Health
Health
Overview
We help to strengthen and support sustainable, country-owned health systems that can deliver positive, equitable health outcomes.
We bring deep knowledge and understanding of local contexts and combine this with technical and operational excellence. Our focus is on Africa and other countries with growing young populations across Asia and the Middle East.
Our technical areas of expertise include:
Infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness
Reproductive, maternal child health and nutrition
Health financing and health systems optimisation
Digital health and data transformation
Leading The Team
Areas of Expertise
Reproductive, Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition
Our goal is to unlock the potential of healthy women and thriving generations.
We believe that the health of a nation is rooted in the well-being of its women, children, and adolescents. Yet, preventable maternal and child mortality remains unacceptably high, disproportionately impacting low-and-middle income countries and vulnerable populations.
Investing in women and child health is one of the most powerful ways to unlock human potential. From a young woman's reproductive choices through to a child’s fifth birthday, equitable access to quality healthcare including routine and life-course immunisation is essential for survival and long-term well-being.
Our work in Reproductive, Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition is focused on ensuring women have access to the family planning and contraceptive services they need and want, and every child has the chance to survive and thrive through key immunisation and nutrition services.
We have helped shape national policies, supported the rollout of new products, and measured impact to inform future programming, always working in partnership to strengthen resilient, equitable, and country-led health systems.
Infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness
Our aspiration is to end life-threatening pandemics and epidemics in Africa.
Every year, malaria, HIV and TB kill over 2.4 million people in Africa and globally more than 1.7 billion people require treatment for at least one neglected tropical disease. Outbreaks like bola and Covid-19 pose major threats, killing thousands and weakening health systems.
While significant progress has been made in prevention and treatment of infectious diseases over the past few decades, we can’t stop at ‘almost’ – especially when resources are constrained.
The calls for resilient health systems that are capable of preparing for, detecting, tracking and responding to pandemics – known and unknown. A pipeline of innovations in vaccines, diagnostics and medications have the potential to transform pandemic response and impact.
We have been at the forefront of the response to major epidemics for over two decades. Our reputation is built on a foundation of impactful, evidence-based work. We have helped countries optimise their HIV and TB funding requests to the Global Fund, strengthened regional collaboration through platforms like the South to South HIV Prevention Learning Network, and supported the scale-up of public health innovations related to wastewater surveillance and introduction of new health technologies for HIV prevention.
Digital heath and Data Transformation
Our goal is to transform health through digital health and data-driven insights
Across Africa and the globe, digital technologies are creating unprecedented opportunities to solve the most persistent challenges in healthcare. Through our Digital Health and Data Transformation expertise, we empower governments and organisations to drive digital transformation for stronger, more resilient health systems.
We partner with governments, technology innovators, and global health institutions to build the digital infrastructure and data capabilities needed to transform health outcomes. Our solution set is grounded in integrated strategies and robust systems with a focus on the end-user.
Our team has a proven track record of leveraging data and technology to drive decisions and improve health system performance. Whether we are advising on a new digital tool or building a national data dashboard, our work is always grounded in a deep understanding of the local context and a clear vision for how technology can unlock better health for all.
Health financing and systems optimisation
Our mission is to enable our government to provide their citizens with greater access to the most needed healthcare
Smart, sustainable, and resilient health systems are a matter of urgency in securing a healthier future for all. Even more so in an era of declining traditional aid, mounting debt burdens, and increasing health threats.
We do this by helping governments to mobilize increased resourcing for health, optimise budget allocations and execution, identify and realise efficiencies in the health system, and support implementation-ready transition and sustainability plans.
We position ourselves as high-level strategic advisors and technical partners to the governments, development banks, and foundations working to solve these complex challenges. Our areas of expertise include costing and budgeting, economic evaluations, sustainability and transition planning, resource mobilisation solutions, policy dialogue and decision-making, budget planning and execution, workforce planning, integration of health systems, and strategic purchasing.
Projects
Strengthening HIV prevention through peer learning
Genesis, in partnership with the University of Manitoba, is implementing the South to South HIV Prevention Learning Network (SSLN), which supports peer learning in a network structure to improve HIV prevention programming in 15 African countries.
Campaign does improve men's perceptions on HIV testing
South Africans (18-34 years) who are exposed to the Testa Boy campaign are 50% more likely to agree that men who test for HIV are strong and responsible, according to a study done by Genesis Analytics for the Centre for Communication Impact.
Improving the accurate costing of HIV programmes in Africa
Genesis has been awarded a contract to undertake a number of learning activities that will improve countries’ abilities to accurately cost their HIV programmes, using national data systems, and interpret existing cost data, thereby enabling more effective planning, budgeting and ongoing decision-making.
Related Focus Areas
Human Development
We work for a world where everyone can develop to their full potential. We are focused on expanding meaningful rights and opportunities for people who are marginalised. Part of a global African firm, we are particularly committed to children, women and young people in Africa and the Middle East.
We work in key human development areas: health, nutrition, and WaSH (water, sanitation and hygiene); youth, education and early childhood development; and social protection and social care. Rapid changes in demography, climate and technology are generating massive challenges and tremendous opportunities for human development. At the same time, Covid-19 has caused a severe shock to human development from which people and systems need to recover.
We help governments, their global partners, and private and non-state clients to improve the delivery of key human development services while navigating these changes. To do so, we provide services in diagnostics; regulation, governance and oversight; strategy, planning and implementation; financing and budgeting; service delivery; and monitoring and evaluation.
Competition economics
As the leading provider of competition economics services in Africa, Genesis Analytics has an unmatched breadth and depth of skills and experience. Blue-chip companies across Africa routinely rely on us for expert advice and support when they interact with competition authorities. We also work extensively with regulators and competition authorities, giving us a position of trust based on a strong reputation for providing robust and independent expert economic views.