Frank is an Associate Professor of Health Systems at Strathmore University (https://strathmore.edu/) and team leader at the Open Phences (Open Phences LinkedIn). His work revolves around strengthening public private engagement, collaboration and partnerships through research and evidence generation, ecosystem building to enable co-creation of pragmatic solutions (including investment cases that create a ‘pull force’ to attract fit-for-purpose innovations from private sector), and creating joint learning forums to allow sharing of lessons and evaluation findings etch (examples, Open Phences YT1, Open Phences YT2, Frank on research and innovation). 
Frank previously served as a health specialist with the World Bank Group, working as technical lead in policy, regulation and private sector development in health under the Health in Africa Initiative. Achievements include establishing, piloting and evaluating innovative regulatory and service delivery reforms and developing the first ever public private collaboration resource guide and toolkit for Kenya. 
In 2016, Frank led work for the Gates Foundation studying the socio-economic profile of clients visiting private pharmacies to inform the Foundation’s plans to reach the poor. He also supported other Gates Funded projects, including leading the evaluation of the African Health Diagnostics Platform (an innovative lab PPP initiative funded by Gates Foundation and the European Investment Bank) in Kenya, alongside colleagues from Johns Hopkins University. 
Frank sits on various expert groups/boards, including serving as a member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Expert Group on Regulation and a core member of the Health Systems Strengthening Collaborative (HSSC, an ITAD-led initiative funded by the Gates Foundation, USG, World Bank, GFF, GAVI and Global Fund). Under HSSC, we have been working to redefine how evaluations are done in healthcare programs – making them less focused on the science, and more pragmatic and designed to answer important questions in healthcare and health systems programming. Frank has also worked as research advisor for Aidspan, a health systems researcher at KEMRI/ Wellcome Trust, and a pharmacist with the Kenyan government. He has led consultancies for WHO, Global Fund, UN agencies, UKAID (FCDO), USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation among others. 
Frank holds a PhD in Health Systems and Policy, a Master’s in Public Health, and a pharmacy degree with additional training in innovation in health systems and leadership and management.  
Frank Joined PS Kenya Board in July 2022.