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WEBINAR: Strengthening Kenya’s Community Health Promoter Programme: using modelling to enhance policy and practice

Wednesday 14 October modelling webinar

Event details

14/10/2026

11.30am UK / 12.30pm Geneva / 1.30pm Kenya

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Title of webinar

Strengthening Kenya’s Community Health Promoter Programme: using modelling to enhance policy and practice

Webinar theme overview

Please join the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and Health Systems Global for a webinar on Strengthening Kenya’s Community Health Promoter Programme: using modelling to enhance policy and practice. This event will discuss how health systems modelling can inform policy and practice to strengthen Kenya's Community Health Promoter Programme. Bringing together policymakers and health system modelers, it will provide findings from an ongoing study modelling a range of policy options to enhance CHP coverage and reflect on how these can be feasibly implemented.

This webinar is part of a series of webinars on health systems impact modelling being hosted by the Alliance for Health POlicy and Systems Research and Health Systems Global.

More information on this can be found on the health systems impact modelling home page.

Webinar Details

  • Date: Wednesday 14 October 2026
  • Time: 11.30am UK / 12.30pm Geneva / 1.30pm Kenya
  • Format: Public webinar
  • Duration: TBC

About the speakers:

Dr Claire F Brereton PhD FAICD FACS MPH CEng is a health systems modeller and Research Fellow at the University of Queensland's Frazer Institute. With a background in information technology, healthcare transformation and public health, she develops qualitative and quantitative models to support evidence-informed policymaking. Claire is the technical lead for the project Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of Community Health Promoters in Kenya's Health System, which uses system dynamics modelling to explore policy options for strengthening Kenya's 110,000-strong Community Health Promoter workforce.

Christopher Khayeka Wandabwa, PhD, is a molecular biologist and interdisciplinary researcher at Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands. His research spans public health, non-communicable diseases, food systems, and One Health, with particular interest in health and health-system challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. He has experience across laboratory, clinical, human cohort, and community-based research, including interdisciplinary study design and implementation, field research coordination, stakeholder engagement, research ethics, and multi-institutional collaborations across Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Tim Roberton is an Associate Professor of Global Health at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Western Australia (UWA). His focus is on developing analytical tools to help Ministries of Health understand the impact of their maternal and child programs and health system investments.

Dr Zubin Shroff is a health systems specialist with over ten years of experience in the areas of health governance and financing, human resources for health and access to medicines. At the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, he leads portfolios of work on health policy analysis, health financing and health emergencies.  This encompasses the conceptualization and development of cross-national research programs, engaging with policy-makers at national level to support programme implementation and efforts to strengthen the capacities of national researchers towards evidence informed policy-making.

He holds Doctoral and Master’s degrees in Global Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degree from the University of Delhi. He believes that the Alliance’s position straddling research and policy-making communities enables him to leverage his analytical skills towards stronger health systems, something that he has been passionate about since first entering medical school.

About the panelists:

Dr Willis Akhwale is a medical doctor, malaria specialist, and public health leader with over 25 years of experience in health policy, disease control, and program implementation. He currently serves as Special Advisor to Kenya's End Malaria Council and has held senior leadership roles across government and global health initiatives.

Joseph Kiprop Choge, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology and Acting Dean of the School of Medicine at Great Lakes University of Kisumu. He serves as Chair of the Clinical Officers Council and is Principal Investigator of the Kenya Health Systems Modelling research team, supported by the Gates Foundation in collaboration with WHO and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research.

Jacinta Omariba is a public health professional with over 15 years' experience in Kenya's Ministry of Health. Her work spans community health, disease control, and health systems strengthening, with a focus on using data, research, and evidence to inform policy, planning, and program implementation.

Dr Warfa Osman is a Consultant Paediatrician and Public Health Specialist at Kenya's Ministry of Health. A senior health leader with extensive experience in health sector coordination and policy implementation, his work focuses on implementation science, universal health coverage, and improving healthcare quality for mothers, newborns, and children.

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