{"id":121325,"date":"2025-09-12T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/social-health-authority-names-four-new-directors-to-drive-health-reforms\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:11:02","slug":"social-health-authority-names-four-new-directors-to-drive-health-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/social-health-authority-names-four-new-directors-to-drive-health-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Health Authority Names Four New Directors to Drive Health Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 12 \u2014<\/strong> The Social Health Authority (SHA) has unveiled a new senior management team as part of sweeping reforms to strengthen delivery of universal health coverage in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The appointments were announced on Friday by SHA Board Chairman Dr Abdi Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Social Health Authority Board is pleased to announce the appointment of four new Directors following a competitive and transparent recruitment process that began on 29th July, 2025,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The new appointees are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Diana Marion<\/strong>, Director of Provider and Beneficiary Management<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Golda Larissa Akolo<\/strong>, Director of Benefits and Claims Management<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Mohamed Alio Ibrahim<\/strong>, Director of Corporate Services<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Jonathan Leisen<\/strong>, Director of Funds and Finance Management<\/p>\n<p>Board Chairperson Dr. Abdi Mohamed said the appointments mark \u201ca significant milestone\u201d in bolstering the Authority\u2019s leadership to achieve its mandate of providing financial risk protection for Kenyan residents and expanding access to quality healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Health Authority is tasked with managing Kenya\u2019s social health insurance programmes under the government\u2019s universal health coverage plan.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 12 \u2014 The Social Health Authority (SHA) has unveiled a new senior management team as part of sweeping reforms to strengthen delivery of universal health coverage in Kenya. The appointments were announced on Friday by SHA Board Chairman Dr Abdi Mohammed. \u201cThe Social Health Authority Board is pleased to announce the appointment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}