Anisa Saleh

Anisa Saleh is a Summer in the Field Fellow, 2022 and a second year Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH).

For her Summer in the Field Fellowship, Anisa will be working with Palladium Kenya, a consultancy group working to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits, and the Center for Disease Control Kenya to develop a sustainability framework and policy recommendations for PEPFAR-funded initiatives in Kenya. Her research is expected to benefit the Kenya Ministry of Health (MoH) and Kenya as a whole, as policy changes will strengthen the health system structure. This framework will also be instrumental for PEPFAR and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa with PEFPAR funded health information system (HIS) initiatives. The project will entail collaboration with the Kenya MoH, HIS donors and local stakeholders.

Since 2011, PEPFAR has funded the Kenya Health Management Information Systems (KeHMIS) Project with implementation support from Palladium Kenya. The goal of the KeHMIS Project is to support the Kenya Ministry of Health (MoH), Country Health Management Teams and Service Delivery Partners in developing and maintaining health information systems innovations in Kenya. Given that PEPFAR and other donor funding for Kenya’s health information system (HIS) will likely decrease in the future, it is critical to develop sustainability strategies of HIS initiatives in-country.

Previously, she received her Masters in Global Health, with a focus on program design monitoring and evaluation, from George Washington University. Her interest areas are at the intersection of practice oriented global health and improving health systems in low- and middle- income countries to maximize effective and sustainable improvements. She has worked in global health for eight years on large multi-country public health system strengthening projects focused on sub-Saharan African countries. Anisa worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on various programs including the President’s Malaria Initiative, PEPFAR, health informatics and global immunization. She has also worked on different monitoring and evaluation consultancies and conducted qualitative research focused on health information systems and supply chain for community case management. She has work experience in Ethiopia, Kenya Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Laos and Zambia.