Dr. Samwel Wakibi, PhD.

Experienced University Lecturer with PhD in Epidemiology specializing in Population Studies, Demography, and Monitoring and Evaluation. Over 30 years of professional experience in health systems strengthening, data quality management, and capacity building. Expertise in community health information systems, vital registration systems, and evidence-based decision making.

Proven track record in teaching postgraduate courses, supervising students, and conducting research on fertility, mortality, and socioeconomic factors affecting health outcomes in Kenya.

University Lecturer - University of Nairobi - Nairobi, Kenya

(2013-01)

University teaching postgraduate courses in Population studies/Demography, and Monitoring and Evaluation, Students supervisions and backstopping for government agencies (KNBS and NCPD).

Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor - ICF International/Macro

(2011-01 - 2013-12)

Strengthening health system

- Building capacity of client (health sector stakeholders) to manage community health information system system (CHIS) and its M&E activities to enhance accountability and service delivery for better health outcomes, monitor performance of health referral system and strengthen Civil Registration and vital events system to improve access, availability, quality and use of mortality and fertility data for decision making and policy planning to improve health indicators.

• Piloting a referral monitoring toolkit
• Customizing referral monitoring toolkit for Kenya
• Development of a scale up strategy for referral monitoring system
• Instrumental in development of training materials to rollout referral toolkit
• participated in the development of an M&E plan for community health services for Kenya's Ministry of Health (MoH)
• Participated in grant writing that resulted in a five year USAID- funded project to support GoK to build sustainable M&E capacity to improve effectiveness of the Kenya health system
• development of baseline protocol for referral monitoring system

HRIS Advisor - IntraHealth International, Inc.

(2006-01 - 2011-12)

Strengthening health system:- Support HMIS strengthening process. Key responsibilities include assessment, documenting existing efforts, developing and implementing human resources for health systems in the health sector, for countries in the ECSA region in order to improve their performance.

M&E Coordinator - Adventist Development and Relief Agency

(2004-01 - 2006-12)

Support implementation of a HIV project by developing, implementing and maintaining effective Monitoring and Evaluation Systems, conducting studies both qualitative and quantitative to inform the implementation process and evaluation, developing data collection tools and train data staff, supervise data collection and processing to track performance of selected indicators, and compile project reports.

Research officer - U.S. Centre for Disease Control and prevention(CDC)

(2003-01 - 2004-12)

Verbal autopsy project coordinator & management of a Demographic Surveillance system

• Administer tasks necessary to ensure efficiency in operation of the verbal autopsy project; record all deaths and births occurring in the study area, interview caregiver on sign and symptoms presented by the deceased, subject the recorded deaths to a verbal autopsy, supervision and train interviewers, organize expert panels to review information and assign diagnosis for each death, write computer codes/syntax for data cleaning and analysis, run statistical test and estimate levels and patterns o
• Management of a Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) database, training and supervising staff, questionnaire design, data collection and cleaning, develop data cleaning computer codes and general administration of data unit.

Management Information System Manager - African Retail Traders

(1997-01 - 2003-12)

Head of Computer Department: Guide systems development and implementation, and data management. Also responsible for planning, design, implementing, operation and maintenance of a Local area network and related network services.

Systems Analyst/Head of IT - Kenya School of monetary studies

(1992-01 - 1997-12)

Develop and implement financial systems, supervise day-to-day operation and management of LAN, including traffic analyses, access security, data integrity, fault analysis and rectification; design computer courses and Training on computer based systems; supervise computer service contracts, and co-ordinate and supervise data processing

Computer programmer - Government of Kenya (Treasury)

(1989-01 - 1992-12)

Systems analysis, programming, and designing and conducting IT training

PhD - Epidemiology - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) (2010-12)

MSc - Population Studies/Demography - University of Nairobi, Kenya (2002-12)

BSc - Statistics with Computer science - University of Nairobi, Kenya (1988-12)