Personal profile
Biography
Gillian Kyalo is Senior Programme Manager for the Infection Innovation Consortium at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, managing a team of five project management and support professionals providing project management services to a £33m research portfolio.
She has more than 25 years’ experience in managing international health projects, including three years working in Kenya and Tanzania for the UN and NGOs. Gillian has managed projects spanning infectious disease control product innovation, vector control, maternal and newborn health, the collection, analysis, and use of data to inform public health programming and policies and disability rights.
She has a track record of managing large, complex projects involving international consortia. This includes projects funded by the EU, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UK Research Councils and the Bill and Melinda Gated Foundation. In addition to programme management, she has led in areas of strategic planning, organisational development, public-sector fundraising and monitoring and evaluation.
Gillian holds an MA in International Development Management, a Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance and a PRINCE2 Practitioner Project Management qualification.