This Expert's name is Andrew OConnell
This Expert's occupation is
Freelance consultant
This Expert's location is
Ireland, Ireland
This Expert's nationality is Irish
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Experience
10+ years
Languages
English
Countries of Work
Ghana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Professional Experience
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Nutrition Interational
Oct 2016 - Sep 2019Regional Director Asia
• Policy, Planning & Budgeting: Assured the quality of costed country plans in each of the NI Core countries in Asia. Co-ordinated the development of annual plans and budgets for the Asia Unit for inclusion in annual Program of Work and Budget. Ensured that project development, approval and implementation was carried out in accordance with NI policies and procedures. Approved programming proposals within delegated authority limits.
• See CV for further details -
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark - Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Tanzania
Jul 2012 - Jul 2016Senior Adviser - Public Private Partnerships
• Advised in the review of the health sector PPP policy and Implementation guidelines.
• Provided technical support on the integration of the national PPP strategy into the Health Sector Strategic Plan 2015-2020, and across the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) governance structures and processes.
• Advised and provided capacity building in PPP mainstreaming at national, regional and council health management levels
• see CV for further details -
Freelance Independent International Health Consultant
Aug 1999 - Jun 201268 Technical Assistance consultancies delivered in 16 countries for range of donors, full list available in Annex A of CV.
Education
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University of London - LSE & LSHTM
Graduated 1993MSc Health Planning and Financing -
Munster Technical University
Graduated 1983NCEA Award Business Studies (Distinction)
Areas of Expertise
- Coaching
- Process facilitation
- Training
- Civil society engagement
- Community health boards
- Social accountability and community advocacy for health
- Social participation and health communication
- Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
- Contracting health providers
- Direct facility financing
- Domestic resource mobilization
- 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 management information systems
- Health-related surveys
- Behavior and health literacy
- Health promotion
- Preparedness for public health emergencies
- Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
- Human resources planning, management, training and development
- Staff motivation and retention
- Indicator development
- Performance management plans
- 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
- Problems and priorities assessment
- Stakeholder analysis
- Community health services
- Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
- Health management
- Licensing and accreditation
- Pharmaceutical management
- PHC
- Quality and quality assurance
- Service delivery networks
- Specialty care
- Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
- Media engagement
- Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
- Forecasting/quantification
- Inventory management
- Logistics management information system
- Procurement
- Product selection and registration
- Purchasing
- Risk management
- Supply chain and commodity costing
- Supply chain organizational capacity and workforce
- System design
- Warehousing and Distribution