Samson Kironde

Doer, innovative, focused solution-maker, self-driven team player and results-oriented public health professional and manager. Samson Kironde has more than 20 years' experience in setting up, managing and providing technical assistance to large public health programs in developing countries in the fields of communicable diseases, reproductive, maternal, adolescent and child health. My core areas of expertise include: global health; strategic project planning; project management and implementation; new business development; knowledge management; monitoring & evaluation; operational research; individual and organizational capacity building and strengthening; technical assistance; and health systems strengthening. I am highly adaptable with an ability to manage teams and maintain effective working relationships with people of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds. I have worked with international non-governmental organizations, international health development agencies, foundations, governments and the private sector. I have experience working on short- and long-term assignments in several countries (including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Zambia and Zimbabwe) with multiple international and country-level stakeholders at all levels. Dr. Kironde holds a Doctorate in Epidemiology, is a Rhodes Scholar, a Sir Halley Stewart Research Fellow, a Rotarian and a Paul Harris Fellow, an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow and have served on the World Bank Civil Society Consultative Group on Health, Nutrition and Population, the Global Fund Technical Review Panel, and the External Review Group for the WHO Guidelines on Health Policy and Systems Support for Community Health Workers.