Dr. Nelson Gitonga
Dr. Nelson Gitonga is the founder and CEO of Insight Health Advisors, a Kenyan health systems development firm. He has extensive experience in the areas of health systems strengthening, public-private sector engagement, health markets development, and public sector scaling of priority and demand driven innovations. He has over 30 years of health sector and health markets experience spanning both the public and private health sectors, and global health development agencies’ programs (USAID, KfW, WB/IFC/GFF, DANIDA, DFID/FCDO, MfM and GCC).
He has provided technical and strategic advice to various ministries of health, subnational health authorities, healthcare investors, and healthcare insurers and providers in SSA and SE Asia. His focus has been on health systems and health markets development in areas such as health policy and regulatory reforms, supply chain and commodity management improvement, healthcare leadership and institutional strengthening, provider network development, healthcare financing reforms to achieve UHC, public private engagement/ collaboration to address priority needs and public sector scaling of demand driven innovations.
His primary goal is to improve the performance of health systems and markets to facilitate greater access to and utilisation of quality healthcare services, products, and information for better health outcomes. His approach is based on identifying and deploying impactful and innovative interventions at the health system and health market levels that catalyze change and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a health system/market in delivering care. He has facilitated and built various strategic partnerships and platforms between the public and private health sectors and with various local and international actors in health. This has been done through a deliberate emphasis on co-created, demand driven, locally owned, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.
Dr. Gitonga has an MBChB degree from the University of Nairobi Kenya and Postgraduate Diplomas in Health Systems and Healthcare Management from the University of London (UK), Galilee International Management Institute (Israel) and National Insurance Academy (India). He is also an alumnus of the Advanced Management Program of IESE (Spain) and Strathmore Business Schools (Kenya). His country experience includes Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Bangladesh.
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