A Kigali-headquartered research and advisory firm working with governments, multilateral institutions, donors, and health-sector organisations across Africa and globally.
Funding is contracting, disease patterns are flipping, and digital infrastructure is straining under demands it was never designed for. The figures below describe sub-Saharan Africa as a region — but the implications are global. Public Health Impact exists to help leaders navigate this moment with evidence, not improvisation.
Most firms stop at the report. We connect the chain end-to-end — generating the evidence, doing the analytics that make it decision-ready, translating it into policy action, and following through into programme design and implementation. Every engagement moves data closer to the people who can act on it.
We believe the next generation of health systems wins will not come from any single country acting alone. They will come from locally-led evidence, generated where the problems live, applied through partnerships that cross borders and sectors.
Public health rarely respects neat categories. A maternal death is also a health-financing question. An eye-care programme is also a workforce strategy. We work across the seven domains below — and the interfaces between them — because that is where most decisions actually live.
Maternal mortality and near-miss, neonatal survival, child and adolescent health, family planning, sexual and reproductive health, respectful maternity care, and adolescent-friendly services.
HIV, TB, malaria, viral hepatitis, vaccine-preventable diseases, and NTDs including schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths, and onchocerciasis — across prevention, treatment, and elimination programming.
Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, mental health, and the often-overlooked NCDs — eye health and vision, oral health, hearing, and disability — that drive enormous burden across sub-Saharan Africa.
Disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, and the health consequences of climate change — coordinated across human, animal, and environmental health.
Primary care strengthening, health workforce, quality of care and IPC, health financing and community-based health insurance, governance, and the policy work that connects all of it — anchored to national strategic plans across the countries we work in.
Implementation and evaluation of digital health platforms, electronic medical records, HMIS and DHIS2 strengthening, mHealth, telemedicine, and the interoperability and data-governance foundations that make digital systems actually deliver.
Child stunting and chronic malnutrition, food security and dietary risk factors, water, sanitation and hygiene, indoor air pollution, occupational health, and the environmental determinants that shape population health outcomes.
Our partners span the full spectrum of health-sector actors: a UN multilateral agency, a national government, a regional academic institution, an international NGO, and Rwandan implementing organisations. We bring the same standard of work to each.
Technical assistance for global normative work in sexual and reproductive health and rights — including evidence-based implementation guidance, expert convening, and dissemination of operational tools.
Research coordination, programme design, and digital health governance — anchored to Rwanda's Health Sector Strategic Plan V (2024–2029) and Vision 2050.
Academic collaboration on global health delivery research, training, and evidence generation — building from UGHE's mission to reshape how health is taught and practised.
Eye health programming, research, and advocacy — contributing to the unfinished agenda of avoidable blindness and vision impairment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programming and health systems strengthening at the Rwandan facility and district level.
Neglected tropical disease programming, focused on podoconiosis prevention, clinical management, and community-based care in northern Rwanda.
Rwanda Women, Adolescent and Child Health Initiative — community-rooted programming focused on women's, adolescent, and child health outcomes across Rwanda.
A disciplined four-stage method. Each stage produces a deliverable a client can defend, share, or act on — no theatre, no jargon walls.
We sit with the decision-maker to define the question, the audience, and what changes if the evidence comes back one way or the other.
Mixed methods, primary and secondary data, with local field teams. We never outsource the parts that matter to validity.
Findings become a brief, a dashboard, a strategy document, or a manuscript — written for the person who will use it, not the person who funded it.
We stay through implementation: training, M&E setup, and adaptive course-correction. Evidence is only valuable when it survives the rollout.
We work with the institutions shaping health systems — locally, regionally, and globally. We bring the same rigour to a five-page policy brief as to a multi-year evaluation.
UN agencies, multilateral bodies, and international health institutions commissioning technical assistance, normative guidance support, and implementation research.
Ministries of Health, regulatory agencies, and public institutions — strategic plans, evaluations, and evidence to support national priorities and global commitments.
Bilateral agencies, philanthropic foundations, and impact investors who need local evidence, programme design, and credible in-country implementation support.
Implementing partners, universities, health-tech firms, and research consortia needing rigorous research, evaluation, and evidence grounded in the contexts where care is delivered.
Public Health Impact is led by three Rwandan health professionals and supported by a network of specialists assembled to fit the work. We scale the team to the question — locally, regionally, or globally.
Rwandan Obstetrician-Gynaecologist with sub-specialty fellowship in Complex Family Planning from St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (Addis Ababa, 2025), and an MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy and Programming from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Lecturer of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Rwanda; Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine; and Chair of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Committee at the Rwanda Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Founder of the Rwanda Menopause Society.
Previously a Medical Officer with the World Health Organization in Geneva (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research department, 2023–2024), and now a remote consultant to WHO HRP. Currently practising at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali. His published work spans maternal mortality, family planning service delivery, postmenopausal care, and critical care implementation.
Senior public health consultant with over a decade of experience leading research, evaluation, and policy work that turns evidence into national decisions. Doctor of Public Health (DrPH, Leadership, Management & Policy) and Master of Science in Global Health Delivery, with a foundation as a practising physician.
His work specialises in translating complex health data into clear policy direction — leading national strategic planning, designing programme evaluation frameworks, conducting situational analyses, and building investment and business cases that align ministries, donors, and academic partners around a shared agenda.
A published researcher across maternal and child health, eye health, neglected tropical diseases, infectious disease, and health workforce development — Recipient of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2024 Early Career Grant.
Public health professional with an MSc in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy and Programming from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Mount Kenya University. Over five years of experience leading health programmes that improve lives across Rwanda.
Her work brings together strong field operations, monitoring and evaluation, and sexual and reproductive health programming — the practical machinery that turns evidence into delivery.
For every engagement we assemble a fit-for-purpose team from our roster of Rwandan and regional specialists. Across our network we bring expertise in:
Whether you are commissioning a study, shaping a strategy, or running an evaluation — in Kigali, in a regional capital, or in Geneva — we are ready to bring the right team and the right evidence to the task. Let's begin the conversation.
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