Edward Owino

Edward Owino is a health financing professional with over 10 years of experience in health financing and public-private partnerships in Africa. His primary interest is to raise health systems strengthening processes to meet global standards.

As health financing program officer for the Africa Collaborative for Health Financing Solutions (ACS) project, Mr. Owino provides technical expertise to regional and country-level health financing activities and serves as a technical resource to health financing staff. He assists in defining, implementation and learnings for country-level health financing, linking it to regional agendas, collaboratives and to the country mission community. Mr. Owino also ensures there is synergy with other regional actors involved in the health financing space.

For the past 10 years, Mr. Owino has focused on universal health coverage (UHC) for the very poor and that the private sector is included in the UHC agenda. Working as the senior health financing officer for the Africa Health Market for Equity (AHME) project, he advocated for the inclusion of the private sector in UHC and the integration of family planning in the UHC-primary healthcare package in Kenya.

At AHME, Mr. Owino worked with the Social Franchise Network, linking them to government health financing resources. He also headed the monitoring and evaluation unit for the Community Based Health Financing (CBHF) project in Kenya. He currently serves as a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accounts in Kenya (ICPAK).

Mr. Owino holds a master’s degree in health economics from the University of Nairobi and is a certified public accountant.