Sharon Korir

Sharon Korir is a seasoned Health Economist with over a decade of experience in health systems research, resource tracking, health financing, and costing of health interventions. She currently serves as a Health Economist at KEMRI, where she supports economic evaluations and cost-effectiveness studies to inform public health decision-making in Kenya. Her career spans work with national and international organizations including USAID, UNAIDS, the Ministry of Health, and the Centre for Economic and Social Research. Sharon has managed and analyzed large-scale health expenditure datasets across Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, and Ethiopia, with a focus on HIV/AIDS, family planning, maternal and child health, and other priority health programs. She is recognized for her expertise in costing studies, economic modeling, and stakeholder engagement. Sharon holds a Master’s degree in Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Statistics from Kenyatta University. She is also certified in data analytics, Excel, and research ethics, and is highly proficient in tools such as Excel, ODK, KOBO, and the Resource Tracking Tool (RTT). Sharon Korir brings a robust research portfolio anchored in health economics, health financing, and applied data analytics. Her research expertise includes implementing costing studies, expenditure tracking assessments, and economic evaluations across multiple health domains. She has contributed to national-level studies such as the National AIDS Spending Assessments (NASA) and Family Planning Spending Assessments (FPSA), as well as evaluations of service delivery models for HIV/STI prevention, treatment, and care. At KEMRI, Sharon supports implementation research under the PDMC-SL Study, evaluating cost-effectiveness and feasibility of different malaria chemoprevention strategies. Her work involves comparing costs and outcomes, analyzing scale-up implications, and assessing willingness to pay — providing critical insights for policy formulation and scale-up decisions. Sharon has also played a technical support role under the USAID HERO Project, where she helped county governments enhance domestic resource mobilization, interpret budgetary data, and formulate health financing laws. Her data-driven approach and fluency in tools like RTT, WAPT, KOBO, and Excel enable her to produce high-quality evidence for programmatic and policy decisions. With an academic foundation in economics and advanced training in research ethics and data visualization, Sharon is committed to leveraging economic evidence to improve health outcomes and strengthen health systems across sub-Saharan Africa.