Bryan Haddon - Health systems strengthening
Overview
Bryan Haddon is Health Systems Analyst and Executive Chairman of Health Partners International (HPI). He founded HPI in 1995 and has previously been the organisation’s Managing Director. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the health sector. This includes over 60 consultancy assignments (many as team leader) in a wide range of developing countries, as well as extensive health management and planning experience in Zimbabwe and Canada. He specialises in the management, planning, appraisal and reform of the health sector, including systems analysis, change management, institutional strengthening and project management.
Background and relevant experience
Bryan is currently serving as Chair to the Joint Venture Partnership with Save the Children and Grid Consulting for the Programme for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria (PRRINN)
(2006–11) and the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Programme (2008-2013) in Nigeria. He was also a senior technical adviser for the Partnership for Transforming Health Systems (PATHS) programme
(2002–8) in Nigeria, in which he oversaw the development of management systems, and was a member of its management board.
Over the past decade Bryan has been supporting substantive hospital reform programmes in Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa and Malawi. This has included strengthening management, planning, policy development and helping to get service delivery working better. In Ghana and Nigeria he and local health managers initiated Peer and Participatory Rapid Health Appraisal for Action (PPRHAA) – an innovative process of management development, appraisal and planning that is now in wide use in both countries and further afield. Bryan has also led a three-year project that assisted the Christian Health Association of Nigeria to improve its services for the country’s 4,400 church health facilities.
Bryan’s other recent assignments have included the design and evaluation of numerous health programmes; leading the appraisal of clinical care in Ghana’s primary health care and hospital services; assessment and planning of hospital and primary health care facilities; and national-level strategic planning and reviews in a number of countries.
Between 1989 and 1992 Bryan was a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, UK, where he was involved in research, teaching and advisory work on health management, hospital planning and district health systems. Previously, he worked in Zimbabwe’s health services from independence in 1980 until 1988, managing hospitals, districts and provincial health services. He helped develop and introduce a number of the services, structures and systems for the country’s new primary health care system and for its hospital services. Bryan also worked for six years as a provincial health planner in British Columbia, Canada and as a manager of community-based inner-city health services in Vancouver.