Taylor Williamson

Taylor Williamson is a health governance specialist for the Global Health Group at RTI International. He has worked in East Africa for four years, having lived in both Tanzania and Rwanda. Mr. Williamson manages RTI’s portfolio of health governance activities, initially for the Health Systems 20/20 Project, and currently for the Health Policy Project (HPP). His work has included governance assessments throughout the Caribbean and West Africa, technical assistance to the National Agency for the Control of AIDS in Nigeria on HIV mainstreaming, training and advice for the Institut Régional de Santé Publique in Benin, and documenting and developing health governance approaches and tools. Before joining RTI in 2009, Mr. Williamson worked with the Cooperative Housing Foundation International in Rwanda as HIV/AIDS and capacity building technical advisor. He managed the civil society strengthening portfolio of the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project and the Behavior Change and Social Marketing Project, including organizational development and cooperative development training and mentoring. He conducted analyses of the age distribution of VCT clients in Rwanda, vitamin A distribution in Tanzania, the impact of livelihood on food security in Mozambique, and the effects of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 on health center financing. Mr. Williamson earned a Masters of Public Health from Tulane University and a BA in biology from Colorado College.