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About Kileken ole-MoiYoi

Kileken ole-MoiYoi, Case Writer Kileken’s work focuses on malaria and the role of public-private partnerships in global health, and on developing curricula for executive education programs. He recently managed on-the-ground research in Kenya for the World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives project. Prior to GHD, he worked at TechnoServe, a Washington DC-based international development organization, and with Community Centered Conservation in the Comoros, integrating economic development with conservation efforts to improve marine park management and train community members on alternative income generation activities. While double majoring at Brown University (Political Economy of Development; Human Biology), he wrote an honors thesis on integrating sustainable economic development with malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa and co-founded EduVision, a Zurich-based organization that develops technologies to improve education programs in developing countries.

Dr. Ambrose Talisuna, of the Medicines for Malaria Venture, new GHDonline moderator

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We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ambrose Talisuna, the Director Global Access with the Medicines for Malaria Venture, but based in Uganda, has joined Dr. Johanna Daily, Dr. Joel Breman, Dr. Prashant Yadav, and Kileken ole-MoiYoi as moderators for the Malaria Treatment and Prevention community on GHDonline.org. The community has over 600 members from more than 70 countries around the world, and provides an opportunity for individuals interested and working on malaria to discuss new strategies, ask key questions, and form lasting ties to improve health outcomes in resource-limited settings.

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GHD at the National Malaria Control Program Best Practice Sharing Workshop

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GHD Executive Director Dr. Rebecca Weintraub and Case Writer Kileken ole-MoiYoi, recently returned from the seventh National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) Best Practice Sharing Workshop in Bamako, Mali. The NMCP workshop was co-chaired by Bob Snow, Professor of Tropical Public Health at the University of Oxford and head of the Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group in Nairobi Kenya, and Dr. Ali Abdullah, the program manager of the Zanzibar NMCP. Novartis AG has hosted the Best Practice Sharing Workshops as part of its Corporate Citizenship programs and as a stage for officials to share and learn from one another’s experiences in malaria control.

The topics of discussion were directly related to the main challenges that NMCP managers face in their countries; the workshop focused on issues related to supply chain management of anti-malarials, appropriate diagnosis and treatment of malaria, home-based management, and the global subsidy for artemisinin-based combination therapy for treating malaria. Several NMCP managers presented updates on the progress made in each of their countries since the previous Best Practice Sharing Workshop and discussed challenges that have since arisen.

The GHD hopes to work more closely with various NMCP managers and will complete a case study on the Zambian National Malaria Control program in the coming months. The GHD’s malaria program is developing a malaria teaching module that will focus on several of the challenges mentioned by NMCP directors to improve program management and the effective and timely delivery of malaria related health commodities and services.

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