Mr Mathews Onyango joined Khulisa in 2019 to lead the USAID/Zambia Scaling Up Nutrition Learning and Evaluation (SUN LE) project in Zambia.

Mr Onyango has 16 years’ experience as a senior public health specialist in ME&L programme management in Zambia, Swaziland and Kenya. He has provided high-level technical oversight, managing health ME&L programmes and staff. He has worked with policy makers at different levels in Kenya and Zambia in the start-up and scale up of health programmes. Previously, Mr Onyango was Associate Director, ME&L at FHI360 where he lead M&E, Learning, and Quality Assurance. His 19-year career includes designing and implementing M&E, operations research, surveillance, data interpretation and dissemination, promoting best practices and lessons learned, knowledge management and capacity building.

He holds two Master’s degrees from the University of Nairobi and University of Illinois at Chicago as well as training in Ethical Aspects of Biomedical Research (NIH, WHO, FHI360); Human Subjects Protection Training for Research teams (NIH) and Population Analysis Spreadsheets (US Census Bureau).