Angellah Nakyanzi

Country Manager, currently working in Uganda

Angellah Nakyanzi has over 7 years’ experience working with the private health sector and USAID projects in the areas of Health systems strengthening focusing on Policy, Regulation and healthcare financing. She has also interfaced with programming in the areas of HIV/Aids, Maternal and Child Health, Rural Development, Population and Reproductive Health. Angellah previously worked as the Insight Health Advisors seconded staff on the USAID/Uganda Private Health Support Program as a Private Sector Advisor, Policy and Regulation. She has managed different work portfolios that include working with the Ministry of Health, its PPPH node, the regulatory councils and private sector associations. She was part of the team that authored the first-ever Private Health Sector Assessment and has championed a number of reforms in the health sector. She has strong interpersonal, management and communication skills and understands both the private and public health sector dynamics. Ms. Nakyanzi has a bachelor’s degree in Development Economics and a MSc. in Population and Reproductive Health from Makerere University, Uganda, a certificate in Managing Markets in Health from the University of Edinburg.

She is currently the Private Sector Specialist for ThinkWell’ s Strategic Purchasing for Primary Health Care Project and also the Country Manager. Angellah is excited to join ThinkWell at a time when Uganda’s cabinet has just passed the NHIS bill, a dreams for strategic purchasing reforms will be a reality soon!

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