Evelyn is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Health (Health Economics) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Nairobi and a post graduate diploma in project management from the Kenya Institute of Management. Evelyn have keen interests in health policy, health financing, health economics and gender. She has been working at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Health Economics Research Unit conducting research on demand side (experiences and perceptions of the poor) and supply side (institutional design and organizational practice) factors that influence the extent to which the poor benefit from pro-poor health financing reforms. The later also entailed exploring how gender, disability and poverty intersect to influence how women with disabilities living in poverty benefit from pro-poor health financing reforms. Evelyn previously worked a project assistant with Amref Health Africa in Kenya on a cohort study exploring the social, individual and health system factors affecting the uptake and completion of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in a high HIV prevalent urban setting in Kenya and also as part of the secretariat to the Amref Ethics and Scientific Research Committee.