Eckhard Kleinau

Dr. Kleinau has over 30 years of experience managing, implementing, and teaching public health and environmental health programs, with an emphasis on health systems strengthening, monitoring and evaluation, and operations research, including cost-effectiveness and health care financing. He is currently the Director at the Center for Integrated Services Program Science for Futures Group and GRM International. He was previously Vice President of CAMRIS International. For five and a half years he was director of a project that provided technical services to USAIDs Bureau for Global Health. Managed 40 professionals from various disciplines. Has held management and technical leadership positions, including Chief of Party, for most of his career in programs funded by donor organizations such as USAID and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), working in developing countries and the United States. Dr. Kleinau has extensive experience as a manager and technical leader in developing maternal, neonatal, and child health and environmental health programs, action plans, and budgets for US and international organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as well as other international networks. As part of his research and program design work, he has developed conceptual frameworks that guide program implementation and monitoring and evaluation strategies. Dr. Kleinau designed and conducted program evaluations and surveys and has an extensive analytic background in implementing and directing the analysis of a broad range of data (environmental, health, economic, socio-demographic, etc.), including the development of mathematical models, forecasting scenarios, and outcome simulation. He directed desk reviews of global health indicators, health systems strengthening, and public health innovations and developed guidelines, for example, for the monitoring and evaluation of water supply, sanitation and hygiene activities. Earlier research at Harvard and Brandeis Universities and work as a consultant for clients such as The World Bank and The Kellogg Foundation covered areas such as health care financing, health economics, and quality management. Though trained as a physician, Dr. Kleinau’s work covered areas well beyond public health, including environmental health and natural resource management and conservation, which received special recognition. He has been a leader and facilitator of domestic and international groups of stakeholders to build consensus around integrating health and environmental conservation approaches and to standardize and harmonize the monitoring of water supply and sanitation on a global level. He has a proven ability to communicate technical information to a wide range of technical and lay audiences. Dr. Kleinau has written and presented extensively on global and environmental health matters and moderated panel discussions at international and national meetings. He has been a peer reviewer and referee of submissions to journals and conferences including The Cochrane Collaboration. He has taught operations research and statistics to graduate students at the University of New Hampshire as well as short courses in monitoring and evaluation and information systems.