Claire Jones is a health financing specialist with over 14 years of experience. Her focus areas are sustainability planning, resource tracking, costing, efficiency analysis, public expenditure reviews, and strengthening of financial management systems.
Ms. Jones is the health financing technical lead for the African Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions (ACS) project in Namibia under the project’s local implementing partner, Synergos Institute Namibia. ACS supports the Government of the Republic of Namibia accelerate progress towards universal health coverage through sustainable financing of the country’s HIV/AIDS response.
At ACS, Ms. Jones manages the technical support provided to the Ministry of Health and Social Services. The project’s support focused on strengthening the country’s ability and capacity to effectively sustain the HIV/AIDS response and make progress towards a more sustainable health system for the attainment of universal health coverage. As part of this project, she led the development of a package of HIV/AIDS services for epidemic control, which is the first of its kind and aims to guide the provision of HIV/AIDS services for sustained epidemic control. Ms. Jones and the ACS team were awarded the 2020 Lange/Van Tongeren Prize for Young Investigators by the International AIDS Society (IAS) at the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS2020:Virtual) for ACS’s support to the Namibian government in creating this package of HIV/AIDS services. The team also supported the government of Namibia to successfully implement a comprehensive resource tracking exercise by combining the SHA and NASA methodologies and generating estimates of both general health and HIV expenditures through one consolidated and inclusive exercise.
Previously, Ms. Jones has worked with various development partners (including PEPFAR/USAID, WHO, World Bank, Global Fund and UNAIDS) to support the Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia on the country’s universal health coverage agenda to ensure that all Namibians have equitable access to quality health services.
Ms. Jones holds a B.BusSc degree from the University of Cape Town as well as a MCom degree from the University of Pretoria. She is fluent in English and German and has a basic understanding of French. She currently lives in Namibia, but has conducted consultancies in various African countries, including South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Eswatini and Tanzania.
