Mary Owino
Technical officer

Mary Owino has more than 15 years of experience in HIV programs, research and care. Mary’s healthcare implementation, programming experience and passion for quality emanate from her work experience through various healthcare research and program implementation organizations. She served as a clinical research assistant officer in the Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis study and the Kisumu breastfeeding study in Kenya. These core HIV research studies have contributed immensely to the adoption of CTX prophylaxis in HIV care, and HAART in PMTCT/EID.  Before joining Goldstar, Mary worked as a senior program officer in paediatric, adolescent HIV care, PMTCT program officer, HIV Care and Treatment Programme officer, and HIV training program officer with PEPFAR-CDC funded HIV implementing NGOs. Mary is very passionate and delights in serving and solving the challenges of children infected and affected by HIV. Mary served as a team lead and technical officer care and treatment in Afya Nuru and Nyota ya Bonde – Narok county and also has been overseeing the implementation of PMTCT/EID in both Afya Nyota ya Bonde, Afya Nuru ya bonde, now USAID tujenge Jamii. She championed the implementation of CQI with track improvements in Paediatric HIV viral load suppression, CD4 uptake, TB case finding and screening, TB preventive therapy uptake among New on ART, Jua Mtoto wako initiatives( EAC approaches to CALHIV with high viraemia) during her tenure, Mary conducted a problem analysis of HIV care in PMTCT/EID, paediatric V.L uptake and suppression. She offered OJT to the technical teams unpacking the utilization of problem analysis tools in CQI. She brings a wealth of innovative approaches to improving HIV care outcomes among children, adolescents and PMTCT/EID. In addition, she has participated actively in the project's abstract writing, patient and program-level quality improvement charts and tools. In the recent past, Mary had actively participated in the creation of an internal CQI dashboard for program monitoring and improvement, fostering a CQI culture in HIV programming, guided and facilitated putting in place an IMIS clinical OVC integration systems and dashboard for better CALHIV management and program update (facility- community continuum care). In her current tenure Mary Has fostered an AYP responsive approach to programming with highly recognizable results in meaningful engagement of AYP in health programming. Of key is her drive and improved OTZ uptake, APOC and PrEP among youth. She is a qualified clinical officer with an MSc. Health care management, BSc in clinical medicine, HND epidemiology and primary health care, Diploma in clinical medicine and minor surgery, currently Pursuing PhD Health Care Policy.