Our team

Michael Siebert is an experienced health services manager and management consultant. Michael's technical areas of expertise include: organisational development, human resource planning and development (particularly for the health sector), facilitating training workshops, and development of information systems for managing health services. He is experienced in programme and project development, implementation, management and evaluation. He has additional expertise in software development focused on health sector applications.

Dr Rodion Kraus has extensive experience in health sector reform at senior health management level in the public sector in Southern Africa. He has been facilitating rationalisation of hospital and district health services in a number of provinces in South Africa since 1999, and in Malawi since 2005. Rodion is currently the Deputy National Programme Manager for the Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria (PRRINN) and the Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Programme in Nigeria.

Carole Baekey has four decades experience providing legal assistance and related advocacy for communities experiencing marginalisation and discrimination in sub-Saharan Africa and North America. Carole has worked extensively in constitutional development matters and in developing and drafting public health and biomedical ethics policy, legislation, regulatory frameworks and related domestic and international legal instruments.

Johan Kritzinger is a highly qualified nurse/ nursing services manager with over 40 years experience of nursing, and nursing and health service management and development. He now specialises in management and organisational development, in particular for the rationalisation of hospital and district health services and human resources for health. Prior to 1999 he was a deputy director in the hospital services directorate where he played a key role in managing the 80 plus hospitals in the Eastern Cape Province (ECP).

Dr Andrew McKenzie is a health manager with over 25 years of experience gained in South Africa, Nigeria and Botswana. He has extensive expertise in systems strengthening, governance, monitoring and evaluation, and knowledge management, as well as excellent capacity building, facilitation and interpersonal skills. Dr McKenzie's experience includes policy development; health planning and management; hospital and other health service management; district health management strengthening; health services evaluation; human resource and financial systems development; and health information systems.

Jeffrey Mecaskey is the Managing Director of Health Partners International (HPI). He has almost 30 years experience in international development with a focus on health economics, health policy and management. He has expertise in planning, implementation and evaluation of health programmes. As Head of Health and HIV for Save the Children UK (2006-8), he oversaw the organisation's health and HIV portfolios. Previously, as founding Programme Director and later Vice President of the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), he played an active role in the Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for health movement in the late 1990’s, both in leading ITI but also in helping define the larger area of setting standards and best practice in terms of transparency and accountability inter alia in PPPs.

Paula Quigley is the Principal Health Adviser at Health Partners International, based in South Africa. She is responsible for providing technical leadership to support growth in HPI's expanding portfolio of work. Paula is a qualified medical doctor with over 22 years of international experience in medicine, programme design, management and implementation. Her areas of technical expertise include health systems management and development; maternal, newborn and child health; health policy and planning; public-private partnerships; quality management; family planning and reproductive health; capacity building; HIV/AIDS, and community health. She has worked extensively in decentralised and Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) environments, promoting the inclusion of evidence-based interventions.