John Malmborg - Health facilities planning

Overview

John Malmborg is a senior health facilities planning specialist with more than 25 years of experience in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific Islands. Trained in Denmark as an architect and physical planner, John has extensive experience in assessing, planning and rehabilitating hospital and primary health care facilities in developing countries. He is the managing director of Health Partners Denmark. He is a specialist in low-cost design and construction technology for the health and education sectors at district, regional and national level, and has experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams.


Background and relevant experience

John has advised on the restructuring and decentralisation of county health services in Denmark. He has worked for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements as a low-cost building expert on a Community Development Project in Karachi, Pakistan, and for the Danish Development Agency as design coordinator and project architect for the design and construction of education facilities in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Since 1987, John has been working as a consultant development planner, providing consultancy services to multilateral and bilateral development agencies on identification, management, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes in the health, education, urbanisation and human settlements sectors.

His recent consultancy work includes:

  • health sector capital investment planning and health facilities master planning in Ghana, Mozambique and China
  • support and planning for the Ghana Ministry of Health’s Estates Management Unit
  • planning and supervision of the implementation of large education projects in China and Vietnam
  • planning, implementation, monitoring and procurement of health clinics in remote and isolated rural locations in six provinces of Papua New Guinea
  • strategy development for health facilities master planning, resource needs identification and implementation process management and monitoring for the Western Samoa Health Sector Management Project.

John has worked in countries including Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zambia, Malawi, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Guatemala and Nicaragua.