Public Health and Healthcare Management Consultancy

Steve Penfold MA FCMI FRSPH has over 25 years’ experience in leadership and strategic public health and healthcare management roles, including 15 years in international development and more than a decade in the UK in the NHS and Department of Health. 

His technical expertise stems from planning, delivering and evaluating public health interventions and health systems. 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 some work with the World Health Organisation. Thematic areas covered to date include:

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

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