Private sector and health markets

we do development differently through private sector innovations and leveraging the power of markets.

We take a holistic, unbiased and facilitatory approach to the private sector in health. We focus on how the private sector works effectively with the public sector, and how private sector players can leverage their combined expertise for greater impact within a total health market.

Halcyon’s experts have been at the forefront of private sector and health markets thinking and interventions for several years.  We have carried out a wide-range of private sector and market assessments that have focussed on demand- and supply-side issues. We have helped design and manage large and impacting programmes that have delivered millions of health services and products through networks of private clinics and pharmacies, as well as through social marketing and franchised network.  Our experts have been responsible for introducing new family planning products into emerging markets and for facilitating deals with private manufacturers and distributors to introduce more efficient and sustainable supply chains. In recent years, some of our team have tested new and more sustainable, market-based delivery models and we’ve mapped out a series of interventions to support the Total Market Approach.

EXAMPLES OF OUR EXPERTS AND EXPERIENCE.

Rob Wood is an international expert in private sector and health markets, having spent 15 years on such initiatives across several countries in Africa and Asia.  He’s designed private sector health programmes for DFID in Pakistan, supported condom social marketing in Uganda and initiated Kenya’s first Total Market Approach for family planning with the government.   He’s carried out numerous private sector studies and assessments, has written several papers on health markets and presented at various international conferences.  Rob is currently the Team Leader for Halcyon’s support to the design and start-up of the Private Sector Partnerships for Health programme in Somalia, which is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

Dr. Chris Masila is a highly-experienced health management leader and private health sector expert in Kenya, east and southern Africa with a focus on sustainable pro-poor health care models and working on public private partnerships. He is an expert is laboratory programming and network management, supply chains for various medicines including RH/FP, TB and HIV. Chris has worked on a wide range of private sector innovations and supply chain initiatives including with the World Bank and DFID.  

Carol Matiko is a very experienced private sector and consumer behavioural researcher, having spent more than 17 years exploring and understanding consumer preferences, choices and habits in private sector health care systems.  Carol’s research has helped to map out markets and interventions and her insights have helped design private sector programmes.  Recently, Carol has led human centred designed research on new health products including contraceptive microchips, HIV self-testing, emergency contraception, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and sub-cutaneous Depro Provera contraceptive injections.