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Brendan Kwesiga is a Health Economist currently working as a Senior Health Specialist (Immunisation Financing) working with UNICEF Headquarters. In his current role, he is responsible for supporting the strengthening financing for primary health care and immunisation and preparing countries for donor transition. Prior to joining UNICEF, he worked for the WHO as a Technical Officer (Health Financing) supporting countries within the WHO African Region in health financing policy formulation and implementation of reforms towards Universal Health Coverage. He has also worked with Ministries of Health in supporting health economic analysis, health system performance reviews and use evidence for decision making. He has also previously worked as a health financing technical advisor with Management Sciences for Health (MSH) in Uganda and as health economics and financing consultant on behalf of various bilateral, multilateral agencies and academic institutions. Brendan is from Uganda and holds a BSc. in Quantitative Economics from Makerere University (Uganda) and Masters in in Health Economics from University of Cape Town (South Africa) and training in Public Finance from SOAS University of London (United Kingdom).
bkwesiga@unicef.org