection
- Human resources planning, management, training and development
- Data collection methodology
- Indicator development
- 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
- NTDs
- Nutrition
- Tuberculosis
- Costing
- Dissemination and knowledge brokering
- Health provider capacity mapping
- Policy analysis
- Political economy analysis
- Problems and priorities assessment
- Root cause analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
Overall Health System Strengthening, Health Financing Policy and Strategy Development at National Level.