Dr Charles Matsiko

Director, Policy, Planning and Health Systems

Charles is a policy analyst and Public health expert with a wealth of years of practice in health systems strengthening. He has supported several countries in Africa in this regard in addition to evaluating the performance of the systems set up. He has provided leadership as director of health systems strengthening on several USAID funded projects including one that covered Northern Uganda during the post armed conflict era. He has been a lead consultant for several organizations for whom he has provided services addressing issues such as global health policy, monitoring and evaluation system development, and In-service training programme development among others. As an academic, Charles has taught and supervised research in several Ugandan Universities including Makerere University, Uganda Christian University, and Uganda Martyrs University. Currently, Charles serves as a Board Chairman at the School of Allied Health Sciences, housed in the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. He’s part of PTRI’s faculty where he plays the role of Director for Policy and development.