Financing Alliance for Health (FAH) | Dr. Angela Gichaga | 2022 Skoll Awardee

Financing Alliance for Health is a Kenya-based, African-led partnership and technical advisory fund that works with governments, donors, and the private sector to address systemic financing challenges to scaling community health programs across sub-Saharan Africa. Financing Alliance for Health has contributed to securing more than $200 million in financing for at-scale community health systems. It has engaged governments across 12 countries, and contributed to the official recognition of more than 415,000 Community Health Workers in policy and practice.

SKOLL AWARDEE

Dr. Angela Gichaga, a clinician, health economist, and former management consultant with McKinsey & Company, joined the Financing Alliance as Chief Executive Officer, effective June 2017. Dr. Gichaga is responsible for strategic development and fundraising, initiative development, stakeholder engagement, recruiting, and team development and management.

She is a public and social sector enthusiast with experience working across civil service, management consulting, NGOs, and academia, to improve the quality of peoples’ lives through gender advocacy, leadership training, coaching, mentorship, health and education.

Dr. Gichaga completed her undergraduate degree in Medicine, Masters in Health Economics, and Policy and Fellowship in Public Sector Management and has served as a frontline clinician, policy maker, and consultant. She served the MOH Kenya as a District Medical Officer of Health (DMOH) and a hospital in charge (MEDSUP) in both Meru and Garbatulla, for ~150 multi-disciplinary team members through coordinating strategic planning, resource mobilization, recruitment, monitoring and capacity building through on job training/mentorship. She then joined the MOH HQ, where she co-developed national strategies and prepared reports on the country’s health achievements.

She was humbled to receive the Australian Leadership Awards for Africa (2012) and the President Obama’s Mandela Washington Fellowship (2014) in recognition of her exemplary leadership within the civil service and operational track record of excellence in achieving results.

Most recently, Dr. Gichaga worked at McKinsey & Company’s Africa Delivery Hub (ADH) working across multiple sectors, especially on socio-economic and development issues in Africa. She was named one of Fortune's World’s Greatest Leaders in 2018 and an Archbishop Tutu Fellow in 2019.

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Gabriel Diamond - Director/Producer
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