Solomon Simba Email & Phone Number

Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

The Government of Kenya (GoK) is committed to the fulfillment of the health and wellbeing of its citizens. Over the years, the government has taken important steps towards this goal, emphasizing that the provision of health services meets the basic needs of the population geared towards providing health services within easy reach of Kenyans. It has also placed considerable emphasis on preventive, promotive, and rehabilitative health services without ignoring curative services. Amongst the actions taken—the development of the Kenya Health Policy Framework (KHPF 2012-2030), the launch of Vision 2030, and the enactment of a current constitution in 2010, and Kenya Health Sector Strategic Plans — have greatly influenced the health status of Kenyans and the structure in which health services are provided. Over the past few years, UNICEF Kenya, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and HISP KE, has been supporting several focus counties including two UHC pilot counties (Siaya, Kisumu, Garissa, Isiolo, and Turkana) in conducting a comprehensive assessment of the existing county health system, focusing on the maternal, new-born and child health components of the Kenya Essential Package for Health (KEPH), using a set of methods collectively known as the Bottleneck Analysis Approach (BNA). In doing so, the BNA exercises are integrated into the county integrated performance reviews and annual work planning in these selected counties. The overall goal of BNA is to help identify barriers and enablers in the delivery of health services using locally available evidence for planning. Hence currently responsible for coordinating the:• Process of Identifying where the bottlenecks are, why they exist, and how they affect different populations.• Prioritization of the bottleneck on the tracer interventions • Proposed strategies and realistic new coverage targets, along with the budget items associated with each strategy.

Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia

Documentation of gaps in current Namibia IT and HIS policies and governance framework, documentation of recommended framework for IT and HIS polices, documentation of findings and recommendations for security mechanism for data sharing, documentation of minimum security standards for ensuring confidentially and privacy of patient information, documentation of security implications of the Government of the Republic of Namibia interoperability framework, documentation of security policy and boiler plate templates for MoU’s for data sharing between Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS), and external shareholder’s.

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leverage on the UNICEF comparative advantage, leadership in building and advocating for community health systems and strong working relationships with government ministries and civil society over a wide scope of countries – inclusive of all malaria endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa – to collect, compile and centralize access to up-to-date data on national community health workforces. UNICEF would work collaboratively with key partners and ongoing initiatives (e.g., those already financed under the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and PATH) to support malaria endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa to provide accurate, up-to-date information on the number and profile of active CHWs focusing specifically on those that are actively delivering malaria case management services (namely testing and treatment). Additionally, this is also a key opportunity to look at the gamut of services being delivered by this cadre including those who may be providing other preventive, promotive and basic curative health services (e.g., use of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, timely care seeking, treatment of diarrhea, pneumonia etc.). The consultancy approach is three-staged approach: 1) Inception phase – will entail a multi-layered stakeholder consultative process to map out existing initiatives, build or strengthen linkages with partners and evaluate all available data repositories to take an incidence view of what information is already extant and what will need to be created; 2) Implementation phase will include development of a robust methodology that encompasses country prioritization, selection of indicators/variables, development of data collection tools, identification of data sources and development of a data collection and analysis plan as well as desk-based data collation and validation process data cleaning and validation. Depending on the outcomes of Ph I and Ph II (breadth and scope of data that is extant and will need to be collected) for analytics.

Nairobi, Kenya

Responsible for coordinating Digital Health Initiative and Technical Assistance to MOH and partners to develop the capacity for governance of digital health investments. Focus areas of expertise consist of resource planning, project scheduling and management, process improvement and risk management, and implanter of health initiatives. Currently coordinating the documentation, and advocacy for countrywide implementation of Unique Patient Identifier, UPI framework. The UPI#ID aligned to the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) also been code-named Huduma Namba, which is important in making available to health care workers health information relevant to a particular patient. If a patient had received health care services at different public or private health facilities each with its own Digital Health Platform, DHP for registration, and management of health patient, a UPI#ID auto-generated form the process of health information exchange, HIE with the Patient Registry. The UPI#ID allows the different DHP to exchange patient information and ensure accurate linkage of all the relevant patient health records. The healthcare workers, therefore, has access to the patient’s entire medical and treatment history, making it easier to ensure a continuum of care.

Nairobi, Kenya

As part of the five-year ‘Big 4 Agenda’ (2018 – 2022), the Government of Kenya has prioritized the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC). A key part of this will be the timely, seamless, and frictionless sharing of health data and information: from patient numbers, the availability of resources (personnel, medical supplies, access to health services, etc.), to financial resources, planned health activities, and ultimately aggregation of health outcome data into official statistics.The consultancy priority is in joined-up health data to contribute to governmental targets on UHC, the Office of the President and Office of the Deputy President have requested that the current health data interoperability framework be finalized and operationalized to support the generation and sharing of better quality, timely and holistic data and information on health care delivery in Kenya. The framework shall address both technical and governance issues - from the ICT architectures and data systems required, through to cross-stakeholder institutional arrangements and operational protocols. Finalization of the framework should be led by the Government of Kenya, with support from local and international partners, and be informed by existing best practices guidance on the production of interoperability frameworks, available from the Collaborative on SDG Data Interoperability convened by the UN Statistical Division and GPSDD and the Health Data Collaborative, among others.

Kenya, Nairobi

In-county engagement under Health Informatics Governance and Data Analytics (HIGDA) project, and regional Technical support for PATH’s Digital Health Solutions program. Highlights of the project are; will see establishment of an Interoperability Health Information Exchange framework, through teaming, training, tooling and testing of Health Information Systems (HIS) aligned to in-country Policy and strategic plans, hence institutionalizing a Digital Health Applied Research Center at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), public universality for sustainability. With the aim of supporting and strengthening the capacity of health workers at the Ministry of Health (MoH) both National and County as well as health stakeholder. On the utilization of Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) among other visualization tools, based on data collected, processed and shared through innovative information products for impact based decision making, thus achieving a single, strengthened, and unified, Integrated Health Information System (H.I.S) for use at all levels. The initiative which is to run for five years will eventually see JKUAT a home of regional reference laboratory and sand-box where innovation on HIS and mobile applications can be developed, tested and certified. It also creates a framework for future collaboration among implementing partners.

Nairobi

Responsible for coordination support to the delivery of Kenya Ministry of Health agreed project scope, budget, schedule and clients expectations on Health Information Systems improvement. Doing this whilst supervising, directing and motivating teams of multi discipline contractors and consultants.

Nairobi

Assessment of Cash Transfer programme system for Orphans and Vulnerable Children’s – CTOVC system and prepared fact sheets as system audit report.

Technical support to the cash transfer programme for orphans and vulnerable children (CT-OVC), in the development of strategies for the sustainable implementation of ICT and e-government initiatives that are consistent with the national framework, Vision 2030 and the National Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (NIMES) as well as other national initiatives and global best practice in this area

Power Bi Certification, Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, And Visualization, Power Bi Certified

Activities and Societies: Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, and Visualization Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, and Visualization.

Prince2, Prince2 Foundation/Practitioner, Pass

Activities and Societies: Project Management Knowledge of Project Management Overview and Principles, Business Case - Organisation.

Dhis2 Level 2&3, System Design And Data Management, Pass

Activities and Societies: DHIS2 Community

Itil Foundation V6, It Infrastructure Library, It Project Management, Pass

Activities and Societies: IT project design, development, and implementation management

Master In Business Administration, Mba, Master

Modules Covered: Organizational Behavior, Marketing Management, Financial Management, Information Management, And Strategic Management.

Bachelor Of Science (Hons) In Computing And Information Systems, Bachelor Of Science, Degree

Modules Covered: Software Engineering Methods and Management, Communication Systems Management, Decisions/ Management Support Systems.