Shadrack Gikonyo

Shadrack Gikonyo

Senior Officer, Country Engagement

Shadrack has extensive experience in providing technical assistance in health financing in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has supported development, capacity building, implementation and evaluation of healthcare financing programs including strategic health purchasing, demand-side financing, supply side financing and social protection. He is our technical focal person on supporting Anglophone Africa.

Prior to joining SPARC, Shadrack was a resource person at Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute (ESAMI) where he provided capacity building to the health committees of Kenya’s Parliament on their legislative and oversight role in fostering an efficient, resilient and sustainable health system in Kenya. Previously, he worked with other organizations including Clinton Health Access Organization, University of Nairobi Enterprises in supporting the Output Based Approach (OBA) and Abt Associates. He has also been a lead consultant for Pricewaterhouse Coopers in designing healthcare financing initiatives funded by UNICEF and DFID.

Shadrack aspires to assist resource-limited health settings to identify and implement tailor-made approaches to improve health systems resilience through exploiting efficiency gains.

He holds a Masters of Health Economics and Policy from the University of Nairobi and a Masters of Business Administration from the same University. He holds certifications in International Approaches to healthcare financing from GIZ, Bonn-Germany; and Economic Evaluation in Global Health from the University of Washington.

He is a member of the Africa Health Economics and Policy Association.

Shadrack Gikonyo
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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

Since 2018, The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) has been a unique and significant force in supporting countries within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) in crucial areas of strategic health purchasing (SHP), Healthcare Financing as they make progress towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals. This initiative, a collaboration between Amref Health Africa and Results for Development (R4D), has made expertise in these areas more accessible and has been instrumental in the progress of the target countries. The initiative was designed to advance policy discussions and actions that strengthen the application of strategic health purchasing to strengthen African health systems and support countries as they address foundational reforms…