Edward Owino

Edward Owino is a public health, health financing, and public-private partnerships specialist with over 14 years of experience developing and implementing innovative and transformational initiatives in healthcare to drive change and positively influence lives. Mr. Owino’s focus areas have been on growth and investment strategies, business building, transformations, and driving innovations to deliver high-quality and impactful healthcare, cost-effectively. Mr Owino’s experience spans across the continent including Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Rwanda, Namibia, Botswana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Benin and South Africa.

For the past 14 years, Mr. Owino has had extensive experience in project management and problem-solving, driving strategy and implementation with an affinity to operational excellence, driving effective data use through technology and system changes as well as process and impact evaluations. In this respect, he demonstrated experience leading and navigating complex conversations with both senior public and private sector leaders, and effectively workshopping technical topics including guidelines to reach consensus, distilling findings into clear and simple, but effective insights and proper documentation.

Some of the projects, he has undertaken include:

• Largescale (national and sub-national) transformations in healthcare in pursuit of sustainable and resilient health financing in HIV/AIDS, family planning (FP), neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), immunization (including polio), malaria and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) – regarding developing, implementing and adapting innovative models in health care.
• Driving impact through building resilient service delivery systems for the future i.e., such as through the social franchised networks, primary health care networks, and community health volunteers networks.
• Private-public partnership in a mixed health system i.e., public private collaborations in healthcare, bridging health facilities and national health insurance agencies contracting gap, and digital health growth strategies.
• Partnership engagement and capacity strengthening i.e. facilitated national capacity building on public financial management and public – private Partnerships (PPP) to regional and local health actors across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) such as the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Ministry of Health ( MOH), national health insurance agencies, health workers professional bodies, Primary Healthcare facilities, and Local Government Authorities ( LGA).
• Development of social marketing mechanisms of low-cost sexual reproductive health products to drive behavioral change in women, young girls and adolescents.

Mr. Owino holds a Master’s degree in health economics and policy from the University of Nairobi and is a certified public financial management professional. He speaks Swahili, English and French (intermediate).