Frank is an Associate Professor of Health Systems at Strathmore University (https://strathmore.edu/) and team leader at the Open Phences (Open Phences LinkedIn). His work revolves around strengthening public private engagement, collaboration and partnerships through research and evidence generation, ecosystem building to enable co-creation of pragmatic solutions (including investment cases that create a ‘pull force’ to attract fit-for-purpose innovations from private sector), and creating joint learning forums to allow sharing of lessons and evaluation findings etc (examples, Open Phences YT1, Open Phences YT2, Frank on research and innovation).
Frank previously served as a health specialist with the World Bank Group, working as technical lead in policy, regulation and private sector development in health under the Health in Africa Initiative.