Edward Tonkin is a Programme Manager at King’s Global Health Partnerships, with 15 years in global health and health partnerships covering programme design and management, programme quality, and monitoring, evaluation and learning, most of it with Global Health Partnerships, formerly THET.

He spent five years based in Lusaka leading health systems strengthening programmes in Zambia, working with line ministries, regulators, training institutions, and donors. They included a health technology management programme that established a new national qualification for biomedical engineering technologists, a funded establishment for medical equipment technicians within the Ministry of Health, and medical equipment uptime above 95 per cent in more than 75 hospitals.

He went on to develop the organisation’s programme quality framework and its training on theory of change, monitoring and evaluation, and gender equality and social inclusion, and most recently led monitoring, evaluation and learning for a multi-country programme on antimicrobial resistance.