Public Health Leadership and Healthcare Management Consultancy

Steve Penfold MA FRSPH FCMI has over 30 years’ experience as a Director and leader, turning vision into public health strategies, drafting tenders, and creating operational plans. He has worked with government Ministers and on policy at the highest levels in the UK and in international development, designing and executing complex programmes that deliver specific, measurable, and time-bound outcomes.

Since 2016 Steve has provided consultancy to design and support programs in public health and healthcare management for USAID in the Kyrgyz Republic, Haiti, Jordan, Afghanistan and Cambodia. 

Previously Steve was FHI360’s Country Director/ Chief of Party for USAID’s largest HIV program in Cambodia, while in the UK he was Deputy Head of Sexual Health & HIV for England at the Department of Health.

His consultancies include extensive work over multiple years with USAID, and also with the World Health Organisation. Thematic areas covered include:

• Health Systems Strengthening 
• HIV Planning and Program Development
• Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
• Nutrition (Large Scale Food Fortification)
• Services for Survivors of Gender Based Violence
• Private Sector Engagement 
• Urban Health
• Global Health Security (pandemic preparedness) including analysis, planning coordination across agencies
• Short-term technical assistance and capacity building

Grant management experience includes: USAID; DFAT/AusAID; Global Fund; ADB; UNICEF; UNAIDS 

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI) and also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH). In 2013 he was awarded the Royal Order of Sahametrei medal for services to HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment by the Government of Cambodia.