The Social Health Authority (SHA) has undertaken a comprehensive overhaul of its leadership group by naming 16 Deputy Directors and 9 Principal Claims Management Officers, in its effort to rethink operations and improve access to quality healthcare for all Kenyan citizens.
The appointments were made on Thursday following what the SHA Board described as a “competitive and transparent recruitment process” that was launched on July 9, 2025.
The new directors will oversee key departments of the authority, including finance, legal services, claims processing, county coordination, among others all central to the mandate of the authority to deliver financial risk protection and universal health coverage.
Among the new deputy directors appointed are:
Valentine Jepkorir Morogo – Deputy Director, County Coordination
Daniel Owino Konyango – Legal Services
Caren Awuor Oduor – Finance and Accounts
Dr. Kandie Ng’ochoch – Claims Management
Margaret Nyambura Macharia – Benefits Management
Jacob Muia Mutinda – Corporate Communications
Geoffrey Kones – ICT
Others of the departments whose leadership was altered include human resources, internal audit, provider management, registration and compliance, planning, administration, and supply chain.
Additionally, nine Principal Claims Management Officers have been appointed to maintain integrity and effectiveness in SHA’s claims process a critical segment in ensuring that patients get the health care services they are entitled to without bureaucratic holdup. Appointed among them are:
George Waihenya
Joseph Mboke
Omar Sadik
Scholarstic Murunga Wekesa
Josephine Kuria Kuria, etc.
The appointments are hot on the heels of SHA’s recruitment of four new directors last month in an earlier round of appointments announced in September. They were:
Diana Marion – Director, Provider and Beneficiary Management (and Secretary General of the Kenya Medical Association)
Golda Larissa Akolo – Director, Benefits and Claim Management
Mohammed Alio Ibrahim – Director, Corporate Services
Jonathan Liesen – Director, Funds and Finance Management
The SHA clarifies that these are components of a broader restrructuring plan to professionalize the institution, enhance efficiency, and achieve its fundamental mandate of equitable delivery of health services.
Together with the change of leadership, the agency has also initiated a massive recruitment exercise, focusing on filling over 500 jobs both at its national and county levels.
The vacancies span across a range of jobs from senior management to junior levels, a clear indication of SHA’s growth and building institutions program.
On Thursday, the agency also announced a list of shortlisted candidates for various vacancies assistant directors of legal services, human resources, internal audit, registration, and compliance.
The list included each candidate’s ethnic group and interview dates, a step taken to double down on transparency and diversity in public service hiring.
As Kenya’s healthcare system develops into a more universal and centralized model under SHA, the recent appointments bear witness to an overwhelming desire: build a team that is capable of providing quality, accessible, and effective healthcare services for all Kenyans.
