Carol Matiko is a leading private sector and consumer researcher with more than 15 years experience of leading studies and assessments tin East Africa. Carol was a senior researcher at Ipsos, and since then has carried out many studies that have helped programmes to understand how private sector clinics and pharmacies can better serve women and girls with health services and products. Carol has lead consumer studies on new contraceptive products including DMPA-SC, and emerging technologies.
Rob Wood is Halcyon’s Director and Lead Consultant. He has more than 15 years experience in 20 counties and he is specialised in RMNCAH, private sector, health markets and health systems strengthening. He has worked extensively on large donor programme, especially DFID. He is currently carrying out family planning assessments for the World Bank and leading a programme evaluation for the Swiss Development Cooperation Somalia.
Dr. Chris Masilais a leading health markets and supply chain practitioner, having been the Deputy Team Leader on the DFID-funded PSP4H private sector health programme in Kenya between 2014 and 2017 and having worked extensively with private sector pharmaceutical supply initiatives across East and Southern Africa. Chris has most recently been advising on innovative family planning supply chain models in Kenya with the Gates-funded SOLVE programme.
Philip Wambua is a senior health systems expert with 18 years experience working for multiple clients across more than 16 counties in East and Southern Africa. Philip has worked extensively for UNICEF and WHO and is currently leading a three-country assessment on birth registration for UNICEF He also has extensive expertise on adolescent programming, having been trained by WHO as a global expert to support countries adopt the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents' Health 2016 – 2030.
Colette Ajwan’g is a senior expert in population, reproductive health and family planning policy, advocacy, planning, programming and research in east and southern Africa. With over 20 years’ experience she is a trusted and respected advisor to the government of Kenya and the Ministry of Health, both at the national level and in the counties. Colette has worked extensively for some of the best-known and respected policy and advocacy organisations and programmes, including Population Reference Bureau, USAID’s Health Policy Project, Population Action International and UNFPA.
Dr. Catherine Katuti is a leading nutrition expert with 12 years’ experience working across Kenya on numerous ongoing nutrition programmes with the Ministry of Health and on large USAID integrated health and nutrition programmes. Catherine has managed teams to deliver nutritional services to tens of thousands of women and infants in counties with the worst nutritional status, she has trained extensively on the the integrated management of acute malnutrition, infant and young child feeding, and integrating nutritional interventions for babies in hospitals. She is experienced in developing and executing nutrition plans and strategies at county level.
Thomas Maina is a leading health economist in Kenya, with 16 years experience in health care financing, policy, planning and budgeting, health resource tracking and the economic evaluation of health programmes. Thomas has worked as the Principal Health Economist with the Kenya Ministry of Health and more recently at the USAID Health Policy Plus Project he was responsible for supporting 26 counties in Kenya to strengthen their planning and budgeting capacity. He currently consults for the World Bank Multi Donor Trust Fund.
Jack Musembi is an adept researcher, assessor and evaluator, having carried out numerous assignments for complex health programmes funded by DFID and USAID in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and South Sudan. Jack’s evaluations are often focussed on conflict-affected areas and fragile states. Most recently, he was the operational research lead in charge of investigating the points of entry surveillance for the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Deborah Thomas is an international GESI and community-based expert. With 18 years’ work experience in more than 15 countries, Deborah has been responsible for integrating and mainstreaming GESI approaches and related initiatives into many large and complex DFID health and development programmes. Her “leave no one behind” expertise includes women’s empowerment and community mobilisation for health; supporting citizen voice and social accountability interventions; increasing access to services in remote areas and for marginalised groups such as adolescent girls, the ultra-poor; women who face violence and other discrimination, and; reaching the most marginalised and disenfranchised communities.