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Kaveri Kumar
Partner
Kaveri leads CEPA's Global Health team. She has extensive experience of working with global health partnerships and donors on a range of strategic, analytical and review-based assignments. Her core expertise is in strategic reviews and evaluations for global health organisations and their programmes.
Kaveri Kumar is a Partner who leads CEPA's Global Health team. She has around 20 years’ experience working with global health partnerships and donors on a range of strategic, analytical and review-based assignments. Her core expertise is in strategic reviews and evaluations for global health organisations and their programmes, having recently led a review of CEPI’s first business plan to guide its second strategy, an in-depth evaluation of the Global Fund’s support for innovations (product and non-product) and how it might improve its approach going forward, a multi-country review of the Global Fund’s approach to investments in Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH), a strategic review of Gavi’s market shaping policy and a first review of Unitaid’s portfolio on COVID-19.
Kaveri has experience across multiple health sectors: epidemics/ pandemics (COVID-19, cholera, etc.), HIV (having conducted reviews of donor programmes on paediatric HIV treatment, HIV self testing (HIVST), HIV prevention, point of care molecular diagnostics), TB (through reviews of the work of the STOP TB Partnership and TB REACH facility as well as donor funding for scaling up the new and innovative diagnostic of GeneXpert), malaria (through reviews of innovative financing for malaria elimination, donor funding for severe malaria treatments, private sector engagement in malaria) immunisation and child health (including through many years of working with Gavi and WHO), amongst others. Other key experience includes a value for money assessment of the Stop TB Partnership, a meta review of 14 country HSS evaluations to bring out key findings and learnings in support of the design of Gavi’s new Health Systems and Immunisation Strengthening (HSIS) framework, support to the Assistant Director General of the WHO Family, Women’s and Children’s Health Cluster in carrying out a strategic review of the cluster’s priorities, areas of work and organisation, and advice to the PMNCH for a number of years, including in reviewing the RMNCH commodities supply chain. She has expertise in key health technical issues such as innovative health financing, health economics, cost effectiveness and value for money assessments, impact framework development, impact assessment, market dynamics, and has a good understanding of the global health aid architecture and the funding approaches of several institutions.
Kaveri has developed a strong understanding of country health systems through in-country work in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, South Africa, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, and Uzbekistan.
- Sector experience:
- Global health
- Expertise:
- Appraisal & evaluation
- Project finance
- Location:
- United Kingdom