Janet Muriuki
Senior director of health workforce development
Janet Muriuki is IntraHealth’s senior director of health workforce development and Kenya country director.
Previously she was the program lead for IntraHealth's USAID-funded Human Resources for Health (HRH) Kenya Mechanism and technical director and deputy chief of party under the HRH Capacity Bridge and Capacity Kenya Projects.
Muriuki is a medical doctor and public health specialist with over 18 years of experience in the health sector. She has provided strategic, technical, and thought leadership in human resources for health, medical education, health systems strengthening, quality improvement, and service delivery while activating broader thinking at global, national, and subnational levels and within private-sector health development.
VITAL
The Best Way to Pay Tribute to Health Workers? Invest in Them.
Janet Muriuki outlines three areas to invest in for a fit-for-purpose health workforce.
We Aren’t Paying Enough Attention to the Health Workforce
Here’s why the upcoming White House African Leaders Summit can help change that.
Proactive Partnership: Nurse Leaders and Community Health Volunteers Work Together to Increase Family Planning Use in Kenya
What happens to women’s access to family planning when you partner nurse leaders with community health workers?
The US Government Should Consider These 7 Areas of Investment in the African Health Workforce
A systems approach would improve the health and well-being of millions.
The Global Health Workforce Should Be at the Center of New White House Initiative
This is how the US can invest in African health workers and see a stronger, more sustainable health system as a result.
Health Workers in Kenya Use New Negotiation Skills to Improve Their Working Conditions
The partnership between health worker unions, government leaders, and others prevents strikes and keeps health services available.
Students Are the Future of Health Care in Kenya
The Afya Elimu Fund is the first of its kind.
AUTHORED RESOURCES
Technical & Policy Briefs: Human Resources for Health (HRH) Kenya Program
Our USAID-funded Human Resources for Health (HRH) Kenya Program has partnered with the government of Kenya to build an even more resilient health workforce, with stronger human resource systems...
Optimizing Data Use for Effective Decision-Making in Managing Kenya’s Health Workforce
Read how IntraHealth International is supporting Kenya’s Ministry of Health to use human resources data from the integrated human resources information system (iHRIS) for informed decision making...
Establishing Human Resources for Health Units to Strengthen Health Workforce Management in Kenya’s Counties
The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 gave county governments the responsibility of managing health service delivery, which formed 50-70 percent of the county workforce after devolution. In the former...
Promoting County Training Needs Assessments for Effective Human Resources for Health Capacity Development in Kenya
This policy brief shares the benefits, and makes a case for institutionalization of training needs assessment (TNA) as a systematic process of identifying gaps in the performance of health service...
Improving the Quality and Accessibility of Medical Training to Increase Health Workforce Numbers to Meet Universal Health Coverage Needs
Health worker shortage is a perennial problem in many sub-Saharan countries. Read how this Kenyan public-private partnership is helping increase the numbers of health workers through an innovative...
Strengthening Data for Decision-Making in Human Resources for Health Management Through Systems Interoperability
Kenya’s Ministry of Health, regulatory boards, and councils that register and license health workers operate independent systems for various management functions. Yet all these systems target a single...
Averting Public Health Sector Industrial Unrest in Kenya: Establishing Stakeholder Work Councils to Foster Harmonious Labor Relations
Health worker-related industrial unrest has serious negative effects on health service delivery especially on rural poor. Kenya’s health worker strike lasted over 300 days, with the doctors’ strike...
Building a Sustainable Financial Resource Base to Support Health Workforce Training Toward Universal Health Coverage
A major contributing factor to the chronic health worker shortage in Kenya is the high cost of medical education, which many aspiring Kenyan families cannot afford. Dropout rate of students at the...
Improving Leadership, Management, and Governance of the Health Workforce in Kenya’s Devolved System
County leadership were ill prepared in human resources for health management capacity, leadership structures, and organizational arrangements when the Government of Kenya devolved health service...
Afya Elimu: Funding the Next Generation of Health Workers in Kenya
This technical brief covers our Afya Elimu Fund, an affordable loan program that enables low-income health professional students to complete their education without interruption. The program was...