Introduction
Dr. Lucy Kiyapi
Head of Department
The Department of Health Policy & Management was begun in 1998 with an aim of training and equipping future health care managers and administrators with skill and competencies that prepare them for leadership positions in the health care system.
Vision, Mission and Objectives
Department of Health Policy and Management at Moi University School of Public health seeks to be the Centre of Excellence in nurturing innovation in management of health systems and providing quality services. Our mission is to promote responsiveness of health systems to customer needs and expectations through innovative evidence based, multidisciplinary training, research and service.
Objectives
Hold Departmental Meetings every month.
Review curriculum every five years to meet societal needs and respond to emerging issues.
Encourage Department faculty members to attend at least two academic conferences/ workshops or seminars and produce at least two publications every academic year.
Engage students in at least one outreach program per academic year.
Maintain progression rate of 80% for each cohort to the next level and graduate at least 30% of students every year.
Establish local, regional or international collaboration linkages.
Programmes Offered
The Department of Health Policy and Management is largely a service department for programs in the College of Health Sciences of Moi University both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Eldoret and Nairobi campuses. Some of the courses offered by the Department include: health services management, health policy and planning, health economics, health management information systems, social determinants of health, principles of health promotion, human behavior and health, theory and principles of health promotion, population health and development, healthcare financing and project management.
Research
The Department’s research portfolio focuses on a variety of issues such as health systems management, pregnant mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS, social and behavioral determinants of health, social and psychological factors and processes in the etiology of disease and health related behavior; maternal and child health, use of information communication technologies in accessing and using health information; exogenous determinants of fertility and trade-off between high fertility and education. Staff have also been involved in conducting assessments and evaluation of Leadership-Management-Governance (LMG) in the country and regionally in collaboration with the Ministry of Health
Collaborations
Previous and ongoing collaborations by faculty members include: monitoring and evaluation grant with Tulane for capacity building, Africa Hub collaboration on health systems research training under the regional Health Alliance of schools of public health in East and Central Africa. Staff in the Department have also been involved in initiating the pilot health systems management training nationally (Ministry of Health) and regionally in collaboration with WHO, JICA and AMREF Health Africa. The Department participated in the collaborative project funded by CNHR to set up Centers of excellence in health systems management: GLUK, APHRC, CHAK, Ministry of Health, NCK and Moi University which provided computers to SPH, Kitale and Alupe campuses. Departmental staff are collaborating with the College of Health Sciences in implementing the health systems research chair program awarded to Moi University by NACOSTI on maternal and neonatal mortali
