Kenneth is the Executive Director for HEPS Uganda. He has more than 14 years’ experience in health promotion and advocacy and is recognized among the leading civil society advocates in HIV and health advocacy in Uganda.
Kenneth holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from Makerere University, a Master’s Degree in Social Sector Planning and Management and recently completed a course in Leadership Organizing and Action at the Harvard Kennedy School for Executive Education – Harvard University and is currently perusing a Master’s in Public Health at Suffolk University -UK.
His experience includes, policy analysis and advocacy, project design and management, resource mobilization, coordinating coalitions, and designing and executing advocacy campaigns. In these roles, Kenneth has worked with both grassroots communities and national level stakeholders in promoting health and the rights of marginalized people in Uganda by advocating for consumer friendly policies.
He currently coordinates the Uganda Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines, which spearheads advocacy campaigns to increase access to essential medicines. Kenneth represents civil society on multiple global and national bodies, including the UNAIDS Global HIV Prevention Coalition and the National Prevention Committee of the Uganda AIDS Commission.
For the last 6 years Kenneth has been a CSO representative in USG PEPFAR Country Operational Plan development consultations and implementation oversight and accountability.
Kenneth is an AVAC Prevention Advocacy Fellows awardee, where he designed and successfully implemented a programme to promote access to universal access to viral load monitoring in Uganda in 2014-2015. He is also a Commonwealth Fellowship program recipient where he participated in a learning exchange programme with the National Health Services (NHS) in Bristol England in 2012.
His also a member of the Global COVID Vaccines Advocates Advisory Board (CAAB Vax). He also co-led the design of the Community Led Monitoring (CLM) Model, a quality health services improvement approach led by the affected people and is currently the technical lead for the CLM project in Uganda.
Kenneth is also a technical advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates funded regional programme –Coalition to Build Momentum, Power, Strategy and Solidarity (COMPASS) supporting grantees in Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.