Marilyn is an associate partner in our Nairobi office and is part of our Healthcare Systems & Services Practice in Africa. She has led programs on strengthening health systems in manufacturing and supply chain, digital-health transformations, health financing, and go-to-market strategies for various products across Rwanda, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Africa. She is also a regional leader across Africa for the McKinsey Health Institute, a not-for-profit entity within the firm that aspires to catalyze action that will add a collective 45 billion years of higher-quality life for all people around the world.
Some of her recent client work includes the following:
- providing support to help expand local vaccine manufacturing in Africa, which includes strategies around various ecosystem enablers: regulatory, talent, financing, infrastructure, market-shaping, and R&D
- supporting various African government agencies on COVID-19 response strategies, setting up emergency operation and nerve centers, disease detection and public-health measures, supply chain and market dynamics, health systems strengthening, the continuation of essential services—including vaccines—and regional coordination
- completing a comprehensive review to identify opportunities to sustainably expand private provision of HIV treatment services and primarily finance through private sources. Uncovered, tested, and prioritized a set of interrelated causes and root causes preventing the private sector from organically growing to meet market needs
- supporting a global community health initiative to quantify the impact of scaling-up community health level interventions in 15 countries
- supporting a central African country in defining a business model for a new parastatal agency that would be the central medical warehouse for health supply chain; included governance, procurement, management information systems, digitization, and financing to strengthen the public supply chain
Prior to joining McKinsey, Marilyn worked in public- and private-sector hospitals in Kenya where she was involved in the medical and surgical management of patients in various departments. She also worked as a research analyst and led a project to improve patient experience in UK hospitals. She also assisted with the creation of a solution to monitor, analyze, and improve patient experience across five hospitals in the United Kingdom and the United States.