Financing Health Services

Floride Niyuhire, MD, MPH, is a seasoned leader with more than 20 years of public health experience in Africa, ranging from hospital-based medical practice to policy formulation and implementation throughout decentralized systems.

David Collins is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of experience in international health and development projects, including working as resident health finance advisor to the Ministries of Health of Kenya and South Africa. He works for Management Sciences for Health in health financing and teaches health finance at Boston University.

Zana C. Somda, PhD, has more than 20 years of international development experience in the fields of agriculture and health systems strengthening, with a focus on health financing, costing, cost-effectiveness studies, economic evaluation, and monitoring and evaluation, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In his role at MSH, he guides and supports business development and program implementation with a focus on health systems strengthening; health financing; pharmaceutical economics; and health technology assessment, training, and capacity building in support of project activities and deliverables.

Christian Suharlim, MD, MPH, is a public health expert with over 13 years of experience in the medical field, governmental policy work, and epidemiologic and economic analysis research in low-resource settings, capacity building, and stakeholder engagement. Throughout his career, his work focused on health system strengthening, economic analysis, and evaluating health interventions in low- and middle-income countries...