SBS Senior Faculty Member Joins the World Health Organisation’s Technical Expert Group (TEG)

Dr. Francis (Frank) Wafula, a Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management at Strathmore University Business School has been appointed to join the World Health Organisation (WHO) Technical Expert Group (TEG) on healthcare regulation.

The Technical Expert Group will develop policy guidelines to support the 194 WHO Member States in designing, reforming, and implementing health practitioner regulatory systems.

Dr. Wafula has spent the past 13 years supporting regulatory reforms across various countries. Locally, he has worked closely with the Ministry of Health and Health Regulatory Boards and Councils to refocus regulatory systems from the older command and control-style models driven by sanctions to responsive and risk-based models that encourage collaboration between regulators and providers. He has served on various technical working groups (TWGs), including the Joint Health Inspections TWG, the Kenya Quality Management TWG, and the Kenya Certification and Accreditation Taskforce, and is now supporting the newly created Kenya Health Professionals Authority (KHPOA) to develop mechanisms for improving regulatory coordination. He is a founding member and the current vice president of the Society for Quality in Healthcare Kenya.

He completed his Ph.D. in Health Systems and Policy in 2012 and has since worked with various regional and international organizations to improve regulation, quality and patient safety, health sector coordination, and collaborations. These include the World Bank, the Global Fund, DFID/UKAID, USAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and UN Agencies (including WHO and UNICEF). His current research projects include studies on strengthening regulation in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and India.

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Article by Juliet Hinga

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