Dr. Edwin Kilimba

Project Director, Afya Thabiti

Dr. Edwin Kilimba (MD, MPH, and MBA) joined Amref Amref Health Africa in October 2018 as Project Director for Afya Kamilifu, currently he is the Project Director of Afya Thabiti, a CDC/PEPFAR Funded project implementing HIV/Prevention, Care and Treatment services. He worked for over 5 yrs as Public Health Specialist under CDC and then Program Manager under DOD/WRAIR at the US Embassy in Tanzania and also for the Government of Tanzania as District Medical Officer for Kigoma DC for 6 years. Edwin has a strong background in health systems and program development, project management and a robust experience in financial and budgetary oversight. He worked closely with national and sub-national Ministry of Health institutions in development of health policies, guidance and SOPs to improve health sectors in Tanzania and coordinated high-level stakeholders from Tanzania Government, Tanzania Peoples Defense Forces, the US-Government agencies and United Nation agencies such as WHO, UNHCR, RED Cross and UNICEF in the cross border health programs and refugee care.