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Stephen was appointed the Director of the East African Community, Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunisation and Health Supply Chain Management (EAC RCE-VIHSCM) since March 2019. Before then, Stephen had spent 7 years as a programming and policy analyst at the global health stage through taking up assignments as Special Advisor to Gavi Board Member and Chair Gavi Programme and Policy Committee (PPC), and as Special Advisor (Health) to the Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC Secretariat in Arusha Tanzania and at UNDP South Sudan as Disability-Care Policy Consultant.

Prior to that, Stephen had spent nearly 21 years at national levels, where he served under various capacities including being appointed as the Adviser to the Minister of Health –Rwanda, Director of Policy, Planning and Capacity Building Department and before then as the National Coordinator, M&E Task Force both positions also at the Ministry of Health Rwanda. Before joining the Ministry of Health, Stephen had served as a Medical Specialist, Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission/Programme (RDRC/P), where he spearheaded the setting up and operationalisation of one of the best DDR medical rehabilitation programmes in the world under funding from the World Bank and BMZ/KfW. Before this, Stephen had been in charge of life and health underwriting at SONARWA.

Between 1994 and 1990, Stephen was a resident medical doctor at Saint Mary’s Hospital Lacor Gulu, Northern Uganda and Chair district EPI team.

Education
• MBChB from Makerere University, Kampala
MPH/Health Economics, University of Cape Town.